Kennedy Inspired Dramas
A collection of portrayals of the Kennedy family on film and TV + Kennedy themed dramas/action on any level (whether its characters are based on people in the Kennedy staff or those supposedly involved on his assassination or even its plot plays with the incidents of November,1963)
It does not include documentaries for I intend to make a list of Best Kennedy Docs later on! So everything included on this list is fictionalized portrayals one way or another.
It does not include documentaries for I intend to make a list of Best Kennedy Docs later on! So everything included on this list is fictionalized portrayals one way or another.
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- DirectorWolfgang PetersenStarsClint EastwoodJohn MalkovichRene RussoSecret Service agent Frank Horrigan couldn't save Kennedy, but he's determined not to let a clever assassin take out this president.Fictionalized thriller involving Jackie Kennedy's secret service agent Clint Hill who tried to save the president
- DirectorDavid MillerStarsBurt LancasterRobert RyanWill GeerRogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination.First fictionalized conspiracy version of the facts based on Mark Lane’s book “Rush to Judgment.
- DirectorPeter LandesmanStarsZac EfronTom WellingBilly Bob ThorntonA recounting of the chaotic events that occurred at Dallas' Parkland Memorial Hospital on the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.The moments leading up to the assassination of president John F. Kennedy and the aftermath in Parkland Hospital and the famous film Abe Zapruder had recorded during the motorcade.
- DirectorJonathan KaplanStarsMichelle PfeifferDennis HaysbertStephanie McFaddenDevastated by President Kennedy's assassination, Dallas-based hairstylist Lurene Hallett boards a bus for the funeral in Washington D.C. where she meets a perplexing father and his daughter who greatly impact her journey.
- DirectorRoger DonaldsonStarsKevin CostnerBruce GreenwoodShawn DriscollIn October 1962, the Kennedy administration struggles to contain the Cuban Missile Crisis.The Cuban Missile Crisis partially told on Bobby's perspective of the facts once it is based on his book of the same name (Thirteen Days by Robert F. Kennedy)
- DirectorOliver StoneStarsKevin CostnerGary OldmanJack LemmonNew Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.Conspiracy tale based in part upon the book On the Trail of the Assassins by former Orleans Parish (Louisiana) District Attorney Jim Garrison
- DirectorJohn MackenzieStarsDanny AielloSherilyn FennFrank OrsattiAn exploration of certain conspiracy theories surrounding the JFK assassination from Jack Ruby's perspective. Ruby owns a run-down strip club in Dallas, and does what he can for credibility, both by giving information to the FBI and by doing the odd favor for his mafia contacts. When hitman Action Jackson is hit, Louie Vitali asks him to help get crime boss Santos out of a Cuban jail. When they get back, the bosses take his headliner Candy Cane under their wing to develop her career in Vegas. A mysterious government man named Maxwell expresses his displeasure to Ruby over his Cuban activities. Slowly all the pieces of a massive conspiracy begin to emerge to Ruby, who can do nothing to stop it.Conspiracy theory involving Jack Ruby and the mob
- DirectorLeslie H. MartinsonStarsCliff RobertsonRobert CulpTy HardinPresident John F. Kennedy kept a unique inauguration gift on his desk: a plastic-encased coconut. The tale of that coconut is the heroic story of PT 109.John F. Kennedy heroic action during WWII.
- DirectorEmilio EstevezStarsAnthony HopkinsDemi MooreSharon StoneThe destinies of 22 people of different races, sexes, beliefs and social classes are intertwined on the night that politician Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated.The days leading up to RFK's assassination in the Ambassador Hotel on June 5th 1968
- DirectorNeil BurgerStarsDylan HaggertyRaymond J. BarryRenee FaiaAlmost forty years after the John F. Kennedy assassination, an ex-Marine named Walter Ohlinger has come forward with a startling claim.Fictionalized doc
- DirectorNelson McCormickStarsRob LoweWill RothhaarJack NoseworthyBased on Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard's best seller comes this shocking thriller starring Rob Lowe and Ginnifer Goodwin. As John F. Kennedy (Lowe) rises to become U.S. president, a former Marine grows disillusioned with America. When their paths ultimately cross, the course of history is changed forever as seen in this mesmerizing film about the assassination of JFK - and its chilling aftermath.TV drama based upon the main characters involved in the assassination
- DirectorPaul DuaneStarsArthur RiordanElizabeth ByrnePat Kinevane
- StarsGreg KinnearBarry PepperKatie HolmesThe triumphs and tragedies of the most popular political family in American history.His presidency
- DirectorAndy WarholStarsGerard MalangaIvy NicholsonOndineAndy Warhol's experimental reconstruction of the assassination of the President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, which serves as his critical commentary on the way the media presented the tragic event.Film based on the media coverage of the assassination and the speeches of Johnson. It reconstructs the assassination with both Kennedy and LBJ present, both before and after the event. It has been described as unfinished.
It looks pretty legendary having Andy Warhol as its director but I haven't seen this film and it is not rated here, so... - DirectorMel StuartStarsMichael LernerFrederic ForrestDoris RobertsA docudrama about the events surrounding the assassination of the 35th United States President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, in 1963, based on eyewitness and other testimonies.Docudrama based upon the witness testimony given to the Warren Commission.
- DirectorWilliam TannenStarsKris KristoffersonTreat WilliamsRip TornTwo U.S. border patrolmen find a buried 20+ year old jeep in the desert with a skeleton, rifle and $800,000. They keep the money. Suddenly, the FBI shows a lot of interest in the car.JFK assassination uncovered on fiction
- DirectorWilliam RichertStarsJeff BridgesJohn HustonAnthony PerkinsThe younger brother of an assassinated US President is led down a rabbit hole of conspiracies and dead ends after learning of a man claiming to be the real shooter.This film it's clearly based/inspired on JFK's assassination although in a very fictionalized way. Most of the characters resemble members of the family and it's almost like it is Bobby Kennedy, the former attorney general who is on the process of uncovering the truth behind the killing of his brother.
It's VERY imaginative and has many twists and turns but it's a good film that's even hard to follow at times. - DirectorJohn FrankenheimerStarsBurt LancasterKirk DouglasFredric MarchUnited States military leaders plot to overthrow the President because he supports a nuclear disarmament treaty and they fear a Soviet sneak attack.You can't say this film doesn't try to approach the happenings of November 1963 in yet another perspective. Conspiracy film involving the Military.
- DirectorJohn FrankenheimerStarsFrank SinatraLaurence HarveyJanet LeighAn American POW in the Korean War is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy.I reflected on whether I should put this film on this list or not but oh well, I think that everyone who has seen this movie looks at its date kind of confused. How could they know such a similar event was just about to happen the following year? Is it possible that LHO has been brainwashed while he was in the Soviet Union?
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsAnthony QuinnJacqueline BissetRaf ValloneA fictionalized account of the Greek shipping magnate, Onassis, and his meeting and subsequent marriage to the widow of assassinated U.S. president, Jacqueline Kennedy.Film that was inspired on Jackie Kennedy now Jackie O. and Aristotle Onassis' relationship.
- DirectorAlan J. PakulaStarsWarren BeattyPaula PrentissWilliam DanielsAn ambitious reporter gets in way-over-his-head trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines.Conspiracy thriller that was, of course, influenced by what had happened almost eleven years before. Investigation on a senator's assassination not a president's one, though. Most people will say this was a product of Nixon's resignation/discontentment era which created a number of paranoia movies as a result but you can't deny the JFK element on this one.
- DirectorRobert DornhelmStarsLinus RoacheJames CromwellDavid PaymerFollowing the death of his brother John, Robert Kennedy is forced to rise to the challenge of leading his country and carrying on his brother's vision of what America could be.Robert Francis Kennedy's life is represented on this made-for-TV movie.