Beatles "Get Back" (2021)

For years, the story of the Beatles' final days together was told as a tragedy - four friends grinding against each other until the whole thing fell apart. "Get Back" tells a more complicated, and far more interesting, story. Working from roughly 60 hours of footage originally shot for the 1970 documentary "Let It Be," director Peter Jackson used cutting-edge restoration techniques to make it all look and sound as if it were filmed yesterday. What emerges is a fly-on-the-wall view of three weeks in January 1969, as John, Paul, George and Ringo race to write and rehearse a batch of new songs against a ticking clock. You'll watch tunes take shape out of thin air, see tensions flare up and nearly derail everything, and catch the deep affection that kept pulling them back together. It all builds to their full rooftop concert atop the Apple Corps building, one of the most famous performances in rock history. Fair warning: this is a long, immersive watch, and casual viewers may find it a lot to take in. But if you've ever wanted to see how the greatest band of all time actually worked, Jackson knocked this one out of the park.