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The Sixties (2014)

7.4 1 season 10 episodes Ended

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.

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Seasons & episodes

Television Comes of Age (1960 - 1969)May 29, 2014 · 1h 0m

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

The World on the Brink (1960 – 1963)Jun 5, 2014 · 1h 0m

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…

The Assassination of Kennedy (1963 - 1969)Jun 12, 2014 · 1h 0m

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

The War in Vietnam (1961 – 1968)Jun 19, 2014 · 1h 0m

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…

A Long March to Freedom (1960 – 1968)Jun 26, 2014 · 1h 0m

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

The British Invasion (1964 - 1967)Jul 10, 2014 · 1h 0m

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

The Space Race (1960 – 1969)Jul 17, 2014 · 1h 0m

Astronaut and NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Mike Massimino and Dave Scott, and Walter Issacson, Douglas Brinkl…

1968 (1968)Jul 24, 2014 · 1h 0m

Tom Hayden, Gloria Steinem, Lance Morrow, Evan Thomas, Dan Rather, Morley Safer, Tim Naftali, and Mark Kurlansky discuss how one of the mos…

The Times, They Are A-Changin’ (1960 – 1969)Jul 31, 2014 · 1h 0m

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

Sex, Drugs, and Rock N’ Roll (1960 – 1969)Aug 7, 2014 · 1h 0m

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

Cast

Tom HanksSelf

Walter CronkiteSelf (archive footage)

David BrinkleySelf (archive footage)

Dan RatherSelf (archive footage)

Shirley ChisholmSelf (archive footage)