Rebels: A Journey Underground

Episode 2

A New Kind Of Bohemian - The Beat Generation gets hip

Following World War II, a new period of post-war social complexity overtook America. It was during this turbulent, often repressive Cold War time that Jack Kerouac coined the term "beat", and gave birth to a new literary movement.

Episode 3

Turn On The Revolution - Counterculture and Psychedelic Revolution

Turn On The Revolution delves into the world of hippies and yippies; young people who were prepared to put themselves at risk, both physically and mentally, in pursuit of perception and democratic freedom.

Episode 4

A Riot Of My Own - The Punk Rebellion of the 1970s

A twenty year old Londoner called Johnny Rotten began the Sex Pistols' first single with the words I am an Anarchist. A Riot Of My Own examines the beginning of a new kind of music, a new social critique, and a new form of free speech.

Episode 5

Earth Trauma - Radical Environmentalism in the New Age

Witness the story of grass-roots rebellion with an ecological cause. Follow Sea Shepherd Conservation Society founder Paul Watson as he crashes the bow of his ship into a pirate whaling vessel, and watch as Greenpeace takes on the French Navy during atmospheric nuclear tests in the South Pacific.

Episode 6

Welcome To Cyberia - The internet Rebels

New ideas and technologies have accelerated our culture into an almost unrecognizable reality. The counterculture of the present and the foreseeable future exists in a place called cyberspace.