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This DVD is a fairly substandard history of The Beatles. There are many documentaries and films that focus on The Beatles and this particular one doesn't contain any new information. There are some separate clips about Stella McCartney and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi that are interesting and can't be found elsewhere, but they can't account for the boring narrator and the strident background music that are featured in this documentary. The film does focus on the breakup of The Beatles, and all of the details that brought that about. Given that there are much better documentaries available on this topic such as The Beatles Anthology (1995) and Imagine: John Lennon (1988), this one is not very good nor is it worthy of playing in the classroom or at home.