Category: Documentary

Fifty years ago, nearly half a million people convened at Max Yasgur’s farm in Bethel, New York, for the first Woodstock Arts & Music Festival in August 1969. Billed as “An Aquarian Exposition: Three Days of Peace and Music,” the event featured now-iconic sets from acts like Jimi Hendrix, Santana and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.

Woodstock at 50 The internationally renowned artist was just 19 when he took his trusty Nikon to the festival. Only one was ever published – till now. “I parked somewhere in the night on that road, and then we were all walking towards the concert,” Roger Ballen said.

Ferlinghetti photos of Normandy landing on D-Day surface at Harvey Milk Photo Center

As the armada of allied ships formed up for the D-Day landing on June 6, 1944, Lawrence Ferlinghetti was in command of a submarine chaser off the coast of Normandy. He had one hand on the controls and the other on a Navy-issue camera.

In 2007 the BBC’s Mark Urban was “embedded” with a platoon of soldiers in one of Baghdad’s most violent areas. Ten years later he tracked down four of the men from the unit. What effect did the war have on them? The combat infantryman or “grunt” is the basic building block of military action.

The first flight of an untethered hot air balloon-humanity’s first really successful attempt at flight- took place in 1783 when “Pilâtre de Rozier and the Marquis d’Arlandes” flew over Paris. The first real photograph was taken in 1826 when Joseph Nicéphore Niépce took a picture out of his window.