568 Films & TV Shows Set In North America During The 1960s
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The Choirboys
California 🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1970s The 1960sDon't look for these guys in church. — A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in various forms of after-hours debauchery.
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The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
District of Columbia The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1920sNot all the files were destroyed — The files that escaped the shredder have become an incredible motion picture. From the Kennedys to Martin Luther King. From cab drivers to Congressmen. From housewives to hostesses. He had something on 58 million people. It was all in his files. Now you can see how he used it.
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The Chicken Chronicles
California The 1960sThe Spirit of 69...When The Lights Turned Off...The Kids Turned On! — A late-1960s teen (Steve Guttenberg) working in a chicken-takeout stand cannot get his mind off his dream-girl (Lisa Reeves).
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The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
Texas The 1960sThe bizarre story behind the man accused of assassinating John F. Kennedy and what might have happened had he been brought to trial.
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Helter Skelter
California The 1970s The 1960sThe investigation of two horrific mass murders leads to the capture and trial of the psychotic pseudo-hippie Charles Manson and his "family".
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Alice, Sweet Alice
New Jersey The 1960sIf you survive this night... nothing will scare you again. — Alice is a withdrawn 12-year-old who lives with her mother and her younger sister, Karen, who gets most of the attention from her mother, leaving Alice out of the spotlight. When Karen is found brutally murdered in a church, suspicions start to turn toward Alice. But could a 12-year-old girl really be capable of such savagery?
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Oregon The 1960sIf he's crazy, what does that make you? — While serving time for insanity at a state mental hospital, implacable rabble-rouser, Randle Patrick McMurphy, inspires his fellow patients to rebel against the authoritarian rule of head nurse, Mildred Ratched.
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Shampoo
California The 1960sYour hairdresser does it better. — George Roundy is a Beverly Hills hairstylist whose uncontrolled libido stands between him and his ambitions. He wants the security of a relationship. He wants to be a hairdressing "star" and open his own salon. But the fact that he beds down with the wife, daughter and mistress of a potential backer doesn't help. It also does little for his relationship with his current girlfriend.
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Cooley High
Illinois The 1960sWhere the Student Body Was a Chick Named Veronica... The Senior Prom was a 'belly rub' and the Class of '64 ran a Permanent crap game in the Men's Room! — In the mid-1960s, a group of high school friends who live on the Near North Side of Chicago enjoy life to the fullest...parties, hanging out, meeting new friends. Then life changes for two of the guys when they meet a pair of career criminals and get falsely arrested in connection with stealing a Cadillac. We follow their lives through the end of high school and the dramatic end to their school.
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Walking Tall Part II
Tennessee The 1960sSheriff Buford Pusser continues his one-man war against moonshiners and a ruthless crime syndicate after the murder of his wife in late 1960's Tennessee.
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The Deadly Tower
Texas The 1960sThe real-life story of Charles Whitman's deadly shooting spree at the University of Texas is retold. In August 1966, after killing his wife and mother, Whitman climbed to the top of the school's tower and opened fire on passers-by, killing 13 and wounding many others.
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The UFO Incident
New Hampshire The 1960sIn the early 1960s, an interracial couple undergo hypnosis, which unlocks memories of a forgotten event on a lonely road. Soon they believe they were abducted by extraterrestrials.
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Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
Mississippi The 1960sAfter three civil-rights workers are murdered in Mississippi in 1964, a team of FBI agents is sent there to find the killers.
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The Sugarland Express
Texas The 1960sEvery cop in the state was after her. Everybody else was behind her. — Married small-time crooks Lou-Jean and Clovis Poplin lose their baby to the state of Texas and resolve to do whatever it takes to get him back. Lou-Jean gets Clovis out of jail, and the two steal their son from his foster home, in addition to taking a highway patrolman hostage. As a massive dragnet starts to pursue them across Texas, the couple become unlikely folk heroes and even start to bond with the captive policeman.
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Female Trouble
Maryland The 1970s The 1960sNice girls don't wear cha-cha heels. — The life and times of Dawn Davenport, showing her progression from bratty schoolgirl to crazed mass murderer - all of which stems from her parents' refusal to buy her cha-cha heels for Christmas.
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Lenny
California New York The 1960s The 1950sLenny Said It. "Hot Honey" Did It. Together They Shocked America. — The story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentary was often deemed by the Establisment as too obscene for the public.
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Conrack
South Carolina The 1960sOne beautiful man. His true story — A young, white teacher is assigned to an isolated island off the coast of South Carolina populated mostly by poor black families. He finds that the basically illiterate, neglected children there know so little of the world outside their island.
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The Missiles of October
New York Connecticut District of Columbia 🇷🇺 Russia The 1960sThe most powerful docudrama ever produced on The Cuban Missile Crisis — Based in part on Robert F. Kennedy's book, "Thirteen Days," this film profiles the Kennedy Administration's actions during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Lovin' Molly
Texas The 1960s The 1940s The 1920sMolly Taylor: In love with love… and who knew didn't matter. — Spanning nearly 40 years from 1925 to 1964, two Texas farm boys; straight-arrow Gid and laid-back Johnny fight over the affections of the beautiful and headstrong Molly Taylor, who consistently refuses to marry either of them.
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American Graffiti
California The 1960sWhere were you in '62? — A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.
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Serpico
New York The 1970s The 1960sMany of his fellow officers considered him the most dangerous man alive - An honest cop. — Frank Serpico is an idealistic New York City cop who refuses to take bribes, unlike the rest of the force. His actions get Frank shunned by the other officers, and often placed in dangerous situations by his partners. When his superiors ignore Frank's accusations of corruption, he decides to go public with the allegations. Although this causes the Knapp Commission to investigate his claims, Frank has also placed a target on himself.
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Walking Tall
Tennessee Kentucky The 1960sTake your best shot... 'cause it'll probably be your last. — Buford Pusser's a wrestler, whose wife wants him to settle down, so they go to his home town in Tennessee, where he plans to get into business with his father. But he is shocked to discover all sorts of graft and corruption going on. And when he is a victim of it and decides to strike back by running against the corrupt sheriff. And he wins and wages his own little war against them
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Ciao! Manhattan
New York The 1960s The 1970sThe very sad tale of socialite & Warhol muse Edie Sedgwick (1943-1971) who effectively plays herself in a film that follows her life in a large part from the time she left Warhol's 'factory' and what the life of excess drugs did to her sanity. Edie was such a beautiful fragile girl - who finally got her head together and got married (her wedding day video is edited into the end of the movie) but it was too late, her husband woke up on a morning in November 1971, only weeks after filming wrapped, and found her dead beside him. She had died in her sleep from overdosing on her medication she was 28.
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Lucky Luciano
New York 🇮🇹 Italy The 1960s The 1950sThe real story behind Lucky Luciano, the high priest of crime — Lucky Luciano is one of the bosses of the Mafia. He orders the slaughter of 40 other responsibles, therefore becoming the only boss. But a few years later he is put into jail. In 1946, he got a pardon and is sent back to Sicilia. There, he begins becoming one of the chief of the Mafia. The US Army seems to refrain from interfering.
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The Valachi Papers
New York The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930sWhen Joe Valachi has a price put on his head by Don Vito Genovese, he must take desperate steps to protect himself while in prison. An unsuccessful attempt to slit his throat puts him over the edge to break the sacred code of silence.
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