Iron Maiden’s journey from the East End of London to a stadium near you is captured in all its heavy metal glory for Burning Ambition, the trailer for which is now live.
The official Iron Maiden documentary is due out in cinemas May 7, via Universal Pictures, tracking the band’s incredible, ongoing journey, and myriad challenges along the way.
“If you’re an Iron Maiden fan,” says frontman Bruce Dickinson at the top, a rallying cry from the stage, “you’re part of one family, my friends.”
Directed by Malcolm Venville (Churchill at War) and produced by Dominic Freeman (Spirits in the Forest – A Depeche Mode Film), the film charts five decades of Iron Maiden, featuring unprecedented access to heavy metal juggernaut’s archives, plus interviews with bandmembers, actor Javier Bardem, artists Lars Ulrich, Chuck D, and Tom Morello, and an army of battle-hardened super fans from around the globe.
In the new clip, Bardem, wearing a black Maiden shirt, refers to the rockers as “Gods of metal,” while Chuck D remarks, “this group created its own universe.”
Formed in East London in 1975, Iron Maiden are giants of their scene, with 17 studio albums, over 100 million records sold, and more than 2,500 performances across 64 countries. The road to the top hasn’t been linear. Along the way, the rockers have endured lineup changes, burnout, health problems.
The fans never gave up, the music never stopped, and the story kept building. Arguably, the band, and their iconic mascot Eddie, are now as popular as ever.
2025 marked the band’s official 50th year and is being celebrated with the two-year world tour Run For Your Lives, along with a range of merch and the release of their first-ever official hardcover visual history book, Infinite Dreams. To top it off, the metal legends are nominated for the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame.
A separate film about the life and health struggles of early Iron Maiden singer Paul Di’Anno will be released this summer, through Cleopatra Entertainment. Di’Anno: Iron Maiden’s Lost Singer is directed by Wes Orshoski (Lemmy), who shot the film in England, Croatia, Brazil and the United States, and completed it shortly before Di’Anno’s death in October 2023, aged 66.
Tickets are available here for Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition. Watch the trailer in full below.
