Rebels: A Journey Underground (1999)
Synopsis
With rare interviews and seldom seen archival footage, Rebels: A Journey Underground brings the history of counter culture to life. Narrated by Kiefer Sutherland.
Episodes
Society's Shadow - Origins of Cultural Rebellion
From Bohemia and 19th century European Romanticism, SOCIETY'S SHADOW looks back through history to uncover the beginnings of New Vision thinking in Western Civilization.
A New Kind Of Bohemian - The Beat Generation gets hip
Following World War II, a new period of post-war social complexity overtook America. It was during this turbulent, often repressive Cold War time that Jack Kerouac coined the term "beat", and gave birth to a new literary movement.
Turn On The Revolution - Counterculture and Psychedelic Revolution
Turn On The Revolution delves into the world of hippies and yippies; young people who were prepared to put themselves at risk, both physically and mentally, in pursuit of perception and democratic freedom.
A Riot Of My Own - The Punk Rebellion of the 1970s
A twenty year old Londoner called Johnny Rotten began the Sex Pistols' first single with the words I am an Anarchist. A Riot Of My Own examines the beginning of a new kind of music, a new social critique, and a new form of free speech.
Earth Trauma - Radical Environmentalism in the New Age
Witness the story of grass-roots rebellion with an ecological cause. Follow Sea Shepherd Conservation Society founder Paul Watson as he crashes the bow of his ship into a pirate whaling vessel, and watch as Greenpeace takes on the French Navy during atmospheric nuclear tests in the South Pacific.
Welcome To Cyberia - The internet Rebels
New ideas and technologies have accelerated our culture into an almost unrecognizable reality. The counterculture of the present and the foreseeable future exists in a place called cyberspace.
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Original Title
Rebels: A Journey Underground
Status
Ended
Seasons
1
Episodes
6