there was just a documentary on the history channel about hippies afew days ago. i dont know if anyone else caught it but i thoughtit was pretty damn good, 2 hours long. they pretty much told the story going from the invention of lsd to the end of the summer of love and woodstock, altamont etc. i thought it was pretty good. who else saw this? am i the only one?
i watched it and enjoyed the first hour, but it seemed like for every 1 good thing they mentioned about hippies and their beliefs, they would say 2 bad things, which wouldn't have anything to do with hippies. it was like a total hit piece, where you show something good, than say it's bad. i was able to pick out some really good stuff, but a lot of it was negatively charged propaganda to put down the free love beliefs.
I completely agree with lifelovefun, he took the words right out of my mouth. I guess they were trying to make it neutral and not piss anyone off... but it kind of sucked.
I just saw it yesterday. I agree, it was an okay documentary and I enjoyed parts of it, but I do think that the general stance of the documentary was anti-hippie. There were a few good and interesting parts though.
My favorite part was when the cop was talking about the hippie pimps that would make the girls work for them.
i saw it, but the hippy story always seems to end with the manson thing,but yet if a rapper kills someone it boost his sales one hippy goes bad and were all crazy,thats why i hate to watch docs on hippys, isnt that the doc that says a hippy invented the internet?
i too have seen this drama a time or too. The thing that nobody seems to understand is at the time when this was going down just about everyone had or knew somebody who was getting ready to "ship out to Nam" lots of people that went to that useless war never made it back. One of the better movies about the 60s is the original movie "american grafiti"
i've seen that several times. always seems to come on around the same time each year. it's a very neat doc. and always seems to be followed by the drug documentaries.
