The remarkable story of two cousins who must take a road trip across American in 1969 in order to let a teen know he's been drafted to fight in Vietnam. Full of photos, music, and figures of the time, this is the masterful story of what it's like to be young and American in troubled times.

The Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's ten-part, 18-hour documentary series, The Vietnam War, tells the epic story of one of the most consequential, divisive, and controversial events in American history as it has never before been told on film. Visceral and immersive, the series explores the human dimensions of the war through revelatory testimony of nearly 80 witnesses from all sides -- Americans who fought...

Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of a summer when everything changed , in New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand's first historical novel. Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's historic home in downtown Nantucket. But like so much...

The tragic impact of the Vietnam War on a relationship between father and daughter. The father is an upstanding individual who believes in the American Dream, but his daughter has a different dream, to get America out of Vietnam and she kills innocent people to achieve it. For the father it is the end of the world, he has lost his daughter. By the author of Sabbath's Theater.

1964 is the year the Beatles come to America, Cassius Clay becomes Muhammad Ali, and three civil rights workers are murdered in Mississippi. It is the year when Berkeley students rise up in protest, African Americans fight back against injustice in Harlem, and Barry Goldwater's conservative revolution takes over the Republican Party. Based in part on The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964 by Jon Margolis, 1964 follows some of the most influential...

This Universal newsreel focuses on the escalation of the Vietnam War by North Vietnam. As Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara illustrates the interdiction of North Vietnamese supply routes, he explains why North Vietnamese Army troops are being used to bolster the Viet Cong: to offset four years of severe VC troop losses and to broaden the war.

This Universal newsreel focuses on a Seattle "be-in." Called "a student-oriented rite of spring" and "a happy happening for hippies," the be-in turns the concept of organized protest upside-down.

This Universal newsreel focuses on scenes of military action. Footage includes troops patrolling and B-52 strikes.

This Universal newsreel focuses on three demonstrations against U.S. involvement in Vietnam. A protest in New York City is led by Martin Luther King, Jr., to the UN building. Another march in downtown San Francisco is sponsored by a loose coalition of left-wing anti-war groups. A third protest, in Rome near the U.S. embassy, ends in violence.