The older I get the more I realize that the message of Woodstock of Love and Peace is the hope of the World! I am 82. What a wonderful video.

I was 16 at woodstock, We hitchhiked from Albany with a couple of Blonde girls. By the time I got there, the gates were down, i still have the tickets.

I was a punk kid at 7 in '69 and thought hippys were weird. The 50th anniversary changed my thinking by 180 degrees, and I can't get enough info, interviews, and video on the phenom that was Woodstock. It can never happen again, and it barely did then. Stars aligned perfectly...Aquarian! Gives me hope in this messed up world of 2022.

Every year this makes me feel sad missing my Woodstock friends were still here with me. I am happy to say though that we all stayed true to our hippiness

In 1969 I was 15. No chance to get from Maastricht in the Netherlands to Woodstock. In 1970 I've watched Woodstock in the cinema, four and a half hours of it. The best event ever. Only love. It changed my life.

I was 13 in the summer of 1969, and was there with my older brother, Adam and his high school buddy, Steve. It was amazing.

I was there the entire 3 days. Did not pay, walked over the fences. Met numerous friends from my city and the collage in that city. So many stories to tell...

A few years ago I bought an authentic in tact Woodstock ticket for $50. I have it between glass in a frame. It's one of my most cherished items that I'm leaving to one of my grandkids. I can only hope that I can impress on them the true meaning of Woodstock.

I'm 62 and a teacher. I end every class by saying, "Peace and love to you all." And I mean it.

Thank God that it was video recorded! because not only was all of the bands great and sounded great.. but what Hendrix did can't ever be topped! it sounded and still sounds unbelievable!

Im a flower 🌷💞 child and was born in 1965 and im so in love with the late 1960s music and the Woodstock era, there will never be another Woodstock, ever. It changed the world 🌍 and helped people through Vietnam. Thanks for posting this beautiful piece of our history 🎸💥🥁🪇🎹🪘🎉🎈🥳🌷🐦💞

What a great documentary .. I cant help but feel sad that its never going to happen like this ever again.. Music has changed and not for the better sorry to say. People have changed and are not as loving. Who knows maybe things will change for the better.. Peace... Woodstock 69 for ever Thanks for the insperation

Is it possible to feel nostalgia for a time I wasn't even alive yet for, it makes me emotional just watching this great event, and all the amazing artist and amazing loving people who attended!!!❤❤❤❤

Thank You Artie, and Linda Kornfeld, thank you Michael Lange. Woodstock NEVER would have happened without you, I can just imagine the three of you standing there, guestamating how many people would actually show up if you really put this thing on...Artie, and Michael were way off, Linda saw things differently... Historically. Artie lost his wife Linda, his partner, the love of his life, and just a short while later, he lost his daughter Jamie, his BEAUTIFUL daughter, and my best friend, she was only 16. I don't know how that man held it together, but he did. You're a very special man. I Love You... Thank you for making the world a much better, and beautiful place.

I was in high school my room mate went and asked me to go but I was too young to understand but boy did I love the event that changed this country!

As a Woodstock era teen...it is still fresh in my mind.

I'm a 60's kid and though I was born and brought up in India, Calcutta, Flower Power or the Hippie culture made its way to us too. When I fell in love with music in my teens, I heard most of the acts that had played at Woodstock '69. I watched the Director's Cut Woodstock movie when I was in my early 30s. There will not be another gathering like that one. Ever. And it's true that it changed the world. Thanks for this wonderful documentary. There is something to be said for the freedom of spirit that marked the 60s and 70s and I was reminded of that.

I went. It was a historical event for sure and everyone there felt it, as we slept in mud, ate weird stuff, made crazy friends, and kept high. The general feeling was... everyone was your brother and sister... but the bands and songs that stuck with me were those with a message of revolution, change.

I wanted to go to Woodstock so bad but didn't even know where it was. I was 12 yrs old at the time but from what I read it was going to be something great. This was the year I stopped listening to AM radio and started listening to FM radio. 1969 was a year of growth for me in many other ways.

there is still peaceful music, events, and artists like this. It might not be super mainstream but its still here today. We vibin

I was there.. got drafted in November. Gone in January... MAY GOD BLESS ALL.. THANK YOU GOD FOR WHAT YOU DID FOR ME!! I WOULDN'T CHANGE MY LIFE FOR ANYTHING.. MY SON HAS BEEN 22 YRS. IN THE ARMY.. TY GOD FOR AMERICANS... MAY GOD BLESS..

There will never be another Woodstock and the headliners that played there!! R.i.p Michael lang.

Exactly! No violence. My daughter watched something about Woodstock, her immediate reaction was the absence of violence. If only today.....✌️ I know I won't be around to ever see anything come close to it.

I agree. Hippies are hip people. I came to Canada in '65 from Hungary. I was 9 and some months. Here, I heard many songs. Among them is Give Peace A Chance. Remember that? It seems it never goes out of style!

I was born in January 69. Woodstock was somehow, through my ears, it changed the colours of my blood. I started on the Green Beavers weekends at 12. I nearly became a math master and muso. At age 23 I chose to raise kids on my own. Now I just want to play and love a truthful lady. I have to say when I bought the album The Songs Of A Sphycadelic Age, the one with White Rabbit and Peddles And Flowers, I found I was on the correct path. White Rabbit opened my mind. Haven't had acid for 8 years now. I communicate with animals 🕺💯🤘✌️

I went to visit the concert site in 2010. Was only 2 years old in 1969. Something magical about that place.

Happy 52th anniversary, Woodstock Nation!

Hippies were about peace and wish that era could come back. Those were the days! 😇😇

I wasn't born until '68 , first watched Woodstock concert aged about 18 or 19 and have loved it ever since , it introduced music to me that still holds me today .

Oh & the media reported what went on that glorious weekend fairly accurately. We could use some of that these days. Power to the people right on.

Back in that year people still had optimism in their hearts that they could indeed be the catalist of widespread change. I applaud that. Now it seems light years away that such germaine, grassroots efforts can be achieved.

My generation ❤❤❤❤. My time on earth 😊😊😊😊. Glad I experienced things like Woodstock!!

Beyond all measure, woodstock has the most memorable happening in our last 53 yrs of existence. Definition of EPIC!

Yeah, the thing about Woodstock was that it was a Happening; not a trend. It didn't have time to be a trend, at least for some of us. There was a recognition at the time for me, a 20 year old, wondering what was happening, and finding out that when it did happen, it was through music. It helped to be a musician. Woodstock had many images that have recurred over the years. The most noteworthy to me was a 4th of July celebration at Gasworks Park in Seattle 10 years ago. I like to play publicly from time-to-time, and so i had my violin case in hand over there and at the entrance there were police standing at a table inspecting bags and stuff. So when i went through, one cop asked me, "What's in there?", pointing at the case. And i said, laughing, "a violin". And he said, "Open it." And i said, "If I open it, I play it", And played, "The Star Spangled Banner", Jimi style. The cops appreciated it. Just as Jimi played so masterfully for that be-draggled but somehow spangled banner crowd remnant at Woodstock. His contract was to play last. And he did, inspiring a whole generation of musicians, in a time with certain lights too bright to last long.

Hello. Woodstock was a utopia of brotherly love that manifested reality for three days of cosmic time, that left all of us insane.

The only things i found offensive on this short doc was the quote shown from Oprah Winfrey and mentioning Lola Palooza...I mean Oz fest was the answer to Palooza.. Winfrey and Palooza should never be mentioned in the same company with Woodstock

I'm so glad it was well documented. Well filmed and well photographed. Had it not been, and we would have been just told about it, it probably would have ended up as one of those conspiracy theories. "Did it really happen like that?" or "Did it happen at all?" All the strife, darkness, death, war, and division of the 1960s had to inevitably lead up to something like this. The final straw were the Manson family killings a week before. It was the manifestation of the strong desire of thousands for a peaceful and loving world. If society wasn't going to give it to them, they were going to create it themselves.

RIP Michael Lang 🌼🎸1/8/22

Many legendary performances at Woodstock happened in the middle of the night, I think Sly and the Who went on at like 4-5AM. And Hendrix didn't get to go on til Monday. That's unheard of, sounds like a hell of a weekend.

I was 16 yrs old in '69. This was a mindboggling time . . . with Bobby Kennedy and MLK being assassinated and the war still being escalated. I lived in New York (Yonkers) and was thinking of going, but they closed the NY State Thruway and that put the kybosh on that ! Truly my era . . . truly my passion, at that time ! Thanks for the memories !

What a great time in history. Except for Viet Nam. Woodstock was a way for people to express there opinion about the war. And show there could be peace. Love and music at least for a little while. I was 14 and too young to be there. But have the album and have always considered myself a Woodstock hippie, don't have long hair or do drugs anymore but still have peace and love and music in my heart. Compared to the world today, I'd go back to 69 in a minute.

And the wind still cries " Mary", hey my loving crew what a ride . Here we are 50 , 60,70,80 yrs. Young soon we all will be totally gone . Our music collection, cars , historical events will all remain in this time capsule! What a trip! See you all at " "Orion's Belt" ✌ ☮🕊

I believe that Woodstock began to affect consciousness to those who attended as it grew thru the volatile 60's between the conflict/ "darkness & light❤

As a grad student, I had planned with my young son and wife to do a 'cheap' camping trip to lAke Champlaign and stop over at this radio-advertised "family-picnic-with-music-in-the-trees" thing at Woodstock. So we drove up in our Robins-egg blue VW Beetle with golden suns my son had pasted on it. We got 'stuck' at Woodstock from Friday dusk till Sunday afternnoon - it was still easy to drive in , but we were at the end of the line driving out. We heard every music note at Woodstock, but, being in a tent a quarter mile from the actual grounds, we saw only the stage lights. Nevertheless, the community vibe was palpable and a righteous experience. Hendrix's Sunday morning "Star Spangled Banner" still 'shivers me bones'. I came away from 'Woodstock' with renewed faith in humanity - when the shit really gets heavy, I have no doubt the good in everybody will burst forth. (Note: in 1970, taking a break from a conference in Manhattan, I took a lunch break with a meditative stroll in Central Park eating an ice cream, when I saw this guy sitting alone on a park bench all hunched over and sobbing. For some reason, I stopped, sat down next to him and offered him a bite of ice cream...maybe just to stop his misery or something...so we (he) began to tell me of his misery - he was one of the Woodstock producers, they had sunk a lot of theirs and others' money into the festival, and he didn't expect to get them and him out of debt...he would lose his home, probably his family and go down in history as something to forget. But then shortly after, the movie came out and I know he was as happy as I was to know his tears had been dried and he was rewarded for a superhuman effort that changed American culture..

Great piece of history!

70s 80s were the BEST EVER Music that will ever be around in HISTORY ... BEST Bands and Singers which will never be again in our time ...Still to this day we ALL listen to this Music even my children do that are grown up and on their own to this day

I loved hippies and I lived in Arkansas. I wanted to change the world because of Woodstock.

It just shows how music brings people together!

I was four when Woodstock took place. Watched the Woodstock movie last night. It's such a time machine in American culture and times . I have always been fascinated with that era of American history . The establishment , the Vietnam War , some people were for the war many were not. the hippie movement , the counter culture, civil rights , Jim Crow laws of the South , the awesome music and the awesome American made muscle cars .

God I’d give anything to to be able to go back in time and go to this

I was 13 when Woodstock happened. We do not live far from there. My Dad was curious about it. So he my girlfriend and I rode up there just to see the action. And it was packed roads crowded and just people all over. So pretty much of what you saw on tv and heard about was all true.

What was such experience to those who were there but on tv radio so unreal to be in Australia for a12 year old just mind blowing loved it but still pumping it out so many bands I just then many bands to come

I was 8 when Woodstock hit the country ,my oldest brother wanted to go so bad but going from Louisiana to new York with no money i guess he gave up. We need this kind of event today , with all the hate out there, it would be a refreshing smell to the stinch thats out here now.

I was drafted in march 1969 and only remember the moon landing in August as the big event, i visited this site two years ago because its was always something i missed out on. Its sad in a way because anyone watching this that remembers must feel as i do…. a longing for a time when everthing was ahead but must accept that now its all behind

FANTASTIC HAPPENING 1969 NEVER TO BE FORGOTTEN ❤

Great Documentary of this Powerful, enigmatic major Cultural Event - never to be Repeated. I was not Physically there, but was in mind and soul. My only critique is that Homage is paid to certain performers that were the Big Boys of their day. Others were catapulted into further stardom, i.e. Santana, Joe Cocker and Ten Years After. It is big shortcoming in the doc of NOT giving proper acclaim to Ten Years After. Their rendition of I'm Going Home for over 15 minutes, was one of the most powerful performances at Woodstock. No one even mentions TYA, even in passing. That is an atrocity of this film. Who could forget those terrific words of Alvin Lee when he announces the next tune: I'm Going Home.....by Helicopter". And then he sent that Gibson Guitar Flying for 15 minutes, carrying off a watermelon on his shoulder when they were done!! Iconic Moment of Woodstock.

Great documentary, thank you! What an awesome time to have been alive.

Woodstock was the album.....all thru the seventies when I started to come of age...it was nirvana, it was the rock throne room!

Out of all the guitar playing at Woodstock, it is clear that Alvin Lee's rendition of "going home" blowed all the other acts completely off the stage!😄😄

I almost went. What’s great about Woodstock? No one was afraid of a mass shooting.

A time of desperation for a generation that had enough of loosing family members friends to a war that was long over due to end. A time of expressing no more hatred within people. This will never be duplicated the times where so different and the message from the people was we had enough. But seams although the message of peace and love was very clear that it has been lost all over again.

I wish we could have another Woodstock.

Woodstock has become mythologized. Now, it seems bigger than it really was. I had to work that weekend so couldn't go, but all my friends did. and I'll tell you this. It was a concert with a lot of great bands. It was a weekend when people accepted each other, did a lot of drugs, and got along. However, it changed nothing. Vietnam lasted another 6 years. Young people thought they would start a new world order. They didn't. Going back to college, it was the same. The bigger world didn't accept it at all. They didn't like the hippies and Nixon was elected the year before as a backlash against Vietnam protests and hippies. It was an island, a brief respite from everything else. It attracted a certain kind of person. If you were conservative, you wouldn't have gone. If you dressed like a hippie, you were an outcast in your small town. I walked int a bar with hair over my ears, but otherwise dressed conservatively. Everyone in the bar turned around and told me and my friends to "get out". That was the real world in 1969.

I remember my older brother telling me about this "great music festival" that happened and some of the greatest bands of all time were there. I remember it was important to him that I knew about this. He was murdered in 1983 after having fathered 3 kids in a bank robbery gone wrong.I feel the need to know more about this iconic moment in history that was so important to him.Chris I think I know what you were trying to say now.Your message is still here if we want to hear it ! Peace and warm winds to you brother !

🙏 RIP ✌ MICHAEL LANG JANUARY 2022

I was there, I was 9 years old. First 2 days was great but Sunday rain and everything turn in mud. Didn't have enough Porta potties. Sunday I wanted to go home, but nobody could leave. Traffic jam city, people park everywhere.

The times were a changing and for a brief time for us in attendance was the center of the world. What a great time for just being. Being there was a taste of heaven on earth . From gwyn and James Spokane Washington

In England many of us had been into the great American bands for a couple of years now and had seen many - Canned Heat, Taj Mahal, Spirit, Love, Beefheart. Our own bands seen were Cream, Hendrix, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd. We saw Woodstock on the big screen and free concerts in Hyde Park later in the year saw The Stones and Blind Faith. Grace's White Rabbit a tour de force. You can see from these pictures that they were just young people, not hippies. Magical years.

My oldest brother went.He came back from concert and said I am going in the Navy

I was only 11 in '69 but I knew that one day I would be a hippy. I went to the early Glastonbury festivals before it was surrounded by fences. Happy, hazey days. Far out, as we said back then. Still a peace and love hippy at heart but more of a free' spirit. High on the spirit of the Divine' rather than pot. ✌️💜

Micheal Lang was a visionary. Irregardless of failures he pushed on. RIP Micheal. Lest we forget… Woodstock took place during a viral pandemic.

May some day sooner than later the love and peace of the message of Woodstock music festival be reignited again and remain in my lifetime. Too much hate being spewed by hate groups who use propaganda to spread their hateful rhetoric. Fascist thinking is not acceptable to a free loving country.

It's a real shame Iron Butterfly didn't play, they were superb. The Guitar work was astounding, they were exellent live. I expect they really regreted not tripling their efforts to attend.

Ahhhh Yah, Music Festival 4 Peace & Luuuuv. My 4th Grade Teacher at Sunset View Elementary School San Diego Cali. Mr. Green (R.I.P. 🙌🙏🙌🙏) Was therevall 3 day's & he brought in his " 💯 Whole In Tact Ticket, Cuz the Gates were Crashed & people Stormed to get in & hus Ticket waw Never Torn, he Framed it in a Two way Glass Frame, I got to hold it like for a Few Minutes & I had heard so Much about it. It was at the 5th Year Anniversary in 1974, Just when I started 4th Grade, I was in Summer Sports & he was getting ready for the New School Year & I was going to be in His Class & we got to talking & sure enough he brought his Class Framed Whole Woodstock Ticket for me to see. I'll Never forget that Experience with My Favorite Elementary School Teacher Mr. Green & him showing me his Most Prized Position💙🩵🙌✌️✌️✌️✌️

Truly sucks that this generation will never have a great concert with peace and music

I fuckin wish i was at woodstock. Im waiting for our generation to get this.

i was born in Woodstock in 62. my older sister worked as a caretaker, and lived at Michael Lang's estate on Yerry hill road. i met him many times, and always said hi when i would see him at festivals like mountain jam. i shoveled the snow off the walkways at big pink while my sister's boyfriend plowed the driveway with his truck. i sold firewood to Levon Helm, and worked at the Joyous lake. i did a walkabout at fourteen years old...and my first stop when i started hitchhiking south was at Yasgur's farm, and got to meet Max and his wife. we sat on their porch and reminissed about the festival, and then Max pointed to a good spot to camp for the night before travelling on the next day.

Extraordinary time and place, The most perfect peaceful time and music .❤

i was only 5yrs old then, I remember my mother talking to friends and her sister in German, how she wanted to be there so badly, but couldn't cause i was only 5.

Didn't realize it was this weekend. Some reason I had to hear this music 🎶 today. Aloha and stay happy

Thank you for an amazing explanation of this iconic festival. I was 6 years old and remember the radio stations played a lot of that music of the time. I still think the best music came from the 60's and 70's because it lives on.

A well crafted, comprehensive and informative documentary.

I wa8s seven years old at the time of Woodstock and can remember the Hippies in my neighborhood chilling out smoking weed wearing bellbottoms and donning red Gandhi dots on their foreheads there was a beautiful 15 year old girl Jessica who lived upstairs in my apartment in Islip NY she took me in and liked me hanging out with her and her friends when they would chill and relax and just enjoy the love of one another's company they were very excepting an loving of everyone and everything and very much close in contrast with the theme of Woodstock and what it stood for I feel as if I was there in spirt through my love and being accepted by these people who called Hippies so yeah I consider myself a left back Hippie always will be some say that the festival didn't change anything but in my humble opinion I most certainly did it has been the sole reason for many festivals to happen there after and I believe that the powers that be realized that Music is ultimately more powerful than anything in the world it the one thing they can't take away from us and that SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF THEM and in essence LOVE CONQUERS ALL let's hope and pray can all be safe and live well in the days and years to come cause this world needs more than can be said now stay well ❤️ Dr.K Ish

I'm 74 now, and the best three days I ever lived was at Woodstock, and I still can't explain it.......I guess you had to be there.

Thanks for posting a magical festival. Forever young. Congrats. ,,Flower Power Play, Life is Art,, Make love, not war,, PEACE AND LOVE. Fabulous comments. Good time for you

Great interview with Richie Havens and Arlo Guthrie. Both Robbie Robertson and Levon Helm (of The Band) give an entire different perspective in their respective bio-books. RIP Mike, Richie and Levon. From what I've read "The Band" was a "headliner" and lived in Woodstock, yet NONE of their performance was in the movie due to objections from Albert Grossman. He also objected to their (original) version of "The Weight" being used in the official Easy Rider soundtrack and was quite upset when he saw it used in the film. Grossman objected to his stable of artists "encouraging" drug use.

I was only 5 years old at the time and many say it was the end of the hippie era. However, it was the beginning of great 70s rock bands such as STYX, Journey, KISS, ACDC, etc. I love listening to all of the interviews and documentaries about Woodstock. One little known fact is that on day 4, the cleanup period on Yasgur's farm was at the same time that Hurricane Camille had hours earlier made landfall on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Take it from an old hippie....pay a visit to the site. The grounds and museum and cultural center are really fantastic...AND...you will feel that spirit again! Maybe the way we looked seems funny to people now....but you know what? WE WERE RIGHT!

America was a different country back then. Almost like night and day. I wonder if Jimi is looking down from heaven...

This is my third time watching, with years sometimes between, I watch to remember, I had come home from Vietnam in early 68" I came home to friends who had changed alot, so a year later we jumped into a van and made it to Woodstock, we were living in New York city, so we heard about pretty early, each time I watch this I personally think of friends who I lost in Vietnam and the fact I made it home meant I was always going them in my memory, wishing they were next to me, I always felt uncomfortable when the subject was brought up the solice I had when I heard when some people would say that the service man's duty was part of the reason why this was possible, I don't know because I don't believe that was the feeling that most of the people were thinking in that way, but in anycase I enjoyed it, and especially the music, unfortunately for everyone that enduring feeling of everything would move forward didn't last as long as it should have, because change started to become forced, what should have been a natural forward movement, became a forced idea to change a generation now not letting people assimilate the change proved divisive and led to a slow agonizing and angry trudging move for change, I had hoped we could move together changing what was needed to reach the changes needed, like the coming together at Woodstock had started has not yet started, but I believe it can and must, but this is a very different and difficult world we live in, I'll be gone but I hope that everyone together realizes the only way to that lies in respecting each other, and understanding this world we live in.

PEACE AND LOVE

I was 14...dad made it clear, don't come home if you go. Goddess, but I wanted to be there. Hippy? Yeah...that's me. Did we get the vinyl and see the movie? The question is how many times. It was the times. Something was sweeping the country for a number of years and it all ran downhill to become Woodstock. Nothing else like it since. In Hendrix's words... "It was beautiful." I count myself really lucky to have been alive. Monterey opened the door. Woodstock lives forever in my heart.

I DID go. I enjoyed myself. My dad forbade me but I was a Free Spirited Butterfly. I was up near the front stage. I got high the first time .I was 17

Brings back fond memories, very groovy... thanks so much!

Yes it changed our lives and the World forever. Thank you for proving Peace and Love is possible! We just have to want it! 🕊💖🎶💃🏻🕺🕺🏽🕺🏼💃🏼💃🏽💞🎶🎸🎷🎹🥁🎻🎺📻👑🕯🙏🏻

In my opinion it was about freedom. A chance to get away from all the rules and regulations and let your hair down for a few days. They didn't go nuts like the establishment thought. They were civil, kind and generous. And peaceful. Could some of the planning been better? Sure. But the end result was a big success. By the way, I was 14 in August of '69 and not aware of the event until the documentary and album came out. And to this day, I am totally fascinated by the whole Woodstock story.

1969... Peace and Love.

I Loved every moment of this! Happy Hippie FriYey to All of you Beautiful Souls ☮️ I offer you Flowers in exchange for Bullets ✌️💖🐦🎼 🌻🌹🌷🌺💐 ♥️☮️♥️✌️

This was great, I was 10 when it played, 10 years older and I would have been there.

I'm so glad i didn't go. i lived in California at the time and we could see all of those bands on a regular basis at much smaller venues . of course it wasn't that special atmosphere that Wood stock became known for but there were a lot of outdoor concerts that year that were incredible and we went home after and slept in our comfy beds .😂 i never had a moments regret about not attending and i also know it was a very special time many will never forget 🙏❤️😎