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The Sixties

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Executive produced by Emmy® Award-winning producers Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman (HBO's John Adams and The Pacific), and Emmy® Award-winning producer Mark Herzog (History's Gettysburg), The Sixties explores the most transformative decade of the modern era in America.

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Tim Naftali
Self - Historian
Robert Dallek
Self - Author
John Heilemann
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Television Comes of Age

Thu, May 29, 201442 mins

Americans gathered around "the tube," to be informed and entertained by the news, The Twilight Zone, The Fugitive, I Dream of Jeannie, Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, and more. Tom Hanks, Sally Field, Dick and Tom Smothers, Carol Burnett, Dick Cavett, Diahann Carroll, Carl Reiner, Vince Gilligan, Petula Clark and others describe how the ground-breaking, rule-breaking, norm-bending dramas, historical events, and sitcoms reflected and influenced who we were.

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Awards

  • 2014 - HPA Award - Outstanding Editing - Television - nominated
  • 2014 - IDA Award - Best Limited Series - nominated
  • 2015 - Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series - nominated
  • 2014 - Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special - nominated

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