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

2 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

2 ай 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.

@ManyThingsSeem

Ай бұрын

If it doesn't mention Tavistock it's a joke...

@timfronimos459

24 күн бұрын

@@ManyThingsSeem Gawd that's what I was thinking. Avg American has no idea how influential Tavistock was/is.

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

11 ай бұрын

Thank you for your comment. David Hoffman filmmaker

@mariellegrass-singing4718

2 ай бұрын

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

@craigeyerick8198

Ай бұрын

You're just not very perceptive pal

@matthewm1525

Ай бұрын

Yeah, I don’t think the significance of this decade was recognized in the 1990’s because it was another decade of relative prosperity where the narrative was “we fixed everything! Racism is over and everyone has a TV so let’s just go back to work.” The effects of NAFTA were not fully realized yet and the ignorant (not their fault) backlash to the economic shift in blaming immigrants for lost jobs and then the MAGA far right swing was not even a fleeting thought at the time. I think just as we are watching this through a website, using the internet, information has brought us the understanding that this are still very broken. That the United States is still not the beacon of freedom and democracy it projects itself to be. That we are all made to shoulder the burden of the selfish, profit driven consequences of the actions of uncaring, behemoth corporations while our government pays us lip service.

@congero113

28 күн бұрын

@@mariellegrass-singing4718you weren’t looking in the right places. They assumed positions of cultural power especially in universities, academia, churches, bureaucracies, journalism. Much of what Uri Bezmenov warned about has come to pass.

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 💕

@jessemontano762

Ай бұрын

Equality is good. Equity is not.

@Canushowmeonthedoll

Ай бұрын

You people are everything wrong with America.

@weltraumaffe4155

9 күн бұрын

'54 CLE

@paulgentile1024

8 күн бұрын

never got into hippie movement myself .a street kid.. maybe a bit of a beat.. actually loved cats from the 50s like Kerouac.. the 60s music was great though..

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

3 ай бұрын

Sounds like the parents now in 2024.

@wildtymes2429

2 ай 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

2 ай бұрын

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

@GrizrazRex

Ай 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

Ай 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 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.

@user-re4kc6cp7u

23 күн бұрын

And then it got heavy and satanic and even more dark

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

@alanaadams7440

2 ай 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.

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

2 ай 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

2 ай 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

@rosalindmartin4469

Ай бұрын

Damn. Look at the price of a home then and now.

@matthewm1525

Ай бұрын

@@robfromvanIt’s not weird at all. Why should only certain jobs give you the opportunity for a being a home? Abercrombie & Fitch hire retail associates because they NEED them. And Abercrombie and Fitch make millions amen millions of dollars. Why should those very necessary employees have to struggle whilst the their CEO takes the vast majority of profit earnings? This only makes sense if you buy into plantation capitalism that places low value on rank and file workers. If those jobs weren’t necessary, they wouldn’t exist. Yet mid level management and Chief Officer ones are often very redundant and sometimes unnecessary. Why do they get the lions share? Someone working in retail in a 1950s being able to own a house. It’s something to be proud of. And the reason why they were able to do that was because the tax system was set up so that there was more incentive to keep money flowing into the business rather than into paychecks for CEOs. In the 1950s, the marginal tax rate for earnings above $1 million was 90%. Union membership was somewhere around 25%. A union worker shoveling Cole into a furnace at a foundry made two dollars an hour and 1960. That’s the equivalent of $18 an hour in 2010. A person making $18 an hour and 2010 had the opportunity to perhaps afford a mortgage. And in 1950 the percentage of income that would be devoted towards a mortgage was much smaller than it is today. We have seen since the 1950s and 60s is the marginal tax rate for the wealthiest earners drop incredibly low. We’ve also seen the income of the wealthiest Americans skyrocket while the income of the middle class and work class drop when accounting for inflation inflation. This country is broken if you are a kind and considerate person. Our economic system grinds the working class into dust while the wealthiest get so much money. There is not a chance that they could ever spend it in their lifetime. Consider this. 1,000,000 seconds is 11 months. 1,000,000,000 seconds is 32 years. Nobody should ever have that much money. Because what it means is people working very necessary jobs are struggling to make ends meet.

@terryrichmond4723

Ай бұрын

@@rosalindmartin4469 exactly Brother they robbing us blind we gotta take back what’s ours

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

11 ай бұрын

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

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

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

2 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

2 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

2 ай 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

2 ай 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

Ай 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.

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

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

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!

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 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

7 ай бұрын

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

@Thomas-pq4ys

7 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

5 ай бұрын

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

@nikkihines3652

2 ай бұрын

Appreciate your honesty dear. 👍🏾

@3810-dj4qz

2 ай 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.

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

3 ай бұрын

That can be countered with jazz of the 1920s

@cathcolwell2197

2 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

2 ай бұрын

@@cathcolwell2197Bob Dylan

@19valleydan

2 ай бұрын

or lost souls...

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

@Frates1

3 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.

@PMMagro

Ай бұрын

Why was 1960s the most important decade of our history?

@1223jamez

Ай бұрын

The 1960’s is the reason why the country is in the mess it is! You want an awakening read the Biblical books Jeremiah and Ezekiel and others on what happened to Israel!

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

2 ай бұрын

I would be thrilled with that, now.

Still got this on DvD! Great series

@gmamah9559

11 ай бұрын

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

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 😊✌🧡

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.

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

@suestephan3255

2 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

2 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

2 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

2 ай 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

2 ай 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.

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

7 ай бұрын

Thanks! David Hoffman Filmmake

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.

We were raised to be consumers above all else.

@pennierkaide4985

9 күн бұрын

That started back in the 20s aimed at women by advertising the clothes, shoes, makeup, and beauty products popular celebrities were using. If you wore and used the products of celebrities, you too could be in the movies.

@weltraumaffe4155

9 күн бұрын

@@pennierkaide4985 Plus all the merch from Disney, et. al.

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

11 ай бұрын

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

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

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

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").

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

Ай бұрын

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

@katkohner9788

Ай бұрын

This time involved America people or I'm.igrants who became American. Nowadays more than half does not speak English snd the. F Government accomodUtes tl nad dew

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

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! )

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

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

2 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

2 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

2 ай бұрын

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

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

2 ай бұрын

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

@jr-fu6gj

2 ай бұрын

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

@marine4lyfe85

2 ай бұрын

​@@jr-fu6gjNevermind the killing fields.

@suestephan3255

2 ай бұрын

Was your draft # high or deferment?

@MrJm323

2 ай 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.

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

2 ай бұрын

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

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

I was born in 1945. This is an excellent documentary. Thank you so much. The hippies became yuppies but once a freak always a freak and one day we will bring back that Peace train. This time the wisdom of the old timers with the power of the children❤❤❤

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

@amberowens3244

11 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 😂✌😂

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

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

2 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

2 ай бұрын

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

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

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.

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

@elindioedwards7041

3 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?

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

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.

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

2 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

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

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

3 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.

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.

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

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!

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

@Lobishomem

7 ай бұрын

Yes, you are unique just like everyone else!

Born in 1955 with a rebellious and idealistic spirit.

@johnmusser8925

2 ай бұрын

Me too

My childhood occurred in the 80s, but many of my life lessons still come from my parents who grew up in the 40s during WWII. There are times when the values of my parents still help me today, and I teach them to my own. Their values are a hybrid of the 40s, 80s, and 20s.

I’m 67 (b. 1956), and 10:42 Dad’s 97 (b. 1927). My maternal grandfather was a 1894 vintage. I learned a lot from these men about forgiveness, humility, honesty, and perseverance. I went through my hippie stage regarding Vietnam and other issues, a but Dad and Grandpa were more understanding than a lot of my friends’s Dads and Grandpops.

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

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

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.

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

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

7 ай бұрын

Thank you Jim. David Hoffman Filmmaker

@JWF99

7 ай бұрын

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker Always welcome David!

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

5 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

3 ай бұрын

The rebellion never stoped!

@SaraYW35m

3 ай бұрын

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

@merkaba22

3 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 ...

@rolandledesma-de7qd

28 күн бұрын

Yes! There is a rebellion coming against women becoming second class citizens behind men who claim they are women.

Thank you, sir! This is just wholesome.

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 David! 🙂

I grew up in the 50’s & 60’s. The good the bad and the ugly. Our streets were safe. Kids could run and play freely. Teachers were ignorant & were clueless as to emotional needs of kids. Alcoholism was rampant. Men beat their wives with impunity. Young girls were expected to marry, not achieve. But there was wonder in being able to feel safe. Trade offs.

@MagpieAnnie73

Ай бұрын

A lot of the alcoholism was from PTSD from the war But it wasn't recognized for the majority of them. When I went into mental hralth in the late 70's I met a lot of vets with PTSD Many couldn't talk about what happened

@chrisgraham2904

27 күн бұрын

"Our streets were safe" is a myth. The only safety was in numbers. I couldn't walk outside my door to go to school without joining 8 other kids to walk to school with. There were just so damn many of us. Every house had kids in it, so it you knew the kids, you knew their parents and what their jobs were. Kid were beaten, abducted and murdered, but you didn't hear about it every time it happened on the other side of the country, or even in the next town. I remember the few kids who died in elementary school from sicknesses, the ones who got hit by cars and the kids who wore leg braces from polio. A neighborhood family of mom, dad and three kids were turned into hamburger from their car crash, while on summer vacation. Every summer there were always two or three kids with casts on their arms, wrists and legs and they couldn't go swimming for the summer.

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

Thank you, David!❤❤

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

Ай бұрын

thank you. David Hoffman filmmaker

This is fantastic . Thank you Mr Hoffman

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

@jameseverett9037

26 күн бұрын

It seems to me the essence of the 60's problems & controversy was taking everything for granted. And people have been doing it more & more ever since, because life has only gotten easier, even in spite of home prices. That of course may lead to big problems, but so far most kids still have a place to sleep and food to eat. Few of them have had to go without basic necessities. The loss of perspective, and any arguments over it all come down to the question of what are you comparing with? OK, you had it 'bad'? Compared to what? Your life seemed meaningless? You felt "oppressed" because they taught homemaking at school? Compared to what? Or your Dad was too busy, working to provide a better life for you? What are you comparing it all with? Some fantasy that you think is "normal" life on Earth for the average person? Life on Earth, at it's norm is pretty bleak, were it not for the trappings of capitalism and "the establishment" the hippies pretended to hate so much while sucking off it's golden tit and eating off it's silver spoon. People today have grown so insanely entitled to everything, and the idea of getting a practical education and working hard at something they don't particularly love for it, is an affront to their feelings of entitlement. Every commodity and service is seen as a "right" now, not a privilege or service you earn by trading your own service. You're entitled to be provided for by other people, which is as much a belief in owning slaves as any form of slavery ever practiced. The only difference is you have the government to extract the work and resources for you. The mind blowing irony and blatant hypocrisy is a generation who claims to detest slavery but wants to reinstitute it in an even more potent & widespread form. At least chattel slaves got their board and room and healthcare for their work, but taxpayers get NOTHING for their debt slavery to welfare and other entitlement recipients. But just change the terminology, call it something else, and it's all "different" now. That's the neomodern trick used to pretend we aren't as evil as those we feel so superior to in calling "racist". The 60's led straight to the age of hyper-euphemism. 'Cuz words are so much easier to throw around than having to practice that old evil they now call "merit", which is the latest form of "oppression".

Thanks for the Friday after work vid💯

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

@williambarry8015

11 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.

@Keshia.means.GreatJoy

3 ай бұрын

These are Boomers

Thank you so much, Mr. Hoffman.

Thank you, David!!! 🙏❤️🌏🌿🕊🎶🎵🎵

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

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

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

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.

Wow! This was excellent. I was born in 1952 and I remember every bit of these times. My children and grandchildren cannot believe that when I was a kid black people suffered such blatant prejudice. Thanks for sharing this film.

Awesome, thanks.

Thank you!

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

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❤。

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

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

I must say this is a brilliant documentary!

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.

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

@1223jamez

Ай бұрын

Amen!

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.".

Well they were correct about communism

@Papawcanner

3 ай бұрын

Read a book

@eileenmcchrystal8471

2 ай бұрын

Well…. It seems that Vietnam is doing very well indeed. It has what’s called a mixed economy. I think if you check you’ll find most of your goods are made in china.

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

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

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

At the beginning of this insightful documentary the political analyst spoke of the 1960's as a time of 'freedom' in the various areas of morality. In the Western world, the hippie movement of the 1960’s was a rebellion against traditional moral and social values. Nevertheless, the hippie movement failed to bring genuine happiness. Instead, it helped to produce drug addicts and promiscuous youths, accelerating society’s downward slide into moral confusion. We still clearly see the increasingly harmful effects of it all today.

@alisoncanty1894

3 ай бұрын

Agreed.

@megadesu69

2 ай бұрын

I disagree. I think the moral confusion started much earlier with industrialisation and urbanisation, disconnecting individuals from the natural world and traditional family structures. The movements of the 60s were a symptom of modernity and it's apparent meaninglessness.

Phenomenal documentary