Thank You, Goodnight - The Bon Jovi Story (Season 1)

Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story (2024) is a documentary series you can watch online on iFILM. Across four episodes it traces forty years of one of the best-selling rock bands ever — from smoky New Jersey clubs to stadiums on every continent.

Director Gotham Chopra was handed access the band had never opened up before: home footage, early demos, rehearsals, boxes of buried archive. This isn't a victory lap, though. At the center sits Jon Bon Jovi at a breaking point — a vocal cord injury and surgery that put his ability to sing, and the band's whole future, in doubt. David Bryan, Tico Torres, longtime bassist Hugh McDonald and guitarist Phil X all appear, and Bruce Springsteen weighs in on what made the group click.

The series is at its most honest when it shows the doubt rather than the triumph — what an idol of millions does when the one instrument that fails him is his own voice. Made for anyone raised on "Livin' on a Prayer" and anyone curious about the underside of rock fame. Stream the Bon Jovi story (2024) online on iFILM.