movies about the hippy movement?

anyone know any movies about the hippy movement in the 60s and 70s?? they can be made during the time or after the time. for a research essay, we get to pick any movie and write a report on it....so i thought this would be an interesting subject. thanks .

 

Forrest Gump? I have no... idea

 

A few movies that deal with various aspects of the 60's counterculture, in no particular order. All are worth seeing at least once, several of them are in the "must see" category.

Easy Rider
Alice's Restaurant
Flashback
Steal This Movie
Billy Jack
Berkeley in the Sixties
The 60's (NBC miniseries)
Rude Awakening
Conspiracy:Trial of the Chicago 8
Joe
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas
Woodstock
Making Sense of the Sixties (PBS miniseries)

 

ellis, i'm interested in the "Making sense of the sixties" miniseries. How can I get ahold of a copy?

 

I taped it when it was originally aired (over a decade ago!). Some public libraries have a copy, or could find it for you. At worst, you could buy a (ridiculously overpriced) copy from PBS video:

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/SenseSixties.html

Six hours total, dealing with all aspects of the cultural upheaval and fallout of the time. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. If you can't track down a copy, I could dub you a copy, but the quality isn't going to be too great (second generation copy of a well-worn EP VHS tape).

 

Psych Out (1968) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063469/)



The Trip (1967) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062395/)

 

I've seen Phych Out I have a book that I can list more from:
Riot on the Sunset Strip
The Cross & the Switchblade
Medium Cool
Mondo Mod, & Hollywood
Zabriskie Point
Woodstock
Hair
Monterey Pop
Are a few

 

The trip, Easy Rider, hair and woodstock. I havent seen psych out

 

Yeah can't get any better than reality of the woodstock, no scripts but raw footage of one of the most amazing festivals ever..

 

Have you seen those movies too? and what's the name of that book?

 

whoo hoo!! thanks for all the replies so far...you don't know how much this has helped me out. wow, i'm actually getting really excited about this assignment. .

 

where do you think i could get or rent these at?

 

Only Phych out, & it's 3 books actually...Hippie, Hippie Handbook & the Mini Mod 60's book

 

i bought those movies on 2 seperate dvds from amazon.co.uk, but in the US both movies are on one dvd, called 'Midnight Movies', and it has several special features (which the european dvds unfortunately don't have).

you can buy the dvd from amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00008973J/qid%3D1105099326/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/102-8572472-1410528

 

thank you

 

o.k., im just writing to keep this towards the front. i'm wondering what other movies there are

 

did anyone mention the movie called tye dye

 

Do you mean "Tie-Died: Rock 'n Roll's Most Deadicated Fans", the movie about the Grateful Dead tour scene?

The OP wanted films about the 60s/70s hippie movement, not today's hippies.

 

well, there's always the monkee's movie _head_
really...
odd...

 

I would not recommend Psych Out if your trying to get an accurate picture of what the sixties were actually like. It's a hilarious movie, but some of the "hippies" are just way to hostile, and I mean, Jack Nicholsan-a hippie? I watched this with my mom once, who was a hippie during the sixties, and she kept telling me to just turn it off because it was so totally not representative of what the sixties were about. My favorite hippie movies are: Alice's Restaurant, Easy Rider, and Steal this Movie..............Peace...........Stacey

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