The Eighties (2016)

Directed by

Tom Hanks

Genre

documentary television program

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 7 episodes

Rated

TV-14

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 22 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary series covers the big events and popular culture of the United States in the 1980s. It runs for seven episodes and was made by the same team behind similar series on the 1960s and 1970s.

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What happens

The Eighties is a documentary miniseries which premiered on CNN on March 31, 2016. Produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman's studio Playtone, it serves as a follow-up to the predecessors The Sixties and The Seventies with a 7-part series chronicling events and popular culture of the United States during the 1980s. In May 2016, CNN greenlit an 8-part follow-up titled The Nineties, which premiered in 2017. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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