Released on Netflix as a three-part mini-series, airing on instant streaming, August 2nd in the US.
Filming location(s) unknown.
The story: The Woodstock festival of 1969 was something no one in the world had ever seen.
It became a special time that brought hope to the young people of the world.
Woodstock 1994 was a small attempt to bring back that amazing kind of energy, but it flopped.
Flopped as in, the music was fantastic, yes but the festival made no money.
When festival founder Michael Lang wanted to give Woodstock one more shot at being successful in 1999, he brought in the help of a music promoter who believed it to be a possibility.
But from the beginning, things weren't handled correctly.
First and foremost, the producers of the festival were way out of the loop when it came to the generation they were putting a show on for in the first place.
They had no idea about what could and would go legitimately wrong.
From taking the attendees' food and beverages as soon as they arrived, not having a strict budget for food, water, and medical emergencies, and an underskilled lack of security, things quickly got out of hand.
What was meant to be the biggest three-day party turned into a sexually aggressive, seriously dangerous, and completely unsanitary hell for the attendees as well as all the staff.
There was a Pay Per View that showed all the raunchy antics that were going on.
ABC News covered each day and MTV also covered the show.
But MTV quickly became a target of the crowd due to the crowd believing MTV represented corporate sell-out.
Consumerism became blatantly apparent and it was pissing people off one by one to the point of complete and absolute chaotic destruction.
Although the extreme heat, the absent-minded increasing anger of many attendees, mixed with alcohol and drug intake with an extreme lack of any kind of respect was definitely not helping matters.
But through all the warnings before and during the show, it went on til the bitter end, leaving a vast wasteland and problems that would cost millions to clean up and repair.
Stars David Blaustein , Ananda Lewis , Colin Spier , Michael Lang , John Scher , Pilar Law , Lee RosenBlatt , Jonathan Davis , Gavin Rossdale , Jewel Kilcher , Lisa Law , Tim Healy , AJ Srybnik
Directed by Jamie Crawford
Rated TVMA
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"It's not your parents Woodstock."
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