2019
TV-MA
PBS Distribution
1 h 46 m

2019
TV-MA
PBS Distribution
1 h 46 m

Summary In August 1969—against a backdrop of a nation in conflict over sexual politics, civil rights, and the Vietnam War—half a million people converged on a small dairy farm in upstate New York to hear the concert of a lifetime. What they experienced was a moment that would spark a cultural revolution, changing many of them and the country fo...

Directed By: Barak Goodman, Jamila Ephron

Written By: Don Kleszy, Barak Goodman

2019
TV-MA
PBS Distribution
1 h 46 m

2019
TV-MA
PBS Distribution
1 h 46 m

Woodstock: Three Days that Defined a Generation

Name: Woodstock: Three Days that Defined a Generation
Genre: Documentary, History
Released: 2019-05-24
Duration: 1 min 46 s
Rating: 67
Cast: John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Joel Makower, Bob Spitz, Michael Lang

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews

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Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews

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Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews

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Film Threat

Jun 13, 2019

There have been a lot of documentaries about the historic Woodstock festival, but many have not discussed much other than the performance aspect of it. This documentary lets the ones who were there discuss what it took to put the festival together, the challenges the festival faced, the unity of everyone involved, and what it meant to the country during a critical time.

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The New York Times

May 23, 2019

Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation, directed by Barak Goodman, uses the perspective of nearly 50 years’ hindsight to demonstrate anew how the festival was both a mess and a miracle, and implicitly argues that it was a good deal more miracle than mess.

By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW

The Playlist

Jun 3, 2019

As a primer for deeper dives, including Wadleigh’s film, it’s mainly successful, contextualizing the events and providing some never-before-seen footage. Yet for those already versed in what transpired on Yasgur’s farm, Goodman’s film is really just playing the hits.

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Los Angeles Times

Jun 6, 2019

The events of Woodstock have been told, so it’s refreshing that this documentary draws out the details one might not have heard before — the food donations from the town, the volunteer Army doctors, the attendees who stayed to pick up trash.

By Katie Walsh FULL REVIEW

IndieWire

May 19, 2019

While Goodman and Ephron’s film abides by a “peace & love 101” approach that might prove tiresome for people who already know about Wavy Gravy or the inclement weather that threatened to rain out an entire movement, this lucid and entertaining look back in time gradually twists that broadness into its greatest strength.

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TheWrap

May 19, 2019

Given that we already have a documentary that captures the event so successfully from inside the era, it’s curious that the filmmakers don’t try to mine a perspective beyond nostalgia

By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW

San Francisco Chronicle

May 29, 2019

This conventional PBS-style piece intends to deliver the story behind the event without much more than the slightest nod to the music, which is shunted to the side in this telling of the already oft-told story.

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Release Date May 24, 2019

Duration 1 h 46 m

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Hollywood Music In Media Awards (HMMA)

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Cinema Audio Society, USA

• 1 Nomination

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Michael Lang

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Donald Goldmacher

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Mel Lawrence

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John Morris

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Miriam Yasgur

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Louis Ratner

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