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Duel for the White House
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Duel for the White House

Nov 1, 2016
1h 30m
★ 8.3

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.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

ZDF
ECO Media

Cast

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