The Beatles in Film - Fictionalised Beatles

Fictionalised Beatles

• Birth of The Beatles (1979), focusing on period from ca. 1957 at art college through Hamburg days to first number one
• Beatlemania (1981), a poorly-received movie version of the Broadway show of the same name
• Backbeat (1994), the Stuart Sutcliffe story
• The Hours and Times (1991), speculation about the weekend Brian Epstein and John Lennon spent together in Barcelona in 1963
• The Linda McCartney Story (1999), A TV film covering the relationship between Paul McCartney and Linda Eastman.
• Two of Us (2000), covering a mid-1970s meeting between Paul McCartney and John Lennon
• In His Life: The John Lennon Story (2000), focusing on period from 1957 to 1964.
• Nowhere Boy (2009), a John Lennon biopic, focusing on his teens
• Lennon Naked (2010), a TV movie based on the life of Lennon from 1967 to 1971 starring Christopher Eccleston as John Lennon