Gimme Shelter is a 1970 documentary directed by Albert Maysles, David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, following the Rolling Stones' 1969 United States tour and culminating in the free concert at Altamont Speedway, where a member of the Hells Angels serving as security fatally stabbed an audience member, Meredith Hunter, in an incident captured on camera. Filmed largely in the direct cinema observational style, the documentary shows the band and its organizers reviewing the concert footage after the fact as they confront what had happened. Gimme Shelter is widely regarded as a landmark of rock-and-roll documentary filmmaking and is frequently cited as symbolically marking the end of the 1960s countercultural era.
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Where does the title Gimme Shelter come from?
It is named after the lead track of the Rolling Stones' 1969 album Let It Bleed.
The film takes its title from the lead track of the Rolling Stones' 1969 album Let It Bleed. It was screened out of competition as the opening film of the 1971 Cannes Film Festival.
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Gimme Shelter is a 1970 American documentary film directed by Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin chronicling the last weeks of the Rolling Stones' 1969 US tour which culminated in the disastrous Altamont Free Concert and the killing of Meredith Hunter.
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Gimme Shelter is a 1970 American documentary film directed by Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin chronicling the last weeks of the Rolling Stones' 1969 US tour which culminated in the disastrous Altamont Free Concert and the killing of Meredith Hunter.
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Gimme Shelter is a 1970 American documentary film directed by Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin chronicling the last weeks of the Rolling Stones' 1969 US tour which culminated in the disastrous Altamont Free Concert and the killing of Meredith Hunter.
Created By: Charlotte Zwerin, Lead
Gimme Shelter is a 1970 American documentary film directed by Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin chronicling the last weeks of the Rolling Stones' 1969 US tour which culminated in the disastrous Altamont Free Concert and the killing of Meredith Hunter.
Created By: David Maysles, Lead
Gimme Shelter is a 1970 American documentary film directed by Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin chronicling the last weeks of the Rolling Stones' 1969 US tour which culminated in the disastrous Altamont Free Concert and the killing of Meredith Hunter.
Created By: Albert Maysles, Lead
Gimme Shelter is a 1970 American documentary film directed by Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin chronicling the last weeks of the Rolling Stones' 1969 US tour which culminated in the disastrous Altamont Free Concert and the killing of Meredith Hunter.
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