Becoming Led Zeppelin, the first-ever authorized doc about the band, arrives in February 2025
Thanksgiving might be over, but gratitude is still in the air: The trailer for Bernard MacMahon’s Becoming Led Zeppelin is finally here.
A glimpse of the first-ever authorized Led Zeppelin documentary can be seen below, where Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, and John Paul Jones discuss forming one of the greatest rock bands of all time across archival footage and “Whole Lotta Love.”
The trailer closes with a never-before-heard interview with the late drummer John Bonham, whose 1980 death broke up the band. “The first time we played together, it was stunning,” he says. “It was like a gift from heaven, wasn’t it?”
Becoming Led Zeppelin will be released on Feb. 7 in IMAX across 200 theaters, with one night of early access on Feb. 5. Tickets for both can be found here.
The film was first announced five years ago, then premiered at the 2021 Venice Film Festival. That same year, an early clip of “Good Times Bad Times” was released. In May 2024, the “hybrid docu-concert film” was acquired by Sony Pictures Classics.
Making the film was challenging for MacMahon and writer-producer Allison McGourty, as hardly any footage from the band’s early years existed. Through their research, they were able to include unseen concert footage, including their early performances at the Fillmore West in January 1969 and the Texas Pop Festival in August 1969.
“We spent five years flying back and forth across the Atlantic scouring attics and basements in pursuit of rare and unseen film footage, photographs and music recordings,” McGourty said in a statement. “Then we transferred each piece of media with custom techniques, so that in IMAX, these 55-year-old clips and music would look and sound like they came out of the lab yesterday.”
