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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.

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

Popular Cast

Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks

Self

Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite

Self (archive footage)

David Brinkley

David Brinkley

Self (archive footage)

Dan Rather

Dan Rather

Self (archive footage)

Shirley Chisholm

Shirley Chisholm

Self (archive footage)