''1969'' is an American six-part

television documentary Television documentaries are televised media productions that screen documentaries. Television documentaries exist either as a television documentary series or as a television documentary film. *Television documentary series, sometimes called d ...

series on the events of the year 1969 which aired on

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in 2019. The series tells behind the scenes stories of major events on the year 1969, such as the

Apollo 11 Apollo 11 (July 16–24, 1969) was the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin landed the Apollo Lunar Module ''Eagle'' on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC, an ...

Moon landing A Moon landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon. This includes both crewed and robotic missions. The first human-made object to touch the Moon was the Soviet Union's Luna 2, on 13 September 1959. The United St ...

and the

Woodstock Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to as Woodstock, was a music festival held during August 15–18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, United States, southwest of the town of Woodstock, New York, Woodstock. ...

music festival. It includes interviews with some of those who were part of the events.

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Verne Gay of ''

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'' called the first episode about Apollo 11 "an essential and long overdue reminder" of how the event was the work of many. He said the episode made an "honorable effort" to include the women who contributed to the Moon landing, made necessary by the 2016 book and film '' Hidden Figures'', and largely ignored by other stories told about the event. Of a later episode about the Chappaquiddick incident, Gay said, "Alas ... hisepisode makes a hard landing back to Earth." A review in Vox framed the Manson Girls episode in #metoo terms. "There's a Manson girl counternarrative now" ..The women of the Manson family who didn't go to prison have spoken out about their treatment at Manson's hands, and they are beginning to find an audience ..as these women continue to insist on their identities as not just 'the Manson girls' but as agents and human beings in their own right, popular culture is starting to take notice."

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* * 2010s American documentary television series 2019 American television series debuts 2019 American television series endings American Broadcasting Company original programming American English-language television shows 1969 Apollo 11 Historical television series Television series about the Apollo program {{Hist-documentary-stub

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