From variety.com:

“American Epic” director Bernard MacMahon has revealed the title of his long-awaited and recently completed Led Zeppelin feature documentary: “Becoming Led Zeppelin.”

The project, which was first announced in 2019, has unprecedented access to the band, marking the first and only time the group has participated in a documentary in 50 years. Though 1976 doc “The Song Remains the Same” centred on the band, that was largely a concert film of a series of Madison Square Garden performances in 1973.

“’Becoming Led Zeppelin’ is a film that no one thought could be made,” said MacMahon. “The band’s meteoric rise to stardom was swift and virtually undocumented. Through an intense search across the globe and years of restoration of the visual and audio archive found, this story is finally able to be told.”

A release date hasn’t yet been set for the pic. Altitude Film Sales and Submarine Entertainment will be co-repping sales.

The film includes new interviews with Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, and John Paul Jones, as well as rare archival interviews with the late John Bonham, who died in 1980. The film features never-before-seen archive film and photographs, state-of-the-art audio transfers of the band’s music and the music of other artists who shaped their sound.

When the project was first announced, Page said: “When I saw everything Bernard had done both visually and sonically on the remarkable achievement that is ‘American Epic,’ I knew he would be qualified to tell our story.”

First formed in London in 1968, the English rock band is best known for hits including “Stairway to Heaven,” “Good Times Bad Times” and “The Immigrant Song,” and are considered one of the most influential rock bands in history.

For anyone curious about what inspired Page et al to select Bernard MacMahon to helm this project, check out American Epic from 2016.



DVD: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01BGYDUKU/?tag=imwan-20
Blu-ray: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01BGYFTK4/?tag=imwan-20

(Associated audio releases are also available)

Led Zeppelin has long needed a real documentary.

I am very excited.

I'm definitely in!

Jimmy Page said he was left speechless after attending the recent premiere of the first-ever official Led Zeppelin documentary.

Becoming Led Zeppelin focuses on how the band formed and rose to fame, and surviving members Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones were careful to ensure that it focused on their musical endeavors rather than their personal lives.

Page was the only band member present when it was initially screened on the afternoon of Sept. 4 at the Venice Film Festival in Italy, and he came prepared to welcome the full-capacity audience. The guitarist was forced to wait.


“There was a 10-minute standing ovation before a word was said,” Page via Facebook. “The audience bestowed such affection before the viewing, it was quite overwhelming. As the film progressed, the enthusiasm intensified and certain sequences were followed by applause.

"The audience were really connected and it was interesting to witness the communication and enthusiasm the event and the film were generating," Page added. "After the closing credits, the audience rose to their feet and gave us another standing ovation, a thank you that I can’t convey in words … but boy did I feel it."


Page decided to attend a second screening, which took place at midnight. There were similar results: He and director Bernard MacMahon “introduced the film to another enthusiastic audience and another standing ovation,” Page said.


“It was so energizing to feel the love, joy and anticipation from the public. The world press from the next couple of days was equally encouraging,” he said. “They had had a private viewing, so the questions were totally relative to the documentary. The film had clearly touched the hearts of both audience and critics alike.”

I read some not-so-good reviews of this/

No DVD yet????????

Here's the official teaser from the Venice Film Festival, where the documentary premiered in September 2021. Since then, there has no additional information regarding theatrical and/or home video release.

I’ve read that this was pretty awful.

I had no idea it only went up to 1970 and that the first hour wasn’t even about Zeppelin.

Jimmy must’ve been back on heroin claiming it received a standing ovation