From Emmy Award-winning executive producers Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman and Mark Herzog comes a CNN Original Series Event, 1968: The Year That Changed America. The four-part series looks back 50 years at 1968, a year marked by seismic shifts in American politics, social movements, global relations and cultural icons who forever changed the modern-day landscape. Never-before-seen archival footage and contemporary interviews with journalists, historians, and notable figures tell the story. The docuseries maps the tumultuous events of the entire year in chronological order. Taking place against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, the civil rights struggle, tectonic changes in society and a presidential election, 1968 features larger-than-life characters like President Lyndon Johnson, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, George Wallace, hippies and yippies, soldiers and students, bra-burners and values voters. It is a year like no other in history, retold as never before.
Show Info
Network: CNN
(2018 -
2018)
Schedule: Mondays, Sundays
(60 min)
Status: Ended
Show Type:
Documentary
Genres:
History
Episodes ordered: 4 episodes
Official site: www.cnn.com
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Protest & The Presidency
Episode 1x04; May 28, 2018
Just days after political demonstrations lead to the deaths of scores of students, the Summer Olympics open in Mexico City. Before an international audience, two American sprinters protest the national anthem from the medal stand. As the presidential…
Previous Episodes
Episode Name | Airdate | Trailer |
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1x04: Protest & The Presidency | May 28, 2018 | |
1x03: The Uprising | May 28, 2018 | |
1x02: Tragedy Strikes | May 27, 2018 |
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