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The Beatles 'Free As A Bird: A Song Reborn' by Oliver Murray

Rob Ulitski - 22nd Dec 2025

Oliver Murray directs a short documentary celebrating the making of a Beatles song that was finally completed and released in the mid-Nineties - 25 years after the band broke up.

Thirty years later, and as a tie-in with remastering and rerelease of the Beatles Anthology project, Murray's film about Free As A Bird - written by John Lennon and discovered among his personal recordings - includes footage from the recording of the track in 1994, interspersed with narration from the band, and an intriguing central focus on a resurfaced Lennon recording.   

This follows Murray's short doc about the last ever Beatles song, Now And Then, also plucked from Lennon's trove of home recordings, a couple of years ago. And it's an informative and fun dive into the makings of arguably the last truly memorable Beatles song, while also being a meditation on what it means to create after great loss. 

Rob Ulitski - 22nd Dec 2025

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  • Performance
  • Documentary
  • Classic
  • 1990s
  • Candid
  • Vintage

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Credits

Production/Creative

Director
Oliver Murray
Producer
Sophie Hilton
Producer
Paul Mccartney
Producer
Ringo Starr
Producer
Olivia Harrison
Producer
Sean Ono Lennon
Producer
Celia Moore
Producer
Jonathan Clyde
Production Company
Apple Corps
Production Company
Orofena Films

Camera

Director of Photography
Ciaran O'brien
Focus Puller
Chelsea Bernard

Editorial

Editor
D-fran
Editing company
Whitehouse
Edit Producer
Ella Sedgwick
Sound Design By Al Sirkett

Grading

Colour Producer
Renäta Fabri
Colourist
Luke Morrison
Colour grade company
Electric Theatre Collective

Commission

Label
Universal Music Group

Rob Ulitski - 22nd Dec 2025

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