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The Summer of Love: How Hippies Changed the World

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Two-part series about the countercultural explosion that was the Summer of Love in 1967.

The untold story of how a German cult, pioneering psychologists and secret LSD experiments sparked a gathering of hippie tribes in 1967 San Francisco that would change the world.

Mike Connolly

Emma Cahusac

Simon Chu

Erica Starling Productions

The Summer of Love: How Hippies Changed the World: Series 1: Episode 2

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An era of social upheaval that pitted America's youth against its elders began.

Series about the countercultural explosion that was 1967's Summer of Love looks at how it set in motion an era of social upheaval that pitted America's youth against its elders.

The second episode explores how the Summer of Love of 1967 set in motion an era of social upheaval that pitted America's youth against its elders and how the American government responded with a series of brutal crackdowns. The hippies failed politically, but their cultural influence changed the world. Everything from the environmental movement to the explosion in alternative health practices to the birth of feminism all grew out of this moment. And most surprising of all, we trace how hippie ideas first imagined on LSD went on to shape the information age itself.

The Summer of Love: How Hippies Changed the World: Series 1

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