The new Disney+ documentary 'Beatles '64' captures the mania of the group's arrival on U.S. shores. Director David Tedeschi discusses the film.

Beatles ’64, a new documentary, charts the first flush of Beatlemania in America. Drawing heavily from newly restored remarkable verite footage shot by renowned filmmakers Albert and David Maysles alongside newly restored footage discoveries and significantly improved audio,

The Beatles' U.S. visit in 1964 also included concerts at Carnegie Hall, a gig at the Washington Coliseum in Washington, D.C., and a visit to Miami, where the band met Muhammad Ali. The documentary shows members of the band reading newspaper coverage of themselves.

it takes this fabled, high-swoon moment of pop-music history, almost all of which we now view through a mythological lens, and humanizes it in an exhilarating way.

Screen Rant interviews Beatles ’64 director David Tedeschi and producer Margaret Bodde about highlighting the band’s first trip to the United States.