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.
Gas-s-s-s (1970)
Director: Roger Corman
Starring: Bud Cort, Cindy Williams, Robert Corff, Ben Vereen
Aka: "Gas! or: It Became Necessary to Destroy The World in Order to Save it". Odd hippy stuff about a gas that kills everyone on Earth over 25 years o... Read more
Humboldt County (2008)
6.4/10
Director: Darren Grodsky, Danny Jacobs
Starring: Brad Dourif, Fairuza Balk, Peter Bogdanovich, Frances Conroy, Madison Davenport,...
Peter Hadley (Jeremy Strong), an uptight and disillusioned medical student, is failed by one of his professors, who happens to be his father. Seeking... Read more
Marshall McLuhan: McLuhan's Wake (2007)
Starring: Marshall McLuhan
Taking Edgar Allan Poe's 'Descent Into the Maelstrom' as its central metaphor, this documentary about theoretician Marshall McLuhan covers basic biogr... Read more
The American Way ( aka Riders of the Storm ) (1986)
5.9/10
Director: Maurice Phillips
Starring: Dennis Hopper, James Aubrey, Michael J Pollard
A group of radical Vietnam vets become broadcasting pirates and take on a Presidential candidate in this crazy comedy. The vets and their leader, "Cap... Read more
The '60s (1999)
7/10
Director: Mark Piznarski
Starring: Charles S Dutton, Jerry O'Connell, Josh Hamilton, Julia Stiles
Two families struggle through the turbulent political and social events of the 1960s. Brian Herlihy (Jerry O'Connell) fights in Vietnam while brother... Read more
Cheech & Chong: Up in Smoke/ Still Smokin (1978)
6.6/10
Director: Lou Adler
Starring: Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong
Two stoners unknowingly smuggle a van - made entirely of marijuana - from Mexico to L.A., with incompetent Sgt. Stedenko on their trail. Cheech & C... Read more
Psych-Out / The Trip (1967)
Director: Richard Rush, Roger Corman
Starring: Adam Roarke, Bruce Dern, Dean Stockwell, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, Peter Fo...
Psych-Out - Jenny Davis (Susan Strasberg) is a deaf young woman who has run away from home to search for her missing brother. Arriving in the hippie-f... Read more
Hair (1979)
7.6/10
Director: Milos Forman
Starring: John Savage, Treat Williams, Beverly D'Angelo
Exceptional adaptation of the musical stars Treat Williams as a hippie who meets John Savage, a youth from Oklahoma bound for Vietnam. Forman moves th... Read more
Trainspotting ( Blu-ray ) (1995)
8.2/10
Director: Danny Boyle
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kelly Macdonald, Kevin McKidd, Ro...
A gritty, graphically painful and, at times, blackly funny look at a group of heroin addicts in Edinburgh, Scotland focusing on one young man as he re... Read more