Archival footage and interviews with historians mark this fascinating documentary on the 1950s, based on David Halberstam's bestseller. Among the subjects covered: work and the family; the impact of TV; the Cold War; and the beginnings of the civil-rights movement and the sexual revolution.
The fear & the dream
Selling the american way
Let's play house
A burning desire
The beat
The rage within
The road to the sixties
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