“Woodstock” involved filmmakers who figure in this year’s awards ceremony. By Alissa Wilkinson The best documentary award became part of the Oscars in 1942, and the list of winners is genuinely ...
In 1969, 500,000 people descended on a small patch of field in a little-known town in upstate New York called Woodstock. In this documentary, the iconic event is chronicled in unflinching detail, from ...
Even if you’re not nuts about the music of Joan Baez, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and others (I’m not), the film is worth watching for its portrait of people at a striking moment in time. An Oscar ...