The Night the Beatles Played Ed Sullivan — And Changed Everything | Time Capsule: 1964

What did the world look like when the Beatles first played "The Ed Sullivan Show"? America was still mourning President John F. Kennedy, New York students were challenging segregation, Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove"was turning nuclear anxiety into comedy, and political instability in South Vietnam was drawing the United States closer to war. Then four musicians from Liverpool stepped onto a television stage and gave millions of viewers the feeling that something new had arrived. Time Capsule revisits defining moments by reconstructing the world unfolding around them. Each episode connects headline history with politics, technology and popular culture, revealing just how much can happen at the same time. One year. A world in motion.