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A Great Fly By

posted 7 years ago by mccarroll-62614
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I've been hooked on this series since I began the first episode, and I mean all of them. I feel it's a wonderful montage of the biggest events of the decade. Being younger myself, I've rarely seen American history come to life like this. It also awakened a desire to know more, sending me to the library, internet, and old history books. Unlike some of the reviews I've seen here, no, I refuse to see the show as "propaganda bs" and I think it should be understood that the show doesn't cover everything from the decade. Also, The 60s didn't make me want to slit my wrists. I didn't find "dismal" at all. I found it to be powerful. The show presented me with perspectives of a time before I was alive and it made me want to know more. All in all, a great overview.

[–] berny-11376 7 years ago

I really enjoyed this documentary series. If I am not mistaken it was originally made for CNN and presented on CNN.They have done the 60s, 70s,and 80s. I agree with the previous post about they should go back and do other decades. My pick would be to especially see the 50s. I was born in 1955 but by reading and studying those years as well as having seen clips of that time I have always been interested in that decade. After all it was a decade that set us off into the many things we enjoy now in the 21st century.For example space and space technology, television, suburbs,interstate highway system, fast foods,and of course rock and roll music. It was the beginning of the modern civil rights movement which up into the 1960s made significant changes in the lives of African American citizens in our country. There is so much more I could name but I will stop there and say the producers of the documentary series should consider doing the 1950s....a time that was just as revolutionary as the decades that followed.