Wisconsin, Stati Uniti d’America, 1960. In vista delle elezioni primarie, Hubert Humphrey, senatore del Minnesota, e John F. Kennedy, senatore del Massachusetts, si contendono i voti dei cittadini. Dalle città ai campi agricoli, i candidati interagiscono con gli elettori, ciascuno col proprio stile.

A pioneering example of direct cinema, Robert Drew’s riveting documentary gets within a hair’s breadth of its subjects to offer a candidate’s-eye-view of a historic election. Highlighting the dominance of spectacle over substance, its vision of celebrity politics has only gained in relevance.