1960s Teenage Rebellions Examined. Who Did It & Why

To support my efforts to create more clips please donate to me at www.patreon.com/allinaday. I am very proud of the TV series I made for PBS called Making Sense of the Sixties. I had the chance to spend a year examining my youth and how I became an active member of the 60s generation. If you are from that generation or a child of the 60s, I think you would find the entire series of value.

[@KiaraMitchellx]

This is so interesting for me, as a 16 year old who's barely experienced the outside of her bedroom. The 60's and 70's have fascinated me for a while now, it's the closest experience to those time's I will ever get! Thank you.

[@KiaraMitchellx]

Peaches Pintaura thank you, I do wish I could experience those days myself. Something that will only live in my imagination I guess haha!

[@flamencoprof]

I am 65 and lived thru this time while romanticising even earlier times. Now I am in the future I think we should learn from but not try to live in the past. That said, I still hold to the values of the time, and wouldn't want to discourage you in that area. Peace and Love are timeless!

[@Blueeyesinthesky]

Kiara Mitchell im 16 as well and i totally agree with you! My mom and her friends would talk about the glory days and i find it so interesting. i wish we could have as much fun as they did

[@KiaraMitchellx]

Me too, technology has taken over, wish I could experience what it was like all those years ago. So fascinating!

[@ruralgoblin]

Kiara Mitchell I can relate to that. I'm 16 and have always longed to experience the kinds of things the people I've looked up to did. I've tried my hardest to simulate something similar - I picked up playing the Guitar, and have since formed a band with my 3 best friends, and together we'd walk railroad tracks for miles, doing nothing but talking about how the society that was once so unified has become so divided. No matter what we do however, we will never get to understand reality the way the hippie generation did. It's too late for that, what with the Internet and the lazy ignorance of the new generation. The problem with them is they want to fight all the time, they just don't know what's worth fighting for. I can only hope that some day, our children, the children of forward minded, critical thinking, carefree lovers can find something truly worth fighting for, so we can come together as one once again. But hey, what do I know, I'm just some 16 year old tree hugging wannabe rockstar that'll never get their turn in the spotlight, so take what I say with a grain of salt.

[@williamgrand9724]

“Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.” ― Terence McKenna

[@dionco92]

very well said.. finally someone who is AWAKE.

[@tabathathomas6279]

Well, psychedelics are one way to open your eyes, so I've heard. But in my experience, just look around and see what the world is like. It's so blatantly backward that I think it's possible to get there without the expense or cost to your mind. They must just open the senses, but can't we look at the world less with our intellect and more with our senses anyway?

[@NiteckterX]

No pretty sure it makes you jump out windows as well.

[@williamgrand9724]

Niteckter X Pretty sure you've never done them...

[@NiteckterX]

The fuck you talking about.

[@williamgrand9724]

Sometimes I wonder if society would have collapsed had everyone been a hippy. I think society needs a certain amount of conformity and materialism for it to evolve and advance. But the hippys of the 60's definitely brought upon an emotional revolution that was necessary for societal growth. They were the reaction to very restrictive way of thinking and definitely taught society something that has helped us allot.

[@karmarose6332]

William Grand that is the creepiest profile pic ever lol

[@laraantipova389]

Yes it certainly would have they are basically the pin worms of America.

[@hothemeep1219]

Nothing is necessary. Things happen by accident

[@joeblow5087]

Hippie not hippy.

[@Boppinabe]

I never wonder if society would have collapsed had everyone been a hippy.

[@georgecandreva2842]

"We won't get fooled again." But, unfortunately we did!

[@normastanley5853]

Yes --over and over again. They say the best people do not run for office..I find this to be true..

[@thespeez]

..And teh good ones get killed! Look at JFK!

[@kaleeshsynth9994]

Baby bommers became more conservative during Regean, but they forgot there roots in not being so trusting of minorities.

[@victorg7618]

Enjoyed watching this video of the sixties. This video took me back to 1969, I was living in Trinidad Colorado in a trailer park, my father was working for an oil company and my family moved with him for the summer. I remember a hippie commune there north of town. They used to live in dome houses made of car doors, very colorful. Every evening they used to go to a telephone booth by the handful and use the phone, I guess to call their parents to send the money. Anyway, there was this one evening I was watching them from my fenced yard and I could smell a very strong odor, and I asked my mom what that smell was and she said it was a weed and the hippies would smoke it like a cigarette. I remember seeing a pretty girl, maybe around 18 years old, wearing flowers in her hair, a halter top and very short shorts. I remember her telling me she loved me and she gave me a flower from her purse through the fence. I grabbed it and looked at her with curiosity. I was 7 at the time. That event happened so long ago and I'm glad that I lived during that era. Wish you much Peace and Love!!

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

Beautiful, Victor. I'm glad you shared it. You are a lucky man to have had this experience and to remember it so well. I was a hard-working professional in New York city and in Maine during this time and didn't participate in these movements but would like to have. It was fascinating to make the documentary series and really delve into this stuff. David Hoffman-filmmaker

[@velviussvloggingchannel5356]

Peace and love.

[@chrisweidner4768]

Velvius's Vlogging Channel Be happy and love one another.

[@victorg7618]

My friend, just got to see this comment. You know, its funny you would mention this. It's 2017 and I'm 55 and sometimes I still think about that beautiful creature. I bet she's still around and beautiful as ever. I wish you and yours peace and love.

[@victorgalindo5891]

How could you remember. You were on LSD.

[@softailspringer9915]

The hippie era was mad fun!!! Believe me... I was there in the 60's !

[@unapersonamas4262]

nice.

[@saucerfull1]

softail springer...yes, but it was not enough...

[@carmenparker2017]

I am to young I was not in the sixtys but trust me I wish I was

[@vinista256]

CJ Colvin Umm ... ever heard of “The New Deal”? 🤔

[@stub4488]

You're the problem

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

Jacob It was first released in 1991. And the folks in it from the hippie movement would be around 65 to 70 years old today. David Hoffman - filmmaker

[@msmithrandir561]

Brilliant Documentary...My Very Favorite

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

penny miller Thank you Penny. That does my heart good. David Hoffman - filmmaker

[@sharrell3921]

David Hoffman sorry to ruin anyones day i stopped by checking out some hippie reels and i am 60 and was in school and loved every MINUTE of being a hippie, so they were not ALLLLL 65 to 70 :) peace \ / man

[@DakotaGurl1]

S Harrell I have to agree with you, 57 here and I did a lot of fun things back in the day.

[@SuperNevile]

wavygr Is that who John Lennon was singing about on "How Do You Sleep?".........."Those freaks was right when they said you was dead" ?

[@lekkki1]

I am amazed and touched by this documentary. Really well done. My father used to always say that the original and "true" hippie movement had enormous validity, (Environmentalism, egalitarianism, ((women and people of color)) anti-corrupt politicians and anti corrupt big businesses etc...) but that it was co-opted by people who were interested in nothing but sex and drugs. Whatever the movement may have been, it had a profound and lasting effect on American culture.

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

Thank you Lekki. David Hoffman - filmmaker

[@ladybearbaiter]

Good Lovin' by The Young Rascals ( The Rascal's )

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

I have decided to remove several individuals commenting on this KZbin film clip of mine. Clearly they have never seen my series, never talked about it, and are commenting presenting their own polemic without awareness of the work I have done and why I am putting this video on my channel with such pride. I apologize to anyone who was insulted by these people and to these people but I am sorry, my KZbin clips deserve to be seen and commented on. David Hoffman-filmmaker

[@plannedresponse]

Still love the Jerry Rubin clip - especially looking back after years of Don Draper.

[@plannedresponse]

The show holds up really well -

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

***** Sure does. And fun to read the many comments when you have the time.

[@drumstick74]

+David Hoffman You're in your good right to do that...it's *your* channel.

[@drumstick74]

JAY MIDDY Not to interfere, but at least he _allows_ comments. Some channel owners disable that function entirely. I'll let David Hoffman reply now ;-)

[@GrayearlDubstep]

I'm only 14 and I still follow this. I got to school I wear my Zeppelin,Doors, and Jefferson Airplane Shirts. I learned guitar to hopefully play music that will once again bring us back together me and my girlfriend Taylor are starting this revolution to stop Rap, To stop

[@CaptSpacelord]

Born in 54 I was a lucky to see / hear the progression of rock music into psycedelic style and later the heavy stuff. My first single I bought was Not fade away by Rolling Stones when it came out and they became my fave band but so many other bands turned up and it was fantastic to be part of this as a youngster. In 1967 I bought the album Are you experienced by Hendrix and then, 13 years old I wanted to be a hippie .. lol More and more bands came up with fantastic music that I loved and if I should talk about it I would better have written a book :-) I changed my clothing style, grew my hair, wear colorful sunglasses, ring in my ear and music was my life. In 1970 I went to sea for four years, on and off different wessels, saw the " whole " world but I was a bit late coming to San Fransisco in 72. Started smoking weed the year after, experimenting with hallusinogenic like LSD and mescaline and that gave the music a whole new dimension. In my small hometown in Norway people said we, me and friends was crazy and lazy, but we were having a very good time, pretending to be hippies, cause this was some years after the 67 - 68 but we did not care and lived our lives with great pleasure and thought we were very, very cool ... hehe Thanks a lot for posting this series about the 60's and hippies David Hoffman. Never tired of seeing it ;-)

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

Dear Sandy: thank you for your recent comment on my television series and your personal experience. In my hundreds of interviews and in the talks I continually give on the 60s at events of all kinds, I find many people like you. Once hippie. Still hippie. Doing very well in fact in leadership positions across American society. Congratulations on your efforts. And may your support for philosophy I found most fascinating when I was creating a series, continue for a long long time to come. David Hoffman-filmmaker

[@jerryjohnson28]

smoked my first joint in 67 and preceded to join the hippie scene by 68 was a full blown hippie from Denver Colorado and for 5 wonderful lived sex drugs and rock and roll traveling across the nation meeting all kinds of people of the same mindset in L.A. San Francisco New York Woodstock Cape Cod maybe sounds corny but I was a hippie and now at 66 it has been a long strange trip peace to all✌😎

[@rubyjames3105]

Peace

[@jerryjohnson28]

Peace

[@jgroovy3376]

peace jerry

[@darkjak224]

How were your five years of hedonistic pleasure financed?

[@artemisamory]

i wish i was you :'(

[@eyarbroughzone]

I had never seen a hippie until we drove through Aspen, Colorado in 1969. Naturally, we were scared to death.."oh daddy, please don't stop" But of course nobody wanted to hurt anyone, they were just hangin' out. Hippies all over the place. I wish we'd stopped now.

[@eyarbroughzone]

+Ellen Yarbrough Oh by the way. Nice documentary. I think I watched this one on tv. We love PBS. It's awesome that your work has aired on on PeeBS.

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

+Ellen Yarbrough Thankyou Ellen. now KZbin is my home for my films-- and sales via Amazon. David Hoffman - filmmaker

[@eyarbroughzone]

Very nice. Thanks.

[@Noct343]

+Ellen Yarbrough Spiritually I'm a hippy, but I'm a modern day OG.

[@Noct343]

+Ellen Yarbrough Spiritually I'm a hippy, but I'm a modern day OG.

[@privateprivate201]

I was born in March 1968 and I am a child of the late 60's early 70's. Everything that I believe came from that time. For a little while I forgot who I was, but then cancer knocked me on my butt. And all that I am has saved me. Inside out. Peace, Love, Harmony....Beautiful work, I have seen your full work on PBS. Peace and Namaste

[@fuzzballzz36]

Thank you for making this series. I was born a little too late, and was fascinated with the late '60s cultural revolution from the time I was a teenager in the late '70s. I saw this and watched the entire series, and it was a great inside look for me.

[@armandosalinas5946]

I did not rebel,just explored,but still respected,freedom is for everyone , do not abuse it

[@RandyR]

Even though I am now a senior, I am still a rebel with a cause. The cause is to help wake up society an make things better. We made a lot of improvements back then, but have a long ways to go. Never give up on the dream ✌🏼

[@bynro7]

Loved this video! I was a college freshman at Northeastern in Boston the fall of 1969. This video brought back so many memories! I remember the Moratorium and protesting against the Vietnam War. And who could forget that day in February of 1964, a few days after my 13th birthday when the Beatles were on the Ed Sullivan show! Thanks for this video!!!!!!

[@yagotoo7999]

There are still true hippies that have never sold out. They can be found living in smaller houses, growing gardens, worshipping all that lives around them. Their music was original, special and did not spur on hate nor prejudice nor calling women bitches, etc. The true hippies look down on status symbols such as McMansions, BMWs, etc, etc. Happiest are those who can appreciate nature, skinny dipping, a meteor shower, the first tomato, a good bud. There is no need for most of what our insane society feeds on (tv violence, horrible music, the latest tech, shitty food obscene talking heads who spit venom. True hippies have the world. They have it because they are not shallow, appreciate the simpler and yes finer things. I know many, and would rather be with them than stockbrokers, salesmen, or big game hunting, cigar smoking, greased back hair fools. Just my opinion based upon six decades of observation

[@hothemeep1219]

Those are the biggest bastards. So messed up they actually believe in what they say

[@johnking6252]

You Sir , sound like a fellow hippie ...🌍✌️🌎 Peace brother.

[@poohathome52]

I love this series, Its a time in history, if you don't get that your missing the point. This was my generation. I'm proud of what we tried to do.. I got goose bumps when I heard the intro.. Thank You!! David Hoffman

[@catmomma4599]

Great insight and perspective to an important part of history and the realization of a new culture in our society. Unfortunately, I wasn't born until 1970 but I was raised in a home where this music and its new ideals were greatly encouraged! Brings back many wonderful memories. Thank you so much :) much peace and love to all.

[@carlinraton1]

Gentleman noble spirit Sir David Hoffman, In my own life (born 1956) I will honestly and sincerely state that, despite adversity, young people did things because one cared deeply, with a fervent hope, that each, all, every body could effectuate a future for the better. May all of us everywhere bring out the best future available. Thanks.

[@7mugwumps]

I remember watching this series on TV. I loved it! Although I was only a young teenager in the 60's and living in Canada, I didn't really understand what was going on. This documentary helped me fill in the missing pieces. I participated in all the outward appearances of hippie lifestyle, but I wasn't informed on the politics. I saw the nightmare that was going on in the States (assassinations, anti-war demonstrations, race riots) through the TV news and it was very graphic. Now that I'm almost a senior, I now know there was an intense impact on my psyche from that time, I've carried with me my whole life.

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

Thank you for your comment. David Hoffman - filmmaker

[@freddylubin]

The main reason for the various aspects of the youth "movement", hippies and others, was the growing sense that we'd been lied to. We received a traditional education, had real information available to us, were large in numbers, and had a great desire to express ourselves.

[@HQsandsMusic]

You know who else had a great desire to express themselves? Joseph Stalin and Chairman Mao. Silly hippie communists. If everyone ran around dropping acid and having sex with anything in sight, the country would be bankrupt within a month Humans have evolved past such selfish primitive thinking. We found a way to develop complex societies which were capable of supporting billions of people and providing them with a high standard of living, something your commie professor probably taught you to despise

[@freddylubin]

So much hatred.

[@ChristmasPerson32702]

Where is the time machine ?

[@Lowtread]

I had the good fortune to see this series when it first aired. I taped the entire set of shows and have watched it many times since. It is the clearest, fairest, and most thorough presentation of the confusing events of that time that I have ever seen. I was an art student who was plucked by the draft in 1968 and who served in the U.S. Army. This series jibes completely with my own first-hand memories from both sides of the barricade, and it explains things I didn't fully appreciate or understand at the time. Thank you, thank you, thank you for making it. I absolutely recommend that Making Sense of the Sixties be incorporated into modern history classes to provide a framework for understanding where our current social sensibilities came from. Many of my students today dismiss the sixties as a frivolous and passing fad. Some even think that it all happened in the seventies! Must see.

[@Void-uj7jd]

Those days look incredible. Now when you analyse society it just seems like a bunch of egos banging together never meeting middle ground or unity with each other, people always paranoid of their enemies. Something in society these days is really wrong. Look how connected to each other they were back then, now everyone is peaking around corners in case an enemy appears. We have got more insane over time.

[@SandySandifer]

I was Born September 11th, 1949 I was and am a Hippie. 24/7 100% I work at corporate Level for a tv Station in Europe. I have two grown Kids (both studying at a university) with whom I do an occasional doobie for mental Hygiene purposes. I have three grandchildren, two who do well in School. Hippies is not a Thing of the past. All my Hippie Peers are still at it. Nothing changed except our hair has gotten Grey. Salve - Pax n' Peace out ;-) p.s.: I am listening to Music from THE Hippie band of the 70ties. "It's A Beautiful Day". Try it & don't Forget to "tune in - turn on - drop out"

[@xtinamarie6628]

I find this series interesting, since I was not born in this era, I consider myself a hippie even though I was born in the 90s. Being one is an amazing journey.

[@terrysheehan4879]

60s "love music", 70s "disco", my era the 80s "long hair and heavy metal!!"

[@poetryjones7946]

I’m obsessed with the perfection of the theme music for this wonderful series. So haunting, so apropos. 🌹✌🏼

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

It was composed by Ara Dinkjian. You can hear much more at his website - aradinkjian.com. Tell him I sent you and he will treat you wonderfully. A great guy. David Hoffman filmmaker

[@poetryjones7946]

Thanks so much! 🙏🏼

[@asirf.3634]

these beatles fan girls were like one direction fan girls today omg.

[@Mmewster]

I am an old hippy chick.. I am 60 and I miss the good old days

[@tomrogerlilleby2890]

+ Mmewster That means you were 12 years old during "The Summer of Love" in 1967. By the time you were 15 it was all over !

[@maaferreirahd]

I'm 18 years old, live in Brazil. And I wanted to live these times! Sorry my english. Eu tenho 18 anos de idade, vivo no Brasil e eu queria ter vivido esta época!

[@rubyjames3105]

it wasn't like there was no more in 1970, there was a progression into other things but it wasn't like the dinosaurs going extinct. There was plenty of energy left over, Manson made it harder but there was still a movement. I know old hippies that were doing their thing back in the day and still are, it's a state of mind, a consciousness.

[@tikletik]

Hey, thanks for destroying the country.

[@Mmewster]

I destroyed the country.. you must be talking to someone else, as I was only 14.. so how in the hell could I have ruined it?

[@RPMac]

this is brilliant...hit it on the head...best I've seen on the era !! I was 18 in 1968....bullseye !!!!!!!!!!

[@junebug29]

I enjoyed watching that. I appreciate the work very much. I am a hippie as well, born in late 1952. I have two children, both very successful in life, four grandchildren and they are doing very well in school and in life. As for my experiences, it was certainly a great time to be young. Yes we had our ups and downs as it was a sensitive era filled with questions and wonder and defiance, but definitely would not trade it in for anything else. It was a special time in so many many many! ways. Thank you so much David Hoffman, wonderful work, very nice. I like everyone's comments too. Interesting!

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

Thank you Junebug29. You and the other intelligent commentators on my documentary would be surprised how many hippies produced successful families, successful work lives, and maintain the values that were created and articulated during that time. I was not a hippie myself way back then, but I was fascinated by my interviews with folks who had developed and/or lived that lifestyle and how well so many of them did. David Hoffman-filmmaker

[@Prox1015]

Every time I watch videos about the 60s I just dont understand why some people nowadays still act like some people would in the 50s its like they're stuck in time, very strange

[@OhSmexyGirlfriend]

So, can I ask, what happened to you once the hippie revolt of the 60s ended and your generation "grew up?" Did you go on and receive higher education? Did you employ yourself with a "regular" job? Did you succumb to society's pressure of following the rules and being a civilized, working man/woman? Basically, where did you end up after everything died down? Thanks.

[@3243_]

I watched your series when if first aired in 1990-91, and I enjoyed it. Great job, allinaday. Viva the 1960s!

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

I had the chance during the making of the series to interview about 3 dozen “ex-hippies.” I found most of them to be functioning members of society, doing their jobs, raising their families, just like most of the rest of us. The exceptions were folks like Steve Jobs and there are a surprising number of them as well. David Hoffman-filmmaker

[@kaleeshsynth9994]

Nice video, I feel like a lot of people forgot the lessons of this generation, nice to have interviews from people who were part of the movement.

[@rav94en]

David I want to thank you for both taking the time and effort to make this documentary and share it here. I was born in the Spring of 1964, and unfortunately missed out on this amazing social revolution. However I do have some amazing memories of being a very young child in the late 60's and 70's. I am very grateful to people like yourself who invest the life, art, and talent, in bringing things like this to those of us who could only wish to have experienced it first hand, but do so vicariously via film and documentary. Thank you!

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

Stevie C And my thanks to you as well, Stevie. My goal with the series was not to talk to my generation but to talk to the younger generations about a time that was not like “just any other time”. Many of the people who write on this video taken people from that time. Many others are proud to be a part of the generation and the changes that were made which were complex to be sure but overall, much better than what existed for many of us in the 50s. I was not a hippie. I was a working man with a very tough job and a family. But when I studied them, by and large, with many caveats, they did some spectacular thinking about ways of living life that improved on what they found when they were kids. David Hoffman-filmmaker

[@drbobperkins]

I feel so lucky to have lived through the 60’s and being in high school in the 70’s. The culture, Music, films, etc., were s vibrant

[@WeldonDavis]

What has changed since the 60's, some may ask. I can say FEAR of Failure has.

[@IAmMrQ]

I was born in 79, the hippie vibe was relatively unknown to me growing up but I oddly enough have grown up to embrace many of their values and I appreciate their experimental contributions to society. I understand where they based their beliefs and it was greatly influenced by Vietnam, assassinations, rights movements and music.

[@ghettomist1575]

Why all the hate ? Are you haters stuck in the 50's or do like today's music that tells you to gang bang instead of fight for peace?

[@jaydenmclean8786]

***** not really, it was very conservative and a bit boring.

[@rocatiusvictor9590]

+GhettoMist well i dont like the urban music we listen today i listen to the classical music for example Mozart,Beethoven,Johnann,Giuseppe and Fredric Chopin. All famous classical music composers. What i dont like is hippies, everyday 5 or 10 teenagers would yell in my neighbourhood "Down with the republic party!". And i have no idea what there on about but i think there on drugs. But did'nt they accomplish something? Like we already have civil rights and independence in each state at america whats more to ask for???

[@jaydenmclean8786]

***** you mean the 20s?

[@jaydenmclean8786]

***** yeah, after the counterculture movement, there was now huge problems with drugs, crime and values were just gone. They did damage society a bit.

[@ghettomist1575]

Malbro Jay OHHH YEA

[@djinnmagik2003]

Hi Dave! Thanks for sharing your art with us. Really ENJOY YOUR WORK!

[@NYCgirl927]

Fabulous David. Great depiction of what was going on then. I was there I remember all of this,

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

+j flo Thank you J. Lucky person to have been there, David Hoffman - filmmaker

[@NYCgirl927]

+David Hoffman I watched some of your videos and as a life time New Yorker I really enjoyed the NYC ones. I would never leave the NYC area.

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

+Brian Salomon Thank you Brian. Those music groups were amazing and it's not just because we are from the 60s generation that I say that. They were making social political personal statements within music that those of us who participated in the 60s generation, about a 3rd of the baby boomers, understood and were affected by. David Hoffman-filmmaker

[@ALAKA777]

I would like to know as well. It was used on an 1965 episode of American Bandstand. The music was used as a lead in to a commercial break.

[@jamessilver6429]

@Brian Salomon the band grateful alive allman brothers. it was aone dayer i think. ✌ 👍

[@sassycat5856]

All I can say is WOW! As a child of the 60's this brings back many good memories. Thank you for a very caring and thoughtful video.💖💖🌼🌻🌹🌺🌞

[@jab3785]

Absolutely right. The early hippies were totally apolitical; even anti-political which annoyed the people in Berkeley no end. They assumed that because they looked similar that they would be in sync with their protests but the hippies were more interested in living their life the way they wanted rather than telling the rest of the country what their politics should be.

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

You are absolutely correct,Jab3785, and thank you for sharing your thoughts and experience. David Hoffman-filmmaker

[@taurotar]

I agree.I had friends who were political activists who cut & kept their hair very short as the police would often grab protesters by the hair in order to more easily take them 'down' & subdue them. Hippies would NEVER cut their hair. Many activists I knew of, did no drugs while the same could certainly not be said for hippies.

[@samwa3986]

I watched this series, in 1991, when it first aired. There are others, but this is the finest. Very comprehensive, and yet, sensitive to explain why the 60s were as they were . I was there, although I was a pre teen. I remember it well. I've put in hundreds of hours of research and informal interviews. Although, for many people, it wasn't an issue, for a lot of America, it was a massive upheaval in society. A very serious time in our history. I had the dubious distinction of meeting Timothy Leary and briefly talking with him.

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

Thank you Sam. Your comment is much appreciated. David Hoffman-filmmaker

[@busTedOaS]

i want my generation to be like this

[@SOMSebster]

busTedOaS Unfortunately it's not gunna happen. Liberels nowadays are uptight authoritarian ass holes

[@amoniousbt1110]

technology has made us too socially anxious to meet in mass anymore

[@blacquesjacques7239]

busTedOaS Unrealistic ?

[@RedVynil]

I'm RIGHT THERE with you, hun!! :-) Music is my drug of choice!! The only thing better than music is having someone to love and to share music with. I just WISH I had that!! 50,000 records in my collection and no one to share them with. :*-( Every time I think I've FINALLY found someone they either walk away or get taken away from me. I grew up in the `60's and would absolutely LOVE to go back again. So much to see & experience that I never got to because I was too young to know it was there.

[@vinista256]

25:52 “You could stop and talk to anybody ‘cause they all looked the same ...”. Interesting to compare that line about the summer of love with the educational films shown in the first episode, exhorting young people to “fit in with their group.” Also interesting to compare it with Oliver Stone’s remark about conformity being dangerous. 😏

[@klimber10001]

Great video, very emotional.....Thanks for posting.

[@drowsy_mouse8406]

funny how the people who grew up during these years now call millenials lazy and too concerned with the world's problems

[@generationofswine-ge5rw]

They do? I thought they would understand rebellion and idealism since they went through it and almost created something great, and they were fighting against much of the US gov't as it turned out. The same thing is happening now. Protesters are called rioters once again, and conformists call for protesters to be shot, but that doesn't stop them from protesting and it doesn't stop them from winning.

[@IceboxGuy]

I love this series. Everything about it is quality and truth. Honest truth. Peace.

[@johnhiram1207]

I was so blessed to have grown up during this time. The world worried me then. The world terrifies me now. LSD was one of the best thing I ever did. I would still do it at age 71!

[@Hippiekinkster]

FABULOUS!!! Brings back so many memories! "Keep off the grass, the sign says keep off the grass..." David Peel & the Lower East Side, right? Just two nights ago an old friend of mine was telling me about sharing a joint with Jerry Rubin... hitchhiking everywhere, "Hey, man! Know a place where I can crash?" "You are ONE groovy chick! Wanna get stoned and ball?" "Know where I can cop a tab?' "Excuse me, sir, do you have any spare change?" Every day was a new adventure when I was an "itinerant" wanderer. And , contrary to the epithet that was common back then, "Dirty Hippies", I, and most of the people I crossed paths with, luxuriated in clean bodies and clean clothes. Meeting a chick, taking a bath together, getting stoned and getting out the massage oil and exploring each others bodies and minds... that was a peak experience for me that made the daily struggle of finding a little work, eating, a safe place to crash and get clean, and moving on to the next peak experience all worthwhile whilst on my "Pilgrimage". I will say, though, that it wasn't all "good times" and leave it at that.

[@billtaylor4224]

I've heard it said that if you remember the sixties you weren't there. Well I remember the decade well and like all decades had its best and its worst. I for one remember the best because the best was as good as it gets especially rock wise and people becoming aware of our environment and the need to create more love for all of humanity.

[@pattipatterson6940]

I was born in 1960, in Ont., just a little girl, but had a been a teen I would have been all about peace. My grandma, my dad's mom, hated long hair and bikers..,.Church, people...love the neighbor...Then parents were never home, in my life., I was always with grandparents, I loved it but...I lived crazy life, when I was with my parents...12yrs old, the swing with couples, I was the babysitter to 6 kids while this was going on. My dad or mom never told me the live they lived as a teen...I wish they did. My grandparents from both sides always talked shit about each, my dad, my mom

[@LouRazz]

I take my hat off to you, David Hoffman--I recorded all 6 hours of "Making Sense of the Sixties" onto VHS tape and later transferred it over to DVD. It is part of my treasured collection of TV recordings, and a wonderful, thorough and accurate depiction of the "Sixties" which is my (our) generation. I myself just turned 65 years od age on Wednesday, August 20th; I was a college student from 1966 to 1971 at the University of Miami in Miami, Florida and VERY much a part of the "counter culture."

[@mjsfan1994]

This is where I wish I grew up. It was an amazing time in my mind. I love Rock n' Roll and all the cultures of this era. I'm different from my parents and I like it. My parents grew up in the 80s, but are very set in the ways of today. I like being different, like I said.

[@chrisweidner4768]

The idea of teaching peace, love, cooperation and kindness for everyone is alive and well and needed now more than ever.

[@geogenocide]

Oh the MUSIC ! The music of this time period was so rich, soulful, listenable, mind expanding. The music of the sixties and early 70's was the best music humankind will ever make. The hippies were just background noise to what was really the most important thing of this age , the MUSIC. Thank God for the Music of the 60's and early 70's..... and the sex

[@kristineburbey2393]

I miss the 1960's. I am glad I went thru that era. What do we have now? Shootings every day, fear, car hijackings, 2 movie shootings, I am 65 now and becoming a hermit as we are getting worse year by year. Those that can not see that are drunk, stupid or blind or whatever!! Can u imagine hitch hiking nowadays?? I saw it done and when neighbors cared and u trusted people (ha,ha).

[@juliewitt7496]

Things are like they are now partly because of the 60's. Not as you think. It was government planned, including the rock groups & drugs.

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

Thank you. I am proud of this series. David Hoffman-filmmaker

[@nat00ben06]

I remember being 6 yrs old in 1971 & 1972 lying on our couch in Chicago. I got nailed by a drunk driver with no insurance and remember being in a full bodycast depending on my parents and brother and friends to help me heal it took 4 yrs, but everyday vietnam was on the tv,watergate and Nixon,The Beatles,Haight Ashbury,my father went to that damn effd Democratic convention protest and came in with 2 buddies in the evening all wide eyed and carrying on. I was lying on the couch drinking juice as a kid not sure what to make of it but the music was the glue and the hope of that era. Corporate America and silicon valley has destroyed that glue and the country is floundering. Every week mass murders.

[@sandraleiviska8966]

I am so glad I was an active member of this generation. Thanks for the memories!!!

[@laurabid]

i have 3 points : 1. i loved this video i have such a fascination with how generations repeat themselves in rebelling then conforming so thank u. 2. people who keep romanticising the 60s remember it was only really good if you were a rich straight white man, anything else and there were definite drawbacks. 3. it's both funny and sad that every new generation believes that they are the ones that are finally going to change things, then they instate some of their own rules when they're adults, and their children find stuff to be upset about thus growing into rebellious teenagers

[@laurabid]

what makes my generation kind of interesting to examine is the added variable of media and technology being easily accessible, and how that stunts emotional, social and mental growth, whilst also providing new ways of protest and sharing information. would love to read some comparative studies on that kinda thing

[@BS1965able]

the vibe from there was felt here as well with what was happening, posters commentry people going there and coming back, obviously the music

[@nadinedeck]

Unless you were their you dont know I was their the filmore East, Janice, Nico . Jimmie hendrix, the fuggs the mothers , stonewall , Alices restraunt, Jerry Reubin ,abbie Hoffman , and blue cheer. woodstock Andie warhole. it was a real trip.

[@westtexas7]

The energy of the period between 66 and 72 was hypmitizing and unbelievable. It can never be duplicated again I don't believe. A radical generation will have to come along and understand where we were coming from. The last two generations definitely do not come close.

[@kathyperry6772]

My mother didn’t experiment with drugs nor sex; however, she experimented with spirituality and religion beliefs.

[@vrstorm6864]

GROOVY! FAR OUT! Take about a time "trip". This brought back so many memories. For instance, in the mid-60's my parents took our family on our semi-annual trip from the Bay Area to visit relatives in Idaho. While visiting their church, my brother in this Beatles' haircut & boots and I in my granny dress sat in the back and had to listen to the preacher rant about "how sinful today's youth is". All we could do was try and act as invisible as possible out of respect for our relatives. All in all, I feel truly blessed to have been part of a generation that caused so many paradigm shifts to so many aspects of our lives: new political platforms (i.e., environmental issues), "Right to Be Who You Are" challenges (i.e., gender equality and race relations), legal milestones, the arts (music, moves, etc.), technology, and so on. I am grateful for how that era shaped me into a more caring, concerned and open person. WHAT A RIDE IT HAS BEEN!

[@thwb4661]

If I were a parent of those kids, I will be very worried too. No offense to people who lived in that specific era. But it seem that decency and proper etiquette were lost. Like what I heard, teenage sex became common, and its very disturbing. The dream of having a suburban innocent life was destroyed, and seeing your kids like that is just ... making you upset. Just saying. No offense to hippies or to any people.

[@Maverickmordy]

The Happy Weird Boy if your kids are haveing sex you should be happy for them not upset !! sex is disturbing for you? wow...and this is 2015

[@thwb4661]

Maverickmordy OFCOURSE I WILL BE UPSET BECAUSE THEYRE TOO YOUNG TO DO SUCH THINGS. AND ALSO DOING DRUGS SUCH AS CANNABIS AND LSD IS VERY UNACCEPTABLE. THEYRE TOO YOUNG TO DO IT. THATS WHY TODAY, IT'S FUCKED UP. MANY TEENAGERS ARE STONED. AND IT ALL STARTED IN THAT ERA.

[@neohip489]

The Happy Weird Boy You remind me of my mom. She was born in 1931 and was among the first screaming crowds for the Beatles. She bought the records. saw the films and bought the records, I remember her saying to me that the thing she didn't like was reintroducing long hair for men. She told me that many times whilst asking me to visit a barber. One of the most endearing memories of my mom was finding her crying in the kitchen on december 8 1980. I miss John, and my mom too!

[@maddi4052]

Educate yourself before you speak.

[@ASSwipe.]

The teenagers today are pretty close to the 60's and hippies . (I'm 17 and a junior in high school) and I can say that almost 80% of teens have tried drugs and this generation is far more interested in experimenting with drugs than you would expect. I see about 20-25 jimi Hendrix the Beatles led Zeppelin shirts at school a day. More guys are growing there hair out. And what you said about teenage sex. Couples in high school now have sex like fuckin married couples it's insane.

[@7233145]

Well this is an an interesting documentary for me simply because by the time I was a college freshmen in 1990, many of these "hippies" were now my college PROFESSORS. I believe my generation (Gen X) benefited enormously from this generation. I like to recall to my friends how the night before a protest (the students of color and allies on my campus were to take over an administrative building for day to protest the lack of diversity on campus) a group of professors who were FORMER activists came to our dorm to provide strategic advice (dos and don'ts) on how to carry it out. Awesome!

[@UtahJobSeeker51]

Happy Grass is an Herb 🌿, Not a drug. Neither is it addictive. The only way it can be addictive is when it's laced with addictive chemicals.

[@russellallen3942]

If you were not there you will never understand. It was a great time to explore new ways of thinking.

[@Sammy200655294]

Sadly we're basically living the 50s all over again, just with the freedom of having long hair... wish people would wake up again

[@zedleppelin1391]

I think you might the one who needs to wake up. The world mind is awakening. We have access to information that we've never had access to before. People are connecting on many different levels. There are waves of change coming. Things like veganism, the empowerment of women, people of color, the community lgbt, they're all gaining attention. We're voting with our dollars, taking better care of ourselves, creating art. We have a lot of work yes, but these are hardly the days of slumber.

[@Sammy200655294]

I do know and feel all that, thing is, it's really subtle and I'm more a revolutionary type :P and there is still a lot more that needs to change. Plus, the hippie culture was also about peace and love, which at the moment I can't feel anywhere in politics, etc. (hint hint - right wing parties in Europe... Syria, etc.) For me it's not enough, so many young people are still in the wrong mindset, we're mostly a hedonistic "me-generation". Yes, at the moment things do change, but for me personally it's all going too slow and often feels half-heartedly. Aaand a thing, which is luckily changing at the moment - we are or were at least so old-fashioned, conservative... not in a political sense. For example the thing with sexuality is that, either it's in your face and doesn't feel natural and loving or you don't talk about it at all. It's hard to be an empowered, sexual being (especially as a woman) without being judged and/or objectified. A lot of what the sexual revolution was about was not only the freedom of showing your boobs, but (sexual) empowerment. I feel like in our culture nakedness is scandalous but at the same time all you see in the media is sex or sexual references. I could go on and on, but yeah hope you get my point.

[@lipby]

I think we're living in great times. The 60s bought us a lot of freedoms, and a lot of the hippie political ideas--environmentalism, gay rights, feminism--are now mainstream. The problem is that hippies built a lot of wonderful cultural freedoms that we all enjoy, and then the culture-at-large turns around and treats the hippies like the lowest form of scum.

[@4ceclan664]

Thank you for your comment!!!!

[@amoniousbt1110]

please dont equate sjw ism to peace and love

[@patriciamasci6172]

We lived in Toronto, ON & gladly took in my 2 US Cousins to avoid the draft. Upon request, we took them to Yorkville - all Hippies & Head Shops in Uptown T.O (it's all Posh today!) They had a planned reunion with a whole gang of 20 something happy Hippy-draft dodgers & their Flower power Girls, from back home in Boston, Mass.!! It was such a GROOVY day for me!

[@krazohills9008]

They became financially as " uptight" as their parents had ever been.

[@laolu91]

whats the name of the song at the beginning in the opening credits?

[@krazohills9008]

I was born in 55. Identified fairly strongly with the hippie culture. Then I began to notice, the musicians were becoming fantastically rich, and most of the rest of the generation, returned to college and became yuppies! Sell outs. Just my observations.

[@GeckoHiker]

I enjoyed the series. While living the 60's you couldn't see the entirety of the issues. But the environmental issues, the endless and useless war in Viet Nam that swallowed up our young men and spit some of them out broken and abused, and the racial inequities and poverty caused by government policies and corporate greed taught me lessons I've never forgotten. I'm still proud to be a hippy today. Most of us finished college and went on to live somewhat conventional lives. However, my husband and I have continued to be die-hard vegan, minimalist, tree-hugging, vegetable growing, DIY personal product making, back to nature hippies to this day. In our late 60's now, we are healthy, prescription-free, and still hiking the AT and mountain biking over hill and dale. Maybe there was something to it after all.

[@lionelmokry7436]

Sandy Lewis Do you know that the blonde woman on the front, before you push this 28 minute story is pierre ellie tt TRUDEAU'S wife margaret or Maggie trudeau. She was a hippie and her son is now our prime minister of CANADA. His father was a great prime minister. Justin Trudeau has already made arrangements to talk to trump.

[@louiso.4325]

PLEASE. What are all the songs in the video??

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

@KSitz77 I understand and agree. Thank you for your comment. David Hoffman - Filmmaker

[@SooziinCa]

Hey Jerry, What's really changed since the 60's? Nothing, there are just 3.5 Billion more of us! Obviously "The Pill" didn't have that great of an influence regarding "planned pregnancies". Jerry Rubin R.I.P.

[@karenhancock542]

I enjoyed this video very much. Well done. I remember it well. I look forward to seeing the rest of this and more of your videos.

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

Thank you, Karen. I do have many clips from many movies on this KZbin channel. David Hoffman-filmmaker

[@hugecraig]

Thank you David ,this takes me back to my childhood

[@WharfRat44]

It's sad some people don't realize that living for love and enjoying life is something everyone should experience. YOU ARE ALIVE. our earth is a miracle!

[@cheamore4296]

awesome/ bring back the hippi movement 2016!!!

[@sainter1]

+dubstepKing69 Good! LOL

[@sainter1]

+CHE Amore It won't come back but the spirit of love, peace and togetherness can be regenerated. It won't be easy though, the obnoxious kids of today's generation, let's face it, are mostly spoiled, greedy brats. If there's any doubt of that just check out Twitter and you'll see millions of little capitalists trying to get rich.

[@elm1230]

+SainterSan And those hippies were spoiled, entitled, brats that were mostly just young kids swept in a movement that died out in a few short years. Then they grew up and curated the most decadent and conservative times in America in the 80's, and forward. Some of the most successful acts of activism has happened in recent times and all on the backs of today's youth. Funny and a little ironic you're giving the criticism on today's youth the kids of the 60's got from their elders......

[@sainter1]

+elm1230 You are partly correct - they were kids. The rest is right wing nonsense and a misunderstanding of the hippies' significance to subsequent generations. Hippies were brand new, with ideas on individual rights, equality, racial harmony and global peace that still echo today. They were really just the younger voice of the counterculture revolution that had other aspects to it (Malcolm X & civil rights, socialism, feminsm etc etc). They did NOT curate the 'greed is good' 80s, that prize goes to Ronald Reagan and his fellow neo cons (before the word was invented) who introduced a new economic model known as Neoliberalism. Put simply, neoliberalism was the champion of privatisation, fiscal austerity, deregulation, free trade, and reductions in government spending in order to enhance the role of the private sector in the economy. In other words Reagan with help from Margaret Thatcher reset society and pushed it away from the collective good ethos to what was good for the individual. That ethic is STILL with us today. So today's kids have known nothing else other than neoliberalism or trickle down economics, Reaganomics, economic rationalism, whatever you want to call it - there is nothing brand new about it. The so-called 1% exists solely because of those changes and the willingness of subsequent generations to keep it going, particularly the 'Millennials' or Internet generation who by and large are the most self centered generation in modern history.

[@stacyblue1980]

+CHE Amore it never went away

[@yeah381]

Fascinating video about a very interesting time. Ironically they do come across as very self-indulgent and conformist despite their determination to break away from the repression of the 50s

[@jamesreagle4371]

I APPRECIATE MY SON TELLING ME TO BE HAPPY ABOUT BEING A VIETNAM VETERAN BUT I AM NOT HAPPY ABOUT BEING THIS....ON THIS MATTER I JUDGE NO ONE WHO HAS SERVED IN THE MILITARY AS LONG AS THEIR MOTIVES WERE PURE AND HONEST AND THEY BELIEVED THEY WERE SERVING FOR JUST CAUSE.....I MYSELF DO NOT FEEL WHAT I HAD DONE WAS JUST AND THUS AFTER FORTY FIVE YEARS I DECIDED TO WRITE A LETTER TO VIETNAM......THIS LETTER WAS SENT BY ME TO THE VIETNAM GOVERNMENT ON FRIDAY, MAY 23, 2014 AND READS AS FOLLOWS........As an American Soldier who entered into your Country on December 17, 1969 and did not leave until November 18, 1970, I wish to formally apologize for my intrusion. This was an unwarranted act of aggression, not only on my part but by the French and subsequently the United States. With Memorial Day approaching in this Country, We as a Nation and We as a People should reflect on our actions of the past, so as to act more appropriately in the future, for a better world for all to live in. Unfortunately, People sometimes forget what is most important.

[@charlenesims9063]

I love the hippie movement,and everything was simple back then. i had friends back when i was a kid that were hippies and it was a blast! even though i am not a hippy myself,but just loved the music and way of life. but the hippie movement started in 1967.after the late 50's and early 60's of the beat nick culture. but most of them turned hippy as well,some but not all. the question today is where did all the hippies go??? i know where most of them went,they joined the corpral world and had children like me in the 1970's. the hippie culture started to die out roughly in 1986. that is where we the flower power children of our parents died out and went back to the working world to give us a stable home,school,and a life for us kids. but like myself i will be 44 in may this year and us that were teens in the 80's as we started to listen to hard rock,pot,and much harder drugs booze. then as went from teen in the 80's to the grudge culture of the 90's,and then all of a sudden we got people going back to the hippie days again.but this time with harder drugs and different way of the hippies,which is with dread locks and other wannabe hippies out there. but i rather be happy as a hippy back in the 60's when a hippy was a hippy not today like some "think" hippy and still don't know what a hippy is. today is a different world for sure in this 21st century. loved the documentary. but i thought i would share what i thought about the hippie culture and where they went since we are the baby boomers children of that culture in the 60's. so my generation understands woodstock,love ins,tune in and drop out. :)

[@HipHopAn0n]

I can't help but ask "What was it all for?" So they rebelled against the old power structure, but it does not seem they replaced its values with anything lasting. It seems like many of these people were fighting to make a hedonistic lifestyle socially acceptable. Is that a good thing though? Now hedonism is the only value left in society - just listen to the dominant music's lyrics (hiphop).....if the hippies had fought against hedonism as strongly as they fought against ideas about cleanliness and drug use, perhaps this country wouldn't be sinking into a pit of despair and meaninglessness.

[@wattenslaafje1825]

Very informative and interesting look into the zeitgeist of the 60s. Thanks David, for this wonderful little documentary!

[@drumstick74]

Hi Mr. Hoffman, Awesome documentary, which I enjoyed viewing. It ends quite abruptly (when Oliver Stone is talking)...Is the rest somewhere to be seen? Thanks. Great to see Lisa Law in there as well. Remember her from a Woodstock documentary, where she explains how she helped feed the thousands people and set up _trip tents_.

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

+drumstick74 Thank you. Indeed this is a clip from one of the six 1 hour shows that I made for PBS called Making Sense Of The Sixties

[@drumstick74]

David Hoffman I see, so it's meant as a "teaser"? Thanks for sharing it.

[@daisytsukino2087]

What a time to be alive. Really wished I could of lived throughout the 60's!

[@cliffbrowne6962]

I am a child of the 60s. Born in 1966,unfortunately I was much too young to remember the last 3 years of that decade. The SIxties oddly enough, seems to be so cliche. Hippies,Vietnam, and Civil Rights. When I lived in Las Vegas Nevada, I realized that I lived in a town where the 60s NEVER happened. In Vegas the 60s meant Mobsters,Martinis, and Dean Martin. That was where the Don Drapers of America went to get decadent. In many ways, according to the old-timers who lived there at the time, insinuated that the 60s looked like the 50s. Lounge Acts would play the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Doors, and Hendrix with large brass sections, accompanied by a Hammond organ. But there was not a guy with shoulder-length hair in Vegas back at that time. The Mob wouldnt allow them.

[@TheChuck624]

Awesome points about growing up in Vegas. It was as if the 60's and the hippies just took a detour right around it and in my opinion Vegas pretty much stayed that way until Mirage opened back 89, I think it was? Then things started to change and the old guard moved on. I can also recall talking to my cousin years after he came back from Vietnam and him saying that the best thing about living in Vegas was that no one seemed to give a crap about the war or anything that was going on outside of Vegas. It was all about gambling, drinking and being entertained. I guess I never looked at it that way but he was right. We just didn't care and didn't feel the need to care.

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

Thank you. My goal in making the series was to make it for my generation and for their children and for their children's children. One third of the baby boomers were active participants in the 60s-30 million Americans. David Hoffman-filmmaker

[@Tracylindilou]

I was born in the mid-60's and I have always had an affinity towards "Hippies"...I remember saying to myself when I was 7 years old; 'I wanna be a hippie, hippies are cool'....Ha. Never became one but I lived as close to the lifestyle and philosophy as I could... This is a great vid!

[@ilove9540]

+Tracy Lunos I was born in the 70's and my parents were hippies. My thought was that my parents were stupid and immature with no responsibility.

[@ilove9540]

TheSunNeverShines M. when i grew i up i hated them even more

[@ilove9540]

TheSunNeverShines M. oh no my mom was abusive and my dad was just busy with work

[@walterfechter8395]

I didn't have time to get involved with drugs or anti-war movements -- I worked hard on a family farm, and, for as young as I was back then, I started a band in 1965. I smoked grass only once (in 1966) and I thought nothing of it. Looking back on the 1960s, I'm reminded of a few truthful words uttered by Peter Fonda (towards the end of Easy Rider) - "We blew it."