Woodstock - Drei Tage, die eine Generation prägten

Once the concert stuff starts - WOW. The footage is great. There are a few major artists that didn't get any coverage in this documentary. I wonder if that was a rights issue. That aside, the insider footage of this concert and the concert dwellers and the social and cultural impact it had is fascinating.

I wasn't sure if I would enjoy a documentary about the Woodstock Music Festival, that didn't actually focus on the music. But I enjoyed it a lot.

Though the focus of this documentary is on all that took place to bring the Festival into being, and the actual day to day crisises, and behind the scenes events, it is an indispensable watch for anyone interested in that momentous occasion.

It will assist you yo understand the magnitude and the sheer folly of it all. You will be amazed that they avoided a major disaster.

What can i say? get your hankies out! this is my generation, and i am filled with pride and love! so glad this was made, so the enormity of what happened - what we were once capable of - can be shared with the world! and sly and wavy gravy and a bunch of these amazing souls are STILL out there, trying to create beauty, peace, and harmony in the world, though so many of us ignore or are not even aware of them...thank you for this gem - rock on.

I saw this on the big screen, as part of Toronto Hot Docs' Woodstock 50th anniversary series. It started before the concert idea even came about, showed the then-cultural situation in the U.S., and the scrambling just before and during the festival itself.

I was promised a behind-the-scenes documentary, and there was lots of it, with enough snippets of music for a nice diversion. By using archival footage and photographs, the director brilliantly avoided using talking heads. Given that everyone involved is now in their 70's, this allowed us to just see the young people of that time, freezing their images of a magical, if brief, period.

But ive always wished i was there. therefore its good that there are people daring to make a good documentary about the august days of 1969 in bethel new york where love peace and music and hamp were joined together in a psychedelic climax of problem soluting, and where people were able to be human to other humans.

ive seen a lot of woodstock presentations earlier, have seen most of the concert film takes, and come to the conclusion that this was very well made.the grumpy old man is in the nostalgic corner so bare with me, the only thing missing is the lack of will to show the faces of the people narrating this film.