The classic concert film “Gimme Shelter” chronicles The Rolling Stones’ 1969 tour. Gimme Shelter features such songs as Brown Sugar, Sympathy for the Devil, I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction and others.
Particular attention in the film is given to the tragic events that took place at the Rolling Stones concert in Altamont: during the performance of the group, an armed guard killed one of the spectators.
Called the greatest rock film ever made, this landmark documentary follows the Rolling Stones on their notorious 1969 U.S. tour. When three hundred thousand members of the Love Generation collided with a few dozen Hells Angels at San Francisco’s Altamont Speedway, Direct Cinema pioneers David and Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin were there to immortalize on film the bloody slash that transformed a decade’s dreams into disillusionment.