Basic Info

First Air: May 29, 2014

Rating: ⭐ 7.4/10 (19 votes)

Status: Ended

Seasons & Episodes

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Last Episode

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

Season: 1, Episode: 10

Air Date: 2014-08-07

Runtime: 60 min

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, Grace Slick, David Wild, Leonard Steinhorn, Tom Wolfe, Douglas Brinkley, Tom Hanks, and more describe how beatniks, Haight-Ashbury, Andy Warhol, Timothy Leary, hippies, and Hell’s Angels became counter-cultural touchstones that still resonate today.

Videos

The Sixties - Intro (YouTube)

The Sixties: 1968 Trailer (YouTube)

The Sixties on CNN (YouTube)

The Sixties

2014 1 seasons 10 episodes ⭐ 7.4/10 19 votes

Overview

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.