Goodfellas director Martin Scorsese appears pretty prominently throughout the new Beatles documentary on Disney+, Beatles '64 — but why?

Director David Tedeschi takes vérité footage shot by the Maysles brothers and incorporates it into a meditation on what the Beatles meant in 1964.

With his new, high-profile Disney+ rock documentary, the great filmmaker Martin Scorsese has done something few would have believed possible: he has made the Beatles boring.

T he most entrancing scene in Martin Scorsese’s Beatles ’64 documentary features John, Paul, George and Ringo on stage in Washington DC, with George Harrison leading his bandm

Beatles ’64’ director David Tedeschi, and co-producers Martin Scorsese and Olivia Harrison shared what they loved about the new documentary at a recent premiere screening of the film.

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Before Taylor Swift and the cult of Swifties took over pop culture, The Beatles created a similar craze in 1964 with Beatlemania. Their appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show remains iconic (even Boygenius paid homage to it during their SNL appearance).

I scream, you scream, we all scream for Beatlemania… but maybe it’s been a while. “Beatles ’64,” the new Martin Scorsese-produced documentary on Disney+, aims to recapture the shrieks that greeted the Beatles’ arrival on American shores at the beginning of 1964.