Thursday marked the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, gunned down at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on the eve of winning the California primary. Kennedy was seen by many to be on his way to the White House, where he hoped to advance an agenda more ambitious and progressive than that of his older brother, John.

For a gorgeously directed film dissecting some of the characters at the Ambassador Hotel that fateful day in 1968, check out “Bobby,” Emilio Estevez’s Golden Globe-nominated drama: