GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Brooklynn There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

saraccan I'm not sure if it could be done any better. It shows the festival from every angle. You see all the highs and lows of the event, enjoy the great music, listen to the interviews with musicians, weird hippies and people who helped organize the event.Its a documentary about the historical woodstock music festival in 1969.

gilligan1965 The reason I chose this title for my review is so that others don't make the same mistake I did years ago and miss-out on about 2 hours of this movie. "American Movie Classics"...not quite! Any self-proclaimed "classic" channel that censors an American Classic is hypocritical. Kinda-like the Nazis burning books - 'you can read and see this...but, not this!?!?'Back in the summer of 2000, I was so excited that "Woodstock" was going to be shown on the American Movie Classics (AMC) channel that afternoon.I hadn't seen this movie for many years before that and planned on making a VHS recording of it.Anyhow...I watched that recording many times over the next fifteen years until I saw "Woodstock" on the IndiePlex channel this month (September 2015).I'll never watch the 'edited' version of this movie again! I never even realized that I'd recorded a watered-down version of this since I hadn't seen the unedited version in decades (around 1976, I believe!?!?).To say the very least...the unedited version is excellent! This movie (Rockumentary) isn't just about the music or the musicians, it's about an entire generational subculture of people who were, for the most part, on their way out in many ways...some good, some bad. For many of them, it was their last hoorah before the 1960s ended...and, what a hoorah it was!I've always loved concerts. I've been to many in my youth, and, have many on VHS and DVD. However, to me, "Woodstock" (1969) is by far the best because it's not 'only' a concert...it's a major event that defined much of the 1960s!In retrospect...imagine if 'everyone' invited to perform at "Woodstock" actually showed up (The Beatles; The Rolling Stones; The Doors; Led Zeppelin; Jethro Tull; Iron Butterfly; The Moody Blues; Chicago; and, so many more)!?!? They could have made it into a mini-series! :)

dallasryan I watched the 224 minute version and that is the one one has to watch. Awesome and more. It was so amazing to see all of the different acts that played. You can't beat seeing Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin perform and get nostalgic on what more might have been with their careers. I always strictly had the stereotype of associating Woodstock with sex only. Of course it was about sex and drugs, but it was about a certain freedom that none of us really truly get to experience in our lives, ever. A certain peace. I learned so much more about what Woodstock really stood for, and it really opened my eyes. Each generation is different obviously. Each generation has their good, their bad and their ugly. But Woodstock demonstrated something so pure, something that can never be recreated again. Each generation has different beliefs and each generation fights for something different. These people at the 1969 Woodstock fought for something that ended up transcending to the world what they were fighting for, what they were all about, and it was absolutely beautiful. All walks of life too, all kinds of people their at Woodstock 1969. It's sad to say with this generation that if we ever had another Woodstock, it would be just like the one of 1999. Fake, phony, people wanting to push the envelope for their own personal gain and agenda, anger, rage, etc. It's sad to say this generation is one of laziness, impatience, anger, and getting fat(see how skinny those people were in 1969. Their bodies were shaped different too. It's got be the different food and medicine we take as the years go by that make our bodies different. Also plastic surgery). The Movie Wall-E has really predicted where our society is heading. It's sad in a way that we can't be more like these people of 1969 from this documentary. Of course, the ultimate sadness is most of the hardcore hippies that were there at Woodstock 1969 probably conformed to the society norms with jobs, health care, insurance, etc. You have too or you just end up dying or living your life as bum. You almost have to conform at some point. I'm sure there's some that never did though.

hitherto75 When "Woodstock" occurred, I was a 15 y.o French teenager. Watching the film again, yesterday, I've been stunned by its quality, its objectivity and its strength. It's much more than a "concert movie" (especially compared to the current ones, with their feverish cranes and cameramen moves). Michael Wadleigh and his crew really captured the spirit of the event, as it became obvious it was creating itself. They seem to be everywhere and give the spectator an incredible range of focuses and points of view. I've never been truly excited by the musical performances during the festival, but there are some great acts and the multi-screen editing set them perfectly off (funny to watch the contrast between the blues-country-rock white bands and the glitter-dance-sexy background singer bound "Sly and the family Stone"!). Glad that Janis Joplin's wonderful and sincere performance has been added in the director's cut... As someone else wrote here, one of the main revelation in this movie is how the attendees are young. It's really about American young people at a peculiar period in western history, when the "baby boom" brought a new, numerous generation "on stage". When western countries were really young, with lot of innocence. One (swimming) girl in the film stresses that. She says "we are gathering in many cities in the world" "we come over". And that's true : 3 days long, young people made Woodstock a unique event. They overcome global media hostility, long walk, crowded and muddy field, food shortage, etc (well, that's what youth is for!). Thanks to Wadleigh to have capture it (and thanks to the perfect re-mastering). PS : I'm sure that no full-of-money-movie-maker filming a musical festival these present days would make an interview of the-man-who-is-in-charge-of-the chemical-toilets (who has a son here and another one piloting a chopper in Vietnam)! A true mark of the 60's-70's era...Thierry Follain