1968: A Year of War, Turmoil and Beyond

1968: A Year of War, Turmoil and Beyond

2018•44m•8.0/10

DocumentaryHistoryTV Movie

Ratings

🎬TMDb

8.0/10(4)

The Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, the May events in France, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy, the Prague Spring, the Chicago riots, the Mexico Summer Olympics, the presidential election of Richard Nixon, the Apollo 8 space mission, the hippies and the Yippies, Bullitt and the living dead. Once upon a time the year 1968.

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Production

3DD Productions, Sky Arts

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Ryan Mandrake

Self - Narrator (voice)

Will Hodgkinson

Self - Journalist

Bonnie Greer

Bonnie Greer

Self - Journalist

Kate Williams

Kate Williams

Self - Historian

John Aizlewood

Self - Journalist

Joe Boyd

Joe Boyd

Self - Music Producer

Dan Rowan

Dan Rowan

Self (archive footage)

Dick Martin

Dick Martin

Self (archive footage)

Goldie Hawn

Goldie Hawn

Self (archive footage)

Robert F. Kennedy

Robert F. Kennedy

Self (archive footage)

Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Self (archive footage)

James Brown

James Brown

Self (archive footage)

Andrew Rooney

Andrew Rooney

Self (archive footage)

Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon

Self (archive footage)

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