Woodstock (2019)

A documentary film about the Afro-American Woodstock concert held in Los Angeles seven years after the Watts riots. Director Mel Stuart mixes footage from the concert with footage of the living conditions in the current day Watts neighborhood. The film won the Golden Globe for Best Documentary Film.

In 1969, the band Sweetwater led by lead vocalist Nansi Nevins opened Woodstock and subsequently got considerable media attention, appearing on a number of TV shows. But just as they appeared to be getting a really break big, they just disappeared. Thirty years later, a cable TV reporter for MIX TV, a musical station, is removed from her show because of being stoned on air. Her station gives her a choice of being dismissed or investigating what happened to Sweetwater. A blending of modern day fiction and past fact is then blended in this biographical story.

Londres, 1964. El nacimiento de dos sectas juveniles rivales (los "mods" y los "rockers") tiene consecuencias devastadoras. Para Jimmy y sus compinches, una pandilla bien trajeada, adicta a las pastillas y siempre a lomos de sus scooters, ser un mod es una forma de vida, es pertenecer a su generación. La cuadrilla de Jimmy se va a Brighton, dispuesta a vivir una salvaje aventura de drogas, emociones y batallas campales contra los rockers.

Documental sobre el famoso festival de Woodstock que tuvo lugar en Bethel, NY. En agosto de 1969, 450.000 personas asistieron al mayor festival de música rock hasta la fecha. "Woodstock", ganadora del Oscar de la Academia, fue un acontecimiento que dio nombre a una generación y marcó a toda una época. "Woodstock, 3 días de paz y música: el montaje del director" (Woodstock - 3 Days of Peace & Music: The Director's Cut) de 225 minutos de duración, cuenta con imágenes restauradas y con sonido digital. Además, ofrece 40 minutos adicionales de imágenes nunca vistas en la película inicial, que fueron integradas en el film por el propio director Michael Wadleigh. Un joven Martin Scorsese fue asistente del director y ayudó en el montaje de este aclamado e histórico documental. (FILMAFFINITY)

SAINT MISBEHAVIN’ reveals the true story of cultural phenomenon Wavy Gravy, a man whose commitment to making the world a better place has never wavered. Wavy Gravy is known as the MC of the Woodstock Festival, a hippie icon, a clown and even a Ben & Jerry’s ice cream flavor. In Saint Misbehavin’ we meet a true servant to humanity, who carries his message through humor and compassion. The film weaves together intimate verite footage, reflections from an array of cultural and countercultural peers, and never-before-seen archival footage to tell a story that is bigger than the man himself.

Versión libre del nacimiento del festival más famoso de la historia. Fue Elliot Tiber quien hizo posible que, en 1969, el Festival de Música y Arte de Woodstock se convirtiera en un acontecimiento histórico. Elliot, un decorador neoyorquino, tiene que volver a su pueblo para ayudar a sus padres a llevar un viejo motel, El Mónaco. Cuando se entera de que en un pueblo vecino han suspendido un festival de música hippy, llama a los organizadores pensando que puede ser una ocasión propicia para revitalizar el motel. Tres semanas después, medio millón de personas se dirigen hacia una granja de White Lake para participar en "los tres días de paz y música".

Durante el verano de 1969, la familia Kantrowitz pasa, como todos los años, sus vacaciones cerca de Woodstock. Un verano que será de iniciación adolescente para la joven Alison -Anna Paquin- y de pasiones prohibidas para su madre Pearl -Diane Lane-, una mujer que se quedó embarazada con 17 años y que cree haberse perdido su juventud.

The Herlihys are a working class family from Chicago whose three children take wildly divergent paths: Brian joins the Marines right out of High School and goes to Vietnam, Michael becomes involved in the civil rights movement and after campaigning for Bobby Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy becomes involved in radical politics, and Katie gets pregnant, moves to San Francisco and joins a hippie commune. Meanwhile, the Taylors are an African-American family living in the deep South. When Willie Taylor, a minister and civil rights organizer, is shot to death, his son Emmet moves to the city and eventually joins the Black Panthers, serving as a bodyguard for Fred Hampton.

In order to to see his idol, Jimi Hendrix, a twelve year old boy attempts a journey from his Quebec village to Woodstock.

Woodstock Diary was originally broadcasted on U.S. TV in August 1994 - in honor of the 25th anniversary of the event. Later it was released on DVD with remastered 5.1 sound. It includes performances not shown in the Woodstock movie but not exclusively. Between the songs there are recent interviews with the producers / organizers of Woodstock Joel Rosenman, John Roberts, Michael Lang, the stage announcer Wavy Gravy and Lisa Law (a member of the Hog Farm who helped out at the festival).

A documentary about the three Woodstock music festivals.

At the site of the 1969 rock concert at Woodstock, New York, an electrical charge turns a local farmer into a murderous werewolf.

Lacey Schwartz grew up in a typical upper-middle-class Jewish household in Woodstock, NY, with loving parents and a strong sense of her Jewish identity - despite the open questions from those around her about how a white girl could have such dark skin. She believes her family's explanation that her looks were inherited from her dark-skinned Sicilian grandfather. But when her parents abruptly split, her gut starts to tell her something different. At age of 18, she finally confronts her mother and learns the truth: her biological father was not the man who raised her, but a black man named Rodney with whom her mother had had an affair.

(March 13, 2009 – Burbank, CA) – “Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music” – the four-hour director’s cut of the 1970 Oscar®-winning documentary about the landmark music event that featured some of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll performers in history -- will be released June 9 in a spectacular new limited, numbered Blu-ray and DVD “Ultimate Collector’s Edition” (UCE). With two extra hours of rare performance footage -- some of it newly-discovered, some only seen in part and some never seen at all -- the UCE is destined to make its own history.

Documental sobre la legendaria cantante norteamericana Janis Joplin. La artista americana Cat Power, cantante de rock de origen sureño, narra en primer persona cómo Janis Joplin llegó a convertirse en una estrella, a través de las cartas que Joplin escribió durante años a sus familiares, amigos y colaboradores, antes de su fatídica muerte a los 27 años.

This television special is a first for the reclusive singer with the BBC documentary gaining new interviews with Young, nine months apart in New York and California. The documentary also looks back over the singer's archives, with some never-seen-before material.

A profile of the Hippest band of the 60's and 70's as they prepare for a reunion gig.

Woodstock-the most famous rock concert in history. At the center of it all, a psychedelic symbol-covered Volkswagen bus called Light. Join the race to solve a 50-year-old mystery, find a lost bus that became an iconic emblem of a generation, and restore it in time for a trip back to Woodstock.

Explore Woodstock 99, un festival de música de tres días promovido para hacer eco de la unidad y el idealismo de la contracultura del concierto original de 1969, pero que en cambio se convirtió en disturbios, saqueos y agresiones sexuales.