A Beatle learns to fly solo. Paul McCartney‘s post-Fab Four years — messy, defiant, and creatively restless — are the subject of Man on the Run, a new documentary from Academy Award-winning director Morgan Neville that arrives in select theatres and on Prime Video February 25.
The film traces McCartney’s arc from the wreckage of The Beatles’ 1970 breakup through the formation of Wings with his wife, Linda, and the turbulent early days of a solo career built under impossible expectations. Drawing on previously unseen footage and rare archival material, Neville’s 115-minute portrait captures a vulnerable, searching McCartney navigating critical scorn, creative doubt, and the pressure to prove himself beyond the band that defined a generation. It’s an intimate look at an artist determined to redefine himself on his own terms, even when the world wasn’t ready to let him.
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Produced by Tremolo in association with MPL and Polygram Entertainment, the documentary is executive produced by McCartney himself alongside Caitrin Rogers. Amazon MGM Studios will release it across more than 240 countries and territories, making it one of the most widely accessible music documentaries in recent memory. The film sits at the centre of a broader partnership between McCartney, Universal Music Group, and Amazon that includes exclusive music releases, limited-edition merchandise drops, and commentary from McCartney available through Amazon Music.
The documentary coincides with a flurry of Wings-related activity this fall and winter. McCartney’s book Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run was released on Amazon and Audible in early November, followed days later by WINGS, a definitive self-titled collection available on streaming and limited-edition vinyl. McCartney also wrapped a string of North American dates on his Got Back tour earlier this autumn.
For Montreal fans who caught McCartney at the Bell Centre during previous tours, Man on the Run offers a rare backstage pass to the years that shaped his post-Beatles identity — a period when one of rock’s most famous voices had to learn how to speak again on his own.
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