he Beatles' 1970 film, Let it Be, had a brief run in theaters that spring, and wasn't seen again until its release on VHS, Betamax and LaserDisc in 1981, followed by videodisc in 1982.
That will change this today when a restored version starts streaming on Disney+.
With its release a month after the band broke up, history has always portrayed it as being dark, with the band members not getting along. That's even how Ringo Starr, came to see it, although Paul McCartney saw it differently.
Anything but dark and sad, the film was directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg. For the restored version, director Peter Jackson, who took over 50 hours of previously unseen footage shot by Lindsay-Hogg to create his 2021 documentary, Get Back, cleaned up the film quality and audio.