The Sixties - Season 1 - Eps 2: The World on the Brink (1960 – 1963)
The heady days of Camelot were clouded by the political and military tensions between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. Marvin Kalb, Richard Reeves, Robert Dallek, Sergei Khrushchev and more explain how close the Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis brought us all to World War III – and how two nuclear superpowers moved from near confrontation to the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
About The Sixties
Title: The Sixties
First Air Date: 2014-05-29
Last Air Date: 2014-08-07
Status: Ended
Rating: 7.3/10 (from 17 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 1
Total Episodes: 10
Network: CNN
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: Playtone, CNN Films
Synopsis
The space race, the cold war, "free love," civil rights and more: The decade of the 1960s shaped our history -- and changed the world. In collaboration with Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman and Mark Herzog, CNN explores perhaps the most transformative decade of the modern era in a 10-part documentary series and brings new insights into how those events shaped today.
Cast
Walter Cronkite
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Tom Hanks
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David Brinkley
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Dan Rather
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Shirley Chisholm
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