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Woodstock - 3 Days of Peace & Music

Woodstock - 3 Days of Peace & Music (1970)

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This iconic musical documentary covers the three-day 1969 music festival on the property of Max Yasger's farm that symbolized the late 1960s in terms of musical, social and political ideology of the era. American audiences are introduced to Ten Years After, featuring guitar great Alvin Lee. Jimi Hendix, The Who and Joe Cocker give riveting performances. As naked flower children romp, the New York freeway is closed because of traffic congestion. Music lovers leave their cars and travel on foot

Sep 25, 1997

All Critics (24) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (24) | Rotten (0) | DVD (11)

Few documentaries have captured a time and place more completely, poignantly, and for that matter, entertainingly.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Comment
Chicago Sun-Times
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Those who do appear are good, with some for the ages.

February 16, 2012 Full Review Source: ReelTalk Movie Reviews | Comment
ReelTalk Movie Reviews

A seminal docu on any number of levels, musically, sociologically, and historically, Woodstock is a unique chronicle, at once summing up the zeitgeist and signaling the end of an era; for once Oscar voters were right.

June 17, 2009 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | Comment (1)

A funky curio that defines the mood and spirit of its time, but which seems dated in many good and bad ways.

June 11, 2009 Full Review Source: EDGE Boston | Comment
EDGE Boston

Those interested in seeing 18 bonus performances and a making-of documentary will have to spring for the much more expensive three-disc set.

June 9, 2009 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

The 40th Anniversary DVD of "Woodstock" is a great experience and should get many baby boomers excited to see and hear some old friends again.

June 8, 2009 Full Review Source: FilmJerk.com | Comment
FilmJerk.com

...more of a cultural phenomenon than a mere rock concert. (40th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition, Blu-ray)

June 6, 2009 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

If the film isn't the best rock documentary of the best rock concert of all time, it will do until something better comes along.

June 6, 2009 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

a dazzling reminder of a simpler, younger time and the brief promise it attained.

April 10, 2009 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | Comment
Filmcritic.com

Everyone is there, from Wavy Gravy to Janis.

November 9, 2005 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Wonderful document of its era; music reigns supreme still

October 23, 2004 Comment

A fascinating time capsule

July 11, 2003 Comment
Lawrence Journal-World
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Audience Reviews for Woodstock - 3 Days of Peace & Music

A beautiful, transcendent, enormously important film about music, culture, passion, and people, and how for three days in 1969 more than 500,000 people came together to celebrate music and each other in the prime days of the hippie age. Director Michael Wadleigh has compiled some of the most layered, genuinely powerful

April 8, 2012
Dan Schultz

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I could literally watch this movie every day and it is not just for the music. The actual documentary, that I think a lot of pretentious viewers over look, is a stunning gaze into the eyes of the generations that have passed us and given today so much of what makes it good in music, morals and peace. I am a giant fan

November 16, 2010
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