Woodstock – 3 Days of Peace & Music [1970, Blu-ray] 2009

Documentary about the Woodstock Music Festival. The director of the film, Michael Wadley, in this work, not only captured a number of performances by popular performers of his time, but also created a unique portrait of the generation of the sixties in America.

Organizers of the Woodstock Festival billed it as “Three Days of Peace and Music” and initially hoped to reach an audience of 150,000 people. The festival began on Friday, August 15, 1969, but the number of participants quickly exceeded 450,000, causing massive traffic jams, food and medical shortages, and organizational problems. On Saturday, they began to let everyone in, so that there was somewhere to accommodate people who kept arriving just like that, without tickets.

Some performers replaced others, the music played almost non-stop, even despite the rains that periodically began to water the guests and participants of the festival. Among the spectators, the use of psychoreactives was the most common thing, and the sanitary conditions were primitive, and the quality of LSD was a constant problem and this was constantly reported through the microphone. But, nevertheless, one way or another, this festival was a success. Woodstock came to symbolize everything right and good in the hippie movement, but it also showed that the movement would be short-lived.

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