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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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
Rob Ulitski - 22nd Dec 2025