Alternate versions

NBC edited 88 minutes from this film for its 1981 network television premiere.

The 1987 VHS plastered the Saul Bass variant of the Warner Bros. logo with the 1984 variant.

The current (as of 3-2003) DVD version features some video from the director's cut, but not all of it:

• Won't You Try - Jefferson Airplane (included)
• Uncle Sam's Blues - Jefferson Airplane (included)
• Work Me Lord - Janis Joplin (included)
• Voodoo Chile - Jimi Hendrix (included)
• Cost Of Freedom - Crosby Stills Nash & Young (not included)
• Leavin' This Town - Canned Heat (not included)

The director's cut ended with a shot of a version of the Vietnam War memorial with the names of several influential persons of the 1960s and the Crosby Stills & Nash and Neil Young's "Find the Cost of Freedom Playing" over the scene.

A Director's Cut was released in 1994. This version includes Janis Joplin, and extra footage of Jefferson Airplane, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Johnny Winter, and Jimi Hendrix. It's 228 minutes, 6354 meters long, with remixed Dolby SR-D sound.