Sign up for our Watching Newsletter to get recommendations on the best films and TV shows to stream and watch, delivered to your inbox. We also have lists of the best movies on Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, along with the best TV and movies on Hulu and Disney+. ‘Primary’ (1960)This film by Robert Drew was one of the first American campaign documentaries and a starting point for the “direct cinema” movement, which emphasized observation over explicit commentary. It was the perfect approach for this up-close look at a week in the 1960 presidential Democratic primary, in which the populist Hubert Humphrey and a charismatic young senator named John F. Kennedy, handshake, glad hand and chitchat their way through Wisconsin. A fascinating portrait of the day-to-day drudgery of the political campaign, “Primary” is the standard for how those campaigns would come to be documented.

Source: New York Times September 30, 2020 18:00 UTC