New Martin Scorsese-produced Beatles documentary will feature rare and restored Beatlemania footage
A new Beatles documentary co-produced by Martin Scorsese will offer never-before-seen glimpses of Beatlemania.
Beatles ’64, directed by David Tedeschi, will come out via Disney Plus on 29 November. As its title suggests, the project will focus on the year the Beatles first made it to America, with previously unseen footage set to appear and document the Liverpudlians’ international ascent.
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The documentary includes new interviews with former Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. There’s also rare footage by documentary makers Albert and David Maysles, which has been upscaled to 4K, as well as clips of the band’s now-legendary performance on The Ed Sullivan Show and their debut US performance in Washington DC.
Disney Plus announced the project on 14 October and released a social media post reading, “Prepare to experience the electrifying moment when The Beatles first touched down in America. Beatles ’64, an all-new documentary from producer Martin Scorsese and director David Tedeschi, is streaming exclusively on #DisneyPlus November 29.”
As well as Scorsese, Beatles ’64 is produced by Margaret Bodde, Jonathan Clyde and Mikaela Beardsley, as well as former Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, late Beatle George Harrison’s widow Olivia Harrison, and John Lennon’s son Sean Ono Lennon. Jeff Jones and Rick Yorn are executive producers.
Clyde and Jones are Beatles documentary alumni, having respectively produced and executive produced the miniseries Get Back in 2021. In addition, Tedeschi edited the 2011 documentary George Harrison: Living in the Material World.
As a tie-in to Beatles ’64, seven US-released Beatles albums are being reissued as a vinyl package via Apple Corps on November 22. They are: Meet the Beatles!, The Beatles’ Second Album, A Hard Day’s Night (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), Something New, The Beatles’ Story (2LP), Beatles ’65 and The Early Beatles. The titles have been out of print on vinyl since 1995.
Upon release, Beatles ’64 will find itself competing with 1964: a documentary released on Apple TV on October 19 which also documents the Beatles’ arrival in the US.
In May, Starr reflected on his time with the Beatles, who split in 1970. “We didn’t get along,” he admitted to AXS TV. “We were four guys, we had rows, [but] it never got in the way of the music no matter how bad the row was.”
Prepare to experience the electrifying moment when The Beatles first touched down in America. Beatles ’64, an all-new documentary from producer Martin Scorsese and director David Tedeschi, is streaming exclusively on #DisneyPlus November 29. pic.twitter.com/Ptw8UPNpXq
— Disney+ (@DisneyPlus) October 14, 2024
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