By 1960 almost half the U.S. population was under eighteen years of age. By 1968, the conservative '50s had been overtaken by full-blown social and political revolt. In Europe, students rioted and demonstrated for greater intellectual freedom--and against the rigid values of the parents' generation. This film revisits the Civil Rights Movement, the beginnings of Students for a Democratic Society, the experience of the Vietnam War, student protest in 1968 Paris, anti-war movements, the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, the Weather Underground, the advent of rock and roll, hippies, counter-culture, yippies and anti-nuclear campaigns.
"Rebellion, riots, rock 'n roll, assassination, interrogation, and a new generation questioning the Establishment. It was 1968, and "baby boomers" fought the system that nurtured them, challenging everything from foreign policy to music to personal style. Less materialistic and more idealistic, they didn't want their parents' world -- they wanted to create their own. In Young Blood, see how youth rebellion became a potent social and political force. Footage and interviews from then and now reveal how America learned that ordinary people have the power and the right to challenge authoritiy [sic] and change the world. - Container."
"By 1960 almost half the U.S. population was under eighteen years of age. By 1968, the conservative '50s had been overtaken by full-blown social and political revolt. In Europe, students rioted and demonstrated for greater intellectual freedom--and against the rigid values of the parents' generation. This film revisits the Civil Rights Movement, the beginnings of Students for a Democratic Society, the experience of the Vietnam War, student protest in 1968 Paris, anti-war movements, the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, the Weather Underground, the advent of rock and roll, hippies, counter-culture, yippies and anti-nuclear campaigns."@en
""More babies were born in the United States in the first ten years after World War II than in the fifty years before it. By 1960, almost half the US population was under eighteen years old. With little more than youthful bravado, young people the world over rose up to challenge authority on everything from foreign policy to popular culture. By 1968, the conservative '50s economic boomtime had been overtaken by full-blown social and political revolt. In Europe, students rioted and demonstrated for greater intellectual freedom--and against the rigid values of their parents' generation. In the United States, the Civil Rights Movement, fear of nuclear annihilation, and the Vietnam war were galvanizing a new generation on the nation's college campuses and beyond--pitting a vigorous new youth culture against the Establishment. While some took to out-and-out rebellion, others dropped out, turning instead to an alternative lifestyle which aspired to peace, love, and freedom. Adults raised during the lean years of the Depression and world war were offended by the style as much as the substance of the protests--and the beat of a new age: In many ways, nothing symbolized the mood of the world's youth more viscerally than the popular music of the '60s--a powerful new medium that transcended national boundaries and gave voice to a generation's passion. Under intense public pressure, the US finally withdrew from Vietnam in 1975. With the war's end, the stormy adolescence of a rebellious generation quieted, but for millions, the lessons survive: change can come from below as well as above; children can teach their parents; students can influence their schools; and ordinary people have the power and the right to challenge authority and change the world"--Videocassette sleeve."
"In 1968 the "baby boomers" were fighting the system and questioning everything from foreign policy, music, and personal style. More idealistic they wanted to create their own world, a world less materialistic and totally different from the one their parents had brought them up in. When the government ignored them the youth rebelled and showed the "Establishment" that they were a potent social and political force. They retaught America that ordinary people have the power and right to challenge authoritiy and change the world."
"The people remember: Vietnam, Haight/Ashbury, love-ins, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, drug culture, student protests, the anti-war movement, rock and roll, Woodstock, Hippies and the "no nukes" campaign. -- Container."
"By 1960 almost half the U.S. population was under eighteen years of age. By 1968, the conservative '50s had been overtaken by full-blown social and political revolt. In Europe, students rioted and demonstrated for greater intellectual freedom--and against the rigid values of the parents' generation. This film revisits the Civil Rights Movement, the beginnings of Students for a Democratic Society, the experience of the Vietnam War, student protest in 1968 Paris, anti-war movements, the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, the Weather Underground, the advent or rock and roll, hippies, counter-culture, yippies and anti-nuclear campaigns."
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Democratic National Convention (1968 : Chicago, Ill.)
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