ABBA: Against the Odds

ABBA: Against the Odds (2024) is a British music documentary you can watch online on iFILM. Fifty years on from the night four Swedes stormed the Eurovision stage with Waterloo, this film looks back at how a novelty pop act turned into one of the best-selling bands ever.

Director James Rogan starts at that 1974 contest and keeps going. Agnetha, Björn, Benny and Anni-Frid shot to fame fast, but the climb cost them: snooty critics dismissed them as disposable, the crowds only grew, and two marriages came apart behind the scenes. Rare archive footage trades the magazine covers for the studio and the tour bus, showing how those wall-to-wall hooks actually got built.

The talking heads range from people who worked alongside the group to cultural voices like Germaine Greer. It stays grounded in the work rather than the gloss, asking why ABBA's sound outlasted every sneer and still fills playlists today. A warm watch for anyone raised on the songs, and for anyone curious about the messy machinery behind 1970s pop. Stream ABBA: Against the Odds (2024) online on iFILM.