Gimme Shelter

Name: Gimme Shelter
Director: Albert Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin, David Maysles
Genre: Documentary, Music
Released: 1970
Duration: 1 h 32 min
Rating: 7.3

The music that thrilled the world… and the killing that stunned it!

1970·Directed by Albert Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin, David Maysles·4·1h 32m

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Documentary Music United States of America

The landmark documentary about the tragically ill-fated Rolling Stones free concert at Altamont Speedway on December 6, 1969. Only four months earlier, Woodstock defined the Love Generation; now it lay in ruins on a desolate racetrack six miles outside of San Francisco.

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“Gimme Shelter is like Greek tragedy.”

James Franco

Actor, Comedian, Director

“This is documentary in the purest sense: a document. It's real and sickening, and it feels dirty to watch. And yet there's something weirdly redemptive about the fact that the Maysles were there.”