List of films related to the hippie subculture
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This is a list of fiction and documentary films about or relating to the hippie
Hippie
The hippie subculture was originally a youth movement that arose in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world. The etymology of the term 'hippie' is from hipster, and was initially used to describe beatniks who had moved into San Francisco's...

 subculture or counterculture of the 1960s
Counterculture of the 1960s
The counterculture of the 1960s refers to a cultural movement that mainly developed in the United States and spread throughout much of the western world between 1960 and 1973. The movement gained momentum during the U.S. government's extensive military intervention in Vietnam...

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1960s

  • Alice's Restaurant
    Alice's Restaurant (film)
    Alice's Restaurant is a 1969 American comedy film co-written and directed by Arthur Penn. It is an adaptation of the 1967 folk song of the same name by singer and songwriter Arlo Guthrie...

    (1969)
  • The Born Losers
    The Born Losers
    This article is about the film. You may be looking for the song http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_LosersBorn Losers is a 1967 action film and the first of the Billy Jack movies. The film introduced Tom Laughlin as the half-Indian Green Beret Vietnam veteran Billy Jack...

    (1967)
  • Chappaqua
    Chappaqua (film)
    Chappaqua is a 1966 cult film written, directed by and starring Conrad Rooks. The films is based on Rooks' experiences with drug addiction and includes cameo appearances by a host of famous figures of the 1960s: author William S. Burroughs, guru Swami Satchidananda, beat poets Allen Ginsberg and...

    (1966)
  • Easy Rider
    Easy Rider
    Easy Rider is a 1969 American road movie written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda and directed by Hopper. It tells the story of two bikers who travel through the American Southwest and South with the aim of achieving freedom...

    (1969)
  • Eggshells
    Eggshells (film)
    Eggshells is an independent low budget film released in 1969. It is the first film directed by Tobe Hooper. It was written by Kim Henkel and Tobe Hooper . It was produced by Tobe Hooper. It had a budget of $100,000...

    (1969)
  • The Guru
    The Guru (1969 film)
    The Guru is a film by Merchant Ivory Productions, with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and James Ivory.-Plot synopsis:A rock star, Tom Pickle , travels to India to learn to play the sitar with the great musician Ustad Zafar Khan...

    (1969)
  • The Happening (1967)
  • Head
    Head (film)
    Head is a 1968 psychedelic comedy-adventure major motion picture, starring TV group The Monkees , and distributed by Columbia Pictures...

    (1968)
  • How to Commit Marriage
    How to Commit Marriage
    How to Commit Marriage is a 1969 comedy film directed by Norman Panama, featuring Bob Hope and Jackie Gleason in their only movie together. The film also stars Jane Wyman as Hope's wife, Tina Louise as record-producer Gleason's love interest, Leslie Nielsen as the straight man, and Irwin Corey as...

    (1969)
  • I Love You, Alice B. Toklas
    I Love You, Alice B. Toklas
    I Love You, Alice B. Toklas is a 1968 comedy film starring Peter Sellers, directed by Hy Averback and featuring music by Harpers Bizarre. The film is set in the counterculture of the 1960s. The addition cast includes David Arkin, Jo Van Fleet, Leigh Taylor-Young, in her film debut, and a cameo by...

    (1968)
  • The Love-Ins
    The Love-Ins
    The Love-Ins is a 1967 exploitation film about LSD that was directed by Arthur Dreifuss. The film is loosely based on the 1960s American figure, Timothy Leary and represents the 1960s San Francisco scene, particularly that of the Haight-Ashbury district...

    (1967)
  • The Love Bug
    The Love Bug
    The Love Bug is the first in a series of comedy films made by Walt Disney Productions that starred an anthropomorphic pearl-white, fabric-sunroofed 1963 Volkswagen racing Beetle named Herbie...

    (1968)
  • Maryjane (1968)
  • Medium Cool
    Medium Cool
    Medium Cool is an American film written and directed by Haskell Wexler and starring Robert Forster, Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz, Marianna Hill and Harold Blankenship. It takes place in Chicago in the summer of 1968...

    (1969)
  • El Profesor Hippie
    El Profesor Hippie
    El professor hippie is a 1969 Argentine musical comedy film directed by Fernando Ayala and written by Abel Santacruz which Ayala produced with Héctor Olivera. The film starred Luis Sandrini, Roberto Escalada and Soledad Silveyra...

    (1969, Spanish)
  • Psych-Out
    Psych-Out
    Psych-Out is a feature film about hippies, psychedelic music, and recreational drugs, produced and released by American International Pictures. Originally scripted as The Love Children, the title when tested caused people to think it was about bastards, so Samuel Z...

    (1968)
  • Skidoo
    Skidoo (film)
    Skidoo is an American comedy film directed by Otto Preminger, starring Jackie Gleason and Carol Channing, written by Doran William Cannon and released by Paramount Pictures on December 19, 1968...

    (1968)
  • The Trip
    The Trip (1967 film)
    The Trip is a cult film released by American International Pictures, directed by Roger Corman, written by Jack Nicholson, and shot on location in and around Los Angeles, including on top of Kirkwood in Laurel Canyon, Hollywood Hills, and near Big Sur, California in 1966...

    (1967)
  • Wild in the Streets
    Wild in the Streets
    Wild in the Streets is a 1968 film featuring Christopher Jones, Hal Holbrook, and Shelley Winters. It was produced by American International Pictures and based on a short story by writer Robert Thom...

    (1968)
  • Wonderwall
    Wonderwall (film)
    Wonderwall is the title of a 1968 film by first-time director Joe Massot that starred Jack MacGowran, Jane Birkin, Richard Wattis, Irene Handl, and Iain Quarrier, and featured cameos by Anita Pallenberg and Dutch designers The Fool...

    (1968)
  • Yellow Submarine (1968)

1970s

  • An American Hippie in Israel aka Ha-Trempist (1972)
  • Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
    Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
    Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is a 1970 American schlock melodrama film starring Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom, John LaZar, Michael Blodgett and David Gurian...

    (1970)
  • Billy Jack:
    • Billy Jack
      Billy Jack
      Billy Jack is a 1971 action film. It is the second, and highest grossing, in a series of motion pictures centering on a character of the same name, played by Tom Laughlin who also directed and co-wrote the script. Filming began in Prescott, Arizona, in fall 1969, but the movie was not completed...

      (1971)
    • The Trial of Billy Jack
      The Trial of Billy Jack
      The Trial of Billy Jack is a 1974 film starring Delores Taylor and Tom Laughlin. It is the sequel to the 1971 film Billy Jack and the third film overall in the series. Although commercially successful, it was panned by critics.-Plot:...

      (1974)
    • Billy Jack Goes to Washington
      Billy Jack Goes to Washington
      Billy Jack Goes to Washington is a 1977 film starring Tom Laughlin, the fourth film in the Billy Jack series, and although the earlier films saw enormous success, this film did not. The film only had limited screenings upon its release and never saw a general theatrical release, but has since...

      (1977)
  • Brother Sun, Sister Moon
    Brother Sun, Sister Moon
    Brother Sun, Sister Moon is a 1972 film directed by Franco Zeffirelli and starring Graham Faulkner and Judi Bowker. The film is a biopic of Saint Francis of Assisi.-Plot:...

    (1972)
  • Butterflies Are Free
    Butterflies Are Free
    Butterflies Are Free is a 1972 film based on a play by Leonard Gershe. The 1972 film was produced by M.J. Frankovich, released by Columbia Pictures, directed by Milton Katselas and adapted for the screen by Gershe. It was released on 6 July, 1972 in the USA.Goldie Hawn and Edward Albert starred...

    (1972)
  • La Familia hippie
    La Familia hippie
    La Familia hippie is a 1971 Argentine film....

    (1971, Spanish)
  • Fritz the Cat:
    • Fritz the Cat
      Fritz the Cat (film)
      Fritz the Cat is a 1972 American animated comedy film written and directed by Ralph Bakshi as his feature film debut. Based on the comic strip of the same name by Robert Crumb, the film was the first animated feature film to receive an X rating in the United States...

      (1972)
    • The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat
      The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat
      The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat is a 1974 animated film directed by Robert Taylor. It is an adult animation featuring a series of drug-induced vignettes both related and unrelated to life in the 1970s. Starring Skip Hinnant as the voice of the titular feline protagonist, the film is a sequel to...

      (1974)
  • Gas-s-s-s
    Gas-s-s-s
    Gas-s-s-s is a 1971 motion picture produced and released by American International Pictures. It was producer Roger Corman's final film for AIP, before leaving to found his own New World Pictures...

    (1971)
  • Ghetto Freaks, aka Love Commune (1970)
  • Godspell
    Godspell (film)
    Godspell, released in 1973, is the film adaptation of the Off-Broadway musical Godspell created by John-Michael Tebelak.Set in modern New York City, the film stars Victor Garber as Jesus and David Haskell as John the Baptist/Judas...

    (1973)
  • Hair
    Hair (film)
    Hair is a 1979 American film adaptation of the 1968 Broadway musical of the same name about a Vietnam war draftee who meets and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to the army induction center...

    (1979)
  • Hare Rama Hare Krishna (1971, Hindi)
  • The Holy Mountain (1973)
  • I Drink Your Blood
    I Drink Your Blood
    I Drink Your Blood is a cult horror film originally released in 1970. The film was written and directed by David E. Durston, produced by Jerry Gross, and starred Bhaskar Roy Chowdhury and Lynn Lowry ....

    (1970)
  • Jesus Christ Superstar
    Jesus Christ Superstar (film)
    Jesus Christ Superstar is a 1973 American film adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice rock opera of the same name. Directed by Norman Jewison, the film centers on the conflict between Judas and Jesus during the last weeks before the crucifixion of Jesus...

    (1973)
  • Joe
    Joe (film)
    Joe is a 1970 drama film starring Peter Boyle, Dennis Patrick, and Susan Sarandon in her film debut. The film was directed by John G. Avildsen.-Plot:...

    (1970)
  • The Last Movie
    The Last Movie
    The Last Movie is a 1971 drama film from Universal Pictures. It was written and directed by Dennis Hopper, who also played a horse wrangler named after the state of Kansas. It also starred Peter Fonda, Henry Jaglom and Michelle Phillips...

    (1971)
  • More American Graffiti
    More American Graffiti
    More American Graffiti is the 1979 sequel film to George Lucas's hit film American Graffiti. Whereas the first film followed a group of friends during the summer evening before they set off for college, this film shows us where the characters from the first film end up a few years later.Most of the...

    (1979)
  • The Psychedelic Priest a.k.a. Electric Shades of Grey (1971)
  • Rainbow Bridge (1972)
  • Shalom
    Shalom (film)
    Hailed by critics as "the first and probably last Israeli hippie film", Shalom is director Yaky Yosha's first feature.It attempts to answer the dilemmas and distresses youth in the pre Yom Kippur War Israel.- Plot :...

    (1973, Hebrew)
  • The Strawberry Statement
    The Strawberry Statement (film)
    The Strawberry Statement is a 1970 cult film about the counterculture and student revolts of the 1960s, loosely based on the non-fiction book by James Simon Kunen about the Columbia University protests of 1968.-Cast:* Bruce Davison: Simon...

    (1970)
  • Thumb Tripping (1972)
  • Up in Smoke
    Up in Smoke
    Up in Smoke, directed by Lou Adler, is Cheech and Chong's first feature-length film, released in 1978 by Paramount Pictures. It stars Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Edie Adams, Strother Martin, and Stacy Keach....

    (1978)
  • Zabriskie Point
    Zabriskie Point (film)
    Zabriskie Point is a 1970 film by Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni, widely noted at the time for its setting in the late 1960s counterculture of the United States...

    (1970)
  • Zachariah
    Zachariah (1971 film)
    Zachariah is a film starring John Rubinstein as Zachariah and Don Johnson as his best friend Matthew. The film is loosely based on Herman Hesse's novel Siddhartha, surrealistically adapted as a musical Western by Joe Massot and two members of the Firesign Theatre comedy troupe...

    (1971)
  • Zardoz
    Zardoz
    Zardoz is a 1974 science fiction/fantasy film written, produced, and directed by John Boorman. It stars Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling, and Sara Kestelman. Zardoz was Connery's second post-James Bond role...

    (1973)

1980s

  • 1969
    1969 (film)
    1969 is a 1988 drama film starring Robert Downey, Jr., Kiefer Sutherland, and Winona Ryder. It was written and directed by Ernest Thompson. The original music score is composed by Michael Small...

    (1988)
  • The Big Chill
    The Big Chill (film)
    The Big Chill is a 1983 American comedy-drama film directed by Lawrence Kasdan, starring Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Mary Kay Place, Meg Tilly, and JoBeth Williams. It is about a group of baby boomer college friends who reunite briefly after 15 years due to...

    (1983)
  • Cheech & Chong:
    • Cheech & Chong's Next Movie
      Cheech & Chong's Next Movie
      Cheech & Chong's Next Movie is the second feature-length film by Cheech and Chong, released in 1980. It was directed by Tommy Chong.-Plot:...

      (1980)
    • Nice Dreams (1981)
    • Things Are Tough All Over
      Things Are Tough All Over
      Things are Tough All Over is the fourth Cheech and Chong movie. Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong are featured as the two hippies, and additionally as Arab businessmen Mr. Slyman and Prince Habib...

      (1982)
    • Still Smokin'
      Still Smokin'
      Still Smokin is a semi-concert film by Cheech and Chong, released in 1983.-Plot:Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong play versions of themselves being invited to Amsterdam for a film festival devoted to Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton...

      (1983)
    • Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers
      Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers
      Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers is the sixth feature-length film starring the comedy duo Cheech and Chong. Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong star as the two brothers in a parody of various film adaptations of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel, The Corsican Brothers.The film was not a critical...

      (1984)
  • Rude Awakening
    Rude Awakening (1989 film)
    Rude Awakening is a 1989 comedy film directed by David Greenwalt and Aaron Russo.-Plot:In 1969 New York City, two hippies, Fred Wook and Jesus Monteya, flee the US to avoid arrest by the FBI and hide out in the jungles of Central America...

    (1989)
  • Where the Buffalo Roam
    Where the Buffalo Roam
    Where the Buffalo Roam is a 1980 American semi-biographical comedy film which loosely depicts Hunter S. Thompson's rise to fame in the 1970s and his relationship with Chicano attorney and activist Oscar Zeta Acosta. Art Linson directed the picture, while Bill Murray portrayed the author and Peter...

    (1980)

1990s

  • Dazed and Confused
    Dazed and Confused
    "Dazed and Confused" is a song by Jake Holmes, which was covered by The Yardbirds, and later reworked by Led Zeppelin who hold a separate copyright on the song.-Jake Holmes:...

    (1993)
  • The Big Lebowski
    The Big Lebowski
    The Big Lebowski is a 1998 comedy film written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Jeff Bridges stars as Jeff Lebowski, an unemployed Los Angeles slacker and avid bowler, who is referred to as "The Dude". After a case of mistaken identity, The Dude is introduced to a millionaire also named...

    (1998)
  • The Doors
    The Doors (film)
    The Doors is a 1991 biopic about the 1960s-1970s rock band of the same name which emphasizes the life of its lead singer, Jim Morrison. It was directed by Oliver Stone, and stars Val Kilmer as Morrison, Meg Ryan as Pamela Courson , Kyle MacLachlan as Ray Manzarek, Frank Whaley as Robby Krieger,...

    (1991)
  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (film)
    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a 1998 American drama film directed by Terry Gilliam, starring Johnny Depp as Raoul Duke and Benicio del Toro as Dr. Gonzo. It was adapted from Hunter S. Thompson's 1971 novel of the same name....

    (1998)
  • Flashback (1990)
  • Far Out Man
    Far Out Man
    Far Out Man was a 1990 comedy film written, directed by and starring Tommy Chong. It was filmed in Los Angeles, California, USA. Cinetel Films produced the movie and it was distributed in USA theaters by New Line Cinema, Sony Video , Platinum Disc , and RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video...

    (1990)
  • Forrest Gump
    Forrest Gump
    Forrest Gump is a 1994 American epic comedy-drama romance film based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Winston Groom. The film was directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Tom Hanks, Robin Wright and Gary Sinise...

    (1994)

2000s

  • Across the Universe
    Across the Universe (film)
    Across the Universe is a musical romantic drama film directed by Julie Taymor, produced by Revolution Studios, and distributed by Columbia Pictures. The film's plot is centered around songs by The Beatles. It was released in the United States on October 12, 2007. The script is based on an original...

    (2007)
  • The Dreamers (2003)
  • Humboldt County
    Humboldt County (film)
    Humboldt County is a 2008 comedy/drama film by Darren Grodsky and Danny Jacobs. It stars Jeremy Strong, Fairuza Balk, Frances Conroy, Madison Davenport, Brad Dourif, Chris Messina and Peter Bogdanovich. The film made its debut at SXSW on March 7, 2008...

    (2008)
  • I'm Not There
    I'm Not There
    I'm Not There is a 2007 biographical musical film directed by Todd Haynes, inspired by iconic American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. Six actors depict different facets of Dylan's life and public persona: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, and Ben Whishaw...

    (2007)
  • The Manson Family
    The Manson Family (film)
    The Manson Family is a 2003 American crime drama film. The film covers the lives of Charles Manson and his "family" of followers.-Overview:...

    (2003)
  • A Mighty Wind
    A Mighty Wind
    A Mighty Wind is a 2003 mockumentary about a folk music reunion concert in which three folk bands must reunite for a television performance for the first time in decades. It was directed by Christopher Guest...

    (2003)
  • The Rage in Placid Lake
    The Rage In Placid Lake
    The Rage in Placid Lake is a 2003 Australian film starring Ben Lee and Rose Byrne. It features Placid Lake , a seventeen-year-old boy who has led a suburban hippie life with his neurotic, free loving parents...

    (2003)
  • Steal This Movie!
    Steal This Movie!
    Steal This Movie is a 2000 American biographical film of 1960s radical figure Abbie Hoffman. It was directed by Robert Greenwald and the screenplay was written by Bruce Graham...

    (2000)
  • Taking Woodstock
    Taking Woodstock
    Taking Woodstock is a 2009 American comedy-drama film about the Woodstock Festival of 1969, directed by Ang Lee. The screenplay by James Schamus is based on the memoir Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life by Elliot Tiber and Tom Monte.The film premiered at the 2009 Cannes...

    (2009)
  • Wood & Stock: Sexo, Orégano e Rock'n'Roll
    Wood & Stock: Sexo, Orégano e Rock'n'Roll
    Wood & Stock: Sexo, Orégano e Rock'n'Roll is a Brazilian animated film about two die-hard hippies trying to live in today's world. The film, based on the comic strip by Angeli, was released in 2006. The voice of the character Re Bordossa is provided by Rita Lee, ex vocalist of the famous Brazilian...

    (2006, Portuguese)

2010s

  • Happiness Runs (2010)
  • Hippie Hippie Shake (unreleased)
  • The House of the Sun
    The House of the Sun
    The House of the Sun is a 2010 Russian movie about hippies in the Soviet Union. The director is rock musician Garik Sukachov...

    (Дом Cолнца) (2010)

Documentary films

  • Back to the Garden, flower power comes full circle (2009)
  • Berkeley in the Sixties
    Berkeley in the Sixties
    Berkeley in the Sixties is an award-winning documentary film by Mark Kitchell. The film features Mario Savio, Todd Gitlin, Joan Baez, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Huey Newton, Allen Ginsberg, Gov. Ronald Reagan and the Grateful Dead...

    (1990)
  • Charles Manson Superstar
    Charles Manson Superstar
    Charles Manson Superstar is a documentary film about Charles Manson, directed by Nikolas Schreck in 1989.- Plot :Most of the documentary was filmed inside San Quentin Prison. Schreck narrated the segments while images were shown, and music played in the background. There was brief footage of Spahn...

    (1989)
  • Commune
    Commune (documentary)
    Commune is a 2005 documentary film by Jonathan Berman. The film is about an intentional community located in Siskiyou County, California called Black Bear Ranch and features narration by Peter Coyote who himself once resided at Black Bear.-Reception:...

    (2005), about the Black Bear Ranch
    Black Bear Ranch
    Black Bear Ranch is an 80-acre intentional community located in Siskiyou County, California, founded in 1968, with the slogan "free land for free people"...

  • Crumb
    Crumb (film)
    Crumb is a 1994 documentary film about the noted underground comic artist Robert Crumb and his family. Directed by Terry Zwigoff and produced by Lynn O'Donnell and David Lynch, it won widespread acclaim, including both the Grand Jury Prize and best cinematography prize at the Sundance Film Festival...

    (1994), about underground comix
    Underground comix
    Underground comix are small press or self-published comic books which are often socially relevant or satirical in nature. They differ from mainstream comics in depicting content forbidden to mainstream publications by the Comics Code Authority, including explicit drug use, sexuality and violence...

     artist Robert Crumb
    Robert Crumb
    Robert Dennis Crumb —known as Robert Crumb and R. Crumb—is an American artist, illustrator, and musician recognized for the distinctive style of his drawings and his critical, satirical, subversive view of the American mainstream.Crumb was a founder of the underground comix movement and is regarded...

  • Das Wilde Leben
    Das Wilde Leben
    Das Wilde Leben is a German biographical motion picture, set in the 1960s and depicting the "wild life" of Uschi Obermaier, a German groupie.- Synopsis :...

    aka Eight Miles High (2007, German), about model and groupie Uschi Obermaier
    Uschi Obermaier
    Uschi Obermaier is a former fashion model, actress and is associated with the 1968 left-wing movement in Germany. In the latter she is considered an iconic sex symbol of the so-called "1968 generation"....

  • Dont Look Back
    Dont Look Back
    Dont Look Back is a 1967 documentary film by D.A. Pennebaker that covers Bob Dylan's 1965 concert tour in the United Kingdom.In 1998, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically...

    (1967)
  • F.T.A.
    F.T.A.
    F.T.A. is a 1972 American documentary film starring Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland and directed by Francine Parker.-Overview:Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland and a collection of performers and musicians put together a touring satirical revue to perform at coffeehouses and parks near American army...

    (1972)
  • Frisbee: The Life and Death of a Hippie Preacher (2005), about Lonnie Frisbee
    Lonnie Frisbee
    Lonnie Frisbee was an American Pentecostal evangelist and self-described "seeing prophet" and mystic in the late 1960s and 1970s...

  • Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
    Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
    Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson is a 2008 documentary film directed by Alex Gibney. It details Hunter S. Thompson's landmark writings on music and politics...

    (2008)
  • Hippie Masala
    Hippie Masala
    Hippie Masala: Für immer in Indien is a 2006 Swiss documentary directed by filmmaker Ulrich Grossenbacher and anthropologist Damaris Lüthi....

    (2006), Swiss documentary about the hippies who remained in India
  • Hippie Movie (2008, Polish/English)
  • The Hippie Revolt aka. Something's Happening (1967)
  • Jimi Hendrix
    Jimi Hendrix (film)
    Jimi Hendrix is a 1973 rockumentary about Jimi Hendrix, directed and produced by Joe Boyd, John Head and Gary Weis. The film contains concert footage from 1967 to 1970, including the Monterey Pop Festival the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival, Woodstock and a Berkeley concert. The film also includes...

    (1973)
  • Die Karawane der Blumenkinder (2008, German), documentary on the Hippie trail
    Hippie trail
    The hippie trail is a term used to describe the journeys taken by hippies and others in the 1960s and 1970s from Europe overland to and from southern Asia, mainly India, Pakistan and Nepal...

  • Karl Hess: Toward Liberty
    Karl Hess: Toward Liberty
    Karl Hess: Toward Liberty is a 1980 short documentary film about the anarchist Karl Hess, produced by Roland Hallé and Peter W. Ladue. It won an Academy Award in 1981 for Documentary Short Subject. The film was produced at Boston University's College of Communications, School of Broadcasting and...

    (1980), documentary about Republican speechwriter turned anarchist
  • Klunkerz: A Film About Mountain Bikes
    Klunkerz: A Film About Mountain Bikes
    Klunkerz: A Film About Mountain Bikes documents mountain bike history during its formative period in Northern California and examines the relationships of the Marin County hippies, athletes, and entrepreneurs who were directly responsible for popularizing off-road cycling...

    (2006)
  • Last Hippie Standing
    Last Hippie Standing
    Last Hippie Standing is a 45 min. documentary by the German filmmaker Marcus Robbin about Goa, India. The film compares the sixties and seventies hippie era with the situation in 2000....

    (2002), on hippies in Goa
    Goa
    Goa , a former Portuguese colony, is India's smallest state by area and the fourth smallest by population. Located in South West India in the region known as the Konkan, it is bounded by the state of Maharashtra to the north, and by Karnataka to the east and south, while the Arabian Sea forms its...

     with Cleo Odzer
    Cleo Odzer
    Cleo Odzer was an American writer, author of books on prostitution in Thailand, the hippie culture of Goa, and cybersex.-Childhood and being a groupie:...

  • Manson
    Manson (film)
    Manson is a 1973 documentary film directed by Robert Hendrickson and Laurence Merrick. It deals with the "Manson family" and has many interviews with the members of the group, including Charles Manson, "Squeaky" Fromme, and Sandra Good...

    (1973)
  • MC5: A True Testimonial
    MC5: A True Testimonial
    MC5: A True Testimonial, also written as MC5 * A True Testimonial, is a 2002 feature-length documentary film about the MC5, a Detroit-based rock band of the 1960s and early 1970s. The film was produced by Laurel Legler and directed by David C...

    (2002)
  • My Generation
    My Generation (film)
    My Generation is a 2000 film by documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple that looks at the links between young people who attended the original 1969 Woodstock music festival and those who attended the 1994 and 1999 Woodstock festivities...

    (2000)
  • Off the Grid: Life on the Mesa
    Off the Grid: Life on the Mesa
    Off the Grid: Life on the Mesa is a 2007 documentary written and directed by Jeremy Stulberg and Randy Stulberg. The film documents a loose-knit desert community in "the Mesa," five miles from the Rio Grande and 25 miles from the nearest town...

    (2007)
  • Ram Dass Fierce Grace (2001)
  • Revolution
    Revolution (1968 film)
    Revolution is a documentary film by Jack O'Connell made in San Francisco in 1967. It was subsequently revived with added reminiscences.Although most interviewees are not named some of them have been identified, such as Kurt Hirschhorn, Frank Jordan, Cecil Williams and Herb CaenDaria Halprin...

    (1968)
  • Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie (2008)
  • Tripping (1999)
  • Underground (1976)
  • The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006)
  • Volem Rien Foutre al Païs
    Pierre Carles
    Pierre Carles is a French documentarist, who has often been compared to Michael Moore for his use of the documentary form to denounce mainstream media, which he accuses of having conflicts of interest .-Filmography:...

    (2006, French)
  • The Weather Underground
    The Weather Underground
    The Weather Underground is a 2002 documentary film based on the rise and fall of the American radical organization The Weathermen. Using much archive footage from the time as well as interviews with the Weathermen today, the film constructs a linear narrative of the militant organization.The film,...

    (2002)
  • Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
    Where Have All the Flowers Gone? (film)
    Where Have All the Flowers Gone? is a documentary film directed by Arturo Perez Jr. and produced by Arturo Perez Jr., Joel Sadler and Billy Troy. Perez, Sadler, and Troy travel to San Francisco to recapture the Summer of Love more than 40 years previously...

    (2008), a trip to the Summer of Love 40 years later
  • Taylor Camp: Living the 60s Dream (2010) Hippies in tree houses on a tropical beach in Hawaii.

Concert films

  • Festival Express
    Festival Express
    Festival Express is a 2003 documentary film about the eponymous 1970 train tour across Canada taken by some of North America's most popular rock bands, including The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band and Delaney & Bonnie & Friends...

    (2003)
  • Fillmore
    Fillmore (film)
    Fillmore — also known as Fillmore: The Last Days, and as Last Days of the Fillmore — is a music documentary film, primarily shot at the Fillmore West auditorium in San Francisco, California, from June 29 through July 4, 1971. It was released on June 14, 1972.Fillmore documents the final run of...

    (1972)
  • Gimme Shelter (1970)
  • Medicine Ball Caravan (1971)
  • Monterey Pop
    Monterey Pop
    Monterey Pop is a 1968 concert film by D. A. Pennebaker that documents the Monterey Pop Festival of 1967. Among Pennebaker's several camera operators were fellow documentarians Richard Leacock and Albert Maysles...

    (1968)
  • Nambassa Festival (1980)
  • Woodstock
    Woodstock (film)
    Woodstock is a 1970 American documentary on the Woodstock Festival that took place in August 1969 at Bethel in New York. Entertainment Weekly called this film the benchmark of concert movies and one of the most entertaining documentaries ever made...

    (1970)

Short films

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  • "Brink of Disaster!
    Brink of Disaster!
    -Plot:A student is holed up in the library while a riot rages outside. Are SDS protesters heading his way to burn the library down? Can he fend them off with his baseball bat? This film opens with actual footage of civil disturbances in the 1960s, and moves on to images of historical American...

    " (1972)
  • "Curses and Sermons", documentary about poet Michael McClure
    Michael McClure
    Michael McClure is an American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist. After moving to San Francisco as a young man, he found fame as one of the five poets who read at the famous San Francisco Six Gallery reading in 1955 rendered in barely fictionalized terms in Jack Kerouac's Dharma Bums...

  • "Drug Abuse: The Chemical Tomb" (1969)
  • "Greenwich Village Sunday"

Television

  • The '60s (1999)
  • The Beatles (1965–1967)
  • Family Ties
    Family Ties
    Family Ties is an American sitcom that aired on NBC for seven seasons, from 1982 to 1989. The sitcom reflected the move in the United States from the cultural liberalism of the 1960s and 1970s to the conservatism of the 1980s. This was particularly expressed through the relationship between young...

    (1982–1989)
  • Go Ask Alice
    Go Ask Alice
    Go Ask Alice is a controversial 1971 book about the life of a troubled teenage girl. The book continues its claim to be the actual diary of an anonymous teenage girl who became addicted to drugs, but this has been dismissed as false. Beatrice Sparks is listed as the author of the book by the United...

    (1973)
  • Helter Skelter (1976)
  • Hippies
    Hippies (TV series)
    Hippies is a six-part British television comedy series broadcast from 12 November to 17 December 1999. It was created by Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan, the writing partnership most famous for Father Ted, but the scripts were written by Mathews alone.It starred Simon Pegg, Sally Phillips, Julian...

    (1999)
  • Hippy Gourmet
    Hippy Gourmet
    The Hippy Gourmet TV Show is a United States Public Television Series that airs nationally on Public Broadcasting Service and public-access television cable stations. The show is based in the Haight-Ashbury area of San Francisco, but travels the world highlighting organic, sustainable agriculture,...

    (2001)
  • The Monkees
    The Monkees (TV series)
    The Monkees is an American situation comedy that aired on NBC from September 1966 to March 1968. The series follows the adventures of four young men trying to make a name for themselves as rock 'n roll singers. The show introduced a number of innovative new-wave film techniques to series...

    (1966–1968)
  • Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
    Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
    Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In is an American sketch comedy television program which ran for 140 episodes from January 22, 1968, to May 14, 1973. It was hosted by comedians Dan Rowan and Dick Martin and was broadcast over NBC...

    (1968–1973)
  • The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
    The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
    The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour is an American comedy and variety show hosted by the Smothers Brothers and initially airing on CBS from 1967 to 1969.-History:...

    (1967–1969)
  • Summerhill
    Summerhill (TV series)
    Summerhill is a British children's television drama about the famously radical Summerhill School. Written by Alison Hume and directed by Jon East, it was first broadcast on the CBBC Channel in January 2008 and was subsequently nominated for three children's BAFTA awards - Best Drama, Best Writer ...

    (2008)
  • The Wonder Years
    The Wonder Years
    The Wonder Years is an American television comedy-drama created by Carol Black and Neal Marlens. It ran for six seasons on ABC from 1988 through 1993. The pilot aired on January 31, 1988 after ABC's coverage of Super Bowl XXII....

    (1988–1993)

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