Name: The Decades
Released: 2022-11-12T00:00:00.000Z

The Decades

TV Show · Documentary

The Decades examines political and cultural milestones from the 1960s through the 2010s. Each season intersperses rare archival footage, interviews, and comments by historians, journalists, politicians, celebrities and others to showcase the defining moments that shaped the country we live in today.

2022 · 42m

EPISODE 1

Television Comes of Age

Dick and Tom SmothersCarol Burnett and more describe how shows like “The Twilight Zone ” “The Fugitive” and “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In” reflected the times.

42m
EPISODE 2

The World on the Brink

Marvin Kalb,Richard Reeves,Robert Dallek,Sergei Khrushchev and more explain how close the Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis brought us to World War III.

42m
EPISODE 3

The Assassination of President Kennedy

The Warren Commission staff traces the events leading up to the assassination of President Kennedy and try to explain why the tragedy remains controversial.

1h 25m
EPISODE 4

The War in Vietnam

The Vietnam War brought social and political polarization at home; and because it was televised, the more Americans saw, the more unpopular it became.

42m
EPISODE 5

A Long March to Freedom

Eyewitnesses to the Civil Rights Movement reexamine critical points of history,from the March on Washington to sit-ins and Freedom Rides.

1h 25m
EPISODE 6

The British Invasion

Graham Nash,Smokey Robinson and more recall what it was like to make music that ultimately impacted everything from fashion to sexual mores to politics.

42m

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