The Beatles: Get Back (2021)

Directed by

Peter Jackson

Genre

rockumentary, documentary television program

Country

New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States

Length

1 season, 3 episodes

Rated

TV-MA

Rating

8.4 of 10 from 409 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This miniseries follows the Beatles over 21 days as they write and rehearse songs for their 1970 album Let It Be. It uses previously unreleased footage to show the band working together in the studio.

unhurriedobservationalintimateplayfulnostalgicgroundedfocuseddetailed

What happens

The Beatles: Get Back is a three-part documentary miniseries directed and produced by Peter Jackson. It covers the making of the Beatles' 1970 album Let It Be (which had the working title of Get Back) and draws largely from unused footage and audio material originally captured for and recycled original footage from the 1970 documentary of the album by Michael Lindsay-Hogg. The docuseries has a total runtime of nearly eight hours, consisting of three episodes, each of duration between two and three hours covering about one week each, together covering 21 days of studio time. Jackson considers it a supplement to the original 1970 documentary and not a replacement. Also co-produced by Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison, the series is presented by Walt Disney Studios in association with Apple Corps and WingNut Films. It premiered with three consecutive daily releases on Disney+ beginning on 25 November 2021. A portion of it, titled The Beatles: Get Back – The Rooftop Concert, was given a theatrical release in IMAX theatres across numerous US cities on 30 January 2022. It was then released internationally between 11 and 13 February 2022, and on DVD and Blu-ray on 12 July 2022. Characterised by Jackson as "a documentary about a documentary", The Beatles: Get Back received critical acclaim for its coverage of the group's creative process, although some criticized the relatively long runtime, and the series' use of "de-noising" and digital smoothing effects. Commentators described it as challenging longtime beliefs that the making of the Let It Be album was marked entirely by tensions between the Beatles, instead showing a more upbeat side to its production. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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