Something's Happening(1967)
Told like it is by the hippies themselves.
A documentary chronicling the "youth movement" of the late '60s on Los Angeles' Sunset Strip and San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district.
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A documentary chronicling the "youth movement" of the late '60s on Los Angeles' Sunset Strip and San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district.
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1967-12-19
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Told like it is by the hippies themselves.
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