The Sixties
The Sixties

The Sixties

2014 1 Seasons 10 Episodes ⭐ 7.5 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.

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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Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Television Comes of Age (1960 - 1969)

Americans gathered around “the tube,” to be informed and entertained by the news, The Twilight Zone, The Fugitive, I

EP 2

The World on the Brink (1960 – 1963)

The heady days of Camelot were clouded by the political and military tensions between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. Marvin K

EP 3

The Assassination of Kennedy (1963 - 1969)

A documentary examining the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963. Included: a look at the conclus

EP 4

The War in Vietnam (1961 – 1968)

From just several hundred advisors at the start of the decade, to more than 550,000 American troops by the end of it, th

EP 5

A Long March to Freedom (1960 – 1968)

Selma, Birmingham, and the March on Washington are reexamined by eyewitnesses to history. Diane Nash, U.S. Rep. John Lew

EP 6

The British Invasion (1964 - 1967)

Clips of performances by British bands of the 1960s, including Manfred Mann, the Animals, Peter and Gordon, Joe Cocker,

EP 7

The Space Race (1960 – 1969)

Astronaut and NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Mike Massimino and Dave Scott, and Walter Issac

EP 8

1968 (1968)

Tom Hayden, Gloria Steinem, Lance Morrow, Evan Thomas, Dan Rather, Morley Safer, Tim Naftali, and Mark Kurlansky discuss

EP 9

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

Gloria Steinem, Robert Kennedy, Jr., former U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, Cecile Richards, Marlo Thomas, Douglas Brinkley, and

EP 10

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

American culture changed fundamentally from the beginning to the end of the 1960s as the tastes, morals, and politics of

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