Primary
Movie196053 minNR
Scores: TMDB
Primary is a documentary film about the primary elections between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey in 1960. Primary is the first documentary to use light equipment in order to follow their subjects in a more intimate filmmaking style. This unconventional way of filming created a new look for documentary films where the camera’s lens was right in the middle of what ever drama was occurring. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 1998.
Directed by: Robert DrewDocumentary
Where to watch
Your servers
To play your own copy here, connect a media server to your account. Sign in
Streaming in United States
Subscription
Rent
Buy
These open on the service's own site — they don't play in Lumovio.
Streaming data by JustWatch via TMDB
Soundtrack
Search the soundtrack on SpotifyOpens Spotify search — we only show an album here when the official soundtrack can be identified reliably.
7.5
Amazing Grace
2018 · Movie
6.8 TMDB
And the Oscar Goes To...
2014 · Movie
7.5 TMDB
The Irishman: In Conversation
2019 · Movie
7.1 TMDB
The Making of Star Wars
1977 · Movie
6.9 TMDB
An Inconvenient Truth
2006 · Movie
6.4 TMDB
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
2017 · Movie
6.2 TMDB
Naqoyqatsi
2002 · Movie
6.7 TMDB
Cameraperson
2016 · Movie
7.1 TMDB
Audrey
2020 · Movie
7.9 TMDB
Koyaanisqatsi
1983 · Movie
7.3 TMDB
Side by Side
2012 · Movie
7.0 TMDB
A Love Song for Latasha
2019 · Movie
6.8 TMDB
Halloween: 25 Years of Terror
2006 · Movie
7.9 TMDB
9/11
2002 · Movie
6.1 TMDB
Vampir Cuadecuc
1972 · Movie
6.5 TMDB
Heart of a Dog
2015 · Movie
7.6 TMDB
The Corporation
2003 · Movie
7.4 TMDB
I Am Heath Ledger
2017 · Movie
8.4 TMDB
Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D)
2026 · Movie
6.9 TMDB
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
2013 · Movie
10 mai 1981, le jour du grand soir
2021 · Movie
Fracking the System: Colorado's Oil and Gas Wars
2024 · Movie
6.5 TMDB
The Reagan Show
2017 · Movie
8.5 TMDB
The Plan
2017 · Movie
Videos
Overview
Primary is a documentary film about the primary elections between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey in 1960. Primary is the first documentary to use light equipment in order to follow their subjects in a more intimate filmmaking style. This unconventional way of filming created a new look for documentary films where the camera’s lens was right in the middle of what ever drama was occurring. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 1998.
