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The Sixties (miniseries) The Sixties. (miniseries) The Sixties is a documentary miniseries which premiered on CNN on May 29, 2014. Produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman 's studio Playtone, the 10-part series chronicled events and popular culture of the United States during the 1960s.
Harvest of Shame was a 1960 television documentary presented by broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow on CBS that showed the plight of American migrant agricultural workers.It was Murrow's final documentary for the network; he left CBS at the end of January 1961, at John F. Kennedy's request, to become head of the United States Information Agency.
The film highlights the origins of the Free Speech Movement beginning with the May 1960 House Un-American Activities Committee hearings at San Francisco City Hall, [3] the development of the counterculture of the 1960s in Berkeley, California, and ending with People's Park in 1969. [4] The film features 15 student activists and archival footage ...
B. Backyard Farmer. The Big Picture (American TV series) Black Journal (TV program)
Biography (TV program) Biography is an American documentary television series and media franchise created in the 1960s by David L. Wolper and owned by A&E Networks since 1987. Each episode depicts the life of a notable person with narration, on-camera interviews, photographs, and stock footage. The show originally ran in syndication in 1962 ...
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January 20 – Matt Moore, Irish-American actor (b. 1888) January 24. John Miljan, film actor (b. 1892) Matt Moore, Irish-American film actor (b. 1888) January 25 – Diana Barrymore, stage & film actress (b. 1921) January 28 – Zora Neale Hurston, African-American folklorist and author (b. 1891) February 6 – Jesse Belvin, R&B singer (b. 1932)
The history of the United States from 1945 to 1964 was a time of high economic growth and general prosperity. It was also a time of confrontation as the capitalist United States and its allies politically opposed the Soviet Union and other communist states; the Cold War had begun. African Americans united and organized, and a triumph of the ...