DOCUMENTARY EVALUATION 2-THE MARCH OF THE
BONUS ARMY
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THESE WILL COUNT AS PART OF YOUR GRADE.
DOCUMENTARY EVALUATIONS ARE GRADED ON A SCALE OF 0-100 POINTS,
WITH “0” BEING THE LOWEST GRADE AND “100” THE HIGHEST
PBS DOCUMENTARY: “HIPPIES,”
http://library.collin.edu/login?url=https://search.alexanderstreet.com/view/work/1791606
Watch the documentary “Hippies” from, available at the link posted above. Take
notes during the video, listing ten (10) or more historical facts that you learned
from the video—what did you learn about the you did not know previously?
Include this list in your Documentary Evaluation on a separate page. After
you have finished watching the video, please respond in a three (3) page paper in
essay format to the following questions, each in a separate paragraph.
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QUESTIONS
1. “Considering that they grew up the beneficiaries of the greatest economic expansion
in modern history, it can be hard to see what exactly the boomers were so dissatisfied
with.” (“Hippies”). What political, social, and economic factors caused the Baby
Boomers in the mid-1960s revolt against the political, social, and cultural ideologies of
their parents and earlier generations, giving rise to both the political and the
counterculture movement at this point in American history? Give at least one example of
each factor from the documentary, discussing each briefly and its influence on the
counterculture movement.
2. The documentary calls the 1967 “Summer of Love” in the Haight-Ashbury district of
San Francisco, California “the epicenter of an explosion of social and cultural
experimentation unlike any the United States had ever witnessed.” (“Hippies”)
According to the documentary, what were some of the positive aspects of this event?
What were some of the negative aspects of this event? Give at least two examples each
of positive and negative aspects. Do you think that the positive aspects of the “Summer
of Love” outweighed the negative aspects? Why or why not? Support your answer with
evidence from the documentary.
3. This documentary, as well as many other historical sources, states that mainstream
American culture appropriated and co-opted many social and cultural features of the
counterculture movement, such as the use of recreational drugs, freer sexual behavior,
“acid-rock” music, and daring, nonconformist dress and hairstyles. Why do you think
that these revolutionary social and cultural practices became accepted as part of
mainstream American life? Give at least two examples of these practices discussed in
the documentary.
4. What factors caused the counterculture movement to fade into the oblivion by the
early 1970s? Do you think that the utopian ideas of groups such as The Diggers or the
attendees at the Woodstock music festival had a reasonable chance of succeeding in
their quest to build a “workable alternative to straight society?” (“Hippies”) Why or why
not? Support your answer with at least two examples from the documentary.
5. According to the documentary, the internet and companies such as Apple, which the
lead the technological revolution of the 1990s and the 2000s, were the direct and lasting
legacies of the counterculture movement; furthermore, the documentary states that
these owe their success to the ideology of the movement (stress on individual freedom
and personal fulfillment). Do you agree with this argument? Why or why not? Use at
least two examples from the documentary to support your answer.
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