EPISODE
This four-part documentary series weaves together rare and exclusive footage of attorney general, U.S. senator, and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy in the 1960s.
21 February 1940, Troy, Alabama, USA
1 March 1927, New York City, New York, USA
15 July 1925, Evanston, Illinois, USA
20 November 1925, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
March 2, 1921 in Bayonne, New Jersey, USA
December 8, 1967 in Los Angeles, California, USA
April 10, 1930 in New Mexico, USA
June, 1950 in Mazatan, Sonora, Mexico
24 June 1935, Brooklyn, New York, USA
June 6, 1939 in Bennetsville, South Carolina, USA
October 10, 2018
To give the size and scope of RFK's life the justice it deserves, the series is a focused and fluid.
April 25, 2018
Exhaustive, admiring, comprehensive and richly documented, Bobby Kennedy for President nevertheless doesn't feel especially revelatory.
April 30, 2018
The crucial difference makes Bobby Kennedy for President feel necessary, especially for those who either don't remember the era or weren't alive when it all happened.
April 30, 2018
Bobby Kennedy for President isn't meant to chastise anyone who dropped the ball so much as it illustrates how the following generations of Americans could develop into the citizens we are today.
December 14, 2018
Despite the fact "Bobby Kennedy For President" fails to paint a full portrait of Bobby... the series is a moving and frightening look at the cost of division and the price that an entire country pays for it.
May 09, 2018
Its 1960s clips of riots in the streets and police brutality against people of color, some of the footage looks long ago, while some of it looks all too contemporary.
May 02, 2018
Honest, revealing doc shows many sides of political legend.
April 27, 2018
Bobby Kennedy for President is no simplistic hagiography.
July 27, 2018
Porter knows how to use her materials for maximum emotional impact. If so much of what we see feels new, it may be because the footage is so intimate-it doesn't communicate news, but personalities, relationships and atmosphere.
May 02, 2018
Despite the jagged edges and a tone bordering on the hagiographic, Bobby Kennedy for President offers a succinct look at a process which seems rare if not critically endangered in American politics.
April 30, 2018
Bobby Kennedy for President, over its four-hour running time, uses its subject as a kind of microcosm for American politics itself.
November 24, 2018
Regardless of your opinions of the Kennedys, this documentary series offers a revealing look at a painful period in our nation's history.
