568 Films & TV Shows Set In North America During The 1960s
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Batman vs. Two-Face
New Jersey The 1960sEveryone must face their demons. — Former Gotham City District Attorney Harvey Dent, one side of his face scarred by acid, goes on a crime spree based on the number '2'. All of his actions are decided by the flip of a defaced, two-headed silver dollar.
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Dating Game Killer
Washington New York New Hampshire California Texas The 1970s The 1980s The 1960s The 2000s The 2010sA grieving mother seeks justice against the serial killer who killed her daughter.
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Hands of Stone
New York Nevada Louisiana Quebec 🇵🇦 Panama The 1980s The 1960s The 1970s The 2000sNo más. No surrender. — The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
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Rules Don't Apply
California The 1960s The 1950s The 1970sIt's Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey, under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes, arrives in Los Angeles. At the airport, she meets her driver Frank Forbes, who is engaged to be married to his seventh grade sweetheart and is a deeply religious Methodist. Their instant attraction not only puts their religious convictions to the test, but also defies Hughes' number one rule: No employee is allowed to have any relationship whatsoever with a contract actress. Hughes' behavior intersects with Marla and Frank in very separate and unexpected ways, and as they are drawn deeper into his bizarre world, their values are challenged and their lives are changed.
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Coming Through the Rye
New Hampshire Pennsylvania The 1960sComing Through the Rye, set in 1969, is a touching coming of age story of sensitive, 16 year old Jamie Schwartz, who is not the most popular kid at his all boys' boarding school. Disconnected from students and teachers, he believes he is destined to play Holden Caulfield, the main character of The Catcher in the Rye, and has adapted the book as a play.
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A Kind of Murder
New York The 1960sFrom the Novel by Patricia Highsmith. — In 1960s New York, Walter Stackhouse is a successful architect married to the beautiful Clara who leads a seemingly perfect life. But his fascination with an unsolved murder leads him into a spiral of chaos as he is forced to play cat-and-mouse with a clever killer and an overambitious detective, while at the same time lusting after another woman.
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The Founder
Minnesota Illinois Missouri Arizona California The 1970s The 1960s The 1950sRisk taker. Rule breaker. Game changer. — The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.
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Miles Ahead
New York The 1950s The 1960s The 1970sIf you gonna tell a story, come with some attitude. — An exploration of the life and music of Miles Davis.
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American Pastoral
New Jersey The 1970s The 1990s The 1960sA radically ordinary story. — Set in postwar America, a man watches his seemingly perfect life fall apart as his daughter's new political affiliation threatens to destroy their family.
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The Odyssey
New York The 1970s The 1960s The 1940s The 1950sThe aquatic adventure of the highly influential and fearlessly ambitious pioneer, innovator, filmmaker, researcher, and conservationist, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, covers roughly thirty years of an inarguably rich in achievements life.
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The Siege of Jadotville
🇮🇪 Ireland 🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of the New York The 1960sThe Irish army's forgotten battle — Irish Commandant Pat Quinlan leads a stand off with troops against French and Belgian Mercenaries in the Congo during the early 1960s.
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Ouija: Origin of Evil
California The 1960sWhen you talk to the other side, you never know who will be listening. — In 1965 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their séance scam business and unwittingly invite authentic evil into their home. When the youngest daughter is overtaken by the merciless spirit, this small family confronts unthinkable fears to save her and send her possessor back to the other side.
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All the Way
District of Columbia The 1960sPolitics is war. — Lyndon B. Johnson's amazing 11-month journey from taking office after JFK's assassination, through the fight to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act and his own presidential campaign, culminating on the night LBJ is actually elected to the office – no longer the 'accidental President.'
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Grease Live
California The 1960s The 1950sAn electrifying LIVE television event! — After enjoying a holiday romance, high school students Danny and Sandy are unexpectedly reunited when she transfers to Rydell High, where she must contend with cynical Rizzo and the Pink Ladies.
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Wolves at the Door
California The 1960sWhen night falls....the wolves will hunt — Four friends gather at an elegant home during the Summer of Love, 1969. Unbeknownst to them, deadly visitors are waiting outside. What begins as a simple farewell party turns to a night of primal terror as the intruders stalk and torment the four, who struggle for their lives against what appears to be a senseless attack.
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The Love Witch
California The 1960sShe loved men... to death — A modern-day witch uses spells and magic to get men to fall in love with her, with deadly consequences.
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Jackie
Massachusetts Virginia District of Columbia Texas The 1960sI want them to see what they have done to Jack. — An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
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Tower
Texas The 1960sAugust 1, 1966, was the day our innocence was shattered. — Combining archival footage with rotoscopic animation, Tower reveals the action-packed untold stories of the witnesses, heroes and survivors of America’s first mass school shooting, when the worst in one man brought out the best in so many others.
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Hidden Figures
Virginia West Virginia Florida The 1960s The 1920sMeet the women you don't know, behind the mission you do. — The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.
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Hairspray Live!
Maryland The 1960sYou can't stop the beat! — A teenage girl living in Baltimore in the early 1960s dreams of appearing on a popular TV dance show.
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An American Girl Story - Melody 1963: Love Has to Win
Michigan The 1960sSet in Detroit during the Civil Rights Movement, "An American Girl Story - Melody 1963: Love Has to Win" examines the joyful life and troubled times of an irrepressible 10-year-old African-American girl whose vivid imagination and creativity reinforce her optimism. When shocking national events threaten her sense of security, Melody must find inner strength to restore her hope for a better world.
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The Man in the High Castle: Season 2
California Colorado New York The 1960sAfter giving Joe the film, Juliana is forced to flee the fury of the Resistance while embarking on a new path to save her home from destruction. Joe confronts his absent father in Berlin, who is not as he seems. Smith wrestles with what to do about his ill son. Frank takes a gamble with his life in a bid to save Ed. Tagomi's life is turned upside down by his "travel" to an alternative world.
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Aquarius: Season 2
California The 1960sIn the late 1960s, a Los Angeles police sergeant with a complicated personal life starts tracking a small-time criminal and budding cult leader seeking out vulnerable women to join his “cause.” The name of that man is Charles Manson.
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Tomorrowland
New York Texas 🇫🇷 France The 1960s The 2000s The 2010sImagine a world where nothing is impossible. — Bound by a shared destiny, a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor jaded by disillusionment embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory as "Tomorrowland."
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Minions
Florida New York 🇮🇳 India 🇦🇺 Australia The 1960sBefore Gru, they had a history of bad bosses — Minions Stuart, Kevin and Bob are recruited by Scarlet Overkill, a super-villain who, alongside her inventor husband Herb, hatches a plot to take over the world.
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