The Sixties

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  • Premiered: May 2014
  • Episodes: 10
  • Followers: 27
  • Ended
  • CNN
  • Thursday at 21
  • Documentary History

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Season 1
1x1
Television Comes of Age
Episode overview
Air date
May 29, 2014
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, .. show full overview
1x2
The World on the Brink
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Jun 05, 2014
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 .. show full overview
1x3
The Assassination of President Kennedy
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Jun 12, 2014
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. .. show full overview
1x4
The War in Vietnam
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Jun 19, 2014
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 .. show full overview
1x5
A Long March to Freedom
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Jun 26, 2014
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, .. show full overview
1x6
The British Invasion
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Jul 10, 2014
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 Kasem.
1x7
The Space Race
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Jul 24, 2014
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 .. show full overview
1x8
1968
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Jul 31, 2014
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 .. show full overview
1x9
The Times, They Are a-Changin’
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Aug 07, 2014
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, .. show full overview
1x10 Show finale
Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n’ Roll
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Aug 14, 2014
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, .. show full overview

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