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The Sixties

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The 1960s was the decade America transformed from a country of conformity to a land of political, cultural, and social liberation. The events of that tumultuous ten-year shaped America to such an extent that it still remains an epoch of fascination today and every step of the way, television helped frame and enable that change.

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.78:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 0.64 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 31560224
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Box set, Multiple Formats, NTSC
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 8 hours and 30 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ February 17, 2015
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English (Stereo)
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ PBS (Direct)
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00PHD6FQ8
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 3
  • Customer Reviews:
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Joseph B
5.0 out of 5 stars Does it matter what I write here?
Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2022
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It’s a history series from CNN, so many will draw their conclusions about my positive review. It’s really well done. Loved it.
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Beryl W. Saucer
5.0 out of 5 stars so this well produced edition brings back many wonderful and not so wonderful memories
Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2017
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My high school/college years were in the 60's, so this well produced edition brings back many wonderful and not so wonderful memories. Will any of us ever forget exactly where we were when the news came that President Kennedy died? Classes at my school were dismissed in order for the students to be home with family. So many questions with no answers. I distinctly remember the incredible quietness all around me as the nation mourned his death. The cloud lifted the next year as the Beatles invaded America And I actually got to see them in New Orleans!!!!
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Mom711
5.0 out of 5 stars Very touching series
Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2021
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I saw this when first on CNN, could watch it over and over again. An amazing series. Looking to purchase all of them: The Seventies, The Eighties, The Nineties and any others that they produce. Incredible education.
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Shopsalot
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent documentary of life in America during the decade of the sixties.
Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2017
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I purchased this as a gift for a friend that loves nostalgia, but does not subscribe to CNN or on-demand on her tv. I thought it was a thoughtful gift for her and I think she thought so too. I do have CNN and on-demand and have watched this and the other decades currently available in the series more than once. Very good, informative and interesting documentaries of life in America presented by decade.
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John Walsh
5.0 out of 5 stars A TRIP BACK IN TIME
Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2015
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This is truly a remarkable set in that all the political and cultural events of that decade are covered in a very professional and entertaining manner. The changing face of music (British Invasion), the Viet Nam War, the walk on the moon, the Kennedy, King, Kennedy assassinations, it is all here. Lyndon Johnson and Nixon presidencies are here along with the evolution of television. Get this set and be prepared to be sent back to the sixties when the times were definitely-a-changin'.

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N. Austin
5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive
Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2015
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This is the ten part series (8.5 hrs) produced by CNN. Having lived that decade and watched the series on CNN, my wife and I eagerly awaited the DVD. Yes it is just DVD not Blu Ray but the source material is lower def anyway. The series is voice over archival footage. Pre-ordered and got the discs 2/17/15. No extra material just the shows. I highly recommend this series for those that lived this decade and for those that didn't but want to understand what shaped the baby boomers.
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George N. Schmidt
4.0 out of 5 stars "The Sixties" -- incomplete, but worth the investment in history as we are learning it...
Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2016
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The Sixties was such a complex reality that it will never be completely and adequately captured in any "history" -- print, video, or otherwise. But the CNN video series "The Sixties" is decent enough to give the average reader or viewer a sense of some of the major themes of the "decade." Of course a great deal has to be left out, but that's the nature of any historical selectivity. The strengths of this series include the fact that the producers work with as much archival historical footage as possible. A downside is that they do not recognize a great deal of what was taking place -- underground, but not in "The Underground" so to speak -- that had a major impact on future history. For example, the "G.I. Movement" (which took place within all four branches of the "service") was a prime reason why the government of the United States abandoned the draft, apparently forever. Anyone who argues from a "liberal" position today that the USA should revitalize a military (or even public service) draft has to thank those of us who organized to end the "draft" by aiding and abetting the soldiers (sailors, airmen, Marines, and even Coast Guardsmen) who ultimately resisted the war at the wars' points of production (from Guam's B-52 bases and the Navy's aircraft carriers, to the grunts on the ground).

I note that because I worked for six years with that movement, just as others worked in the movements of "The Sixties."

Ultimately, the challenge is to figure out how to confront a "historical" period that faces oversimplification. When I was a public high school teacher in Chicago, I developed a course for seniors about the era. I called it "The Sixties from the Mongomery Bus Boycott to the 'Fall' of Saigon." Looking at the ways the decade(s) is viewed, it was clear, to me at least, that the "Sixties" was really an era that encompassed the span of the Civil Rights Movement, the "anti-war" movement(s), and so much else.

What "The Sixties" does as well as any history is to put to rest the silly notion about "The Greatest Generation." How anyone (other than a propagandist who wants to denigrate the contribution of us "Boomers") can refer to the generation that returned (as both my parents did, both in the Army and both in combat zones) from their "service" in The War as "Greatest" is just dishonest. Racism, imperialism, homophobia, male supremacy -- all returned from "the service" firmly in place in the USA. That was one of the realities in American society that this so-called "Greatest Generation" kept in place, and had to be forced to relinquish. Jackie Robinson and Martin Luther King personified one aspect of all that, but equally important to remember were the CIA coups d'etat on several continents that undermined progressive governments (and ultimately USA credibility) across the globe.

"The Sixties" was worth my investment.
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David Schoonover
5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific Video History of the 1960s
Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2016
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This is a wonderful series of videos, originally broadcast on CNN, that examines the major historical and cultural events impacting the U.S. in the 1960s. Lots of original footage, and insightful commentary. Ten videos, about 8.5 hours total running time. I was a teenager during the period, and it brought back loads of memories, as well as opening my eyes to moments I wasn't aware of.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Well put together DVD highlights the good and bad events that shaped the decade
Reviewed in Canada on August 19, 2017
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i have watched this series on CNN and this is DVD allows you to watch it minus the commercials. Well put together DVD highlights the good and bad events that shaped the decade, a must for those of us who lived in the 60's and a great history lesson for the next generations. This DVD ships from the States and plays on North American players.
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Mr. L. F. G. Ballinger
5.0 out of 5 stars AN INVENTIVE LOOK AT A TUMULTUOUS DECADE...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 10, 2015
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I became engrossed in this series when it was broadcast by the Yesterday channel towards the end of last year and I was more than pleased to discover that it was being released on DVD. The 1960s (and the 1970s, for that matter) have long been of interest to me and the inventive nature of this series goes some way to putting you right in the middle of it all.

I use the word "inventive" because, despite the various biographers and historians lending their knowledge to the programmes, each episode is built around how the network news industry documented events as they happened. Therefore, we get plenty of archive footage of the venerable CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite - "the voice of Middle America" - as well as his numerous contemporaries lending their broadcasting nous to the Cuban missile crisis, the Kennedy assassination, the Vietnam War and the Moon landing. It all helps to give the viewer a genuine eyewitness take on such topics as the frequently brutal struggle of the civil rights marchers or the violence at the 1968 Democratic Convention and the shock and awe which greeted such incidents as they unfolded before the cameras.

True, THE SIXTIES is certainly skewed towards the United States and Britain's take on the fabled swinging decade is largely ignored - apart from the episode entitled 'The British Invasion' which explores the arrival of The Beatles and their contemporaries and the impact they had on American popular music and culture. Nevertheless, the archive footage employed throughout the series may occasionally be a little wobbly but it is more often than not stunning. Indeed, despite the supposedly less innocent times we live in these days, news programmes would still probably think twice about whether to show the kind of material which the likes of CBS and NBC were bringing back from the Vietnam War as, even today, it comes across as particularly hard-hitting and did much to put the realities of military conflict into perspective for those watching on their televisions amid the comfort of their own homes; arguably, such bold coverage of the carnage - not to mention the palpable disillusionment of some of the US soldiers interviewed - did much to change public opinion against the war.

Overall, THE SIXTIES does a satisfying job in bringing a tumultuous decade back to vivid life as the events which are so intrinsically associated with it slip that little bit further into history.
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l snow
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best account's of the sixties I have seen
Reviewed in Canada on January 16, 2016
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One of the best account's of the sixties I have seen, was born in the early fifty's and was like a time capsule.
Was a amazing time to grow up in with so many social and political changes that where happing and there are all in this box set
Cant wait for the seventy's to be released Would recommend to any baby boomer this is real account of that era
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graeca5
5.0 out of 5 stars Great era and great DVD
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 3, 2014
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This is a fascinating series of programmes (perhaps not surprising,given Tom Hanks' involvement ). I caught some of the series on the "Yesterday "channel, but was not able to watch/record them all so just HAD TO HAVE THE DVD. Each episode is outstandingly well-made and will evoke such memories in anyone "of a certain age ". I was about ten years old at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis and understand now ( much better than I did then !!! )just how close we came to "the end ".The episode on The Kennedys is beautifully done, and that on "The British Invasion " (of the U.S. by the likes of The Beatles, Stones, Animals etc.etc)is great fun.
Ah! Such wonderful nostalgia ! Don't hesitate to buy this if, for whatever reason, you have an interest in this decade. A DVD that I will watch time and time again.The history of a world-changing era brought so vividly to life.
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LJ
5.0 out of 5 stars Gift
Reviewed in Canada on October 1, 2018
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Bought as a gift and I think the person enjoyed it. Arrived in good condition.
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