The Sixties: Season 1

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CNN | Season Premiere Date: May 29, 2014

Summary: The ten-part documentary series executive produced by Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman and Mark Herzog covers cultural and historical events that shaped the 1960s with interviews and clips.

Genre(s): News/Documentary, Documentary, Educational, Music

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Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E11. 1986
Air Date: November 24, 2016
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S1:E10. Sex, Drugs & Rock & Roll
Air Date: August 15, 2014
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S1:E9. 1968
Air Date: July 31, 2014

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Uncle Barky Ed Bark

May 29, 2014

Hanks himself book-ends this serviceable, talking heads/illustrative clips treatise with a pair of all-encompassing quotes. Read full review

David Hiltbrand

May 29, 2014

This is a comfort-food smorgasbord for the Woodstock generation, a harking back to that vision of ourselves as a nation with shared ideals and values. Read full review

Verne Gay

May 29, 2014

Respectable, incomplete survey (on TV) Thursday night, but future installments look better. Read full review

Brian Lowry

May 29, 2014

At its best The Sixties is admirable, but to riff on an old promotional slogan, it isn’t all that it could be: Yes, it’s an exercise that might capture the magic of landing on the moon, but doesn’t take the extra step that would send viewers over it. Read full review

David Hinckley

May 29, 2014

Pperhaps as a result of that mission, The Sixties often feels like an academic project, something for a modern history class. Read full review

Robert Lloyd

May 29, 2014

The historical documentaries are more successful than the cultural ones, for having a better story to tell, but all are made in a similar style, without written narration, driven by news clips and interviews (with scholars, participants and celebrity rememberers, Hanks naturally included). Read full review

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Jul 5, 2014

Many will pan The Sixties for having no script and being a series entirely pushed along by clips of actual footage from the events presented. I personally can't understand how that is a bad thing. As a twenty-year-old, I find the show exceptionally fascinating from beginning to end. UsingMany will pan The Sixties for having no script and being a series entirely pushed along by clips of actual footage from the events presented. I personally can't understand how that is a bad thing. As a twenty-year-old, I find the show exceptionally fascinating from beginning to end. Using actual video footage to show these events, as well as clips from various news programs, I find that the Sixties is more educational than any History Channel special. It sends us back in time. Tom Hanks has his celebrity friends and some scholars jump in to guide us on our journey through this turbulent time, but it otherwise is a time capsule.

That said, the Kennedy episode was overlong and I felt that it focused too much on what-ifs and controversy. It was interesting, but I feel the Vietnam episode could have benefited more so from the two hour treatment.

I think that as far as history programs go, it is as entertaining and fascinating as you can get. Recreations and narrations always pull me out but this show manages to be informative while also being vastly entertaining. Highly recommended.… Expand

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: May 29, 2014
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  S1:E11. 1986
  Air Date: November 24, 2016
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  S1:E10. Sex, Drugs & Rock & Roll
  Air Date: August 15, 2014
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  S1:E9. 1968
  Air Date: July 31, 2014
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  S1:E8. The Times They Are-a-Changin'
  Air Date: July 24, 2014
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  S1:E7. The Space Race
  Air Date: July 17, 2014
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  S1:E6. The British Invasion
  Air Date: July 10, 2014
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  S1:E5. A Long March to Freedom
  Air Date: June 26, 2014
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  S1:E4. The War in Vietnam
  Air Date: June 19, 2014
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  S1:E3. The Assassination of President Kennedy
  Air Date: June 13, 2014
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  S1:E2. The World on the Brink
  Air Date: June 5, 2014
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  S1:E1. Television Comes of Age
  Air Date: May 29, 2014