'Gimme Shelter' Documentary Screening

What's Up? Docs! - hosted by The Documentary Center at GW - is a new, thought-provoking monthly series of documentaries curated in a way that only one of the top university documentary programs in the nation can offer. Each screening is followed by a Q&A with a noted author, scholar, film critic, film director, or documentary forward-thinker.

Gimme Shelter (1970)

Called the greatest rock film ever made, this landmark documentary follows the Rolling Stones on their notorious 1969 U.S. tour.

Directed by Albert Maysles, David Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin, 1960, 1h 31 min

Special Guest: Mark Jenkins, Music and Film Critic for The Washington Post, Slate, Time Out New York and NPR