Instead of just running through the chronology of the events that happened this documentary actually tries to make sense of it all. Much appreciated.

@jr-fu6gj

Ай бұрын

boomers are human and susceptible to propaganda from repetitive messaging too. Remove all social media from your phone. Your battery and mental health will improve #Rubyfreeman

@SocketSlinger

10 күн бұрын

It would not let me comment on the original video but on a previous comment. So I'm just here to say that communism is evil, and unfortunately we are heading that way.

The significance of this film is even greater today than when it was made. For many, the sacrifices and errors of the Sixties would be all for nothing had we not had this excellent tour guide to help us understand what had happened, even for some of us just barely old enough to remember a little of it. The privilege of getting to personally thank the film maker all these years later is kind of mind blowing.

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for your comment. David Hoffman filmmaker

@mariellegrass-singing4718

29 күн бұрын

All my life I was told the Reds are coming. I'm 85 and I have never met a communist.

@craigeyerick8198

9 күн бұрын

You're just not very perceptive pal

I was born in 1955. I remember all of this. I remember growing up in NYC during the Cuban Missile Crisis. We had weekly fire drills and Bomb drills! I grew up to be a Hippie. Peace, Love , Equality 💕

David, I was born 1959. Raised in the San Fernando Valley. I was a latchkey kid, very hands-off parents. After work, parents numbed on volume and alcohol, so there wasn't much homework being done. The BMX bicycle, and the bicycle industry provided my pathway to prosperity and good fortune. Pop culture, politics wasn't really on my radar my entire life. I am grateful and feel blessed for a simple life. I feel blessed to have peace of mind. Thank you for creating your art and sharing here. ❤

@user-ne7zi3ym3b

Ай бұрын

Sounds like the parents now in 2024.

@wildtymes2429

29 күн бұрын

I was a suburban kid raised in the '60s in the north-west San Fernando Valley in tract home neighborhoods where lucky for me there were still open fields, orange orchards, ranches, horse farms, and mountains to explore on my stingray bike with the sparkly turquoise banana seat, and on foot with my Sheltie dog Rex. My Mom trained dogs, rehabbed wild animals, and we as a family rescued animals (we were the odd-ball family in the neighborhood who had various animals and other kids in our neighborhood liked to come over and see what not-normal animals we had), so my love for the outdoors, animals, and more importantly horses (my passion), began when I was a little kid beginning in the early-'60s. Later on, beginning in the early-'70s, I worked at ranches, and then training facilities (all gone by the mid-'80s to make way for more tract homes), my passion for horses bloomed, and I'm still a horse trainer to this day. Without horses in my life, I doubt I would have made it past my 20s in the '80s considering the party-crowd I ran with in my 20s. Because of my responsibilities to take care of my animals, and train clients with their horses, that kept me mostly under wraps so that I made it through my 20s. Now I live rugged off the grid about as far away from suburbia as I could get, but I still train horses, I rescue horses, and other animals, and its been another adventure in my life for the past 8 years.

@rjo8570

15 күн бұрын

@@wildtymes2429 you have a blessed life congratulations!!!

@GrizrazRex

8 күн бұрын

Another SFV kid here. It was a bit different to grow up in a condo in the 91606. Our bikes were definitely THE accessory, until video games came along, but I was in high school by then. Valley Plaza was my local mall, just a mile away, and I am very saddened to see what has become of the area. I got out in 1991, having by then recognized that California was crucifying itself. It's like another planet to me now. Those of us SFV kids in the late Boomer/early X era got the last of the conformist information, as the world around us started to combust. We were too young to understand it all. The filmmaker does not appear to respect the generational debt that the US civil rights movement owes to WW2. It was returning Black American military personnel who spread the awareness to their communities that life could be much better, and that they should demand that it be better. The momentum rose from the grass roots in the mid-50s, with the Brown decision and Montgomery boycott. It built from there, taking another decade to reach a boiling point. In 2024, it can be said that everything eventually boiled off, and we are now seeing cooling and condensation. Reverse discrimination is a de facto reality in 2024 America. The so-called American Dream seems to be becoming more and more elusive with each generation. Media highlights Gen Z's discontent with this, but the phenomenon of not exceeding your parents in life began with Gen X. It would seem that Todd Rundgren nailed it: "All the names have been changed, but the story's the same; history will repeat. Add it all up and divide it by zero, 'cause you're back on the street."

@thomeg492

7 күн бұрын

@@wildtymes2429 Your life story was fascinating to read, I could really picture it. Especially your childhood, it sounds so cozy. Thank you for sharing!

I grew up in the 60's. Now, I know I'm ADHD... In the 60's, I was labeled an "underachiever." I tested highly intelligent, but didn't pay attention to most things in school, never did homework or study, or care if I got bad grades. I couldn't wait to get home, away from the endless humiliation. I was relentlessly shamed by parents and teachers alike, mom mostly. Dad, who'd get home from work, would take a nap, right away. I had to be quiet, or go outside. I didn't mind either. I liked my dad. At home, he was where I'd go to get away from mom. We had a TV, and I'd watch a few things, but would rather tinker in my dad's workshop, or hang with him while he tinkered. This was my REAL education. Wjat I learned, I used to make a living most of my life. Dad noticed my interest, encouraged me to work on my own. I did. When the slot car craze hit, I was ready. I did well with cars I built from scratch, at home in my dad's workshop, bits of brass and piano wire. I won races... I was a total loser in school. My classmates were shocked that I excelled at the track, where my name was plastered all over the place for my achievements. I had friends for the first time, and respect. One of these friends turned me on to the music. Folk, and Blues really drew me in... Girls liked guitar players. I found a cheapie, and learned a few tunes... i got laid... I found m calling. Leaving the nest, living on my own with roommates in a nearby city is when my life truly began. I was away from constant shame, classmate teasing amd taunts. I was accepted by almost everyone I met, unconditionally. I became a student at Community College near the city. It was an extension of HS, and just as boring. I didn't study, nor do homework. Yet, I did well in physics, liked it. Found it fascinating, got straight A's... did poorly in everything else. Nobody said anything. I grew my hair, smoked weed, did acid.... crazy times. But my family only paid for my books, I had to pay for my schooling. But it got me away from family. I had thr skills dad taught me. I could maintain my car, and did. I was the black sheep of the family, repeatedly trained to have no self-esteem, something I struggle with to this day. I was easily manipulated wherever I went, even by future partners, friends, employers, who like my mother, would shame me if I asserted myself in any way. Still, I resented authority, and still do. Going through the draft physical was everything Arlo Guthrie said... I knew not to resist, just get through the physical as quickly as possible I had braces on my teeth, given 4-A... only to be called during a declared war. Since Vietnam was a police action, i ducked the draft, legally. I got a job at the nearby steel mill, made good money, bought a new car... But that guitar kept me intrigued more than anything... Eventually, playing in public was how I made a living. Being a steelworker was much easier... but in music, I had to be a businessman... Being ADHD, disorganized, was my downfall. The quality of my music, the value of my performances, meant nothing... it was all about doing business. I had to herd people. I enjoyed solitude... Again, I was an underachiever. Now retired, a homeowner, and I still have to deal with the record keepers, the obsessively organiized, pay bills, mortgage, be a responsible HOA member... I still don't fit in, wherever I go. The poem, "The Men Who Don't Fit in," by Robert Service, fits me to a T. I'm still a very angry man... and can do nothing about it. I'm tired of lashing out with hurtful sarcasm. I feel like I'm surrounded by idiots, and know, in some ways, I am one myself. I want inner peace... nobody let's up, not even the girlfriend... One day at a time...

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

5 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing a bit of your story. David Hoffman filmmaker

@Thomas-pq4ys

5 ай бұрын

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker Thank you back... There were anti-war protests at the college I was at... mostly done by the "cool kids." Things really weren't much different than high school. I watched from the peripherie... The cool kid crowd was who all the pretty girls hung out with... I liked to look at them, my hormones screaming at me. One of these gals seduced me because she said she liked how I looked at her... Oh, to be that age again, and know what I know now. Lots of fond memories of innocent times... This old body isn't the amusement ride it used to be. Thanks for the vid... spot on, and the clips... excellent.

@joeburly

3 ай бұрын

@@Thomas-pq4ysdid you ever end up taking medication for ADHD?

@nikkihines3652

Ай бұрын

Appreciate your honesty dear. 👍🏾

@3810-dj4qz

18 күн бұрын

How do you know you are ADHD? Did you get a medical diagnosis from a clinical psychologist? There are many people who self diagnose and that’s not a true diagnosis. One cant get the proper help without the proper medical professional diagnosing them and giving them the correct treatment. Once treated correctly, the world is a very different place.

Born in 1958, this is a thoughtful, well produced production. Excellent. Nothing has changed much really, only the players.

The man at 10:20 was correct. I certainly took for granted all the wonderful things I had was because of my father’s and mother’s hard work. They knew what trauma was like and didn’t want me to experience that

David, I remember watching this show in its entirety some 25+ years ago in Finland. The Finnish public broadcaster YLE used to air it on Friday evenings and I made sure to always be by the TV early to avoid having to fight for the remote. I've been fascinated with the 60s as long as I can remember and this show helped me understand that turbulent decade better than anything I'd seen before. It's still hands down the best documentary series made on the topic! Excerpts of the show are also how I first came across your channel years ago when it only had a couple of uploads. Even back then, you were kind enough to reply to viewers' questions and comments - something you still do, to my delight. Thanks for the upload. Mikael from Saigon, Vietnam

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

9 ай бұрын

I try to reply to as many comments as possible. Thank you for your comment. David Hoffman filmmaker

i was born in 1953 my father was a brit a japanese prisoner of war on the burma siam railway and was barely alive by 1945 my mother was austrian a member of hitlers league of german women her mother was a single mom her brother who had emotional problems was euthenized by nazi doctors in 1942 when he was in his early 20s . the americans bombed my mothers home. I hit the 60s and my life fell apart because of drugs and money and sex and when it spiralled out of control it destroyed the perfect middle class lives that my parents tried to construct for themselves and my sister. and me. Their love and care for me shattered the illusion of life they had tried to live. My father died quite young and my mother blamed me for his early demise and it is a guilt i have carried ever since. I can understand now that the terrible things they saw and endured would cause them to want to live a fairytale life but at the time i was emotionally and spiritually and intellectually immature to understand.

@alanaadams7440

22 күн бұрын

Now you see how hard they worked so you didn't see what they lived through. Everyone wants better for their children

I don’t think you can underestimate the impact rock n roll had on 1950s and 1960s society. Rockers like Chuck Berry, Elvis, Carl Perkins, and Little Richard greatly influenced the burgeoning English rock scene which gave birth to bands like the Beatles and the Stones. These bands then popularized radical ideas like growing one’s hair longer and casual drug use, etc. a few short years later and that progressed to hippies and acid. The change in popular culture that took place between 1964 and 1967 was so dramatic that it became unrecognizable almost overnight. From clean cut crooners like Rick Nelson to psychedelic artists with tie-dye clothes and hair down to their shoulders.

Who else noticed, that it was Dick York from "Bewitched" television show!?

@alanaadams7440

22 күн бұрын

Yes

Y'all have really done a very good job of presenting this in the way in which you did it. I was born in 1951. For the very first time, I've seen a complete explanation for all of the events discussed & presented here. This answered many personal thoughts and feelings I've had since early childhood and later concerning the circumstance in which I grew up under, and how it affected me. I saw how my family must have been and how they were affected by the 30s & 40s. My family distentagrated in 1956, all my brothers & sister were much older and they all left early to pursue thier lives. With my father's death, things changed greatly. I guess you could say I grew up outside the box a little. I became a tough little street kid with very little supervision. I was an individual, apart from the other children. I watched a lot of old TV. Have Gun Will Travel is still my favorite western series. Hats off to you all for doing such a good job making sense of things in the 50s & 60s.

I was born in 1962 it was the most important decade in our history, so many things changed.

@Frates1

Ай бұрын

I so agree with you. Although I’m British this documentary to large extent could be about here as well! The only real difference is the fact we didn’t enter the Vietnam war.

Dude- aside from all the controversy and chaos the 60s WERE wonderful. The music, creativity, openness, explosion of ideas, intellectualism, introspection, colorful beauty and transformative exploration.

@suestephan3255

Ай бұрын

Yes and no. I had an idyllic childhood and without a dad who died when I was 7. Neighbors came together they helped Mom who had a store taking us 4 kids places. One babysat. My sister who was just 7 mos. for 2 years so mom could tend the store. But I am talking about suburbia in the ‘60’s. If you lived in the city you saw so much more violence & unrest. Not every child had a sweet childhood playing in the street, playing all kinds of games and backyard cook outs with neighbors and freely riding bikes everywhere.

@lizze490

Ай бұрын

@@suestephan3255 Well, of course- in my neighborhood it was dicey and I had a dysfunctional childhood. That being said it was an amazing decade.

@GeneRogers-di6cl

13 күн бұрын

I definitely agree! Today in 2024 people are glued to their smartphones, definitely more superficial and I think take things for granted. We did learn real skills! Not like today’s soft core academics. I worked hard around our house and got a tiny allowance for candy and soda. I mowed lawns around the neighborhood for maybe a dollar each. We had the Cold War, assassinations of JFK, MLK and JFK. I knew what was going on even living in the suburbs. We actually had values. We played baseball in the streets and had Saturday noon movies at the walk in theater. We actually had more values. Both my father and his older brother fought in WW Two. We didn’t have much but we enjoyed what we had. I didn’t come from a rich family. Most of all we did have values.

@jessicacruz2974

12 күн бұрын

Isn’t it interesting to also notice that maybe all the controversy and chaos sort of gave birth to the music, creativity and explosion of intellectual conversations? I feel it’s through the hard times that we have our biggest breakthroughs, and this is a large scale example of that. Kinda cool haha

@milanmarinkovic3016

5 күн бұрын

"....60s were wonderful...." Yes! Especially music. It was such an amazing explosion of creativity. Experimentation, exploration in all fields..I much prefer vibes of the period then what we have today.

I lived thru the 60s in my teens. My father was very strict. I did not do drugs or drink now I'm glad for it I didn't get hooked on anything. I have relatives who are in their 40s and they are hooked on drugs and weed bc they can't face reality

@xenuburger7924

7 күн бұрын

Reality is for people who can't deal with drugs!

I am old and I lived through the 60's in the deep south , other than civil rights, most of what happened in the country during that time my parents and their friends were more or less anxious observers . Drugs, the vietnam war , the hippie culture , really didn't have much impact on me and my friends , those concerns and indulgences really didn't start until the 70's

one thing no body can deny the music of 60s was truly feel like music of free souls. never felt same with any other era musics, even in this documentary the background music is amazing.

@LOJ777

Ай бұрын

That can be countered with jazz of the 1920s

@cathcolwell2197

Ай бұрын

I didn’t like the music- it was repetitive and contrived - business took the pulse of anxiety and made some simplistic, easily written little ditties and their writers ,huge, heroic stars - tunes, and their ideas, repeated over and over (emptily) shaping ideas, minds and narratives.

@LM-kg4fl

22 күн бұрын

@@cathcolwell2197Bob Dylan

@19valleydan

10 күн бұрын

or lost souls...

The 50s was the only time in history you could own a home while working retail. How far this country has fallen, working 2 and 3 jobs in 2024

@robfromvan

9 күн бұрын

Normally retail jobs are for kids who live at home with their parents, not adults who are trying to pay mortgages. Usually you would train to be a professional like a doctor or lawyer, or a tradesperson like a mechanic or plumber and that is normally what’s considered an adults job. Working at Abercrombie & Fitch is for teenagers. I guess they thought differently back then. It’s weird that those jobs would afford you a house.

@terryrichmond4723

9 күн бұрын

@@robfromvan back then people actually cared about each other, nowadays people are led by greed and cold hearted, rich get richer and as you can plainly see there is no more middle class. It will keep getting worse

Hi Mr. Hoffman. We've chatted in the comments a few years ago about this amazing documentary series. I taped all 5 episodes back in the 80's when I was in my late teens and obsessed with the 60's. I hope you upload the other four episodes. This film is too good not to! Thank you!

Still got this on DvD! Great series

@gmamah9559

9 ай бұрын

I have this on VHS. My late husband LIVED it. ❤

Didn't finish the entire docu yet but thusfar I'm impressed by all the footage you seem to have a pile of private material to start with. Also David I love the editing you did. Images and comments fading into one flow. Great effect! Chapeau.

Your channel, sir, is one of the best, if not the best on the entire platform. Your videos allow someone like me, a russian native, to understand and appreciate american culture in it's entirety, not just current state of it. It's just fascinating, that I have this window in the history of other country thanks to you and I want to take this opportunity to thank you for your much appreciated work! Thank you, mister Hoffman

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

5 ай бұрын

Thanks! David Hoffman Filmmake

It is folly to judge the past on the context of what we know now. My mother lived in a railroad car during the depression she was thrilled to have a new 3 bedroom 2 bath home in suburbia in Phx Az as a stay at home mom with her own car. It's all relative

@user-fq1oj2tr3v

20 күн бұрын

I would be thrilled with that, now.

Wow, I was born right after WWII and grew up with the Beats on the beach in Venice, CA. There were no pretty clothes, but there were school rules and various others, but I got kicked out of school in 6th grade. Alcohol, drugs, and then off to Vietnam was how it worked in my neighborhood.

@KM-pm6qe

9 ай бұрын

Wow, Venice was rough in those days. Even until almost the 1980s. Not the upscale place it is today, for sure.

The first 10 years of my life was during the 1960's I was too young to know and unaware of major events that took place during that decade it wasn't until early 1970's that I saw a 10-year anniversary of the assignation of President John F Kennedy on television, 5 year anniversary of the summer of love and the Monterey Pop Festival and Woodstock Festival, that my love for the 60's began and wanted to learn what took place during the first 10 years of my life. The more I've learned about the 60's the more I don't think we'll ever make sense of the 60's but I enjoy trying. I thank you for trying and keeping the 60's alive on your channel David Hoffman 😊✌🧡

Nothing has changed! Today it is simply "conforming to nonconformity".

@Lobishomem

5 ай бұрын

Yes, you are unique just like everyone else!

Dick York @ 22 minutes in! Girls who park in cars? Wow! This was so refreshing, David, because it wasn’t 50 still photos zoomed into and out of repeatedly. I realize you had living witnesses to present, which was germane, but even with the historical images you resisted flogging the same dead horse over and over. Thank you.

I loved the 60s. I was just behind them, admiring every hippie & the war protesters….! I LOVED their rebellious attitude! ❤

The 1960s was not a crisis. The 1930s and 1940s were.

@suestephan3255

Ай бұрын

But it was mass rebellion. When I watched the violence and people kicking people I realize no time period is different because as the Bible states there is not one who seeks after God. God draws us. We respond.

@somerandomvertebrate9262

Ай бұрын

Agreed, the sixties wasn't a crisis, it was an awakening. Such episodes only occur when a culture is at its maximum sense of security, individual opportunity and self-assured confidence. That's what sets the stage of spiritual hubris. If a "crisis" of any sort, it was a crisis of values.

@robsan52

Ай бұрын

Well it depended on who you were. For my parents, aunts, uncles etc. it definitely was a crisis. Their kids were rejecting everything they'd fought for and achieved. I know what you're saying but its onesided and simplistic. The thing that discourages me most is the total disaster the black community has become. 60 yrs of fed. and state help, of other races supporting their important achievements...total waste of money and time.

@billf7062

29 күн бұрын

⁠@@robsan52 View some U tube videos of parts of “The South” even today and you may change your perspective. Places like Appalachia (more white) and Mississippi (more black) have dire poverty. Places like Kentucky have billionaires enjoying The Kentucky Derby and millions of people living in shacks and trailers. No work and a culture of hopelessness turn young people toward drugs. Blacks started in The South and moved north and west during WWII because they were offered jobs. Blacks didn’t “become” worse off because of State and Federal programs, they were already poor from a legacy of slavery and Jim Crow, which made them second class citizens right through the 60’s. Blacks started to improve economically, because they had bottom rung jobs, then off-shoring jobs happened starting in the 60’s. Off-shoring jobs set back many poor (white and black). The rich and powerful realized the profits from sending work overseas more than offset the taxes they pay to support the welfare system. More whites have always been on welfare than blacks (there’s more whites) and poor whites were also hurt from off-shoring jobs and went on assistance. Also, all along machine technology has been killing jobs. A hundred years ago a car manufacturing plant needed thousands of men in an assembly line; now robots have replaced men. Robots never get tired, never ask for a raise in pay and never go on strike. A lot of jobs simply don’t exist anymore because technology has been a game changer.

@stoveboltlvr3798

25 күн бұрын

@@somerandomvertebrate9262 "Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times"

I may have watched this in college when they prepared us as the cast of a production of, "Hair". I'm so impressed by you, David.

Thank you for releasing this, I have watched the entire series several times and can definitively say it sure helped me make sense of my life. I hope that as time goes on, you will release the others. It is a WONDERFUL series, thank you. Mr. Hoffman.

I was born in 53 the best life I put flowers in my hair but most of why I did it was the music and I always like to be free my mother when we grew up let us more or less do and go what we wanted as long as we were good. I wore patches all over my jeans, bellbottoms and flowers in my hair and a very young age, I love love love the music of those times. Oh wow, I wish I could relive it.🎉

@lisapalmeno4488

Ай бұрын

Same here. I was a little kid, but I sure wish I could do it over. I miss the simpler times of having Mom hanging clothes on the line, wearing my bell bottoms and hanging out at the neighborhood swimming pool listening to great music. Corn boils at that same park, penny carnivals, and crocheting my Barbie clothes! Great days.

@robbinsteel

14 күн бұрын

Never met a communist ? ( one comment noted). Ha! Turn on the TV!

We just didn't know how good we had it. Which is typical for children and we were a young society. Nowadays it'll cost 8 trillion dollars for a little Leviton house with a white picket fence.

@suestephan3255

Ай бұрын

Funny but when those houses in Levittown PA were occupied for years there was a rule, no fences. They wanted an open look and fences would ruin that

@gb-jg1ud

Ай бұрын

Having it all with no immediate daily struggle causes humans to make problems with which to struggle. That was a huge part of the 60's, good and bad. Today...We are both paying for that decade and benefiting from it. Noting is black and white or clear cut when looking back in history.

@johnmusser8925

21 күн бұрын

​@@suestephan3255I grew up in a levit town house..three bedroom costs 11 thousand

I was born in 1954. I will take the 60s ANY DAY over the suffocating conformism of the 1950s!!!!

@seana806

28 күн бұрын

About the only good thing about the 1950’s were the cars, craftsmanship, movies and cartoons, mid century architecture, music, appliances, overall aesthetics and looks of that era. Everything else about that era can be left behind in the dust. The whole “you are to be seen and not heard, you have to do this right now or that or else” thing is why everything became a mess in the 1960’s, still is a couple of generations later. I also think it’s ironic on how the Greatest Generation basically brought up their children to “not question authority”, but when you aren’t willing to be flexible or budge is questioning authority in and of itself, ‘questioning authority’ ain’t exactly a one way street.

@salamanders6969

21 күн бұрын

Exactly the 50’s are what Trump MAGA movement considers when America was great. Era of social conservatism, segregation and white supremacy.

I was 18 in 1968, the peak of the Vietnam War. I was against the war. The country was divided to be sure. Today, no one would argue that the war was necessary or justified. Vietnam today is doing quite well without our help. Thank-you

@adrianpasillas3832

Ай бұрын

And here we go again with the stupid people rioting in the midst of their entitlement...join them...

@jr-fu6gj

Ай бұрын

TIL. Dictatorship=doing quite well. Remove all social media from your phone. Your battery and mental health will improve #Rubyfreeman

@marine4lyfe85

Ай бұрын

​@@jr-fu6gjNevermind the killing fields.

@suestephan3255

Ай бұрын

Was your draft # high or deferment?

@MrJm323

18 күн бұрын

How would you compare how former South Vietnam (Saigon is now Ho Chi Min City) is doing compared to South Korea. Because what we did for South Korea (spared it from being ruled by the Kim family) is generally regarded as a great military and foreign policy achievement of the United States. It is now one of the wealthiest (undeniably First World) countries in the world. The only difference between the Korean Communists (who run North Korea, of course) and the Vietnamese Communists (who run all of Vietnam) is that the Vietnamese chose a more Deng Xiao-peng style reform of their economy rather than the super-suppressed one of the Kim Il-sung/ Kim Jong-il/ Kim Jong-un dynasty. So, life in southern Vietnam is not as bad as it could have been; but clearly they are far behind South Korea in terms of prosperity and civil freedoms of its people.

Wow, This really does explain why the 60s were the way they were. No wonder. I wasn't born till 1970 so I'm a gen x but I like history.

Thank you! I remember seeing this on PBS in college. The best doc on the 60's.

What is wrong with being patriotic? What is wrong with loving your country? My grandmother was from Norway, she told me frequently how lucky I was to be born in America. She learned English and became a citizen and became a Republican. She taught me a valuable lesson

Thank you for putting these on KZread, born 1954 in Kansas, grew up north of Chicago, polio at age three (it does odd things with memory, many I have not lost), a wanderer (now known to be related to ASD and ADHD tossed in too), ended up in Newfoundland since 1973 (I had to be opposite to "Go west young man").

Thanks for sharing this David, much appreciated it. Making sense of the Sixties.😊

Saw this 😢way back when on PBS t.v. Best American doc on the subject. Period. ( @22:20 Dig teenage Darren Stevens B4 he got bewitched in the 60's! )

Don't know how you came to feature in my YT feed, but your pieces and the scope of your work is fascinating. An absolute treasure, I would be left incomplete had I not explored through your channel.

Born in 1955 with a rebellious and idealistic spirit.

@johnmusser8925

21 күн бұрын

Me too

Someday my grandkids will be watching a documentary called "The 2020's" and thinking "Holy shit"

Favorite part so far when the lady looks straight into the camera and says "Now it sends a chill up my spine" .

@elindioedwards7041

Ай бұрын

I wonder how she would now feel if she was a 30 something year old woman, not married, desiring kids and a man with a 6 figure plus annual income, suddenly finding herself competing with women 10 years younger for that high income man?

Outstanding. Huge impact on me back in 1991. Thank you.

As a hippie in the late sixties I was sure the movement was a reaction to the militarism of WWII.

@loislewis5229

Ай бұрын

I thought the same thing back in the day

@terrierqueen4091

Ай бұрын

And now? Just asking.

@loislewis5229

Ай бұрын

@@Volkish.Birdman So true, I took for granted the nice life I had in America. I’m ashamed of that now.

I love watching this because it gives an insight into why my grandparents generation behaved the way they did and what they went through during the depression and the Second World War. Being British we luckily didn’t suffer the Vietnam war but so many other aspects of the 60s were so similar here although we suffered longer after WW2 because the country was such a mess and rationing didn’t end here until 1954 so it was longer before we had the material things like people had in America. Sometimes I think people of my generation (gen x) and after don’t realise how lucky we are. Mind you our current world is pretty scary!

So glad you uploaded this. What an important glimpse on how we got to where we are today. Thank you.

This was a great series, I remember watching this with my foster mom back when it premiered on PBS ❤

@amberowens3244

9 ай бұрын

Side note: both bio parents were "hippies", my father lived down at "the Haight" from 67 when he dropped out of college to 71 when he came back home to western New York before he met my bio mom and had me in 74. He met commune leader Steve Gaskin but didn't join his group. In the 60 Minutes man-on-the-street film footage about the Haight he's seen sitting on the sidewalk behind Morley Safer walking past 🙄.. My once-removed, brush with fame 😂✌😂

For those of you that think Boomers are lame a group of old brokedown retired Boomers just restored a Lockheed Constellation out of Chino Airport. The magnitude of than endeavor is mind boggling. Considering the age of all those involved its even more mind boggling.

@joecummings1260

Ай бұрын

We used to have a Lockheed Constellation in Pennell Pa that was a restaurant. It sat on columns above the building and at one time you could eat while sitting in it. At the grand opening they were giving hot air balloon rides from the parking lot, and they hit the power lines and a waitress got killed. They took it down in the 1990's and built a gas station there. The Constellation was saved, but I have no idea where it went

"we found out in the 50's that if you got up in the morning and went to work, and did a good days work, then things got better" if only that were still true.

If the 60's were a rebellion against the uptight 1950's, I wonder if there is another rebellion coming our way in the next few years? Also, thanks for posting!

@vicoilsteems9764

3 ай бұрын

Today's MAGA rebellion was orchestrated and pre planned in the 1970s by wallstreet big business conservatives right wing establishment. Everything happening and going on today and the reason things are as they are is the result of this decades long corporate government takeover of American democracy,government and society.

@terrenceliburd8655

Ай бұрын

The rebellion never stoped!

@SaraYW35m

Ай бұрын

My prediction: the youth of the collectivist East. Young Indians.

@merkaba22

Ай бұрын

The divine" subverted those who came her to form the 60's and beyond -- the 'divine" is repeating it now ... they always fail and uses us as surrogates and proxies ...

Oh David .. how well I remember this time ... wow .. thanks for posting 🕊️

My parents who lived through this era have nothing good to say about it. They both grew up in poverty and felt the rebellious movement stemmed from rich kids. As someone who never lived through that era, it seems like positive things occurred. But also with new found freedom came excessive extremes. I just don’t believe we were somehow ushered into a utopia. I’m looking around in 2024 and see the same scenario different actors. Just my thoughts while watching this.

@alexdavis1541

Ай бұрын

Yes, exactly the same in the UK. The "rebellion" was entirely about the children of the middle-class. The British working class remained as it was, culturally conservative, well into the 1980s. One great change that occurred by the 80s (never really discussed then, as now) was the spread of recreational drug use from indulgent middle-class kids into working class communities. They have never recovered

The best documentary series in the entire history of film.✌

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

5 ай бұрын

Thank you Jim. David Hoffman Filmmaker

@JWF99

5 ай бұрын

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker Always welcome David!

I was born in '74.. THIS was the REALITY that my PARENTS grew up in...

This is the story of my life. When they killed King,the fight was on. I grew up with Jews and Italians in Corona NY. I was the star athelete. People were shocked when they heard,I was running with Panthers. I moved to Brownsville Brooklyn. I saw suffering. The fight was on.. My friends were Panthers,BLA and Young Lords. I got stories.

Thanks for putting this up - was looking for it when I found you years ago.

That is some great editing! (Just watched the intro) Great film, David! Thanks so much!

Restores some joy in sociology and social science. Thanks this would benefit Anyone who wondered what was going on when they grew up

Thank you, sir! This is just wholesome.

Thank you David! 🙂

Thank you, David!❤❤

Thank you, David!!! 🙏❤️🌏🌿🕊🎶🎵🎵

60’s kids had it so easy that they had to strive to get in trouble.

don't worry, by the late 70's they were snorting coke and dancing to disco

Thank you so much, Mr. Hoffman.

21:30 "Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens." Talking Heads - Heaven (1979 LP Fear of Music). Around 1971 my future and now ex wife said "I don't think anybody is Normal.".

I named my cat after Lucas McCain from the rifleman bc it's my dad's (boomer) favorite western show and we found him abandoned at a Best Western hotel lol

This is fantastic . Thank you Mr Hoffman

God how I hate the music that was used in the 50s and 60s for commercials and documentaries, all faux sweetness and light.

At 21:15---that's actually really good advice and works both at home, the workplace or any other social setting. A bad attitude spreads like wildfire and affects other people. Better to keep your opinions to yourself.

As soon as we no longer had to worry about surviving and could entertain ourselves into idiots. We became our own gods and could no longer listen and think properly

Thanks for the Friday after work vid💯

Hope you make doc 'Making sense of 2020s'. Most violent craziest decade since World war 2

Phenomenal documentary

I was a “Baby Boomer “. I was born in 1948, grew up during the 1950s and 1960s and was sent to war in Vietnam. I Sure as hell didn’t know everything as a kid, but I wasn’t a fckin idiot. the 1960s ushered in the Space Program and a era of new technology. I took more hardcore classes in physics, economics than today’s kids. We had the best teachers and music every other generation wished they had had…😂 PLEASE Don’t make it sound so naive. Sure . We were young and I remember exactly where I was when JFK was shot. My neighborhood where I lived most of the fathers were veterans of World War Two. I went to college and served in the army. Later after that I went to the university ( not on the GI Bill) I pumped gas at my dad’s gas station. I built a “ muscle car “ by myself ( go look it up) . we’ve come along way, but so has every generation. We had bad things as well aka Polio, Pneumonia, Mumps, etc. My childhood was good and bad. My best childhood friend died at 11 years of age of brain cancer. I wonder if we were living in today’s world would he have lived. Finally, every generation has their good and bad memories and experiences. At 75 I’ve travelled the world and lived in China 25 years. I met people from all over the world. I went Law school. So, here we have a few soft core academics telling us how bad it really was. 哈哈哈🤣 你有美好的一个天❤。

Gen X was not spoiled at least not the older Gen X

@williambarry8015

9 ай бұрын

Gen X were kind of the last generation of kids to have freedom. Nowadays kids are regimented. They go to school,do their homework, mom drives them to karate, then they sit on their devices and they do it all over again. They're never more than ten feet from a adult authority, they get driven everywhere. They're never free-range out being hooligans with other kids.

@KaramelKissez37

Ай бұрын

These are Boomers

Thank you!

David, you got some beautiful people and ideas documented.. thanks

I recorded all these Making Sense of the 60's in '90 and they are so effin right on! This is one of the best series I've ever seen! I was born in '55.

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

6 күн бұрын

thank you. David Hoffman filmmaker

Awesome, thanks.

This is a wonderful documentary - and explains a lot about America.. It feels as if the pendulum has swung awry again, we can never ever stop working for peace and equality.

I was a teen in the 60s ..Not much anyone’s Gona tell me about the 60s… I had a ball…

35:23 That's a wonderfully edited sequence, like a nuclear ballet 🙂

You can do all the things they said that wasn't normal and still be a good person with morals and respect and responsibility.

David I see you put together a collage of clips, well done!

The absent father …. We woke up in the 60s …. Started thinking!

Being a African American born in 1954 I had fun and I wonder what the heck is going on. Civil Rights movement. Anti war movement. Leaders getting murder 1 reason why I said what's going on. Music made me happy and wanting to have fun. Hippie music, soul music and top 40 music. I love dancing, love anything that feature music. I love watching sports and movies. Most of all going from the 6th grade to the 7th grade was a shock. Mini skirts, fish net stockings ,bell bottoms I became a rebel for going against the norm.

Actually, think some of this Doc covers the period known as the "Silent" Generation. Those born roughly between 1940-45. These folks were coming into their teens( my wife was born in '41) graduated high school in 1959. Im a little younger( '53). I came of age when Rock started going more psychedelic ( '66-'68).good coverage anyway sort of both eras in a way the 50's just transitioned to the 60's

Regarding parents not knowing about child rearing....... I remember hating "Father knows best" and "My three sons" because the dads were so unrealistically level headed and unshakeably calm compared to my own tyrannical father.

@paulbadics3500

Ай бұрын

Ironic now the ex hippy boomers & the young lefties are the one censuring everything

You gotta love how the parents of the 50s actually spawned the counterculture of the 60s and 70s with their repressive "always fit in and respect authority" ridiculous mindset.

@seana806

28 күн бұрын

And that’s why everything is such a mess these days. Of course, the Greatest Generation (what few is left of them) would deny everything and say “we never did anything wrong”, well you caused a massive rebellion in the 1960’s and 1970’s, have children (mainly the Baby Boomer generation) who think the only way to get anything resolved is by arguing at the top of their lungs or threatening people (not all Boomers are like that, but some are unfortunately) by “Questioning Authority” simply by asking “can I do it later, or can we compromise?”. There’s always going to be some form of ramifications, sometimes good, sometimes bad, but what many of the older generations did “because I was raised that way and turned out fine” is exactly why we’re putting up with the negative ramifications and consequences of their actions. Sometimes, there will be negative ramifications right away, other times it’ll be in a generations time.

@user-fq1oj2tr3v

20 күн бұрын

Then those parents raised kids who didn't respect them and they wondered why. You can't let it all hang out, do drugs, etc, and expect your children to respect you.

Thanks! Always my fav!!!! Thanks always David Hoffman Filmmaker

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

5 ай бұрын

Thank you for that gift of support Lucie. David Hoffman Filmmaker

Through bad choices I made earlier in life I have been a member of the working poor for 45 years. Not once have I ever thought of my life being anything other than a wonderful experience. One full of the same moments of great joy and despair that everybody else .experiences. My time is not now nor has it ever been consumed by one moment of thinking ' oh, wow is me if only were I not poor my life would be so much better'. I'm far too busy in my life to have time for that. And so are the other poor people I know. Unlike what the do gooders think, we , the poor, do not sit around moaning about the plight of our lives. Most of us try to better our situation when and how we can but we are not miserable because of it. The people who are not poor think the poor lead lives of misery but most of us do not. Personally, I have had a great life and wouldn't trade it for one second.

I must say this is a brilliant documentary!

This is an Amazing* Video. Great editing!❤️‍🔥🎭

I'd like to know how well these schools that integrated are functioning now.

Thank you. ❤

the Frankfurt School,in Columbia,had a little to do with it