1970
R
Warner Bros.
3 h 4 m

1970
R
Warner Bros.
3 h 4 m

Summary It happened on a small farm in upstate New York, for three remarkable days of mud and happiness in 1969, when over half a million people came together to celebrate life, love, and music--Woodstock. One camera crew was there, in the middle of everything, recording the live performances of many of the greatest singers and musicians of the ...

Directed By: Michael Wadleigh

1970
R
Warner Bros.
3 h 4 m

1970
R
Warner Bros.
3 h 4 m

Woodstock

Name: Woodstock
Genre: Documentary, History, Music
Released: 1970-03-26
Duration: 3 min 4 s
Rating: 95
Cast: Joan Baez, Richie Havens, Roger Daltrey, Joe Cocker, The Who

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 9 Critic Reviews

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100

San Francisco Chronicle

What's amazing is the raw honesty of it all -- the performances, the interviews, the spontaneous occurrences. There is little artifice. The 70mm print is must-view material for rock fans and sociologists of any age or generation. [1994 version]

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100

Entertainment Weekly

Describing Woodstock as a concert movie is a little like calling Notre Dame a house of worship. In its scope and grandeur, its feel for the paradoxical nature of an event in which half a million middle-class bohemians created their own scruffy, surging community — a metropolis of mud — Woodstock remains the one true rock-concert spectacle, a counterculture Triumph of the Will. [1994]

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Chicago Sun-Times

The remarkable thing about Wadleigh's film is that it succeeds so completely in making us feel how it must have been to be there. [2005]

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The A.V. Club

Wadleigh crafted a film with a thoughtful flow; it tells the full story of the event, from the paranoia (and eventual acceptance) of the locals to the helpful attitudes (and eventual paranoia) of the throng. [1994 version]

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Los Angeles Times

Now, as ever, "Woodstock" is not just a great slice-of-time documentary but still the ultimate rock concert movie: A quarter-century of advances hasn't brought about any real improvements on the multiple-camera filming techniques or even significantly dated the split-screen effects and varying aspect ratio tricks. The advent of digital sound, on the other hand, has given the remixed soundtrack a theatrical glory unknown a generation ago. At this pristine volume, Jimi Hendrix's concluding bit may not be quite suitable for anyone with a heart condition, which would constitute more of the Woodstock nation than some of us might like to consider. [29 June 1994, p.F6]

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Time Out

A time capsule, yes, and a hallowed memory, perhaps. But gimme shelter.

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TV Guide Magazine

If the 1960s political thrust of the movie is somewhat blunted by the passage of time, the historical, even archival, import of Wadleigh's accomplishment is all the more striking. This is a documentary in the purest sense of that word, in that it "documents" a social and cultural benchmark, the coming together of more than 400,000 young people in the meadows of a dairy farm in upstate New York for what was billed as "three days of peace and music"--but turned out to be much more. [Director's Cut]

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Production Company Wadleigh-Maurice

Release Date Mar 26, 1970

Duration 3 h 4 m

Rating R

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Tagline love, peace, music

Website https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/woodstock

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Awards

Academy Awards, USA

• 1 Win & 3 Nominations

National Film Preservation Board, USA

• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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Joan Baez

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Richie Havens

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Roger Daltrey

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Joe Cocker

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The Who

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Sha-Na-Na

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Country Joe and the Fish

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Arlo Guthrie

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Crosby Stills & Nash

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Ten Years After

Themselves

John Sebastian

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Santana

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Sly and the Family Stone

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Jimi Hendrix

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Canned Heat

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Bob Davis

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Lilli Georgescu

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Janis Joplin

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Harvey Mandel

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