Documentary Chronicling The Disastrous Woodstock 99 Festival Has Hit Australian Screens

The Woodstock '99: Peace, Love, And Rage documentary has hit Australia, airing now on Foxtel streaming service Binge. 

The doco takes a deep look into the events pertaining to the ill-fated 1999 music festival which featured massive names of the era like Limp Bizkit, Rage Against The Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Metallica, and even featured Aussie talent Ben Lee and comedy duo The Umbilical Brothers.

However, a number of contributing factors including excessive summer heat, overcrowding, and insufficient staffing resulted in the festival devolving into riots, looting, fires and more. Consequently, Woodstock '99 has earned the title "the day the nineties died."

The documentary looks to unpack the various elements of the festival that lead to this perfect storm: analysing the despondent and anarchic nature of '90s music, the ambitious desire to recreate the energy of the original Woodstock, and how nostalgia is not always what it's cracked up to be.

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Created by documentarian Bill Simmons, Woodstock '99: Peace, Love, And Rage is part of a new series for HBO entitled Music Box - which dives into some of the most famous and infamous moments of 20th and 21st century music. 

The next in the series to premiere is Jagged - which looks at the legacy and incredible behind-the-scenes story of Alanis Morisette's iconic 1995 release, Jagged Little Pill.

Woodstock '99: Peace, Love, And Rage is available for streaming on Binge now. Check out the trailer below.