Description: Women of '69 Unboxed is a documentary chronicling a group of women, college classmates, who were both electrified and pummeled by the turbulent surf of the 1960s. They look back, then ahead, as they turn 65. Our documentary uses an extraordinary graphic record – yearbook photos of some 370 young women looking back on the journey of a generation reluctant to grow up.
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A group of women, college classmates, who were both electrified and pummeled by the turbulent surf of the 60s, look back, then ahead, as they turn 65, ruminate on their heartaches and triumphs, and evaluate the “dowry” they’ll leave for future generations. If their parents were the Greatest Generation, perhaps this generation was the Loudest. They changed the world, at least in their fevered dreams, and the world changed them. Meanwhile, time has had its way with them…
National Endowment for the Arts
Overbrook Family Advised Fund of Kathryn G. Graham