The Top 25 Music DVDs of All Time

6. Gimme Shelter (Criterion)

Characterized as a chronicle of how the Sixties died overnight, this 1970 film documents the final ten days of the Rolling Stones' 1969 U.S. tour, culminating in the stabbing of eighteen-year-old Meredith Hunter by a Hell's Angel at the Altamont Raceway near San Francisco. Filmmakers Albert and David Maysles start with the murder and chronicle what went wrong in a series of flashbacks, each generating mounting dread. By the end, we're shown in freeze frame a knife poised to descend into Hunter's body.

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