Television series set in the 1960s

Roots: The Next Generations

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 1979 IMDB Rating: 7.8

Roots: The Next Generations is a television miniseries, introduced in 1979, continuing, from 1882 to the 1960s, the fictionalized story of the family of Alex Haley and their life in Henning, Lauderdal...

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Vietnam

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 1987 IMDB Rating: 7.7

The Goddard family is about to be torn apart by the arrival of Australian conscription during the Vietnam War.

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A Very English Scandal

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 2018 IMDB Rating: 7.7

It's the late 1960s, homosexuality has only just been legalised and Jeremy Thorpe, the leader of the Liberal party, has a secret he's desperate to hide.

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Magic City

Series Age rating: 16 Year: 2012 IMDB Rating: 7.6

Set in 1959 Miami, Florida shortly after the Cuban Revolution, Magic City tells the story of Ike Evans, the owner of Miami's most glamorous hotel, the Miramar Playa. Evans is forced to make an ill-fat...

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The Kennedys

Series Age rating: 11 Year: 2011 IMDB Rating: 7.6

The Kennedys is an Emmy-winning Canadian-American television miniseries chronicling the lives of the Kennedy family, including key triumphs and tragedies it has experienced. It stars Greg Kinnear, Kat...

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Project Blue Book

Series Age rating: 14 Year: 2019 IMDB Rating: 7.6

A chronicle of the true top secret U.S. Air Force-sponsored investigations into UFO-related phenomena in the 1950s and ’60s, known as “Project Blue Book”.

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Mrs Biggs

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 2012 IMDB Rating: 7.6

Sheridan Smith steps into the role of Charmian, the wife of the infamous great train robber, Ronnie Biggs. Chronicling Charmian's dramatic life, from that fateful moment when her path crossed with Ron...

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When We Rise

Series Age rating: 14 Year: 2017 IMDB Rating: 7.5

The personal and political struggles, setbacks and triumphs of a diverse family of LGBT men and women who helped pioneer one of the last legs of the U.S. Civil Rights movement from its turbulent infan...

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