1967: The Counterculture Year That Changed The World | Summer Of Love | Timeline 

I was and still am a hippie even now at 71. And proud of it and all it stands for.

I was 5 years old in 1967, but already had a radio in my room so I heard all of this wonderful "new" music that I still enjoy hearing today. Loved this program!

The message of peace and love, the social changes, the best music, the mod clothing--I was 13 and loving it. Still play this wonderful music.

I was 13. This captures the time quite well, on the surface. The darkness they speak briefly of at the end was there all along.

Im an 80s baby. Late 80s at that. I remember being in high-school and finding a book at my grandmas house: the portable 60s reader. It was a collection of essays, stories, etc all from the era. I read it front to back at least 3 times and flipped through it numerous other times. Sounded like a wild ride. Forever changed the American landscape.

Everything changed in 1967. And then the Summer of Love started off with the Monterey Pop Festival and music and creativity seemed to have no limits. We were young and full of life. Thank you for this video. It was an important time for me.

Wish that Hendrix and Joplin had much longer lives.. So talented.

This is amazing to see a glimpse of how my parents grew up in the 60s.... Simply Amazing

Brought back so many memories for me. The 60's, what a great ride!

I wasn't alive yet. But from everything I've ever read or seen this seems like the best year to be alive. So much so that when people refer to the 60s 67,68 and 69 is what they really mean

I was born in 1967. What a year to have been born in!

Time to usher in a new summer of love.

What days they were. Lived every moment of these days. Good times and bad.

Monterey Pop Festival. The Beatles released Sgt. Pepper. Velvet Underground, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd and The Doors all released their debut albums. Kurt Cobain was born.

We need a new summer of love

How refreshing to watch a doc that isn't about vilifying our generation. Thank you for this...✌️❤️🎶

Love love love this documentary

I remember all of these, that means that I'm old, Mark Twain once said, "Do Not Complain Of Growing Old, It Is a Privilege Denied to Many" 👍🇺🇸

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

I was 9 and 10 yrs old that summer . I do remember it well.

IN 1966-67, Pink Floyd was to the "London hippie scene" what the Grateful Dead was to San Francisco

I could never imagine that a documentary on the _The Summer of Love_ would not mention in words or even devote 30 seconds to the one seminal album that has come to be associated with that time frame in 1967 --- that being, _Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band._ Showing 2 seconds of the album cover and then glossing it over as if it were not the monumental and revolutionary musical event of that year is ridiculous. All sorts of great music and artists are mentioned in this video dealing with an unbelievably intriguing time in world and music history, but the Beatles themselves are only mentioned once very briefly with no context of their place in and contribution to the decade of the 1960's and the year of 1967 in particular. As good as this documentary was, it committed a great crime of omission.

I would have loved to be a part of The Summer of Love. That was such a Sweet Pea time for young people.

Loved this! Thanks...fantastic!😍

Everything changed for me in 1967: I was born.

this is a time I would rather forget but not the good music

Hands down the best documentary that Absolute History has done, and using the real music! Only sad there was no Ruth Goodman 😔

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band!

Thank you for making this video, really enjoyed this, amazing video. Great music 👌👌👌

My Parents Era I would have loved to have lived then☮️❤️✌️

The 60’s to me was the pinnacle in history to much more forward thinking attitude. Really changed the social norms.

😅 I can't believe it timelines actually doing something that isn't about World War or Rome

Good ol days!

This is trivial. This video never really talks about the social and political aspects of that time and how it was ultimately crushed.

The "darkness" that is only briefly referred to at the end of this program is an essential, inescapable part of the rest of the movement being discussed. With freedom comes the plunge into the other side; depravity, moral destruction, nihilism, disintegration. To be a prosperous society we need liberty, but we also need to learn how to discipline ourselves so that we don't succumb to the darkness. This, however, is a task for each individual person to undertake, for themselves. It cannot be imposed from outside by government, religion, or any other third party entity. It is learning self-mastery.

thanks internet and RU-vid. I hope "we" can watch it in another century with the addition of new story fragments.

I literally just cried watching the Marvin Gaye footage... Such a great upload

With "The Letter"--The Box Tops said more in two minutes, than some pop groups said in four minutes. It was very concise

The Summer of Love happen elsewhere around the world I found this very American sensitive leaving out the rest of the World. I lived during this time in British Columbia and I assure you all the Summer of Love did exist and was more felt on the Entire Coast of North America

I was born in June 1967 And then everything changed ☮️🌈💟

Excellent documentary! The era we grew up then had the best music - especially compared to the trash nowadays. 1967 and 1968 were two pivotal years that eventually led to many of the positive changes that we take for granted today, such as women's rights, marriage being much fairer today, etc. Yes, it was a little bit ugly getting there, but the path forward isn't always straightforward, nor pretty. As the documentary noted, much of what happened was tied to the Vietnam war. If we had only listened to the French, who had 100 years of experience there, we could have avoided 58,000+ needless deaths.

The young generation and the unborn will be seeing videos about us and our fight for freedom, equality & cilvil rights just as we are.

Honoring you, for all you do..

born in 67, and thought this was great :)

All remember about that year was the Beatles ,the Seekers the Monkeys and the Easy Beats . I was only six and half years old.😊

Epic.

Time passes so quickly....

I was 10 but had already bought Freakout by Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention @ age 9 & smoked weed @ age 11! Great documentary! ❄️🌎❄️❣️😈❣️🤣👌❄️

Hello team timeline, Im from Portugal and Im fan of your work , but sometimes the vídeos are not available to my country , i dont know why... Thanks for your work , great Chanel

So endearing, the only date rich mustang boys story.

I was born in 1959, my mother was only 18 years old that makes me 64 years old today. I was only one years old when she was 18 years old. I am a definitely born hippie because my mother was part of that age.take care God bless you all God is love! They left out the spiritual part in this documentary that it was a spiritual thing at the time. Let me know what you think,? For the hippies back in the 60s and the 70s! Thank you

Never heard that song at the beginning. It’s pretty catchy.

But why to overlap speech with music so the speech cannot be heard? Lol: 27:45

I graduated in 70' I feel blessed that I got to live in such an exciting time. 😊 💚 🌈 🥳 My 3 kids are successful conservative capitalists and don't "get me" at all! 😄😄

I think there is an error in the title. Didn't you mean to say "Ruined" instead of "Changed?"

Proud to say I was born summer of 1967. Still going strong

The Doors debut album came out in 1967🔥

what made this movement was free speech of wich now we have none

A video bit by a 1960s band followed by a couple of comments on how amazing the band was, a video bit by a 1960s band and followed by a couple of comments on how amazing they were etc. A pretty lightweight documentary about the "counterculture year".

The music is too loud to hear what they are saying at times.

I see Lennon I click

Groovy baby yeaaaaahhhh!

I was born on October 18th 1967, pretty much the end of the summer of love in upstate New York, but I feel 1967 is a part of me, I hate everything the 1950s stands for, complete conformity.

It's was like a reunion of the human souls. Because they weren't federally allowed during slavey and werent state and locally allowed during segregation. And they knew that! It set the path for a real democracy and the basic respect for life.

I was a baby . Born in 66.

I'm pretty sure that Little Richard didn't die in Vietnam.

I don't know nothing about 67 i wasn't born til 11years later. Just thought id take a look to see what it like

The year I was Born,, grew up in a hippie like area Called LITTLE FIVE POINTS ATL. In the 80s when I was a teenager we were very HIPPY like drove our parents crazy...

Some of us college kids were falling for The hippie movement but only a few I saw took it seriously. Guys started sporting longer hair but not many wore it longer than the mop-style of the Beatles. The Beatles got into drugs, Indian culture and started getting weird. The Vietnam War resulted in protests, largely because a lot of guys were scared of getting drafted and sent to Vietnam. I was. Some were spreading vicious lies that U.S. soldiers routinely killed civilians. Blacks soldiers were killed but in no higher power portion than the population. Around then support for the war disintegrated. Wearing hippie clothes signaled a rebelliousness in general if many were just celebrating drug use, dancing and loud music. Cassius Clay was a loud-mouth rebel.

Here's to every young person who loves the beatles and other bands who comments on every video about how they wish they were born in the right generation lol (BTW I'm 18 lol)

Nearly forgot.....Acid

Then the 70s came and everyone did loads of cocaine, put on leisure suits and hit the discos.

Twenty five years later and the Military Industrial Complex is still flourishing 🤔😥🦉

Since responsibility for defeating the Germans in WW 2 fell on the US, the only nation powerful enough to of this (Churchill cried out for help from the US), that responsibility translated to a greater lack of acceptance of the hippie movement in the 60's here compared to the UK. My Dad lived and breathed that era of the war years, sprinkled his conversation with it, felt that the only way to succeed in life was to be "up and at 'em" everyday at 5:30 AM - you know, there was a need to rebel against that a little bit. As for the music, it was nice that the documentary focused on that more than most, but for me it was a mixed bag. I wouldn't have gone to Woodstock just to hear the music. The total experience would have been awesome, just not not so much the bands. The Beatles pointed to a new direction in music and new possibilities, but sadly, the later bands that came along ('67-'70 ) just made it all about the blues and the guitar.

This documentary has some good footage from the period, but the talking heads are mostly pretty irritating. That's pretty standard for documentaries. Why?

"Changed the world?" If it did, it was for the worse.

I was 7.

BonnIe Greer killed it!

Rock and Roll, by it's very nature, encourages freedom, free thought, exploration and new ideas put into practices. I would also point out it wasn't a particular economic system that wad for or against it, but it was the Authoritarians whofeared it! On ALL SIDES...that hated all it represents! IT'S STILL THAT WAY TODAY, just read some of these posts! 😉

Everyone was uniting and living their best life, discovering new meanings of life meanwhile the culture that they broke away from were all bitter and salty. Wow sounds like not much has change lol

21:44.....don't think I've seen any of the comments mention this though?

Grandpa: Awww the 60’s Great aunties:No the 70’s was soo much better Mom/dad: absolutely not, the 80’s was better Uncle:Bro the 90’s had the N64 tho Cousin: Your kidding me?? the 2000’s had Eminem

Wilson Pickett brought a 1965 didn't he

What is the song at 3:09

Beginning of the end.

I think 2 door cars are ridiculous. 4 can still be sporty and a great deal more practical

U can tell the difference between the quality of the other videos on this channel when it comes to communist propaganda and communist subversion

i was -21 back then

In the 60’s people went off the rails goofy,spiritually bankrupt.

Can someone fix the audio. It's unwatchable. Please and thank you.

But paradoxically invented and developed the information and telecommunications revolution .

Well it bit us in the but didn't it, look where we are now with the ignorance.

Hi I have a sociopath following me around on social media saying that they're me I'm sorry for the inconvenience but if you have any information I would appreciate you thank you

Decades subsequent to the 60s have proven that, largely, more people objected to the DRAFT than to War. The proportion opposed to war is far less. Prove me wrong.

All the poor little babies, born out of wedlock then, have proven that stable, traditional families enable people to be more successful at every level in life. Illegitimate children have lower grades on average, higher poverty rates, higher incarceration rates, higher divorce rates, higher rates of dying under violent circumstances, lower rates of happiness, and lower ages of death. These are the results of the experiments the social engineers ran on society. They're doing it again, and all the young people are falling for it. When will people ever learn?

STONE'ENGE!!!

1967 that late 60s ain't it? Almost 70s

I wasn't born then who's nearly 50

The. music was. drowning out the. commentary. at. times

anyone got the HOP answers