Music by John Williams

Music by John Williams (2024) is a documentary you can watch online on iFILM — a close-up on the man whose melodies you can probably hum without knowing his name.

Two notes from Jaws. The Imperial March. The Indiana Jones theme and the bicycle taking flight in E.T. One composer wrote all of it: John Williams, who by his nineties had gathered dozens of Oscars and Grammys and retuned the way Hollywood sounds. The film travels from his boyhood at the piano to his decades with Spielberg and Lucas, breaking down how a theme the whole world ends up humming actually gets built.

Director Laurent Bouzereau folds in the people who worked beside the maestro — Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, J.J. Abrams, Ron Howard, cellist Yo-Yo Ma — and threads in rare studio and rehearsal footage. Musicians and film buffs get the most out of it: you can hear precisely how a score makes a scene land. Stream Music by John Williams online on iFILM.