568 Films & TV Shows Set In North America During The 1960s
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Pennsylvania The 1960sStories taken from true urban legends — Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Sarah and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.
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Ip Man 4: The Finale
California 🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1960sFollowing the death of his wife, Ip Man travels to San Francisco to ease tensions between the local kung fu masters and his star student, Bruce Lee, while searching for a better future for his son.
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Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
Washington Utah Colorado Florida The 1970s The 1980s The 1960sThe story behind America's most notorious serial killer. — A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.
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Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
California The 1960sIn this town, it can all change… like that — Los Angeles, 1969. TV star Rick Dalton, a struggling actor specializing in westerns, and stuntman Cliff Booth, his best friend, try to survive in a constantly changing movie industry. Dalton is the neighbor of the young and promising actress and model Sharon Tate, who has just married the prestigious Polish director Roman Polanski…
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Charlie Says
California The 1970s The 1960sDreamers. Victims. Murderers. — Three young women were sentenced to death in the infamous Manson murder case, but when the death penalty was lifted, their sentence became life imprisonment. One young graduate student was sent in to teach them - and through her we witness their transformations as they face the reality of their horrific crimes.
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Judy
California England The 1960s The 1930sJudy Garland: The Legend Behind the Rainbow. — Winter 1968 and showbiz legend Judy Garland arrives in Swinging London to perform a five-week sold-out run at The Talk of the Town. It is 30 years since she shot to global stardom in The Wizard of Oz, but if her voice has weakened, its dramatic intensity has only grown. As she prepares for the show, battles with management, charms musicians and reminisces with friends and adoring fans, her wit and warmth shine through. Even her dreams of love seem undimmed as she embarks on a whirlwind romance with Mickey Deans, her soon-to-be fifth husband.
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The Haunting of Sharon Tate
California The 1960sBased on a True Story of one of the most Horrific Murders in History — Pregnant with director Roman Polanski's child and awaiting his return from Europe, 26-year-old Hollywood actress Sharon Tate becomes plagued by visions of her imminent death.
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Rocketman
New York California England 🇫🇷 France The 1970s The 1980s The 1960s The 1950sBased on a True Fantasy — The story of Elton John's life, from his years as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music through his influential and enduring musical partnership with Bernie Taupin.
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Seberg
California The 1960sActress. Activist. Adversary. — An ambitious young FBI agent is assigned to investigate iconic actress Jean Seberg when she becomes embroiled in the tumultuous civil rights movement in late 1960s Los Angeles.
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To the Stars
Oklahoma The 1960sIt takes courage to find yourself — Under small-town scrutiny, a withdrawn farmer’s daughter forges an intimate friendship with a worldly but reckless new girl in 1960s Oklahoma.
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Annabelle Comes Home
Connecticut The 1970s The 1960sPossess them all — Determined to keep Annabelle from wreaking more havoc, demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren bring the possessed doll to the locked artifacts room in their home, placing her “safely” behind sacred glass and enlisting a priest’s holy blessing. But an unholy night of horror awaits as Annabelle awakens the evil spirits in the room, who all set their sights on a new target—the Warrens' ten-year-old daughter, Judy, and her friends.
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Zombi Child
🇫🇷 France 🇭🇹 Haiti The 1960s The 2010sHaiti, 1962: A man is brought back from the dead only to be sent to the living hell of the sugarcane fields. In Paris, 55 years later, at the prestigious Légion d’honneur boarding school, a Haitian girl confesses an old family secret to a group of new friends - never imagining that this strange tale will convince a heartbroken classmate to do the unthinkable.
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The Mongolian Conspiracy
🇲🇽 Mexico The 1960sCan the Mexican police avoid the assassination of the President of the US? — 1963, the Soviet Union intercepts a rumor that China pretends to assassinate the president of the US in his visit to Mexico. Filiberto Garcia, a local policeman, has 72 hours to investigate the Mongolian Conspiracy. Damn International Intrigue!
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The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1930s The 1950s The 1960s The 1940sThe essential travel guide for a segregated America — In 1936, Victor H. Green (1892-1960) published The Negro Motorist Green Book, a book that was both a travel guide and a survival manual, to help African-Americans navigate safe those regions of the United States where segregation and Jim Crow laws were disgracefully applied.
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WBCN and the American Revolution
Massachusetts The 1960s The 1970s“WBCN and The American Revolution” tells the previously unknown story of the early days of the legendary, radical underground radio station WBCN-FM, set against the profound social, political and cultural changes that took place during the late-1960s and early-1970s in Boston and nationally. It’s “the story of how a radio station, politics and rock and roll changed everything.
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When I'm a Moth
Alaska The 1960sAn "un-biopic" of the young Hilary Rodham set in 1969, during the unverifiable weeks her autobiography has her working at an Alaskan salmon cannery. A parable about America, political narratives, and the absence of free will.
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Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
Arizona California The 1960s The 1970s The 1980s The 1990sShe broke all the rules. — With one of the most memorably stunning voices that has ever hit the airwaves, Linda Ronstadt burst onto the 1960s folk rock music scene in her early twenties.
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Ella Fitzgerald - Just One of Those Things
New York The 1930s The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1980s The 1940sElla Fitzgerald was a 15-year-old street kid when she won a talent contest in 1934 at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem. Within months she was a star. Over the next six decades, her sublime voice would transform the tragedies of her own life and the troubles of her times into joy. JUST ONE OF THOSE THINGS retraces this extraordinary journey.
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Lupin III: The First
🇲🇽 Mexico 🇫🇷 France 🇧🇷 Brazil The 1960s The 1940sThe iconic "gentleman thief" Lupin III returns in an action-packed, continent-spanning adventure, as Lupin III and his colorful underworld companions race to uncover the secrets of the mysterious Bresson Diary, before it falls into the hands of a dark cabal that will stop at nothing to resurrect the Third Reich.
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The Man in the High Castle: Season 4
California Colorado New York The 1960sJuliana Crain is on a mission to take down Reichsmarschall Smith, as the Nazis use the Die Nebenwelt Portal to infiltrate other worlds. Helen Smith struggles to protect her fractured family. Chief Inspector Kido is caught between the Imperial Army and the Royal Family as the Japanese Empire faces its greatest challenge. Amid these tensions, a new rebel force rises: the Black Communist Resistance.
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On the Basis of Sex
Colorado Massachusetts New York The 1970s The 1960s The 1950sHer story made history — Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century of sex discrimination.
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The Wife
Massachusetts Connecticut 🇸🇪 Sweden The 1990s The 1960s The 1950sSecrets lie between the lines. — A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Happy Birthday, Marsha!
New York The 1960sIt's a hot summer day in June, 1969. Marsha throws herself a birthday party and dreams of performing at a club in town, but no one shows up. Sylvia, Marsha’s best friend, distraught from an unsuccessful introduction between her lover and her family, gets so stoned she forgets about the party. Marsha, Sylvia, and friends eventually meet at the Stonewall Inn to celebrate Marsha's birth. When the police arrive to raid the bar, Marsha and Sylvia are among the first to fight back.
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First Man
California Texas Florida The Moon The 1960sOne giant leap into the unknown — A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.
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Wildlife
Montana The 1960s14-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry — a housewife and a golf pro — in a small town in 1960s Montana. Nearby, an uncontrolled forest fire rages close to the Canadian border, and when Jerry loses his job (and his sense of purpose) he decides to join the cause of fighting the fire, leaving his wife and son to fend for themselves.
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