Duel for the White House (2016)
Overview
A retrospective on the great election battles of the past in the United States: the Kennedy-Nixon debate in 1960, the first ever to be televised; the Republican campaign of 1972, which proved to be the starting point for the Watergate scandal; and the electoral strategy of Barack Obama in 2008, the first election to fully exploit the potential of the Internet.
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| Original Language | de |
| Popularity | 0.931 |
Directed By
Ingo Helm
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Ingo Helm
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