The Sixties [DVD]

TAKE A LEGAL TRIP BACK TO THE SIXTIES! It was a time when a generation rebelled and lost its innocence. From the Vietnam War to the struggle for racial equality to the birth of a counter-culture explosion, the 1960s was a decade of change, experimentation and hope that transformed an entire nation and whose actions echoed around the world. THE SIXTIES: THE YEARS THAT SHAPED A GENERATION traces the events of one of the most turbulent and influential periods of political and cultural change in the 20th century and the powerful impact forced on an entire generation. This detailed and captivating documentary features revealing interviews with many of the prominent figures of the era including: Barbara Ehrenreich, Daniel Ellsberg, Jesse Jackson, Tom Hayden, Arlo Guthrie, Henry Kissinger, Norman Mailer, Robert McNamara, Ed Meese III and Bobby Seale. It was the age of selfishness. It was the age of self-indulgence. It was the age of anti-authority. It was an age in which people did all kinds of wrong things. - Ed Meese III, U.S. Attorney General, Reagan Administration It was absolutely exhilarating. It was the greatest time to be alive ever, for sure. - Charles Kaiser, Author/Historian 1. Part One: Opening Montage 2. The Beginning 3. The Summer of Love 4. Black America Rising 5. Vietnam 6. 1968:The Pivotal Year 7. I Am A Man 8. Student Revolt 9. End of Part One 10. Part Two: Opening Montage 11. Death of a Dream 12. A Collision of Crisis 13. Prague Spring 14. The Night of Sorrow 15. Women's Liberation Movement 16. Politics 17. 1969: The Rage 18. Woodstock 19. A Country Polarised 20. Self-Destruction 21. Veterans Against The War 22. The Pentagon Papers 23. Closing Credits