The 10 Best Beatles Documentaries, Ranked

As arguably the most important rock and pop band in music history, The Beatles (and their individual members) have understandably been the subject of several documentaries over the decades, from contemporary accounts at the height of their fame in the late 60s, to recent biographies and retrospectives by some of the movie world’s most acclaimed filmmakers. Some have taken deeper dives than others into the lives, history, and music of the Fab Four, with varying results overall—both critically and commercially, and among reviewers, musicians, filmmakers, and fans alike. Ten of the band’s most interesting and worthwhile documentary features are listed here, ranked by critical and commercial performance, and their place in both the band’s canon and cinema history.

All Together Now (2008)
Meeting the Beatles in India (2020)
Imagine: John Lennon (1988)
The Beatles Revolution (2000)
Let It Be (1970)
The Compleat Beatles (1982)
The Beatles: Get Back (2021)
The Beatles Anthology (1995)
Eight Days a Week: The Touring Years (2016)
Beatles ’64 (2013)

All Together Now (2008)

In the early 2000s, George Harrison and his friend Guy Laliberté began working on a collaborative project that would utilize the Beatles’ music as the soundtrack to an extravagant live show by the Cirque du Soleil (of which Laliberté was a cofounder). After three years of fraught negotiations between the band’s surviving members, their representatives, and record executives, the show, entitled Love, at long last went into production and debuted in 2006. Directed by Adrian Wills, the acclaimed 2008 documentary All Together Now charts this entire creative process, including the early meetings between the Cirque and Apple Corps creative teams, plus interviews with the likes of Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and Yoko Ono. The following year, it won the Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video.

Source: mentalfloss.com/Nitya Rao

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