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Get Back - the Beatles' final act, by film director Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson reveals the secrets of 60 hours of intimate, unseen footage of the Fab Four 鈥 and why it turns everything we know about their final days upside-down.

In a new 3-part documentary, film director Peter Jackson reveals the secrets of 60 hours of intimate, unseen footage of the Fab Four 鈥 and why it turns everything we know about their final days upside-down.

Almost 8 hours of footage of the band is featured in the new Disney+ documentary Get Back. The director of The Lord of The Rings, Peter Jackson has used the same techniques he employed for his First World War documentary 鈥淭hey Shall Not Grow Old鈥 to restore outtakes from The Beatles' 1970 film Let It Be. The results are pretty startling and have prompted Paul McCartney to say that Get Back has changed his perception of the break-up of the Beatles.

Peter Jackson has been talking to the 主播大秀's Entertainment Correspondent Colin Paterson. This is 5 Minutes On - Unseen and Intimate - the Beatles, by film director Peter Jackson.

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