Festival Express
Sep 19, 2003 | IMDB 7.1
90 min Watch NowDocumentary, History, Music
The filmed account of a large Canadian rock festival train tour boasting major acts. In the summer of 1970, a chartered train crossed Canada carrying some of the world's greatest rock bands. The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band, Buddy Guy, and others lived (and partied) together for five days, stopping in major cities along the way to play live concerts. Their journey was filmed.
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9 Songs
Gimme Shelter
Northlore
Bowling for Columbine
EXPO 67 Mission Impossible
School of Rock
Portraits of Canada
We Will Rock You
Coldplay: Live 2003
These were the reasons
Beyond Kicks
Hard Core Logo
Olympic: Procházka historií
20 let Olympicu
Oldemors reise
Passchendaele
Kabát – Noc v Edenu
Martha of the North
Gary Moore: Emerald Aisles
Bad River
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IMDB 5.6 | Jul , 2004
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IMDB 7.3 | Dec , 1970
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IMDB 6 | Feb , 2025
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IMDB 7.5 | Oct , 2002
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IMDB 7 | Apr , 2017
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IMDB 7.1 | Oct , 2003
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IMDB 0 | Mar , 1987
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IMDB 8.1 | May , 1982
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IMDB 7.5 | Nov , 2003
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IMDB 0 | May , 2011
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IMDB 0 | Jan , 1972
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IMDB 6.5 | Oct , 1996
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IMDB 0 | Nov , 2012
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IMDB 5 | Jan , 1983
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IMDB 0 | Jan , 2025
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IMDB 6.1 | Oct , 2008
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IMDB 0 | Dec , 2019
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IMDB 0 | Jan , 2009
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IMDB 6 | May , 1985
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IMDB 7 | Mar , 2024
Wisconsin's tribe's ongoing fight to protect Lake Superior for future generations. "Bad River" shows the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa's long history of activism and resistance in the context of continuing legal battles with Enbridge Energy over its Line 5 oil pipeline. The Line 5 pipeline has been operating on 12 miles of the Bad River Band's land with expired easements for more than a decade. The Band and the Canadian company have been locked in a legal battle over the pipeline since 2019.