COLLECTION · Series · 2014

The Sixties

Name: The Sixties
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 60 min
Rating: 7.5

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.

Source: TMDB

* 7.5 (20)DocumentaryUnited States

Countries

United States

Studios

CNN · Playtone · CNN Films

Runtime

60 min/ep

Age rating

TV-PG

Release

29/05/2014

Score

7.5 / 10 (20)

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Seasons and episodes

Season 1

10 episodes · 2014

Episode 1. Television Comes of Age (1960 - 1969)

2014-05-29 · 60 min

Americans gathered around “the tube,” to be informed and entertained by the news, The Twilight Zone, The Fugitive, I Dream of Jeannie, Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In, and more. Tom Hanks, Sally Field, Dick and Tom Smothers, Carol Burnett,…

Episode 2. The World on the Brink (1960 – 1963)

2014-06-05 · 60 min

The heady days of Camelot were clouded by the political and military tensions between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. Marvin Kalb, Richard Reeves, Robert Dallek, Sergei Khrushchev and more explain how close the Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile…

Episode 3. The Assassination of Kennedy (1963 - 1969)

2014-06-12 · 60 min

A documentary examining the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963. Included: a look at the conclusions drawn from the Warren Report; and eyewitness testimony. Remarks by: historians Robert Dallek and Robert Caro;…

Episode 4. The War in Vietnam (1961 – 1968)

2014-06-19 · 60 min

From just several hundred advisors at the start of the decade, to more than 550,000 American troops by the end of it, the escalation of the war in Vietnam – and the fighting and the dying – brought social and political polarization back…

Episode 5. A Long March to Freedom (1960 – 1968)

2014-06-26 · 60 min

Selma, Birmingham, and the March on Washington are reexamined by eyewitnesses to history. Diane Nash, U.S. Rep. John Lewis, U.S. Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, Rev. C.T. Vivian, Bob Moses, Diane McWhorter, Taylor Branch, David Garrow, and…

Episode 6. The British Invasion (1964 - 1967)

2014-07-10 · 60 min

Clips of performances by British bands of the 1960s, including Manfred Mann, the Animals, Peter and Gordon, Joe Cocker, Traffic, Procol Harum, the Troggs, the Kinks, the Yardbirds, the Hollies, and Gerry and the Pacemakers. Host: Casey…

Episode 7. The Space Race (1960 – 1969)

2014-07-17 · 60 min

Astronaut and NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Mike Massimino and Dave Scott, and Walter Issacson, Douglas Brinkley, Tom Wolfe, Andy Chaikin, and Tom Hanks describe the greatest adventure story of all time. The…

Episode 8. 1968 (1968)

2014-07-24 · 60 min

Tom Hayden, Gloria Steinem, Lance Morrow, Evan Thomas, Dan Rather, Morley Safer, Tim Naftali, and Mark Kurlansky discuss how one of the most dramatic years in American history was punctuated by a Soviet incursion into Czechoslovakia,…

Episode 9. The Times, They Are A-Changin’ (1960 – 1969)

2014-07-31 · 60 min

Gloria Steinem, Robert Kennedy, Jr., former U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, Cecile Richards, Marlo Thomas, Douglas Brinkley, and Gail Collins discuss how feminism, civil rights, environmentalism, conservatism, and the gay rights movements were…

Episode 10. Sex, Drugs, and Rock N’ Roll (1960 – 1969)

2014-08-07 · 60 min

American culture changed fundamentally from the beginning to the end of the 1960s as the tastes, morals, and politics of the Baby Boomer generation came to define America. Jann Wenner, Grace Slick, David Wild, Leonard Steinhorn, Tom…

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