The ideals first fought for in the 1960s are under siege: Is it time to take to the streets?
Several documentaries examine a decade that turned out to be a turning point in history. The progressive social values that were first mooted then are now under attack from the far right, though not for the first time
It was not one revolution, but many simultaneous ones. The 1960s were a turning point — a generational rupture, the birth of something new. There was the explosion of pop culture and counterculture, the protests of a well-educated post-war youth looking for its place in society, the Vietnam War, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, the missile crisis, the trip to the Moon, the Stonewall riots, the birth control pill and sexual liberation.
