Watch The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years For Free

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

The Worst Film Ever

good film but with many flaws

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

This is running on PBS, and it is worth seeing, even with pledge breaks. Ron Howard really did a great job directing this. The script was well written by a couple of solid writers. The stock footage used is top notch. The facts are as amazing as the group. What did the Beatles Years all really mean?Howard, a baby boomer might have understood the Beatles the best because he was 9 years old in 1963. Kids that age were in awe of what the group did, they grew up with them. The portrait here of how things were done by the group as they started out and grew is really a story that might not ever happen again today. Our society structure is so much different now. How did The Beatles work?Up until the right 4 guys were together, the early Beatles did not get anywhere. To approximately quote Ringo here, "When the 4 of us got together, the chemistry just seemed to fit. It was magic." It sure was, and because it was, the group rose to the highest of heights, and then broke up. This film focus is that rise.The point made late in the film is very true. When anyone gets too successful, the competition comes after you, and you become complacent and grow apart from yourself, losing sight of your original goals. This happens to everyone, who is young enough to live a long time after being this successful. It is not a spoiler to go over their success. This film goes beyond and actually digs into the personal feelings of the band as they got to the top, and then tried not to fall off. The film does note when those falls began, and why. It is told better here, than any other film including the Beatles own films.Rare footage is used here, including the groups last concert together, a unique and totally unplanned event. It is stunning. Even folks who are not Beatles fans should really appreciate this master piece of the telling of this story for what it is and what they were, phenomenal.

I've always been a big fan of the Beatles. That means I'm the target audience for this movie, but it also means that a lot of it was overly familiar. As a chance to see some nice clips of the Beatles and get a better sense of their touring years this is pretty good, but the best documentaries can draw you into a story you have no interest in, while 8 Days a Week feels like it's really only aimed at fans.I felt restless through much of the first half of the movie, but things got more interesting as it progressed. Much of the strength of the movie is it conveys exactly how massive a cultural even The Beatles were; it's hard to get your head around if you weren't a part of it. The crush of the crowds is overwhelming, the way they affected people was startling, and they seemed to be generally decent people, even using their considerable influence to de-segregate an arena. Still, this feels more like some PBS documentary that somehow got a theatrical release. It's good if you like the Beatles, but it is less interesting than it should be, considering the subject.

This is an interesting documentary, but it doesn't tell anything that the devoted doesn't already know. Somehow, the movie also seems to take for granted that the audience knows who The Beatles are and how big their impact was on popular music and society in general, as if this is something everyone already should know about.I would actually recommend "Living in the Material World" (the documentary about The Beatles' lead guitarist George Harrison) rather than "Eight Days a Week". "Living..." not only gives a much better background to who The Beatles are and where they came from, but it also digs deeper and gives the viewer a better understanding of their incredible impact in so many areas. It's also much longer, but the first half of it (which covers his time in The Beatles) is better than this whole film.The best thing about "Eight Days a Week" is not the film itself, but the fact that the live album "Live at the Hollywood Bowl" finally got remastered and re-released. The film is also decent, but there are better documentaries out there.

Ron Howard's nice documentary about just how crazy Beatlemania was and how the touring degenerated into a screaming noise where - as Ringo put it - "I had not idea where we were in the songs, I was drumming by watching how they were shaking their asses to know where we were in the song".Perhaps glosses over some of the later tensions but it's a good fun movie.Hang fire after the credits for 30mins of restored footage of the Shea Stadium concert.