Counterculture
Unconventional appearance, music, drugs, communitarian experiments, and sexual liberation were hallmarks of the sixties counterculture, most of whose members were white, middle-class young Americans. To some Americans, these attributes reflected American ideals of free speech, equality, and pursuit of happiness. Other people saw the counterculture as self-indulgent, pointlessly rebellious, unpatriotic, and destructive of America's moral order. Authorities banned the psychedelic drug LSD, restricted political gatherings, and tried to enforce bans on what they considered obscenity in books, music, theatre, and other media. Parents argued with their children and worried about their safety. Some adults accepted elements of the counterculture, while others became estranged from sons and daughters.
The Doors (1991)
7.2/10
Director: Oliver Stone
Starring: Kevin Dillon, Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan, Frank Whaley, Kyle MacLachlan, Billy Idol, M...
A vivid impression of Jim Morrison and his group's rise to fame and eventual undoing, and recreating the sights and sounds of the rock and drug era of... Read more
Ivans xtc (2000)
Director: Bernard Rose
Starring: Danny Huston, Peter Weller, James Merendino, Tiffani Amber Thiessen, Lisa Enos
Based on Tolstoy's 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich', this remarkable film by Bernard Rose, stars Danny Huston, (son of John), as a powerful Hollywood agent... Read more
Andy Warhol's Factory People (2008)
7.3/10
Director: Catherine Schorr O'Sullivan
Starring: Andy Warhol, Lou Reed, Mary Woronov, Billy Name
In 1964, Andy Warhol took up residence in an abandoned hat factory in Manhattan's East Side and turned it into a hotbed of music, art, filmmaking and... Read more
Danger: Diabolik (1967)
6.5/10
Director: Mario Bava
Starring: Adolfo Celi, John Phillip Law, Michel Piccoli, Marisa Mell, Terry-Thomas
The suave, psychedelic-era thief, Diabolik, can't get enough of life's good - or glittery - things. Not when there are currency shipments to steal fro... Read more
Factory Girl (2006)
6.4/10
Director: George Hickenlooper
Starring: Sienna Miller, Guy Pearce, Hayden Christensen, Jimmy Fallon, Mena Suvari, Shawn...
In 1965, college dropout Edie Sedgwick (Sienna Miller) headed to New York to become a superstar. When she met Andy Warhol (played by Guy Pearce), it... Read more
Beat (2000)
5.6/10
Director: Gary Walkow
Starring: Courtney Love, Kiefer Sutherland, Norman Reedus, Ron Livingston, Kyle Secor
A nostalgic look at the colourful last few weeks of Joan Vollmer (Courtney Love), wife of 'beat' writer William S Burroughs, set primarily in Mexico C... Read more
Zabriskie Point (1970)
7.1/10
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Starring: Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin, Rod Taylor, Paul Fix
Antonioni's portrait of revolutionary America of the 1960's; a disquieting, visually stunning film about two American young people of the 60's, faced... Read more
The Union: The Business Behind Getting High (2007)
8.3/10
Director: Brett Harvey
The unassuming Canadian province of British Columbia is a business giant in the illegal marijauna trade, generating upwards of $7 billion Canadian eac... Read more
Head (1968)
6.6/10
Director: Bob Rafelson
Starring: Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Peter Tork
One of the cult films of the '60s, with the Monkees in a kaleidoscope of surreal vignettes, full of '60s psychedelia. Written by director Rafelson ('F... Read more
The Boat That Rocked ( Blu-ray ) (2009)
Director: Richard Curtis
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rhys Ifans, Bill Nighy, Chris O'Dowd, R...
Aka "Pirate Radio". In 1966, a rusty fishing trawler christened Radio Rock floats just outside British territorial waters, broadcasting illicit rock '... Read more