Disney+ has shared a trailer for The Beatles Anthology, featuring a new episode with unseen footage – watch it here.
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The first three episodes of the documentary series, first broadcast on ITV in the UK and ABC in the US in 1995, will launch on the platform on November 26. A further three episodes will be released the following day, and the final three the day after.
After the series was originally broadcast in six parts in the UK, it was released as an eight-volume VHS set in 1996 before being re-released on DVD in 2003 with an 81-minute special features disc.
Along with the original documentary, The Beatles Anthology also consisted of a four-volume set of double albums and a book.
As was announced back in August, all eight parts of the documentary series are coming to Disney+, along with the bonus ninth episode. It features unseen footage of Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, the three surviving members at the time, working on the Anthology project in the 1990s and reflecting on their time in The Beatles. The new episode is directed by Oliver Murray – check out the two-minute trailer for the remastered series here:
The series as a whole begins with their days growing up in Liverpool, through to their time as a young band and then as global stars. The first eight episodes were directed by Geoff Wonfor, Bob Smeaton and Matt Longfellow, while all episodes were produced by McCartney, Starr, Olivia Harrison, Sean Ono Lennon, Jonathan Clyde and Martin R. Smith.
Throughout the documentary, there are interviews with McCartney, Harrison and Starr, as well as archival interviews with John Lennon.
The re-released series has been remastered and restored by Apple Corps’ production team along with technicians at Peter Jackson’s Park Road Post in Wellington, New Zealand.
Also on Disney+ in ‘The Beatles Collection’ are a variety of films and series including Let It Be, Beatles ‘64 and The Beatles: Get Back. Meanwhile, the ‘Anthology’ compilation album is also set to be re-released. You can find the eight-CD box set on the band’s website.
McCartney, meanwhile, has a book about Wings, the band he formed after The Beatles with his wife Linda, out now. Today (November 17), Rolling Stone shared an excerpt from Wings: Story Of A Band On The Run read by the singer-songwriter himself.
And, he has contributed a silent track to the new vinyl edition of an anti-AI benefit compilation, ‘Is This What We Want?’, set for release later this month. It comes weeks after he joined musicians including Kate Bush and Elton John in urging Prime Minister Keir Starmer to protect their work in AI copyright.
As for Starr, he recently announced a North American tour with his All Starr Band for May and June next year.
