This is FRESH AIR. I'm TV critic David Bianculli. Disney+ has just begun streaming a newly restored documentary film that has been out of circulation for more than 50 years. It's called "Let It Be." ...

In the most basic terms, “Let It Be” is the abbreviated version of “Get Back,” with fewer takes of “Don’t Let Me Down” and no toast. But that oversimplification of what’s wrongly remembered as The ...

Let It Be, now streaming on Disney+, represents the fully realized version of director Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s original documentary, which he shot in 1969 as The Beatles wrote and rehearsed for what ...

Over 50 years after the film’s release, Beatles fans will finally be able to stream the 1970 Beatles documentary, Let It Be, online, starting this week. The release of the original 1970 film, directed ...

For some of the sessions, and at the concert, The Beatles famously were joined by keyboardist Billy Preston. Hours of unused film shot for Let It Be was later turned over to director Peter Jackson and ...

(This article is unintentionally a counterpoint to my colleague Owen Gleiberman’s considerably more-positive take on the Beatles‘ “Let It Be” film, restored by Peter Jackson and released today on ...

London (CNN) — A rarely seen 1970 film following the Beatles just before the band’s breakup will be released on Disney+ after being restored by Hollywood director Peter Jackson, the streaming service ...

When Michael Lindsay-Hogg was tapped to direct a making-of documentary to accompany work on The Beatles' 1970 album Let It Be, he had no way of knowing that his film would instead document the ...

The Beatles during the filming of Let It Be in Twickenham Film Studios, 7th January 1969. - Credit: Ethan A. Russell/© Apple Corps Ltd. But Get Back definitely changed the way people thought about ...

Jackson uses his post-production tricks to polish up the 1970 documentary, bringing a new perspective on events in the film and allowing us to focus on the band's creativity instead of their acrimony.