The Sixties (2014)
The decade that changed the world.
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.
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Episodes
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1. Television Comes of Age (1960 - 1969)2014-05-29 · 1h 0mAmericans 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 Ha
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2. The World on the Brink (1960 – 1963)2014-06-05 · 1h 0mThe 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 mo
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3. The Assassination of Kennedy (1963 - 1969)2014-06-12 · 1h 0mA 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.
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4. The War in Vietnam (1961 – 1968)2014-06-19 · 1h 0mFrom 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 th
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5. A Long March to Freedom (1960 – 1968)2014-06-26 · 1h 0mSelma, 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 M
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6. The British Invasion (1964 - 1967)2014-07-10 · 1h 0mClips 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,
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7. The Space Race (1960 – 1969)2014-07-17 · 1h 0mAstronaut and NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Mike Massimino and Dave Scott, and Walter Issacson, Douglas Brinkley, Tom Wolfe, Andy Chaikin, and Tom Hank
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8. 1968 (1968)2014-07-24 · 1h 0mTom 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
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9. The Times, They Are A-Changin’ (1960 – 1969)2014-07-31 · 1h 0mGloria Steinem, Robert Kennedy, Jr., former U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, Cecile Richards, Marlo Thomas, Douglas Brinkley, and Gail Collins discuss how feminism, civil rights, environmen
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10. Sex, Drugs, and Rock N’ Roll (1960 – 1969)2014-08-07 · 1h 0mAmerican 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 Wen
Cast
Tom HanksSelf
Walter CronkiteSelf (archive footage)
David BrinkleySelf (archive footage)
Dan RatherSelf (archive footage)
Shirley ChisholmSelf (archive footage)Images
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