The '60s

Feb 7, 1999

2h 52m

★ 6.0

Overview

The Herlihys are a working class family from Chicago whose three children take wildly divergent paths: Brian joins the Marines right out of High School and goes to Vietnam, Michael becomes involved in the civil rights movement and after campaigning for Bobby Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy becomes involved in radical politics, and Katie gets pregnant, moves to San Francisco and joins a hippie commune. Meanwhile, the Taylors are an African-American family living in the deep South. When Willie Taylor, a minister and civil rights organizer, is shot to death, his son Emmet moves to the city and eventually joins the Black Panthers, serving as a bodyguard for Fred Hampton.

Genres

Drama

TV Movie

Production Companies

NBC Studios

Lynda Obst Productions

The '60s Trailers

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Cast

Michael Herlihy

Josh Hamilton

Katie Herlihy

Julia Stiles

Brian Herlihy

Jerry O'Connell

Kenny Klein

Jeremy Sisto

Sarah Weinstock

Jordana Brewster

Emmet Taylor

Leonard Roberts

Bill Herlihy

Bill Smitrovich

Mary Herlihy

Annie Corley

Neal Reynolds

Donovan Leitch

Fred Hampton

David Alan Grier

Reverend Willie Taylor

Charles S. Dutton

Father Daniel Berrigan

Cliff Gorman

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