Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage

6.5

2021

110 mins

DocumentaryMusic

Explore Woodstock 99, a three-day music festival promoted to echo unity and counterculture idealism of the original 1969 concert but instead devolved into riots, looting and sexual assaults.

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