Black civil rights struggles and early student movements against the Vietnam war in the 1960s give impetus to the global uprisings spreading across the planet.
European youth protest authoritative governments; young people celebrate a summer of love in the United States; a violent crack-down on protests leaves more than 500 people dead before the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.
Disillusion becomes widespread as the Vietnam War continues; symbols of hope Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are assassinated; terrorist attacks by the Red Army Faction rock Germany.
Criticism of the system and new awareness lead to the formation of non-government organisations such as Greenpeace and Doctors Without Borders; the generation of 68ers influence every part of society.
Don Kent
Director
Writer
Francois-Xavier Destors
