1964

1964 (2014)

The pivotal year that essentially ushered in the true 1960s is explored.

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. In myriad ways, 1964 was the year when Americans faced choices: between the liberalism of Lyndon Johnson or Barry Goldwater’s grassroots conservatism, between support for the civil rights movement or opposition to it, between an embrace of the emerging counterculture or a defense of traditional values.

Date of release
2014-01-14
TMDB
6.4 / 10 (7)
Runtime
1h 53m
Genres
History, Documentary
Director
Stephen Ives

Casting

Interesting facts

1964 is a documentary film produced by Insignia Films for PBS' American Experience series about political, social, and cultural events in the United States for the calendar year 1964. It is based partly on the Jon Margolis book The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964. The documentary depicts the year 1964 as significant and epic in that following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in late 1963, 1964, as a presidential election year, becomes a departure point for American history, with lasting effects today.

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