The miniseries won all five Emmys it was nominated for, including Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series. Created with the full cooperation of Paul, George, Ringo, and Yoko Ono. Knowing what the subjects do not know-that this will be the last time they perform live together or record an album-only adds to the project’s intimacy. The Beatles Anthology is, for the first time, the story of The Beatles by The Beatles. Whether you’re already a Beatles fan or not, the documentary is a fascinating look at the creative process of one of the music world’s most influential bands as they work against the clock to finish recording an album, decide to have a free concert on their label’s rooftop, and occasionally butt heads. Fifty years later, Oscar-winning director Peter Jackson was presented with the nearly 60 hours of film footage and more than 150 hours of audio that resulted from this project, and he remastered it and turned it into a three-part docuseries. In January 1969, just over a year before they announced they were breaking up, the Beatles allowed a film crew unprecedented access to the creative process and recording of Let It Be, which would be their final studio album.
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