The Sixties
“The decade that changed the world.”
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.
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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.
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Walter Cronkite
Self (archive footage) · 11 episodes
Tom Hanks
Self · 10 episodes
David Brinkley
Self (archive footage) · 10 episodes
Dan Rather
Self (archive footage) · 10 episodes
Shirley Chisholm
Self (archive footage) · 10 episodes
Neil Sheehan
Self · 1 episodes
Tim O'Brien
Self · 1 episodes
John F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage) · 1 episodes
Jack Ruby
Self (archive footage) · 1 episodes
Ngô Đình Diệm
Self - President of South Vietnam (archive footage) · 1 episodes
Strom Thurmond
Self (archive footage) · 1 episodes
Marlon Brando
Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage) · 1 episodes
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