Yes it certainly was a moment in time where some 450K mostly young people traveled to Bethel, New York, and camped out on farmer Max Yasgur's dairy farm for three days in the summer of 1969 to enjoy each others company and naked freedom mostly in the rain while listening to some of the greatest rock legends on stage.
This documentary tried to capture the essence of the young people who traveled to enjoy what was for most of the 450K attendees a free concert since there was no way to maintain any semblance of an organized concert event that would have otherwise been arranged at a much smaller and contained stadium for example like at Madison Square Gardens, New York.
The film directors captured everything from toddlers running around buck naked, to the free spirited hippies skinny dipping in the lake that sat on Max Yazur's dairy farm lands. The food lines tried to feed the masses with 50 gallon tubs of what looked like porridge and the portable toilets were maintained by what seemed to be one eager and hard working sanitation engineer holding a scrub brush in one hand and a pail of bleach water in the other as he merrily went about his dirty business.
Rain and thunderstorms seemed to be a constant threat but it did not seem to hinder the crowds from continuing to peacefully respect one another and enjoy the bands who came out on stage to entertain the seemingly endless and tireless mass crowds of peace loving music fans.
I give this documentary a 7 out of 10 IMDb rating. The story captured in this documentary was bigger than any of the bands playing and Jimi Hendrix closed out the three (3) day concert as only Jimi Hendrix can.
This documentary tried to capture the essence of the young people who traveled to enjoy what was for most of the 450K attendees a free concert since there was no way to maintain any semblance of an organized concert event that would have otherwise been arranged at a much smaller and contained stadium for example like at Madison Square Gardens, New York.
The film directors captured everything from toddlers running around buck naked, to the free spirited hippies skinny dipping in the lake that sat on Max Yazur's dairy farm lands. The food lines tried to feed the masses with 50 gallon tubs of what looked like porridge and the portable toilets were maintained by what seemed to be one eager and hard working sanitation engineer holding a scrub brush in one hand and a pail of bleach water in the other as he merrily went about his dirty business.
Rain and thunderstorms seemed to be a constant threat but it did not seem to hinder the crowds from continuing to peacefully respect one another and enjoy the bands who came out on stage to entertain the seemingly endless and tireless mass crowds of peace loving music fans.
I give this documentary a 7 out of 10 IMDb rating. The story captured in this documentary was bigger than any of the bands playing and Jimi Hendrix closed out the three (3) day concert as only Jimi Hendrix can.