VH1, History Team to Celebrate Anniversary of Woodstock

NEW YORK: In commemorating the 40th anniversary of the legendary Woodstock music festival, VH1 and History have come together to create an original documentary slated to air on both channels in August.

Tentatively titled Woodstock: 40 Years Later, the two-hour documentary examines the event from the perspective of the musicians, fans, concert promoters and others whose contribution helped shape the historic festival. The project will air this August on VH1 and VH1 Classic and History. The film is directed by two-time Academy Award-winning filmmaker Barbara Kopple and executive produced by Michael Lang, the original festival organizer.

VH1 has also partnered with Warner Home Video on several cross-marketing initiatives in support of each other’s Woodstock-related projects. Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music, the four-hour director’s cut of the 1970 Oscar-winning documentary about the landmark music event, will be released this summer in a spectacular new Blu-ray and DVD Ultimate Collector’s Edition (UCE). The two extra hours of rare performance footage includes parts that are newly-discovered, some only seen in part and some never seen at all.

Woodstock: 40 Years Later is the newest film in the Emmy Award-winning VH1 Rock Doc franchise. It is also part of History’s celebration of the historic events that took place during the summer of 1969. History will premiere a series of new specials that also include Moonshot and The Sexual Revolution.