The Sixties - Season 1 - Eps 5: A Long March to Freedom (1960 – 1968)
Selma, Birmingham, and the March on Washington are reexamined by eyewitnesses to history. Diane Nash, U.S. Rep. John Lewis, U.S. Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, Rev. C.T. Vivian, Bob Moses, Diane McWhorter, Taylor Branch, David Garrow, and Isabel Wilkerson give critical context to the lunch counter sit-ins, Freedom Rides, Freedom Summer, integration, and the Children’s Crusade for the moral mission of the Civil Rights Movement.
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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