Smithsonian Channel - America in Color Series 1 (2017) Part 5 1960

From the 1920's through to the 1960's, America transformed from a young country on the rise into a global superpower. It's a decisive period in our nation's history that most of us have only witnessed in black and white, until now. Using digital colorization technology, we present these formative decades as few have seen them. Join us as we revisit 50 vibrant years of good times and great despair, technological triumphs, natural disasters, global villains and national heroes.

Part 5 1960

Witness the dawn of modern America, through famous and infamous images and footage, shown in full color. From the Cuban Missile Crisis to the music of the Beatles; from the March on Washington to the walk on the moon, it's the '60s like they've never been seen before.

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