The Sixties - Season 1 - Eps 1: Television Comes of Age (1960 - 1969)
Americans gathered around “the tube,” to be informed and entertained by the news, The Twilight Zone, The Fugitive, I Dream of Jeannie, Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In, and more. Tom Hanks, Sally Field, Dick and Tom Smothers, Carol Burnett, Dick Cavett, Diahann Carroll, Carl Reiner, Vince Gilligan, Petula Clark and others describe how the ground-breaking, rule-breaking, norm-bending dramas, historical events, and sitcoms reflected and influenced who we were.
About The Sixties
Title: The Sixties
First Air Date: 2014-05-29
Last Air Date: 2014-08-07
Status: Ended
Rating: 7.3/10 (from 17 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 1
Total Episodes: 10
Network: CNN
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: Playtone, CNN Films
Synopsis
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.
Cast
Walter Cronkite
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Tom Hanks
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David Brinkley
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Dan Rather
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Shirley Chisholm
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