Beatles Documentaries
 

I added George Harrison: Living in the Material World to my Netflix to-do list since it was a Scorsese film. And I got recommendations for a couple other Beatles documentaries like How the Beatles Changed the World. Are there any really good ones I should check out since there are tons of them? And please don't recommend concert films unless they give out a lot of information.

P.S. I love that the "submit thread" button is THE HISTORY ERASER BUTTON.

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I don't mean concert films. I don't really consider them documentaries. I think a documentary is mostly about information rather than just getting entertained by music.

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A Documentary is any film that documents reality so Concert Films count, get that's not what you're looking for though.

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The one on PBS last night was great (Documentary on the Making of Sgt. Pepper)

Was it called, "I Was 40 Years Ago Today?"

@mark f suggested The Beatles Anthology. You can hardly do better than this.

Mark, have you actually seen this movie? Been trying for years to get a dvd of this.

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Well, all my recs have loads of info - that's why I rec'd them. :)

Here it is.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5p0cmc

Several times - actually I own it from The Video Beat!

And you’re satisfied with the quality?

Yes. If you're going to get it from that site (I've gotten 7-10 different movies from them), make sure you use the best discounts they give you -. I think they'll give you at least 20% off your first purchase and I've gotten as much as 45% off from an e-mail. They ship from Florida and even here in California I get them in about 4 days after I order, and the discounts always cover the shipping although that's free if you order enough. :)

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@mark f, thanks so much for your opinion & the tips. Never heard of them. Always buy from amazon, but will study the website when I have time.

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Peter Jackson is reassembling the fifty-some hours of footage shot for what became Let it Be, which was originally to be called Get Back. This is the first peek at footage...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UocEGvQ10OE

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I didn't see this (yet), but after reading your thread title, I went looking.


John Lennon - The Messenger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P53WblP_J3U

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The U.S. vs. John Lennon is a good documentary about John's post-Beatles life and citizenship struggles in Nixon's America.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmdiVvlPEtI

Oh, I'm definitely watching this. I grew up listening to the Beatles. My favorite band.

Looks great. Michael Lindsay-Hogg really made a drab film when considering the available material. Listening to the camera synch-tapes, it's probably because of how much the band members either made fun of him or ignored him throughout the shooting.


I watched a pretty good unofficial film the other day, A Mad Day Out, less a doc than a collection of vintage video from 1968.




https://s.yimg.com/aah/yhst-73969762...ut-1968-74.gif