The Sixties - Season 1 (2014)

This provocative, sweeping 10‐part series explores the arc of history for perhaps the most transformative decade of the modern era. Executive produced by Academy Award®‐winning actor Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, the multiple EMMY® award‐winning production team of Playtone (HBO’s John Adams and Band of Brothers), and the EMMY® awardwinning Mark Herzog of Herzog & Company (History’s Gettysburg), this series tells the stories of the people, events, and discoveries that changed and shaped the world in which we live – from the rise of the Berlin Wall, to the assassination President Kennedy, Civil Rights, the lunar landing, the landing of the Beatles, sex, drugs and rock and roll, and the war in Vietnam – THE SIXTIES includes the images, the voices, and the music at the centre of history.