Let It Be

Let It Be (1970) is Michael Lindsay-Hogg's documentary about The Beatles' last days as a working band, and you can watch online on iFILM. January 1969, a London studio, four musicians trying to build an album with cameras rolling.

Lindsay-Hogg shot the rehearsals for a project first called Get Back, eventually released as Let It Be. What ended up on film is the band's workshop floor: arguments, dead air, jokes, songs assembled from almost nothing. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr appear here not as stage gods but as tired colleagues near the end. Keyboardist Billy Preston pulls up alongside them; producer George Martin hovers nearby.

It builds to the famous concert on the Apple rooftop, the group's last live performance, cut short by police. The film earns its keep through that rawness — the sound is unpolished, the tension is real, and the fracture inside the band is almost physical. One for anyone who wants The Beatles without the gloss. Stream Let It Be (1970) online on iFILM.