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Woodstock documentary opening in theaters, coming to PBS

May 1, 2019

The original Woodstock festival already gave us one of the most famous rock documentaries of all time, but there’s a new film that looks at “three days of peace and music” from a different angle. Directed by Barak Goodman, Woodstock: Three Days that Defined a Generation just premiered as part of the Tribeca Film Festival and here’s their synopsis:

Structured faithfully around audio testimony from attendees, Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation focuses not just on how it all came to be, despite enormous challenges, but how it felt for it to happen: an endless traffic backup was elevated to a communal experience, and a food shortage became a collaboration rather than a disaster. The incredible performances spotlighted in the film, from Jimi Hendrix to Joan Baez to Crosby, Stills, and Nash—form the backdrop to what is fundamentally the audience’s story. Woodstock takes us all back to a time and a place now captured in a time capsule, but also reminds us of the immediacy that love, music and shared experience can elicit.

You’ve still got one more chance to see the documentary at Tribeca Film Fest: it screens Saturday, May 4 at the Regal Cinemas Battery Park at 2:30 PM.

You can also catch the film in theaters around the country in May and June, including another NYC screening at the Quad Cinema on May 24. It’ll also screen in Woodstock, NY on May 31 at Upstate Films and then there’s a screening on the actual grounds of the festival, Bethel Woods Center for the Arts on July 25. The full list of screening dates, plus the film’s trailer, are below.

If you miss it in theaters, Woodstock: Three Days that Defined a Generation will air on PBS on Tuesday, August 6 at 9:00 p.m. ET. It’s part of the American Experience series that focuses on the events of 1969, from the moon landing to the Vietnam War.

Meanwhile, Woodstock 50, the festival that was supposed to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the original festival, is looking less and less like it’s actually going to happen. Though it could still make a good documentary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEaMka89dM4

WOODSTOCK: THREE DAYS THAT DEFINED A GENERATION – 2019 SCREENING DATES

28-Apr-4 May | New York, NY | Tribeca Film Festival
Q&A with filmmakers and special guests following screenings

May 3 | San Rafael, CA | Doclands
In attendance: film subjects Wavy Gravy and Jahanara Romney

24-May | New York, NY | Quad Cinema

31-May | Woodstock, NY | Upstate Films

31-May | San Francisco | Opera Plaza Cinema

31-May | Berkeley | Shattuck Cinemas

31-May | San Rafael, CA | Smith Rafael Film Center

31-May | Chicago, IL | Gene Siskel Film Center

7-Jun | Los Angeles, CA | Nuart Theatre

7-Jun | Portland, OR | Cinema 21