Festival
1967 · Movie · 97 min · ★ 6.0 · 95% critics
This black-and-white documentary captures the Newport Folk Festival across several early-1960s years, mixing music performances with backstage moments, audience scenes, and brief interviews. It offers a broad look at folk, blues, and bluegrass while reflecting on what the music meant to the people gathering around it.
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Details
- Years
- 1967
- Release date
- 1967-10-23
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Critic score
- 95/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.0/10 (12 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you like archival music documentaries, folk and blues history, or the live-event feel of The Last Waltz or Wattstax; Not for you if you want full songs, clear chronology, or lots of explanation.
Pros: rich musical variety; vivid time-capsule feel; intimate festival atmosphere | Cons: uneven structure; many songs cut short; limited background context
Themes
- musical
Awards & recognition
- Academy Award — Best Documentary Feature Film · 1968 · nominated
Cast & crew
- HB
Horton Barker
as Self
- FB
Fiddler Beers
as Self
Theodore Bikel
as Self
Pete Seeger
as Self
Bob Dylan
as Self
Howlin' Wolf
as Self
Donovan
as Self
Johnny Cash
as Self
Judy Collins
as Self
- MB
Mike Bloomfield
as Self
Directed by Murray Lerner