CNN The Sixties series

Any fans of this series? I watched it and liked it a lot. The archival news footage was nice and looked cleaned up .

 

I thought it was great. I noticed the footage looked brushed and polished too.

 

This is the right way to do a documentary with a lot of period footage. They did a fantastic job rescanning everything for 16x9, and the color-correction and restoration was fantastic. Even the old videotape looked great uprezzed to HD. A class act all the way... plus the shows were very entertaining.

 

I would totally buy this series on blu-Ray. It's the best archive footage I've seen!

 

good.show

 

To all who have seen CNN's The 60's and History Channels The 60's, how do they compare as far as content and video quality? Thanks!

 

Bump...

 

is this available on home video?

 

Very well done! Great footage! They did a very good job


The music episode reminded me how much better music there was beyond what it showed. The surface was barely scratched. Not a fault of there's but it's a testament to much great music there was then.

 

This is my childhood revisited. Excellent series.

 

Not currently. There's not been any announcement that I'm aware of either, but I'm hoping for an eventual Blu-ray.

 

Was that the one that started with The Kennedy Assassination and ended with 1968?

 

OK... thanks Dave...

 

It's been the most-watched CNN series in some years, and the new management say that they're going to continue making more historical shows like it. Coming up in summer 2015 will be The Seventies.

 

Anyone?

To all who have seen CNN's The 60's and History Channels The 60's, how do they compare as far as content and video quality?

 

I think the CNN series beats out the History Channel, if only for using more period news coverage of events. The Kennedy Assassination installment was outstanding.

 

CNN was scheduled to do a rare re-airing of some of the shows last night, but they pre-empted them for coverage of that missing airplane story and also the Greek ferry thing. CNN thinks missing airplanes are like the stories of the century... Please... 2 minutes most at the top of the hour and we get the idea.

 

I know...every time I've tried to watch it something seems to pre-empt it...

 

I've seen 2 of them the JFK one and the Vietnam one and thought both were very good.

 

DVD release has been announced for February 17. The linked press release as well as the package art depicted both say 3 discs, but Amazon's listing indicates 4. Probably just a mistake on Amazon's part.

Disappointing that there's no corresponding Blu-ray.



http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Sixties-DVDs-Announced/20657

 

Does this series attempt to answer the decades-old question "When did The Sixties begin and end?"?

 

The subtext of the series is that JFK started everything. If they can find a link they'll run with it.

 

I would have dialed it back a few months to August 1963 with the March on Washington and Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

King gets photographed with JFK after the march. That's the link. Even the ep about 1968 linked Kennedy with everything and that was years after his death.