Primary

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You can stream Primary on: The Criterion Channel and Apple TV Store

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.

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Important entry in the development of the documentary genre.

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