August 15th 1969 was a day that went down in popular music culture when nearly 500 000 people descended on the infamous site of woodstock to listen to 26 now legendary artists over a 3 day period an enthralling documentary about the creation of woodstock it contains drama humour and recaptures those heady days of the hippie movement when young people really believed that they could change the world amazingly this historic event almost never happened a series of near catastrophes conspired