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I recommend Woodstock very highly, it's definitely one of the best rock documentaries. It captures a lot of great performances by a lot of different bands. Check out the list of artists who appear, it's quite a who's who, and no pun intended. The movie also does a great job of showing the context of the concert, with lots of footage of the crowd, and other background material. If you have a choice, the director's cut is even better than the original theatrical release. And even longer, so you might need a few viewing sessions to get through the whole thing. But either way it's really well done, and edited by Martin Scorsese by the way.

I watched it not too long ago, and I'm a big fan. It's a bit shocking though to see so many sincere hippies and semi-hippies. Yes, there really was a time when people said that something was "groovy", and they weren't being ironic or sarcastic. It's really nice to see that, uplifting almost, but I felt like the movie should have started with a giant crawl saying, "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...."

Its that old culture in most cities that is thriving - record stores, health food stores, Jamaican restaurants, vintage clothstores...