More like Let It Be
Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
Let It Be was Paul McCartney's answer to mounting tension within the band: pare everything down, return to live-room basics, and film it. Released in May 1970 alongside a documentary of the same name, it became the Beatles' final studio album — a record shaped as much by what was breaking apart as by what it was trying to rebuild. It draws toward work about the mythology of bands at their peak, the creative bonds that form and fray, and what gets left behind.
About Let It Be
Let It Be is the twelfth and final studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. It was released on 8 May 1970, nearly a month after the official announcement of the group's public break-up, in tandem with the documentary of the same name. Concerned about recent friction within the band, Paul McCartney had conceived the project as an attempt to reinvigorate the group by returning to simpler rock 'n' roll configurations. Its rehearsals started at Twickenham Film Studios on 2 January 1969 as part of a planned television documentary showcasing the Beatles' return to live performance.
From the Wikipedia article Let_It_Be_(album), available under CC BY-SA.
Films like Let It Be
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Let It Be
Documentary of the January 1969 rehearsal sessions that produced the album, originally planned as Get Back.
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Beatles '64
Rare footage documents the band landing in New York in February 1964 and cementing their American status.
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Yesterday
A musician realizes he's the only person who remembers the Beatles after waking in an alternate reality.
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Magical Mystery Tour
The Beatles on a coach tour experiencing surreal, magician-caused happenings — loose and freewheeling.
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Backbeat
The early Hamburg years, focusing on Stuart Sutcliffe, John Lennon, and Astrid Kirchherr's intertwined lives.
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Lennon or McCartney
550 artists interviewed over ten years, each asked to choose: Lennon or McCartney.
Series like Let It Be
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The Beatles: Get Back
Three-part series drawing on over 60 hours of unseen footage to capture the warmth and creativity of the same sessions.
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The Beatles Anthology
A documentary series tracing the full arc of the Beatles' career from beginning to end.
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The Beatles
American animated series following the Beatles' fanciful misadventures, running on ABC from 1965 to 1969.
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George Harrison: Living in the Material World
A documentary portrait of George Harrison as far more than just a member of the world's most famous band.
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Classic Albums
Documentary series examining pop and rock albums considered the best or most defining of a musician's career.
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BE@RBRICK
In a town of fixed roles, an aspiring singer-songwriter and her bandmates break free to pursue their own sound.
Books to read after Let It Be
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Ringo Starr
A biography of Ringo Starr, the oldest Beatle, tracing his origins in Liverpool's Dingle neighbourhood.
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Lennon
A long-time friend draws on personal knowledge and family cooperation to detail Lennon's life and influence.
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Tell Me Why
Perhaps the first serious musical analysis of the Beatles' catalogue and its impact on popular music.
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A hard day's write
Investigates the real people and events behind the songs, arranged chronologically through the catalogue.
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Back to you
After a turbulent marriage to a rock star ends in divorce, a former model rebuilds her life in Portland.
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Without You
Badfinger's story: poor luck, bad business decisions, and depression brought a promising band to ruin.
Frequently asked
What should I watch after the Let It Be album?
Start with The Beatles: Get Back, a three-part documentary built from over 60 hours of unseen footage from the same 1969 rehearsal sessions — it's essentially the full, uncut story behind the album.
Are there good books about the making of Let It Be and the Beatles' final years?
Tell Me Why offers one of the first serious song-by-song analyses of the Beatles' entire catalogue, while A Hard Day's Write investigates the real people and events that inspired the lyrics — both give rich context to the album's themes.
What movies are like Let It Be for fans of Beatles documentaries?
Beatles '64 captures the band's electrifying 1964 New York arrival with never-before-seen footage, and Backbeat dramatises their Hamburg years — together they bookend the journey that ended with Let It Be.