The '60s (1999)★ 7.0/10
- Drama
Directed by: Mark Piznarski
Written by: Bill Couturié, Jeffrey Alan Fiskin, Robert Greenfield
The events of the 1960s affect the lives of two families, one white and one black.
- Original title
- The '60s
- Storyline
- The Herlihys are a working class family from Chicago whose three children take wildly divergent paths: Brian joins the Marines right out of High School and goes to Vietnam, Michael becomes involved in the civil rights movement and after campaigning for Bobby Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy becomes involved in radical politics, and Katie gets pregnant, moves to San Francisco and joins a hippie commune. Meanwhile, the Taylors are an African-American family living in the deep South. When Willie Taylor, a minister and civil rights organizer, is shot to death, his son Emmet moves to the city and eventually joins the Black Panthers, serving as a bodyguard for Fred Hampton.
- Rating
- 7.0 / 10 · 2,770
- Companies
- Lynda Obst Productions, NBC Studios, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Lionsgate, Future Film, ARD TV, Ekaterinburg Art (EA), Trimark Home Video, e-m-s the DVD-Company
- Release dates
- CA February 7, 1999
- US February 7, 1999
- AU April 23, 2000
- SE January 3, 2003