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The Beatles Anthology

The Beatles Anthology is a documentary television series on the career of the Beatles. It was broadcast on UK television in six parts on ITV between 26 November and 31 December 1995, while in the United States it was seen as three feature-length episodes on ABC between 19 and 23 November 1995. It was released in greatly expanded form as an eight-volume VHS set and an eight-disc LaserDisc set on 5 September 1996. The series was re-released on DVD in 2003, with an 81-minute special-features disc. A re-edited version of the series was released on Disney+ starting on 26 November 2025, with an addi

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The Long and Winding Road

An official documentary on the Beatles career had been in the pipeline as early as 1970. Long-time friend and Apple Corps manager Neil Aspinall had compiled footage of concert, interview, and television appearances from various sources around the world. From this archival footage, he assembled a 90-minute feature film which was tentatively titled The Long and Winding Road and was completed in 1971. At that point, none of the former members had been involved in the project. Eric Idle was given a screening of the film by George Harrison in the late 1970s as research for Idle's mockumentary All You Need Is Cash.

Plans for the documentary's release lay dormant until 1980, when John Lennon made a statement as part of a legal deposition against the producers of the musical Beatlemania. "I and the other three former Beatles have plans to stage a reunion concert", he said, referring to an event that was to be filmed as a finale of The Long and Winding Road (which was now to be a television special). According to Yoko Ono, the concert would have been held in England: "Just days before he was killed, Lennon was making plans to go to England for a triumphant Beatles reunion. His greatest dream was to recreate the musical magic of the early years with Paul, George and Ringo... (he) felt that they had traveled different paths for long enough. He felt they had grown up and were mature enough to try writing and recording new songs." The alleged plan for a reunion was abandoned after Lennon died on 8 December.

Project resurrected

In 1992, the project was resurrected as a six-part documentary series. This time, the surviving members were directly involved, giving interviews on film with Jools Holland. Lennon's interviews were sourced from archived footage. Also interviewed were insiders Aspinall, the band's press agent Derek Taylor, and their long-time producer George Martin. The title of the documentary was now changed to The Beatles Anthology, as George Harrison was against naming the entire Beatles career after a Paul McCartney song. This new title was to be a working one but it eventually stayed, as it suited the parties concerned.

A rough cut was completed in 1993 which was much more interview-based and focused on events, as opposed to the final cut, which included more concert and television performances. The early version of the series has since leaked and released via bootleg.

New music

The plans for a concert were abandoned and replaced with the intention that the surviving three members would play some incidental music in between segments and interviews. It was thought the remaining Beatles should write new songs for the project. Both McCartney and Harrison wrote some material which became the song "All For Love", but it was then decided to ask Yoko Ono if Lennon had left any unfinished material that they could work with. Ono gave McCartney cassette tapes in 1994 after they appeared together on stage at Lennon's induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The tapes contained four song demos that Lennon had been working on: "Free as a Bird", "Real Love", "Now and Then" and "Grow Old With Me". "Now and Then" was left unfinished at the time but "Free as a Bird" and "Real Love" were completed with producer Jeff Lynne in 1994–95 and premiered during the Anthology's initial broadcast. "Now and Then" was later completed in 2023.

1995 ABC broadcast

The documentary was first broadcast on American television in three feature-length episodes comprising six abridged parts (two per episode) on Sunday 19 November, Wednesday 22 November, and Thursday 23 November 1995. It aired from 9 pm to 11 pm on ABC. ABC re-aired the documentary to promote the VHS release in 1996. The Anthology was first shown on American television on ABC; the tagline for the network during the time was "A Beatles C", an homage to the mid-1960s "77 W-A-Beatles-C" call sign of the network's flagship NYC AM radio station.

1995 ITV broadcast

The documentary was broadcast on UK television network ITV in six individual episodes instead of two parts per episode on ABC. Starting on 26 November 1995, it would air every Sunday (expect for episode five, as it aired on Tuesday 26 December) until 31 December.

1996 VHS/LaserDisc and 2003 DVD release

On 5 September 1996, an expanded version of the documentary was released as an eight-volume VHS set and an eight-disc LaserDisc set. This version includes 5 hours of additional footage. In 2003, the expanded version was released as a 5-DVD boxset, and included an 81-minute special-features disc and the soundtrack was remixed into 5.1 Dolby Digital and DTS surround sound.

2025 Disney+ release

In 2025, a re-edited version of the documentary, called Anthology 2025, was released on Disney+ with all eight episodes plus a brand new ninth episode focusing on Paul, George, and Ringo working on the Anthology from 1994 to 1995, all remastered in 4K and remixed to Dolby Atmos. Episodes 1–3 were first released on 26 November 2025, followed by episodes 4–6 on 27 November, and finally episodes 7–9 came out on 28 November. The episodes had some footage removed, trimmed, rearranged, or added commentary, causing the runtime of all the episodes combined to be an hour shorter than the expanded version.

Viewership

On ABC, Part 1 reached 17 million households, gaining about 27.3 million viewers. Despite the strong opening, viewership lowered with each subsequent part with Part 2 reaching 12.9 million households,

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The Long and Winding Road

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New music

1995 ABC broadcast

1995 ITV broadcast

1996 VHS/LaserDisc and 2003 DVD release

2025 Disney+ release

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2025 Disney+ release

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