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The Sixties

The Sixties

7.5 IMDb tt3268200 2014 Documentary

The space race, the cold war, "free love," civil rights and more: The decade of the 1960s shaped our history -- and changed the world. In collaboration with Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman and Mark Herzog, CNN explores perhaps the most transformative decade of the modern era in a 10-part documentary series and brings new insights into how those events shaped today.

Cast

Tom Hanks
Walter Cronkite
David Brinkley
Dan Rather
Shirley Chisholm

Episodes 10

Television Comes of Age (1960 - 1969) 1 ▶ Playing
Television Comes of Age (1960 - 1969) 1h 0m Americans gathered around “the tube,” to be informed and entertained by the news, The Twilight Zone, The Fugitive,…
The World on the Brink (1960 – 1963) 2
The World on the Brink (1960 – 1963) 1h 0m The heady days of Camelot were clouded by the political and military tensions between the U.S. and the…
The Assassination of Kennedy (1963 - 1969) 3
The Assassination of Kennedy (1963 - 1969) 1h 0m A documentary examining the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963. Included: a look at…
The War in Vietnam (1961 – 1968) 4
The War in Vietnam (1961 – 1968) 1h 0m From just several hundred advisors at the start of the decade, to more than 550,000 American troops by…
A Long March to Freedom (1960 – 1968) 5
A Long March to Freedom (1960 – 1968) 1h 0m Selma, Birmingham, and the March on Washington are reexamined by eyewitnesses to history. Diane Nash, U.S. Rep. John…
The British Invasion (1964 - 1967) 6
The British Invasion (1964 - 1967) 1h 0m Clips of performances by British bands of the 1960s, including Manfred Mann, the Animals, Peter and Gordon, Joe…
The Space Race (1960 – 1969) 7
The Space Race (1960 – 1969) 1h 0m Astronaut and NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Mike Massimino and Dave Scott, and Walter Issacson, Douglas…
1968 (1968) 8
1968 (1968) 1h 0m Tom Hayden, Gloria Steinem, Lance Morrow, Evan Thomas, Dan Rather, Morley Safer, Tim Naftali, and Mark Kurlansky discuss…
The Times, They Are A-Changin’ (1960 – 1969) 9
The Times, They Are A-Changin’ (1960 – 1969) 1h 0m Gloria Steinem, Robert Kennedy, Jr., former U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, Cecile Richards, Marlo Thomas, Douglas Brinkley, and Gail…
Sex, Drugs, and Rock N’ Roll (1960 – 1969) 10
Sex, Drugs, and Rock N’ Roll (1960 – 1969) 1h 0m American culture changed fundamentally from the beginning to the end of the 1960s as the tastes, morals, and…