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Related: About this forumPBS Amer. Exper. FILM: *Woodstock, Three Days That Defined A Generation* (2019)
Film now showing on PBS, 90 mins. *WATCH*: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/woodstock/#part01
WOODSTOCK: THREE DAYS THAT DEFINED A GENERATION premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 28, 2019 and opened in select theaters on May 24, 2019. Click here to find a screening near you.
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 in conflict over sexual politics, civil rights and the Vietnam War. A sense of an America in transitiona handoff of the country between generations with far different values and idealswas tangibly present at what promoters billed as An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace and Music.
Woodstock turns the lens back at the audience, at the swarming, impromptu city that grew up overnight on a few acres of farmland. What took place in that teeming mass of humanity the rain-soaked, starving, tripping, half-a-million strong throng of young people was nothing less than a miracle of teamwork, a manifestation of the peace and love the festival had touted and a validation of the counter-cultures promise to the world. Who were these kids? What experiences and stories did they carry with them to Bethel, New York that weekend, and how were they changed by three days in the muck and mire of Yasgurs farm?
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PBS Amer. Exper. FILM: *Woodstock, Three Days That Defined A Generation* (2019) (Original Post)
appalachiablue
Aug 2019
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SCantiGOP
(13,871 posts)1. And it plays at least 3 times next week
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appalachiablue
(41,146 posts)2. Thanks, it's well done
littlemissmartypants
(22,694 posts)3. I really enjoyed it. Thanks, appalachiablue. nt
appalachiablue
(41,146 posts)4. Yes I really enjoyed it, learned much and appreciate even
more how special and influential that event and era were esp. in regards to American society and culture..