The Sixties

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The Sixties poster.

Miniseries (2014)

Interviewees:
John Heilemann
Robert Dallek
Dan Rather
Morley Safer

A ten-part documentary series focusing on the politics, music, technical advancements, drugs, and the "free love" movement of the 1960s.

Episode 1 - Television Comes of Age

Convair Atlas LV-3B

Bell UH-1 Iroquois

Saturn V

Episode 2 - The World on the Brink

Republic F-84F Thunderstreak

Unidentified Aircraft

Lockheed U-2A

Lockheed U-2A serial 56-6718: Delivered to Laughlin AFB in September 1957. Transferred to CIA in August 1964 and converted to U-2G. Crashed into Yellow Sea on January 5, 1969, killing Maj. Hseih “Billy” Chang. Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).

Lockheed U-2C

Wreckage of serial 56-6693, "Item 360" which was shot down over Russia on 1 May 1960 while being piloted by Francis Gary Powers.

Soviet drawing of the aircraft.

OKB-1 Vostok 3KA

Take off of the R-7 Semyorka rocket for the first human space flight known as the Vostok 1 mission.

Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star

Footage of a Cuban T-33 during the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
Archive footage already used in The Good Shepherd.

Douglas B-26 Invader

Wreckage of one of several B-26s shot down during the Bay of Pigs Invasion.

Boeing VC-137 Stratoliner

Douglas DC-6B

Registration N511... Could be N5118V or N5119V of Pan Am.

Douglas DC-6B of Pan Am-Pan American World Airways.

Douglas DC-6B of Pan Am-Pan American World Airways.

MIM-14 Nike Hercules

Boeing B-47 Stratojet

Sikorsky VH-3A Sea King Marine One

Lockheed U-2A

Serial 56-6708, Item 375.

Unidentified Rocket

Lockheed F-104 Starfighter

Douglas C-133 Cargomaster

F-100s flying over?

North American A-5 Vigilante

Douglas A-4 Skyhawk & McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II

Three Skyhawks and one Phantom.

Various Aircraft

On the carrier's flight deck, we can see three North American A-5 Vigilantes, three McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom IIs, two Vought F-8 Crusaders, and one Douglas A-4 Skyhawk.

Lockheed C-140B JetStar

Possibly serial 62-4199? Only JetStar found with a matching USAF livery (compare here).

Lockheed P-3A Orion

Lockheed P-3A-20-LO Orion BuNo 150497 coded LM from VP-44 Golden Pelicans seen during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Later converted to EP-3E. Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).

McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II

North American F-100 Super Sabre

Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar

Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter

Piasecki H-21 Shawnee

Episode 3 - The Assassination of President Kennedy

Boeing 707

At Dallas Love Field (DAL/KDAL). Unidentified livery.

Boeing VC-137C Air Force One

Registration 62-6000 (wore 26000 on the tail), c/n 18461/303 built in 1962. Same aircraft in other works at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).
At Dallas Love Field (DAL/KDAL).

Lyndon B. Johnson takes the oath of office on board SAM 26000.

Boeing VC-137B Stratoliner

Registration 58-6970, c/n 17925 built in 1959. At Dallas Love Field (DAL/KDAL).

Sikorsky VH-3A Sea King

Bell UH-1 Iroquois

Boeing 707

Boeing 707 of Pan Am-Pan American World Airways.

On the left, a VC-137 on the right.

Boeing 707 of Pan Am-Pan American World Airways.

Episode 4 - The War in Vietnam

Bell UH-1 Iroquois

Piasecki H-21 Shawnee

Sikorsky H-34 Choctaw

Convair C-131 Samaritan

Douglas C-118 Liftmaster

Boeing VC-137 Stratoliner

Douglas A-4 Skyhawk

Vought F-8 Crusader

McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II

Grumman F9F Cougar

Aboard USS Hornet (CVS-12).

Bell UH-1 Iroquois

On 7 February 1965, sixteen Huey helicopters (five of which were beyond repair, or even recognition), two CV–2 (US Army DHC-4 Caribou) transports and four Cessna O-1F Bird Dog FAC planes were blew up by a commando Vietcong at Pleiku.

Republic F-105 Thunderchief

Boeing B-52 Stratofortress

Boeing C-135 Stratolifter

Fairchild C-123K Provider

Serial 56-4375, c/n 20249.

Lockheed C-141 Starlifter

Episode 5 - A Long March to Freedom

Convair 440-86

Registration N9316, c/n 434 built in 1947. Fleet number 316 visible on nose.

Reg. N9316 Convair 440-86 of Eastern Air Lines.

Lockheed L-188 Electra

Douglas DC-8

Douglas DC-8 of SAS-Scandinavian Airlines System.

Douglas DC-8 of SAS-Scandinavian Airlines System.

Unidentified Aircraft

Episode 10 - Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'N' Roll

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See also

• The Sixties at IMDb
• The Sixties at Wikipedia