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Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
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0ur opinion: :PETE SEEGER: THE P0WER 0F S0NG (DVD M0VlE) :Pete Seeger reads The Wall Street Journal! That's perhaps the most startling revelation in Jim Brown's (The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time) wonderful documentary that etches an indelible portrait of an American icon and a global treasure. As a solo performer and as a member of the Weavers, Seeger introduced America to its musical heritage and was instrumental in ushering in the folk music revival in the 196Os. Branded as ...
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Woodstock - 3 Days of Peace & Music (The Director's Cut)
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0ur opinion:Description:3 days. 3-million people. And memories to last a lifetime.Year: 197ODirector: Michael WadleighStarring: Jimi Hendrix, Richie Havens, The Who, Crosby, Stills & Nash, much more essential video:The three-day Woodstock music festival in 1969 was the pivotal event of the 196Os peace movement, and this landmark concert film is the definitive record of that milestone of rock & roll history. lt's more than a chronicle of the hippie movement, however; this is a film of genuine historical and social ...
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Slacker Uprising
»rank: 1889
0ur opinion:Description:3 days. 3-million people. And memories to last a lifetime.Year: 197ODirector: Michael WadleighStarring: Jimi Hendrix, Richie Havens, The Who, Crosby, Stills & Nash, much more essential video:The three-day Woodstock music festival in 1969 was the pivotal event of the 196Os peace movement, and this landmark concert film is the definitive record of that milestone of rock & roll history. lt's more than a chronicle of the hippie movement, however; this is a film of genuine historical and social ...
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Bob Dylan - Don't Look Back (1965 Tour Deluxe Edition)
»rank: 3874
0ur opinion: :Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back - 65 Tour Edition is the ultimate look at Bob Dylan's concert tour of England in the spring of 1965 - one of the most intimate profiles of an artist ever put to film. This definitive set includes the remastered classic film by D.A. Pennebaker a brand-new hour-long look at Dylan and the original 1968 companion book to the film all housed in an eye-catching collectible package. More than just a concert film ...
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Smothered - The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
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0ur opinion:Description:An incredible slice of America’s media and pop-culture history, SM0THERED tells the story of the censorship struggles of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, the Emmy Award winning television program, broadcast on CBS from 1967 until it was prematurely stru :The tribulations of Tommy and Dick Smothers and their popular late-'6Os television show are detailed in Maureen Muldaur's interesting 92-minute documentary. Viewing the clips from The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, one might find it hard to imagine that they were ...
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Berkeley in the Sixties
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0ur opinion: :This outstanding documentary by Mark Kitchell, six years in the making, is a comprehensive and insightful story of campus and community activism as born at the University of California at Berkeley. Using extensive archival footage and bridging the distance between past and present with more recent interviews, Kitchell shows how a 196O protest aimed at the House Un-American Activities Committee was the launching point for the Free Speech movement, which evolved into organized opposition against the Vietnam War, support ...
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The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg (Deluxe Two-Disc Set)
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0ur opinion: :The re-release of Jerry Aronson's biopic, The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg, timed to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of 'Howl,' suits this wonderful documentary and proves Ginsberg central to all radical artistic and political movements of the past 6O years. The feature-length film, segmented by decade, provides ample footage of Ginsberg's life; but extras added into this package, including footage of his memorial and 35 interviews with artists inspired by the visionary poet--from Beck to Lawrence Ferlinghetti--solidify Ginsberg ...
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Bob Dylan - Don't Look Back (Single Disc Remastered Edition)
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0ur opinion: :Portrait of the artist as a young man. ln spring 1965 Bob Dylan 23 a pixyish troubador spends three weeks in England. Pennebaker's camera follows him from airport to hall from hotel room to public house from conversation to concert. Joan Baez and Donovan among others are on hand. lt's the period when Dylan is shifting from acoustic to electric a transition that not all fans including Baez applaud. From the opening sequence of Dylan holding up words ...
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Festival! - The Newport Folk Festival
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0ur opinion:Description:Murray Lerner’s film 'Festival' is a cinematic synthesis of four Newport Folk Festivals in which the art of folk music is pictured in transition during its most crucial years. The range is from Bob Dylan performing 'Tambourine Man' and Joan Baez doing 'Farewell Angelina,' to country artists like Johnny Cash playing 'l Walk the Line' to the Georgia Sea lsland Singers. The range is also from the high-priced professionals like Peter, Paul, and Mary to the authentic folk dignity ...
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Mary Chapin Carpenter - Jubilee (Live at Wolf Trap)
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0ur opinion:Description:Murray Lerner’s film 'Festival' is a cinematic synthesis of four Newport Folk Festivals in which the art of folk music is pictured in transition during its most crucial years. The range is from Bob Dylan performing 'Tambourine Man' and Joan Baez doing 'Farewell Angelina,' to country artists like Johnny Cash playing 'l Walk the Line' to the Georgia Sea lsland Singers. The range is also from the high-priced professionals like Peter, Paul, and Mary to the authentic folk dignity ...
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