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The decade of the 1960s in film involved many significant films.

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Beginning in the middle of the decade due to the start of the cultural revolution and the abolition of the Hays Code (which had largely been abandoned at the start of the decade), films became increasingly experimental and daring and were taking shape of what was to define the latter half of the decade as well as the 1970s.

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