The Sixties

Astronaut and NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, astronauts Mike Massimino and Dave Scott, and Walter Issacson, Douglas Brinkley, Tom Wolfe, Andy Chaikin, and Tom Hanks describe the greatest adventure story of all time. The 'giant leap' pushed the boundaries of exploration to an unprecedented frontier, inspiring inventions and imaginations around the world for generations.

Gloria Steinem, Robert Kennedy, Jr., former U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, Cecile Richards, Marlo Thomas, Douglas Brinkley, and Gail Collins discuss how feminism, civil rights, environmentalism, conservatism, and the gay rights movements were fuelled by deep yearnings for freedom by a generation unwilling to wait.

From just several hundred advisors at the start of the decade, to more than 550,000 American troops by the end of it, the escalation of the war in Vietnam - and the fighting and the dying - brought social and political polarization back home. It was also televised - and, the more Americans saw of the war, the more unpopular the conflict became.