The 1960s was an era of widespread democratic activism and provocative music shaped by civil rights, women's lib, the rise of the youth counterculture, and the Vietnam War. Film footage; rare archival photographs; and interviews with historians, critics, participants, and those on both sides of the generation gap capture the electricity, fervor, and anger of an era full of great hope and turmoil, when enormous changes swept the globe and the Baby Boomers came of age.