Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues (1988)

Directed by

Patrick T. Kelly

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

53 min

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary covers Michael Jackson's rise to fame and his record-breaking career up to the late 1980s. It features never-before-seen footage from his Bad World Tour and is narrated by James Earl Jones.

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What happens

Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues is a 1988 documentary film about Michael Jackson directed by Patrick T. Kelly and produced by Motown and narrated by actor James Earl Jones. It was the first official documentary on Jackson produced after the worldwide successes of his solo albums Off the Wall (1979), Thriller (1982) and Bad (1987) and contained, in addition to many previously unpublished images, for the first time exclusive images from his first solo tour, the Bad World Tour, which started in Japan in 1987. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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