Sex in 69: The Sexual Revolution in America

July 2009

Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's latest documentary aired Monday July 27 on

The History Channel 

SEX IN 69: THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION IN AMERICA

Travel back to 1969 and uncover fascinating trends, people and events that forever changed the way Americans think about and have sex.  Viewers will travel from the Playboy Penthouse in Los Angeles to San Francisco's Hippie crash pads, New York's legendary Stonewall Bar, the boardwalk in Atlantic City, a court room in Miami where Jim Morrison was charge with indecency, and other spots across America to meet some of the women and men who found themselves caught between old values and new desires in 1969, and decided to do something about it. Some of them, like Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner, actors Dyan Cannon and Jim Brown, and musician Ray Manzarek of The Doors, will be famous. Others will be average Americans whose lives were transformed by the sexual tides coursing through the nation as the Sixties came to a close. But they will all have one thing in common-- fascinating stories to tell. 

Sex in 69: The Sexual Revolution in America is a Telling Pictures Production; Executive Produced by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman; Produced/Written by Mark Page; Associate Producer Emily Osborne; Directors of Photography Allan Palmer, Anthony Savini, Jon Shenk, Buddy Squires; Editor Bill Weber; Music by Doug Hilsinger.

For The History Channel:  Executive Producer Julian Hobbs

Sex in 69: The Sexual Revolution in America

A celluloid "Howl"

It's springtime in New York's West Village, where a former boutique on Hudson Street has been transformed into a replica of Six Gallery, the former hot spot on Fillmore Street where the Beat movement caught fire in 1955 when Allen Ginsberg unleashed his groundbreaking poem "Howl".
Waiting quietly to go on camera is James Franco, who portrays the famed poet in Howl, the genre-bending motion picture filmed here over three weeks in March. Due for release early next year, the film will include scripted scenes, verbatim sequences from the obscenity trial that could have landed the poem's publisher, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, in jail, and an animation sequence by Berkeley's Eric Drooker, best known for his New Yorker covers. Read the full review from San Francisco Magazine.

A celluloid "Howl"