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 ( Blu-ray ) (1991)
7.2/10
Director: Oliver Stone
Starring: Frank Whaley, Kathleen Quinlan, Kevin Dillon, Kyle MacLachlan, Meg Ryan, Michael...
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
Making Sense of the Sixties (1991)
8.7/10
One of the most comprehensive studies ever made of the 'decade of change', this 6-part documentary mini-series from PBS includes over a hundred interv... Read more
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
Naked Lunch (1991)
7.1/10
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Roy Scheider
William S. Burroughs' 1959 free-form, underground classic is brought to the screen weaving elements of the author's life with the fictional material.... Read more
Berkeley in the Sixties (1990)
7.6/10
Director: Mark Kitchell
Starring: Martin Luther King, Allen Ginsberg, Joan Baez
An acclaimed film of the major events of the 1960s, including the civil rights movement, free speech protests and anti-war rallies, as seen by 15 lead... Read more
Flashback (1989)
6.2/10
Director: Franco Amurri
Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Dennis Hopper, Carol Kane
Young straight-arrow FBI agent Kiefer Sutherland is ordered to transport a recently capturedundergroun political fugitive to the scene of his 60s crim... Read more
1969 (1988)
5.8/10
Director: Ernest Thompson
Starring: Bruce Dern, Joanna Cassidy, Kiefer Sutherland, Mariette Hartley, Robert Downey J...
Scott and Ralph (Kiefer Sutherland and Robert Downey Jr), two small-town class-of-'67 high school graduates, venture off to college to sow some wild o... Read more
Running On Empty (1988)
7.7/10
Director: Sidney Lumet
Starring: Judd Hirsch, Christine Lahti, River Phoenix, Martha Plimpton
A superior family drama about a pair of 60's radicals, still on the run from the FBI, trying to raise a family. Christine Lahti and Judd Hirsch are th... 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
Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
5.9/10
Director: Susan Seidelman
Starring: Aidan Quinn, Madonna , Mark Blum, Rosanna Arquette
A bored housewife ends up leading a double life after being confused for Susan, a woman she's been reading about in the personal columns. Delightfully... Read more