Documentary without getting killed or caught

Across three parts totaling eight hours, the guy best known for making Lord of the Rings wades through Hogg’s original footage to show us that actually, the Beatles were still friends at the end. Peter Jackson’s Get Back is the largest piece since the sprawling Beatles Anthology project, both because it’s not filtered through the surviving members’ memories and because it essentially debunks a key document of the Beatles breakup lore: Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s rare, tense 1970 film on the sessions behind Let It Be, the final Beatles release, and the band’s last live performance.

How it ended has always been of some fascination, and every decade or so there is some new piece of the Beatles puzzle revealed that brings us closer to the truth. The Beatles: Get Back / McCartney 3, 2, 1Īdmit it: the myth of the Beatles as the greatest band in the world was cemented by their breakup-they never had a chance to suck.