Woodstock '99
Rome, New York, an air force base with no shade, four-dollar water and burning trailers. The heat, the assaults reported afterwards, the fires during the closing set, the inquiries, and the documentaries that went back to work out what went wrong.
Part of Woodstock
13 moments in this segment.
- - A station's full Woodstock '99 archive. Rochester's 13WHAM assembles its own July 1999 reporting from Rome, covering the heat, the overcrowding, the water shortages and the final-night violence.
- - MTV's 1999 documentary on the festival. MTV's contemporaneous documentary about Woodstock '99, broadcast in the aftermath.
- - WTVH Syracuse reports the disorder. Local Syracuse news anchors Keith Kobland and Donna Adamo report on the breakdown of order at Woodstock '99 in Rome, New York.
- - 22 July 1999: the gates open at Rome. AP's On This Day item on the 225,000 people who arrived at the former Griffiss Air Force Base for Woodstock '99.
- - CBS 6 report, 26 July 1999. Richmond station's archive of its 26 July 1999 report on the final night of Woodstock '99.
- - Trailer: Peace, Love, and Rage. HBO's trailer for Garret Price's 2021 documentary, the first film in the Music Box series, on how Woodstock '99 collapsed.
- - Garret Price on Woodstock 99. Interview with director Garret Price on the day his HBO documentary about the 1999 festival premiered.
- - Trailer: Trainwreck: Woodstock '99. Netflix trailer for the 2022 series built from insider footage and interviews with festival staff and performers.
- - The filmmakers on Trainwreck. Long interview with the makers of the Netflix series about what their research found behind the three days at Griffiss.
- - Jamie Crawford's Netflix series. Trailer for the Netflix documentary series directed by Jamie Crawford examining why the 1999 revival went so badly wrong.
- - Reviewing the HBO film with its director. A documentary podcast reviews 'Peace, Love, and Rage' and interviews director Garrett Price about his approach to the material.
- - What really happened at Woodstock '99. A summary of the documented causes of the 1999 breakdown: extreme heat, water pricing, thin security and an overwhelmed site.
- - VH1 Rock Story on Woodstock '99. VH1's documentary account of the 1999 festival and what went wrong at Griffiss.
