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Gimme Shelter

Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin
| USA
| 1970
| 91 min

Perhaps the greatest rock film ever made, this landmark documentary follows The Rolling Stones on their notorious 1969 US tour. When 300,000 members of the Love Generation collided with a few dozen Hells Angels at San Francisco’s Altamont Speedway, the Maysles were there to immortalise on film the bloody clash that transformed a decade’s dreams into disillusionment.

Director
Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin
Producer
Porter Bibb
Section
Retrospective
Festival Year
2014