The Sixties
The space race, the cold war, "free love," civil rights and more: The decade of the 1960s shaped our history -- and changed the world. In collaboration with Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman and Mark Herzog, CNN explores perhaps the most transformative decade of the modern era in a 10-part documentary series and brings new insights into how those events shaped today.
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CAST
Tom Hanks
Self
Walter Cronkite
Self (archive footage)
David Brinkley
Self (archive footage)
Dan Rather
Self (archive footage)
Shirley Chisholm
Self (archive footage)
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