The Beatles’ Let It Be Movie Gets Re-Released, and Shines [Video]

It’s strange to watch a movie for the first time and feel like you’ve already seen it. Though it’s natural that Let It Be, the 1970 Beatles documentary by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, should feel familiar to modern audiences: Not just because the moment it chronicles was an iconic one for the band, but because the raw footage from which it was made was also the foundation for Peter Jackson‘s nearly-eight-hour-long Disney+ series Get Back (otherwise known as the thing your family spent all of Thanksgiving 2021 watching).

Until its debut this week on Disney+, Let It Be has never been available for streaming, and was never even released officially on DVD — its 1981 VHS/Betamax/LaserDisc release was, until now, the only time it was been legally available for audiences at home. Yet, now that it’s been beautifully restored by Jackson’s Park Road Post Production, it’s possible to appreciate it both in direct connection with …