Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist.Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. He did his best. About 300,000 people came, and the organizers put Hell's Angels in charge of security around the stage. It makes you see why the 60s was so f-ed up. Part of the problem is that the Stones hired the Hells Angels as security. A concert film taken from two Rolling Stones concerts during their 1972 North American tour.

With Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Mick Taylor, Charlie Watts.

Other bands performing included Jefferson Airplane, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Ike and Tina Turner, Crosby Stills Nash and Young and Santana. 1969. The 1970 documentary film Gimme Shelter, directed by Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, chronicling the last weeks of the Stones' 1969 US tour and culminating in the disastrous Altamont Free Concert, took its name from the song. Called the greatest rock film ever made, this landmark documentary follows the Rolling Stones on their notorious 1969 U.S. tour. Mick Jagger testifying to their culpability in the wake of the Altamont free concert disaster. Was this review helpful to you? Gimme Shelter (1970) The fickle nature of documentary production has caused some drastic changes in course for more than a few filmmakers over the years, with the random nature of real life often causing a shift in subject matter entirely during production.

People are being beaten with sticks and women are crying, but the show goes on. A film account and presentation of the final concert of Armed with pool cues and knifes, Angels spent the concert beating up spectators, killing at least one. Gimme Shelter, a documentary on some of their 1969 concert material, interestingly weaves the concert footage with a little mayhem that was occurring at one of their concerts, that ultimately ended in tragedy.
You've got British concert promoters playing the stereotypes to a tee. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1970 Pitman Pressing Vinyl release of Gimme Shelter on Discogs. The other problem was that a large portion of the crowd were high on drugs. The film chronicle of the legendary 1969 music festival. You've got hippies using the words, "groovy."

The 1970 documentary Gimme Shelter, directed by Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, captures the end of that tour. A harrowing documentary of the Stones' 1969 tour, with much of the focus on the tragic concert at Altamont.

However, the main focus of the film is on one concert - Altamont Speedway, outside San Francisco, 6 December 1969. A harrowing documentary of the Stones' 1969 tour, with much of the focus on the tragic concert at Altamont. If the foundations of WOODSTOCK were to give us any hope in a hippie ideal, they were not there for THE ROLLING STONES. But, then comes Altamont. Friction ensues. An old mother and her middle-aged daughter, the aunt and cousin of

It's a fascinating brief glimpse at some of the darker sides … "Gimme Shelter" has been played in a variety of movies and television shows/commercials. Directed by Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin. I can't get enough of Mick Jagger in his prime.

Watching "Gimme Shelter" is akin to witnessing a court deposition with the Rolling Stones i.e. The peace and love era of the 60s was over.In December of 1969, four months after Woodstock, the Rolling Stones and Jefferson Airplane gave a free concert in Northern California, east of Oakland at Altamont Speedway. We see footage of their concerts and of them making the Sticky Fingers album in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. A film about the greatest pre-Woodstock rock music festival. Part of the problem is that the Stones hired the Hells Angels as security.

And, there's a freeze on him at the end, just as the roaring guitar of Keith Richards explodes into "Gimme Shelter." Gimme Shelter est un film réalisé par David Maysles et Charlotte Zwerin avec The Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger. However, it is far from being the peace and love of Woodstock. With Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Mick Taylor, Charlie Watts. 36 of 50 people found this review helpful. The Hells Angels are brutal.

Friction ensues. And, so we point the finger. Yes, this was the end of peace/love. They get angry and they get picked on. Use the HTML below.