10 Beatles Movies And Shows To Watch If You Liked Get Back

10 Beatles Movies And Shows To Watch If You Liked Get Back

While the Beatles didn’t need popularizing, Get Back has generated an electric new interest in the group. These are some great companion watches.

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Peter Jackson worked cinematic magic with Get Back. Sourced from dozens upon dozens of hours of video and audio, Get Back chronicles the creation of Let It Be (then titled Get Back) and the failed attempt at a tie-in television special/live concert. Jackson and his talented team of filmmakers cleaned up the half-century-old film and synced audio to video, creating a very intimate and very clean (not to mention very long) glimpse into an integral moment in Beatles history.

Fortunately, there’s a lot more where Get Back came from: some documentaries, some films, some shows. New fans will want to dive into these, and old fans will find them worth a revisit.

Let It Be (1970)

Let It Be is like the darker counterpart to Get Back. The latter was sourced from the Let It Be footage (shot by director Michael Lindsay-Hogg), and Jackson made a conscious decision to exclude most of the footage that was seen in the prior film.

One unpopular opinion about The Beatles: Get Back may be that Let It Be is actually better, at least in some ways. Although it has been out of circulation for decades, Let It Be is a somewhat depressing glimpse into the waning days of a cultural force, and it’s worth seeking out.

The Beatles Anthology (1995)

In the mid ’90s, the Beatles embarked on a multimedia project titled The Beatles Anthology. Celebrating the history of the iconic band, Anthology consisted of three CDs (containing outtakes and alternate takes of beloved songs), a book, and a TV series.

Spanning eight episodes, The Beatles Anthology is a must-watch for anyone with even a passing interest in the band. It covers their entire history, spanning all the way back to July of 1940. It is the ultimate Beatles companion and the main authority on the band’s history.

A Hard Day’s Night (1964)

Arguably one of the best musicals of all time, A Hard Day’s Night was released at the height of Beatlemania and helped establish the lads’ talents away from pop songwriting.

A sort of meta-musical, A Hard Day’s Night stars the Beatles as themselves as they prepare for a television appearance. The musical was monumentally influential. It inspired countless copycats and helped introduce the very concept of the music video – a full twenty years before they became a regular part of pop culture.

Help! (1965)

This film has been somewhat overshadowed by its accompanying soundtrack/album, which contains the likes of the title track, “Yesterday,” and “I’ve Just Seen a Face.” And while Help! is certainly a good album, its film is definitely worth watching as well.

Help! is far more wacky than A Hard Day’s Night, containing a story about mad scientists and cult members. But it was arguably just as influential, helping to popularize Indian culture in the West, the drug-infused counterculture movement, music videos, and goofy stylized action that would later be found on the likes of Batman.

Magical Mystery Tour (1967)

By 1967, the Beatles were at the height of their drug use. The result was Magical Mystery Tour, a bizarre film that provides its viewers with an acid trip through the magic (no pun intended) of filmmaking.

The movie was heavily influenced by Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, and most of it was improvised on the spot. Everyone hated it upon release, with critics bemoaning the nonsensical story and LSD-infused visuals. It’s definitely worth seeking out, if for nothing else that seeing the Beatles at their most experimental and “out there.”

Yellow Submarine (1968)

The Beatles got back on track with Yellow Submarine, which could be one of the best animated movies ever. While the Beatles are voiced by other people, the movie contains a stellar soundtrack and some gorgeous, not to mention visually inventive, animation.

It proved an enormous influence on future animators, including Pixar co-founder John Lasseter, and its influence is still reverberating through pop culture half a century after its release. It’s arguably the greatest Beatles film of them all, and it has barely aged a day.

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years (2016)

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years is a magnificent glimpse into the Fab Four’s early career. Using archival footage from the early ’60s, director Ron Howard and his team of producers chronicle the band’s touring years (before they focused solely on studio albums).

The story spans from 1962 to 1966, beautifully capturing the height of Beatlemania and the intense fervor that surrounded the band’s public appearances. And, obviously, the music is second to none.

Good Ol’ Freda (2013)

Many names are associated with the Beatles, including producer George Martin. But few may know about Freda Kelly. Hailing from Ireland, Kelly was closely tied to the Beatles throughout their entire career, serving as the secretary to the band’s manager, Brian Epstein. She also ran the band’s official fan club.

A documentary about her life and her time with the band was chronicled in the 2013 documentary Good Ol’ Freda, which made its debut at the SXSW Film Festival.

The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit (1991)

Viewers learned many Beatles facts watching Get Back, but the documentary was solely focused on the band’s latter days. But that’s what documentaries like The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit are for. Re-edited from an existing documentary called What’s Happening! The Beatles in the U.S.A., The First U.S. Visit chronicles, well, the band’s first visit to the United States.

The documentary follows the band as they goof around in hotels, play on national television (like The Ed Sullivan Show), and tour the East Coast of the United States.

The Compleat Beatles (1982)

Released in 1982, The Compleat Beatles was once the definitive history of the band (before it was supplanted by The Beatles Anthology). The two-hour documentary contains a number of notable people, ranging from studio musicians who worked with the band, to producer George Martin, to their very first manager.

Also included are archival interviews with the band members themselves and critical commentary by various musicians, music academics/writers, and authors. It’s a little dated, but there’s no going wrong with The Compleat Beatles.

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