Fifty years on, this Timeline production goes back inside the 1969 festival that Michael Lang and his partners built on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York. Archival concert footage and news reports sit alongside interviews with people who were there, tracing how a half-million attendees, mud, food shortages, and a lineup running from Jimi Hendrix to Janis Joplin turned three chaotic days into a cultural touchstone. The film follows the logistics that nearly sank the event, the last-minute decision to make it free when the fences came down, and the surrounding context of Vietnam-era unrest that gave the crowd its sense of purpose. It also traces what came after: how Woodstock reshaped the concert business, influenced later festivals, and became shorthand for a generation's politics. Rather than just replaying the highlight reel, it treats the event as history, weighing the myth against the muddy, underprepared reality that organizers were scrambling to manage in real time.