Key words: hippie movement, counterculture, documentary film, direct cinema, subcul-ture, music festivals Summary: This article reviews how the hippie movement was presented in the American documentary cinema of the late 1960s. An analysis of the subculture’s image is made by comparing three of the most representative movies of this subject area, i.e. Monterey Pop (1968, directed … Czytaj dalej Mateusz Kicka, The Hippie Movement in the Lens of Documentary Filmmakers