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Series
Criterion collection volume 99
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
A documentary on the Rolling Stones' 1969 American concert tour and a concert at Altamont Speedway where security guards killed an audience member. Includes appearances by Ike and Tina Turner, Jefferson Airplane, and the Flying Burrito Brothers.
Publisher
Cinema Libre Studio
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
For three days in August 1969, nearly a half-million young people descended upon Max Yasgur's farm in upstate New York for the rock 'n' roll event that defined a generation. Mythologized for 50 years, the filmmakers set the record straight with the most comprehensive examination of how the festival came to be using original interviews with key figures, rare archival footage and unearthed photographs.
4) White riot
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Britain Late, the '70s. Punk is exploding. The country is deeply divided over immigration. The National Front, a far-right political party, is gaining strength as politicians like Enoch Powell push a xenophobic agenda. Outraged by a racist speech from Eric Clapton, music photographer Red Saunders teams up with like-minded creatives to create Rock Against Racism. The RAR zine reports on stories and issues that the mainstream British media ignores,...
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
1968: in that single year, MLK and RFK were assassinated, Chicago rioted, Nixon triumphed, and Tet exploded. The top music acts were the Beatles, the Doors, Otis Redding and Marvin Gaye. Man circled the Moon. From Civil Rights to Vietnam, from rock & roll to rocket science, 1968 stands out as a concentrated dose of everything we think of as the Sixties.
Publisher
Atlantic
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
An comprehensive collection of concert footage from 1970-1979, much of it never before seen. Includes performances cut out of their film, The song remains the same, rarely seen interviews, never-before-seen television performances and more.
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In August 1969, nearly half a million people gathered at a farm in upstate New York to hear music. What happened over the next three days, however, was far more than a concert. It would become a legendary event, one that would define a generation and mark the end of one of the most turbulent decades in modern history. Occurring just weeks after an American set foot on the moon, the Woodstock music festival took place against a backdrop of a nation...
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Directed by filmmaker Peter Jackson, this is a three-part documentary series that takes audiences back in time to the band's intimate recording sessions. The documentary showcases the warmth, camaraderie, and creative genius that defined the legacy of the iconic foursome, and is compiled from over 60 hours of unseen footage shot in January 1969 (by Michael Lindsay-Hogg) and more than 150 hours of unheard audio, all of which has been brilliantly restored....
Series
Criterion collection volume 1164
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Emerging from the primordial soup of glamour, gutter sleaze, and feverish creativity that was New Yorks 1960s underground culture, the Velvet Underground redefined music with its at once raw and exalted blend of experimentation and art-damaged rock and roll. In his kaleidoscopic documentary The Velvet Underground, Todd Haynes vividly evokes the band's incandescent world: the creative origins of the twin visionaries Lou Reed and John Cale, Andy Warhol's...
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