The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years

"The band you know. The story you don't."

Sep 15 2016 Not Rated 1h 46m
Documentary, Music

The Beatles stormed through Europe's music scene in 1963, and, in 1964, they conquered America. Their groundbreaking world tours changed global youth culture forever and, arguably, invented mass entertainment as we know it today. All the while, the group were composing and recording a series of extraordinarily successful singles and albums. However the relentless pressure of such unprecedented fame, that in 1966 became uncontrollable turmoil, led to the decision to stop touring. In the ensuing years The Beatles were then free to focus on a series of albums that changed the face of recorded music.

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Plot

In the 1960s, the Beatles exploded onto the public scene seemingly out of nowhere, as the band's formative years of constant performing at home and in Hamburg, and Brian Epstein's grooming, finally paid off beyond their wildest dreams. Accompanying new interviews of the remaining Beatles, their associates and fans as well as archival interviews of the late ones, this film features footage of the heady concert years of 1963 to 1966 when the band became a worldwide cultural phenomena topping them all. It also follows how the Fab Four began to change and grow while the excitement of Beatlemania began to sour their lives into an intolerable slog they needed to escape from to become more than what their fans wanted.

Written by

Mark Monroe, P.G. Morgan

Directed by

Ron Howard

Cast

The Beatles, John Lennon, George Harrison

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America, United Kingdom

Production Companies

Apple Corps, Imagine Entertainment

Languages

English

Awards

Won 2 Primetime Emmys. 5 wins & 14 nominations total

Trailers
THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK – THE TOURING YEARS. Official UK Trailer
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