As far as music festivals go, you’re not going to top Woodstock in 1969.

It was the centrepiece of a cultural revolution, had the greatest music line-up of all time (observe), and there wasn’t a single influencer waving a camera around desperately for likes.

You can’t beat that.

Now a new doccie, Woodstock: Three Days that Defined a Generation, is looking back at the iconic festival, and what it meant in the broader scheme of things.

This from the official PBS trailer:

With never-before-seen footage, it tells the story of the political and social upheaval leading up to those three historic days, as well as the extraordinary events of the concert itself, when near disaster put the ideals of the counterculture to the test.

What took place in that teaming mass of humanity — the rain-soaked, starving, tripping, half-a-million strong throng of young people — was nothing less than a miracle of unity, a manifestation of the “peace and love” the festival had touted, and a validation of the counterculture’s promise to the world…

Directed by award-winning filmmaker Barak Goodman and written by Goodman and Don Kleszy, WOODSTOCK takes us back to the three days that defined a generation.

Yeah, it looked like one hell of a good time:

I wonder if, just like AfrikaBurn, people returned to work afterwards and insisted on telling anybody who would listen about their life-changing experience?

No Facebook or Instagram either for online validation – they must have been insufferable.

The new doccie has some work to do if it wants to rival the most iconic Woodstock doccie of all, simply titled Woodstock, which won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature back in 1971.

You know, the one where Joe Cocker is off his rocker:

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