Documentary · Music
American
1970 · Directed by Albert Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin & David Maysles · 92 min
A documentary that follows the Rolling Stones across the United States in late 1969, at the height of their fame, and ends with a free concert in California. There is no narrator and no interviews: the cameras simply stay close to the band, the crowds and the people around them.
Why it matters in cinema history
A defining film of direct cinema applied to popular music, and one of the central screen documents of the late-1960s counterculture and the rock concert as a public event.
Watch with intention
Watch it as a study of how a camera that never intervenes still shapes what we understand about the people in front of it.
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