568 Films & TV Shows Set In North America During The 1960s
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The Hollywood Knights
California The 1960sBeverly Hills and the civilized world will never forget them. — Led by their comedic and pranking leader, Newbomb Turk, the Hollywood Knights car gang raise hell throughout Beverly Hills on Halloween Night, 1965. Everything from drag racing to Vietnam to high school love.
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Hide in Plain Sight
New York The 1960sIf the Justice Dept of the United States abducted your children, what would you do? — True story of a man in search of his children after his ex-wife enters the Witness Protection Program.
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A Small Circle of Friends
Massachusetts The 1960sThe story of three people and the era that shaped them. — In the late 1960s, three Harvard students Jessica (Karen Allen), Leo (Brad Davis) and Nick (Jameson Parker) grow close as they undergo personal changes, but their friendship is jeopardized by romantic feelings both men develop for Jessica.
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The Wanderers
New York The 1960sIt was the Wanderer's Against The World... — The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by Richard Price about the history of the Italian-American gang ‘The Wanderers.’
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Hair
New York Oklahoma Nevada The 1960sLet the sunshine in! — "Hair" is a 1979 musical war comedy-drama film adaptation of the 1968 Broadway musical "Hair: An American Tribal Love-Rock Musical" about a Vietnam War draftee, Claude, who meets and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to the army induction center. Claude heads to New York upon receiving his draft notice, leaving the family ranch in Oklahoma. He arrives in New York where he is rapidly indoctrinated into the youth subculture before reporting in for boot camp.
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Escape From Alcatraz
California The 1960sNo one has ever escaped from Alcatraz… and no one ever will! — San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security prison located on a rocky island. Although no one has ever managed to escape from there, Frank and other inmates begin to carefully prepare an escape plan.
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The Rose
Tennessee The 1960sShe gave and gave, until she had nothing left to give — Rock-and-roll singer Mary Rose Foster's romantic relationships and mental health are continuously imperilled by the demands of life on the road.
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The Great Santini
South Carolina The 1960sThe bravest thing he would ever do was let his family love him. — As he approaches manhood, Ben Meechum struggles to win the approval of his demanding alpha male father, an aggressively competitive, but frustrated marine pilot.
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More American Graffiti
California The 1960sThe sights and sounds of the '60s. There were bittersweet times. There were funny times. And it was all unforgettable. — College graduates deal with Vietnam and other issues of the late '60s.
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The Onion Field
California The 1960sThat happened in the onion field is true. But the real crime is what happened after. — An LA police officer is murdered in the onion fields outside of Bakersfield. However, legal loopholes could keep his kidnappers from receiving justice, and his partner is haunted by overwhelming survivor's guilt.
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Halloween
Illinois The 1970s The 1960sThe night he came home! — Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.
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Animal House
Pennsylvania The 1960sIt was the Deltas against the rules... the rules lost! — At a 1962 College, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.
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The Deer Hunter
Pennsylvania 🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1960s The 1970sOne of the most important and powerful films of all time! — A group of working-class friends decide to enlist in the Army during the Vietnam War and finds it to be hellish chaos -- not the noble venture they imagined. Before they left, Steven married his pregnant girlfriend -- and Michael and Nick were in love with the same woman. But all three are different men upon their return.
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Big Wednesday
California The 1970s The 1960sA day will come that is like no other... and nothing that happens after will ever be the same. — Three 1960s California surfers fool around, drift apart and reunite years later to ride epic waves.
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The Toolbox Murders
California The 1960sBit by bit...By bit he carved a nightmare! — No one is safe when a killer, wielding the deadly contents of his toolbox, methodically stalks his prey.
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The Boys in Company C
California 🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1960sTo keep their sanity in an insane war, they had to be crazy. — Disheartened by futile combat, appalled by the corruption of their South Vietnamese ally, and constantly endangered by the incompetence of their own company commander, the young men find a possible way out of the war. They are told that if they purposely lose a soccer game against a South Vietnamese team, they can spend the rest of their tour playing exhibition games behind the lines.
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Coming Home
California The 1960sA man who believed in war! A man who believed in nothing! And a woman who believed in both of them! — The wife of a Marine serving in Vietnam, Sally Hyde decides to volunteer at a local veterans hospital to occupy her time. There she meets Luke Martin, a frustrated wheelchair-bound vet who has become disillusioned with the war. Sally and Luke develop a friendship that soon turns into a romance.
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Same Time, Next Year
California The 1970s The 1960s The 1950sThey couldn't have celebrated happier anniversaries if they were married to each other. — A man and woman meet by chance at a romantic inn over dinner and, although both are married to others, they find themselves in the same bed the next morning questioning how this could have happened. They agree to meet on the same weekend each year—in the same hotel room—and the years pass each has some personal crisis that the other helps them through, often without both of them understanding what is going on.
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I Wanna Hold Your Hand
New York New Jersey The 1960sSome girls will do anything to meet their idols. — If they missed Beatles' first appearance in the U.S.A. they would hate themselves for the rest of their lives! So six young girls from New Jersey set off even though they don't have tickets for the show! The journey is full of surprises and misfortunes but the young ladies are determined to reach their idols.
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If Ever I See You Again
New York California The 1970s The 1960sThe Most Romantic Love Story of the Year. — Bob Morrison, a successful composer of TV commercial jingles, is unhappy with his his lack of creative freedom in developing the definitive dog-food song. Frustrated, he heads out to Hollywood to score a movie. While in California, he establishes contact with an old girlfriend.
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Born Again
District of Columbia The 1970s The 1960sHaving been imprisoned for his part in the Watergate scandal, Charles Colson undergoes a religious conversion.
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Ruby and Oswald
Texas The 1960sA docudrama about the events surrounding the assassination of the 35th United States President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, in 1963, based on eyewitness and other testimonies.
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The Billion Dollar Bubble
California The 1970s The 1960sActuaries. Ethics. And One Billion Dollars. — The Billion Dollar Bubble is a 1976 film made for the BBC series Horizon and directed by Brian Gibson about the story of the two billion dollar insurance embezzlement scheme involving Equity Funding Corporation of America. The movie stars James Woods in the role of the actuary.
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Annie Hall
New York California The 1970s The 1960s The 1940sA nervous romance. — New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.
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Greased Lightning
Virginia The 1960s The 1950s The 1930sHe drove 'em wild! — This film is based on the true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing champion in America.
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