Movie
1970
Gimme Shelter is a 1970 American documentary film directed by Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin chronicling the last weeks of the Rolling Stones' 1969 US tour which culminated in the disastrous Altamont Free Concert and the killing of Meredith Hunter. The film is named after "Gimme Shelter", the lead track from the group's 1969 album Let It Bleed. Gimme Shelter was screened out of competition as the…
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Michael Wadleigh’s *Woodstock* (1970) is frequently lauded as the quintessential rockumentary, a euphoric chronicle of peace, music, and communal utopia. Yet, for those seeking not just nostalgic reverie but a deeper interrogation of the 1960s counterculture, its spiritual successor—and grim antithesis—offers a far more sobering perspective. *Gimme Shelter*, released the same year and directed by Albert and David Ma…More
