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1968 With Tom Brokaw (2007) DVD Review
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1968 With Tom Brokaw (2007) Directed by:
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1968 With Tom Brokaw (2007) Cast:
Tom Brokaw, Stewart Brand, Pat Buchanan, Arlo Guthrie, Rafer Johnson, Tom Smothers, Bruce Springsteen, Jon Stewart, James Taylor, Andrew Young
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1968 With Tom Brokaw (2007) DVD Release Date:
26th February 2008
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1968 With Tom Brokaw (2007) Synopsis:

Tom Brokaw shares the personal odysseys of the people who lived through the chaotic year, 1968.

1968 With Tom Brokaw (2007) DVD Review:

The History Channel’s special feature length documentary revisits one of the most tumultuous years in American history, 1968. It was a year of war, riots, assassinations, peace, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. Tom Brokaw, of NBC Nightly News fame, hosts as interviewers regale the viewer with first hand accounts of their experiences during one of America’s darkest times. Brokaw revisits the famous San Francisco cross-streets Haight and Ashbury, a working class neighborhood made famous by the hippie movement, as he discusses the Vietnam War and the draft.

1968 was a year of extraordinary tragedy, triumph and transformation. The year 1968 found a nation divided, torn apart by their disagreeing views on the war. The United States was also split by racial tensions as the African-American population fought for equal rights. Civil Rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Senator Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated in an attempt to halt the juggernaut of the equal rights movement.

The city of Chicago was nearly ripped apart as the city’s police department went head to head with rioters made angry by their denial for a forum at the Democratic National Convention. This event quite possibly led to the election of Republican candidate Richard Nixon to take the office of the President of the United States of America.

1968 was also a year of controversy as artists and celebrities took on the political conservatives in every forum they could find. In that year, the comedy duo The Smothers Brothers presented their opposing point of view on several of their television sketches. Arlo Guthrie performed what was to become his most famous work, the near nineteen minute long song called Alice’s Restaurant, a song that inspired the Alice’s Restaurant Anti-Massacree Movement and the movie by the same name. The idea was that to avoid the draft, you simply had to sing to the Army shrink the song lyrics, “You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant.” Bruce Springsteen and James Taylor also found success in their anti-establishment music.

In the documentary 1968 with Tom Brokaw, several celebrities regale the viewers with their own personal recounts of the year. Among those interviewed include musicians Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor and Arlo Guthrie. Also interviewed are comedians Tommy Smothers, Jon Stewart and Lewis Black.

1968 with Tom Brokaw is an engaging and entertaining look back at one of America’s most tumultuous years in its history. The film’s voice is strong and is reminiscent of a different era. Tom Brokaw leads the viewer down a personal journey as he returns to his home-town in South Dakota and tells the story of a close personal friend who was killed in Vietnam. Brokaw revisits the scenes of these iconic events, including Haight and Ashbury and the Chicago square where he pairs the voices from the past and the present and explore how pivotal the year 1968 was, even forty years later. 1968 with Tom Brokaw is a must own for history buffs and those whose lives were changed by living in such a memorable and important year.

The film is presented in widescreen and in stereo sound. The DVD special features include Tom Brokaw’s Personal Perspective on the Culture of the 1960s as well as additional interviews with Arlo Guthrie, Rafer Johnson, Mark Rudd, Tommy Smothers, Bruce Springsteen, Jon Stewart and Andrew Young.

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1968 With Tom Brokaw (2007) DVD review written by: Andrew Mattson

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