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American Experience: 19641964 was the year the Beatles came to America, Cassius Clay became Muhammad Ali, and three civil rights workers were murdered in Mississippi. It was the year when Berkeley students rose up in protest, African Americans fought back against injustice in Harlem, and Barry Goldwater's conservative revolution took over the Republican Part... ... More

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American Experience: 1964

1964 was the year the Beatles came to America, Cassius Clay became Muhammad Ali, and three civil rights workers were murdered in Mississippi. It was the year when Berkeley students rose up in protest, African Americans fought back against injustice in Harlem, and Barry Goldwater's conservative revolution took over the Republican Party. Based in part on The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964 by Jon Margolis, 1964 follows some of the most influential figures of the time - Lyndon B. Johnson, Barry Goldwater, Betty Friedan - but also brings out from the shadows the stories of ordinary Americans whose principled stands would set the country onto a new and different course.

Producer: Amanda Pollak, Nina Krstic, Sharon Grimberg
Executive Producer: Mark Samels
Production Company: WGBH
Production Year: 2014
Copyright Year: 2014
Director: Stephen Ives
Narrator: Oliver Platt
Writers: Stephen Ives
Discs: 1
Subtitles: Y
Subtitle Language: English (SDH)
Audio Format: 5.1 Surround
Aspect Ratio: 16x9 Widescreen

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Gene's L. reviewed American Experience: 1964 DVD

Teenager watching LIVE Year 1964 on TV

I was an undergraduate student in 1964 and only one year before my wife and I were married. This video shows much of what I watch most nights on TV News as a teenager growing up in South Carolina and through-out college and continued through 1969. The first years the same unrest continued. While a student of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY my wife and I watching local TV to witness two of our long time friends being arrested and thrown in a police paddy wagon in Louisville, KY, while they were demonstrating for civil rights in the downtown. I am purchasing American Experience: 1964 DVD by PBS so I can pass it on to my children and grandchildren for them to better understand the history their parents lived while a teenager through becoming a young adult. I think they need to know what happened in the 1960s and early 1970s concerning civil rights and freedom of speech.

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Kenmoore reviewed American Experience: 1964 DVD

A Must Watch

Fabulous historical programming by PBS. This type of programming shows the true and unique contribution that Public Television makes to our society. This should be shown in every U.S. History class in every high school in America.

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Dan reviewed American Experience: 1964 DVD

Tells why America is the way it is today

This is the perfect history lesson for kids and grandkids of the bay-boomer generation because it shows how so many things that happened in 1964 have shaped the world we live in in 2014.