Trainwreck: Woodstock '99 
TV Show
Crime
Documentary
Historical
Musical
TV Show
Crime
Documentary
Historical
Musical
Updated: 31 August 2022
No rape or sexual assault
Rape or sexual assault mentioned, discussed, implied
Sexual harassment e.g non-consensual grabbing, touching, cat-calling)
Sexual relationship between adult and teenager
Child sex abuse
Incest
Attempted rape
Rape off-screen or strongly implied
Rape on-screen

Description

This documentary explores how the Woodstock Festival of 1999 turned from a run-of-the-mill music festival into a riot, including (but not exclusively discussing) the multiple graphic accounts of rapes, molestations, and other assaults that took place during those horrific three days, particularly during the performances of heavier bands - especially Korn and Limp Bizkit - as well as the closing night of the event. S1E1: remarks are made about the sexual harassment of Sheryl Crow during her set; references to the Bill Clinton abuse scandals; on-screen depiction of American Pie's stripping scene; unconsensual groping captured by the pay-per-view crew; women being molested while body-surfing; at the end of the episode, foreshadowing for Day 2 includes a group of men tugging a body-surfing woman down into the crowd beyond camera view, presumably to be gang raped, and footage of a naked woman being resuscitated by a medic. S1E2: fully-naked men and women, almost all completely under the influence of drugs and several women being forcibly groped; an MTV commentator reveals that a concert-goer tried to assault her with a lit cigar. From the moment the 4:00pm ticker appears on-screen, things get more severe - women begin recounting how they were groped and surrounded by men demanding they strip for them or give them sex; a series of photographs show one body-surfer nearly had her clothes torn off by male attendees while still body-surfing; as soon as Limp Bizkit's set ends, chaos reigns - a woman can be seen being pulled down from body-surfing to be assaulted; a chilling female scream can be heard during the scene transition to the Rave Tent for Night 2; during Fatboy Slim's set, topless women can be seen getting groped against their will; Limp Bizkit's manager describes seeing men having sex with women who are too high/drunk to consent; a stage producer describes opening a van that was driven into the audience and seeing a man in his 30s putting his pants on and a 15-year-old girl passed out, pants down and bleeding from her genitals; another producer describes a line of women who couldn't consent being pressed against the hangar wall and raped. S1E3: the MTV commentator remarks how she saw a lot of the audience stark naked as well, with women still getting groped against their will; in the final minutes discussing the aftermath, one of the coordinators of the event recalls being called by a mother of a rape victim; news footage accounts that four women were assaulted, with contradicting claims from attendees saying there were many more, some right in front of the main stage during performances; a series of still images at the tail end of the documentary reveal that more women were groped, molested, and pulled down by crowds to be assaulted all throughout the weekend. The mini-series is ultimately a tense, sickening watch, especially for those familiar with toxic concert culture or the phenomenon of late-90's hyper-masculinity.

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