Dawn of the Dead: The Grateful Dead and the Rise and Fall of the San Francisco Underground

This 138-minute lm, produced by Sexy Intellectual/Prism Films, 2012, details the origins and very early years of the Grateful Dead in the context of the closely knit and experimental San Francisco music scene of the middle to late 1960s. From a fascinating insider’s perspective, it tells the parallel story of the unique musical development of the Grateful Dead, as well as the development, rise and eventual fall of the Haight- Ashbury counterculture in general between 1965 and 1969.