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Primary

Primary

Documentary

1960, Movie, 53min

Robert Drew's groundbreaking 1960 film PRIMARY is one of the most important and influential documentaries in the history of the medium. A pioneering work in the documentary movement that came to be known as cinéma vérité, PRIMARY follows the young charismatic senator from Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy, as he goes head-to-head with established Minnesota senator Hubert Humphrey to win the Wisconsin presidential primary in April 1960.

Country: United States

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John F. Kennedy,

Robert F. Kennedy,

Jacqueline Kennedy

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Critic David Parkinson

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Important entry in the development of the documentary genre.

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