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Rebels: A Journey Underground

  • 1999
  • Ended
  • 1 season

With rare interviews and seldom seen archival footage, Rebels: A Journey Underground brings the history of counter culture to life. Narrated by Kiefer Sutherland.

Latest: Season 1 · 1999

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  1. E1. Society's Shadow - Origins of Cultural Rebellion

    Nov 15, 1999

    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.

  2. E2. A New Kind Of Bohemian - The Beat Generation gets hip

    Nov 15, 1999 · 47m

    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.

  3. E3. Turn On The Revolution - Counterculture and Psychedelic Revolution

    Nov 15, 1999 · 47m

    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.

  4. E4. A Riot Of My Own - The Punk Rebellion of the 1970s

    Nov 15, 1999 · 47m

    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.

  5. E5. Earth Trauma - Radical Environmentalism in the New Age

    Nov 15, 1999 · 47m

    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.

  6. E6. Welcome To Cyberia - The internet Rebels

    Nov 15, 1999 · 47m

    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.