Originally a BBC documentary, this film by Tony Palmer about the 1960's music scene was later released as a standalone DVD by the BFI

Gibbi Westgermany is the name of a former sailor with a Mick Jagger look—leather jacket over the bare chest—who roams the Hamburg neighborhood St. Pauli homeless. His destination is a snack bar in St. Pauli run by his mother. But it is not the safe haven he is looking for.

Vintage film footage from the hey-day of the London's rock and roll scene. Interviews with rock artists and London's hippies and flower children.

Calling All Earthlings explores a mid-century UFO cult led by one-time Howard Hughes confidante, George Van Tassel. Van Tassel claimed to have combined alien guidance with the writings of inventor/physicist Nikola Tesla, and other controversial science, to build an electromagnetic time machine he dubbed “The Integratron.” Was he insane? Or could the dome really break through the boundaries of space, time, and energy? FBI agents worked against Van Tassel and the alternative community that formed out of his work. Would he finish the Integratron before the government finished him?

In 1960, a group of white teenage Chicago musicians traveled to the city's southside music clubs to learn the blues from the original masters. This is their story.

本集介绍美国乐坛重量级的民谣摇滚歌手鲍伯迪伦，他在1960年代中期为美国摇滚乐坛注入民谣的乐风，让整个乐坛有着不同以往的气息。有着“民谣摇滚诗人”之称的鲍伯迪伦在1965年的民歌演唱会还差点引发暴动，而为他刚起步的歌唱生涯掀起旋风。摇滚乐在1960年代接受了嬉皮与反战运动的洗礼后，经历了一次转型。 片中还为观众介绍难得一见的抒情摇滚先驱“柏德合唱团”的演唱片段；The Mamas & the Papas创造了新的California Dreamin版本；海滩男孩的布莱恩威尔森回忆当年面对披头四的压力。而影片的重头戏就是美国最伟大的吉他手吉米汉醉克斯，他神乎其技的弹指神功可说是四十年来无人能出其右，片中介绍他在蒙特娄流行音乐节时所引发的风潮，以及多位音乐人表达对他的景仰与敬意，这其中当然必包括贯穿全集访谈片段的吉他之神艾力克莱普顿。