Trainwreck: Woodstock '99 | Official Trailer | Netflix

Woodstock ‘99 was supposed to be a millennium-defining celebration of peace, love and great music. Instead, the festival degenerated into an epic trainwreck of fires, riots and destruction. Utilizing rare insider footage and eyewitness interviews with an impressive list of festival staffers, performers and attendees, this docuseries goes behind the scenes to reveal the egos, greed and music that fueled three days of utter chaos.

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Trainwreck: Woodstock '99 | Official Trailer | Netflix

Woodstock 1969 promised peace and music, but its '99 revival delivered three days of rage, riots and real harm. Why did it go so horribly wrong?

[EvanSol]

As someone who hates crowds, heat and filth this seems like an absolute nightmare - and that's before the violence.

[morganleanderblake]

One of my family friends was there. She said it was inevitable, from the moment they arrived. Everything was too expensive, there was zero organization and no security. Any public place with people is gonna have a certain percentage that wants to hurt people. If you don't have security, you're just making a powder keg. She and her friend slept in their car because women weren't safe in tents. They came back to their tents destroyed and their stuff stolen.

[ChrisLawton]

I'll never forget the food stand called Common Ground. They were an oasis amidst the chaos. Good, reasonably priced food, clean (unlike everywhere else). They had workers sweeping in front of their stall and emptying the trash. At times they even had a few of them out front performing acoustic music. I went there at least a half dozen times between Saturday and Sunday. Wish I had found them on Friday.

[ImranPirani]

My favorite line was when the security guard mentioned -you can't blame limp bizkit for what happened - it's like blaming a bear for being a bear. Also when Scher said woodstock was like a small city, alluding to crime and violence will happen - well Scher a city has armed trained police officers as well, and your peace patrol approach was a disaster.

[wurstgitarre]

I just watched all three parts. And while rape of course is always inexcusible no matter the circumstances, I have at least some understanding for the riots. as several people have stated they were treated like animals. So it backfired. How can you cut on security and sanitation and forbid people to bring their own water when it's like 38 C° out there?!
This John Scher guy especially seems to be a money-grabbing, insensitive asshole. Not one word of regret regarding the disastrous organisation. It was only the attendants and the bands who encouraged them to violent behavior. Yeah, right. He also said:

"Woodstock was like a small city, you know? All things considered, I’d say that there would probably be as many or more rapes in any sized city of that… but it wasn’t anything that gained enough momentum so that it caused any on-site issues, other than, of course, the women it happened to."

What a f*cking asshole.

[NATESOR]

Its funny to think about how some of the people that were involved in this are now making facebook posts about how terrible millennials and zoomers are.

[ICLight]

I was there, I’m fortunate nothing bad happened to me or my GF I went with. We seen crazy things but didn’t witness anything, well yes seen all the craziness but none of the girls being violated. It was a perfect storm with it being all about money, extreme heat, heavy music, large percent of crowd is young men drugged up, horny with naked women running around, little security, water expensive with hardly any there. The water there got contaminated as bathroom facilities turned into outhouses with no care. It was inevitable for what happened and amazed we had a decent time with all this happening. I’ve always wondered if they’d let us bring water in would’ve it changed anything or still same out come?

Edit: when we left after RHCP, everything burning, we couldn’t find her car. We just layed down n slept in the parking lot. To whoever put red blinking lights all over us, TY!! We could’ve got ran over. When we woke up we looked like a Xmas tree with blinking red lights everywhere 😂 still, it was a guardian on us.

[brandonizaguirre]

Just saw all 3 episodes in a row and damn! What a ride. Netflix absolutely kills it with the documentaries.

[azzu]

Netflix should rebrand as the prime documentary streamer. It's the one area where they do not miss

[ΝΑΤΑΜ]

After watching the doc I have only one thing to say: my respects for Bush and especially Gavin Rossdale. He is the example of understanding who you are, where you are and how your behavior can create chaos or peace. Unlike others as portrayed in the doc.

[steven]

Finished watching it all tonight and I must say for someone who wasn’t alive during the event, they did a damn good job showing what it was like

[IzzysTravelDiaries]

As someone who studied event planning, the moment I saw the area, I knew one of the core problems. We learn that above all, cover the basic human needs. Everyone putting on events should watch this. This is what you should never do.

[elitegamer]

Just finished watching all 3 episodes and I have to say this was an amazing documentary

[damienhughes]

Having seen 2/3 of this doc I can say that the trailer doesn't quite do it justice. The doc did a good job of pulling together the key failings of the organisers and not simply placing blame on the punters. Michael Lang didn't even know who Korn and Limp Biscuit were! Put him together with John Scher, the biggest hawk out for cutting costs and profit maximisation and you can see it was already set to explode before the first people arrived. So much for curating a show. Biggest takeaway for me is how soulless festivals have become in the last 25 years.

[mollynash]

I watched all episodes last night. I feel like they did a good job highlighting the problems that lead up to the mayhem on the last night. I don't feel like they blamed the music as much as the poor organization and cutting the budget to important things like waste management. Michael Lang was so adamant that the event had to make a profit, he ignored other important aspects like waste management, location, and security. I didn't know the event took place on a decommissioned military base so most of the area was asphalt and there was very little ways people could get out of the sun.
I feel like Michael Lang and a few other organizers were STILL in denial and blamed everything on just a few a-holes.

[roxymang]

I found that this whole documentary was like an analogy for society and how putting profits above people’s safety and well being causes resentment and anger… kinda eerie

[moose]

I was there, and for the most part I have fond memories. My group of friends and I, left early the last day because you could feel the tension in the air. By the time we got home, after an eight hour drive, we witnessed the total shit show it turned into on pay per view that my family was watching all weekend. I also had one of the worst sun burns in my life because there wasn’t any shade from the hottest weekends of that year.

[luispena]

First of all you had Limp Bizkit as the headliner at a Peace & Love festival...

[lastspoonleft]

I was invited and opted not to go. I remember watching it on MTV and watched the mayhem unfold in real time as they kept filming.
WS '99 was such a blatant harbinger for what was to come in the 21st century. The gift of hindsight.

[iantoney]

It was over 100 degrees all 3 days on an old air force base that was almost all asphalt with no shade and they were charging 15 bucks for a bottle of water.
So yeah, we was pissed!