1968: The Global Revolt

Summer of Love, Summer of Conflict (1x2)

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The second part of the documentary recounts Europe's student protests and strikes peaking as young people celebrated the "Summer of Love” while dramatic events elsewhere heralded the turning of the tide. The bloody crack-down on protests in the run-up to the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City left more than 500 people dead, the escalating Vietnam War and the so-called attack on Tokyo, when students occupied the world’s largest train station, shows how the violence was spreading. The image of the Earth taken from space by "Apollo 8” in December 1968 was deceptively peaceful - the planet was really in a state of fundamental turmoil.