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Release Date: 1970

Cast: John Entwistle, Pete Townshend, Keith Moon, Carlos Santana, Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, Arlo Guthrie, Grace Slick, Alvin Lee, David Crosby, Richie Havens, Janis Joplin ...MORE

Cast: John Entwistle, Pete Townshend, Keith Moon, Carlos Santana, Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, Arlo Guthrie, Grace Slick, Alvin Lee, David Crosby, Richie Havens, Janis Joplin, Johnny Winter, Bill Graham, Jefferson Airplane, Graham Nash, Roger Daltrey, Stephen Stills, Joe Cocker, John Sebastian ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Documentary, Concert film, Rockumentary, Music

Woodstock is a 1970 American documentary on the Woodstock Festival that took place in August 1969 at Bethel in New York. Entertainment Weekly called this film the benchmark of concert movies and one of the most entertaining documentaries ever made. The film was directed by Michael Wadleigh and was edited by (amongst others) Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker; Schoonmaker was nominated for an Academy Award for Film Editing. Woodstock was a massive commercial and critical success. It received the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, as well as a nomination for Best Sound (Dan... MORE

Woodstock is a 1970 American documentary on the Woodstock Festival that took place in August 1969 at Bethel in New York. Entertainment Weekly called this film the benchmark of concert movies and one of the most entertaining documentaries ever made. The film was directed by Michael Wadleigh and was edited by (amongst others) Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker; Schoonmaker was nominated for an Academy Award for Film Editing. Woodstock was a massive commercial and critical success. It received the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, as well as a nomination for Best Sound (Dan Wallin, L. A. Johnson). The film was also screened at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival, but wasn't entered into the main competition. The Official Director's Cut, spanning 225 minutes, was released in 1994. Both cuts take liberties with the timeline of the festival. However, the opening and closing acts are the same in the film as in real life, i.e., Richie Havens opens the show and Jimi Hendrix closes it. Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock was also released separately on DVD and Blu-ray. In 1996, Woodstock was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as LESS