The Five Cities of June is a 1963 short documentary film

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 directed by Bruce Herschensohn

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. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short

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The government-sponsored film details the events of June 1963 in five different cities. In the Vatican

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, the election and coronation of Pope Paul VI

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; in the Soviet Union

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, the launch of a Soviet rocket as part of the space race

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 with the United States

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; in South Vietnam, fighting between Communists and South Vietnamese soldiers; in Tuscaloosa

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, United States, the racial integration

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 of the University of Alabama

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 opposed by Governor George C. Wallace; and in Berlin, President John F. Kennedy

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's visit to Germany

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 and Rudolph Wilde Platz.