PBS American Masters - The Boomer List (2014)

A unique generation, baby boomers are vastly different from preceding periods in terms of their ingenuous rhetoric. Civil rights, women's rights, LGBT rights, the peace movement, and the green movement all came into being with the boomer generation. Boomers are also noted for their remarkable advances in the arts and entertainment; science; law; politics; public service; sports; the military and technology. In the 1960s, as millions of Americans became teenagers and young adults, boomers created a progressive, initially rebellious “counter culture” that championed change and new ideas. Of course, Madison Avenue, never allowing a huge market to go to waste, disingenuously exploited the “counter culture” with its own term, “the generation gap”.

Interviews Erin Brockovich, Kim Cattrall, Deepak Chopra, Eve Ensler, Tommy Hilfiger, Samuel L. Jackson, Billy Joel, David LaChapelle, John Leguizamo, Tim O'Brien, Ellen Ochoa, Julieanna Richardson, Virginia Rometty, Maria Shriver, Peter Staley, Amy Tan, and Steve Wozniak.

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