The 60s 1999

6.115 / 10   26 vote(s)
PG-13
Drama TV Movie

The Herlihys are a working class family from Chicago whose three children take wildly divergent paths: Brian joins the Marines right out of High School and goes to Vietnam, Michael becomes involved in the civil rights movement and after campaigning for Bobby Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy becomes involved in radical politics, and Katie gets pregnant, moves to San Francisco and joins a hippie commune. Meanwhile, the Taylors are an African-American family living in the deep South. When Willie Taylor, a minister and civil rights organizer, is shot to death, his son Emmet moves to the city and eventually joins the Black Panthers, serving as a bodyguard for Fred Hampton.

Release Date 1999-02-07
Runtime 2h 52m
Directors Mark Piznarski, Tony Adler, Michael D. O'Shea, Catherine Bond, Melanie Grefé
Producers Jim Chory, Lynda Obst
Writers Robert Greenfield , Bill Couturié, Jeffrey Alan Fiskin