NEW! Earn a FREE TICKET to an area movie theater when you attend 10 Dover Free Library Movie Nights between September 2019 and June 2020

MONDAY, Dec 16 @ 4:00pm

Showing in the Community Room: Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace and Music

This definitive footage of 1960's hippie counterculture and its music is reprised and transcended once more via the medium of cinema. This documentary in an vibrant attitude of youth and rebellion and it also brings together super groups and artists such as The Who, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Ten Years After, Jefferson Airplane and many, many more over a three day period of drugs, rain, peace and love. This film starts with the concerts conception and the first foundations laid to its finish and its inevitable dismantling. Entwined with interviews from the local townsfolk to hippie talk from the red-eyed flower people in this split-screen musical montage of some 300,000 laid-back, groovy star children. —Cinema_Fan

TUESDAY, Dec 17@ 5:30pm  

In the Community Room: The Rolling Stones Gimme Shelter

Plot Summary: Called "the greates rock film ever made," this landmark documentary follows the Rolling Stones on their notorious 1969 U.S. tour.  When 300,00 members of the Love Generation collided with a few dozen Hell's Angels at San Francisco's Altamont Speedway, direct cinema pioneers David and Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin immortalized on film  the bloody slash transformed a decade's dreams into disillusionment.