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Frontline – Season 35, Episode 1 The Choice 2016

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The Choice 2016

Aired Sep 27, 2016

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Formative moments in the lives of presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, where they came from and why they chose to pursue the office of the president.

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Dorothy Rabinowitz

Wall Street Journal

09/28/2016

Their unsparing observations notwithstanding, these two hours (produced and written by Michael Kirk and Mike Wiser) provide a richly detailed, instructive and, not least, humanizing view of the early lives of both these contenders.

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Robert Lloyd

Los Angeles Times

09/28/2016

More interesting is the portrait of how differently two people, born a little more than a year apart, have represented their generation, navigated their times and defined success.

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Sonia Saraiya

Variety

09/28/2016

It's a remarkably dense and succinct history of each candidate's rise to the nomination. The Choice 2016 isn't exactly stylish or glitzy, but that's one of the reasons it works so well.

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Roger Catlin

rogercatlin.com

09/28/2016

Solid reporting, but maybe for another day. Nothing at this point will certainly change anybody's mind.

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Ed Bark

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09/28/2016

B+

The Choice is both instructive and dispiriting (if not depressing) in reinforcing the negatives associated with the two most publicly disliked candidates ever to run for President of the United States.

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Synopsis

Formative moments in the lives of presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, where they came from and why they chose to pursue the office of the president.

Network: PBS
Rating: TV-14
Genre: Documentary, News
Original Language: English
Release Date: Sep 27, 2016