Product Details

• Actors: Jacqueline Onassis Kennedy
• Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Pbs Home Video
• VHS Release Date: May 23, 2000
• Run Time: 120 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00003IRHT
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #94,383 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Jackie O. never wrote an autobiography. "Life comes first," she said. This two-hour documentary tries to find the Jackie behind the headlines and deftly uses the press coverage she came to scorn to create a full-bodied profile. Jackie seems to be guiding the video through excerpts from her journal, which a narrator gives voice to. The film footage is focused on her--her 1953 wedding to John F. Kennedy, being interviewed in French, leading a television tour of the White House, riding an elephant while visiting Nehru, or later in life campaigning to save Grand Central Station. The production also covers familiar turf--the Kennedy and King assassinations, her marriage to Onassis--but it is fascinating to hear the words she wrote about these events and the interviews from big names who knew her then. Personal historical documents provide poignance, such as a poem she wrote for JFK on their first anniversary. "The trouble with me, I'm an outsider, and that's a very hard thing to be in American life," she wrote. This video is a rare, intelligent glimpse of one of the most famous and private women of our time. --Valerie J. Nelson

Product Description

The writer/producer of the film JACKIE BEHIND THE MYTH has completed a book JACKIE BEYOND THE MYTH OF CAMELOT that further explores all the books Jacqueline Onassis edited.

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The absolute BEST video of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis!, May 30, 2000

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Joseph M. Ginn (Idabel, Oklahoma) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jackie: Behind the Myth [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I admit it....I am a consumate collector of Jackie Kennedy books, magazines, and videos. I have all videos that are available, including all the are listed here at amazon.com. Don't get me wrong: all of these videos are wonderful windows to the past, and I recommend that you have these for your collection as well. However, this video has something special..something difficult to describe. I believe it captures the "feeling" and esssense of Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. This video strives to make Mrs. Onassis alive and a vivid, living person who sustained unspeakable tragedies. To be able to carry on and raise two wonderful children after seeing her husbands head explode is a testament to her inner strength and courage. I admire(d) her enourmously even though I, like so many of you, was born after President Kennedy's murder in Dallas. I have watched and re-watched this video many times and have yet to tire of it. So many people who were friends and business associates speak glowingly of her and her times and accomplishments. We need another Jackie Kennedy today in this ungracious world of ours and this video serves to prove that need. Buy this video.....I promise you will not regret it.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars BEST JACKIE FILM EVER, November 21, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Jackie: Behind the Myth [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The writer/producer of the film has completed an in depth view of Jacqueline as a wonderful book editor. Read 'Jackie Beyond the Myth of Camelot' if you wish to discover all the authors Jackie edited. Book includes Peter, Beard, Louis Auchincloss, Peter Sis, dancers Martha Graham, Judith Jamison, Balanchine, and Edvard Radzinsky, and over forty fascinating authors, poets, photographers, and artists.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very informative, July 23, 2001

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Heather Evans (MI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jackie: Behind the Myth [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is a great video. It shows many rare clips I'd never seen before. Though I'd already read a few books on Jackie I still learned new info. Covers her life from birth to death (not just the presidency years). I highly recommend it for both ardent fans, and people just learning about her.