The Sixties — Season 1, Episode 2: The World on the Brink (1960 – 1963)
Documentary • 60 min • 1 season, 10 episodes • ★ 7.5/10
Episode synopsis
The heady days of Camelot were clouded by the political and military tensions between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. Marvin Kalb, Richard Reeves, Robert Dallek, Sergei Khrushchev and more explain how close the Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis brought us all to World War III – and how two nuclear superpowers moved from near confrontation to the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
About 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.
More episodes from Season 1
- E1Television Comes of Age (1960 - 1969)
- E3The Assassination of Kennedy (1963 - 1969)
- E4The War in Vietnam (1961 – 1968)
- E5A Long March to Freedom (1960 – 1968)
- E6The British Invasion (1964 - 1967)
- E7The Space Race (1960 – 1969)
- E81968 (1968)
- E9The Times, They Are A-Changin’ (1960 – 1969)
- E10Sex, Drugs, and Rock N’ Roll (1960 – 1969)