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Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour and Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé are highly-anticipated concert films that will make fans feel like they're front row at their favorite artists' concerts. Some of the greatest concert movies capture landmark events in music history, like Woodstock and Monterey Pop. The best concert movies feature a combination of behind-the-scenes footage and high-quality concert coverage, providing an immersive and enjoyable experience for viewers.

With the upcoming release of the highly-anticipated Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour and Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé, here are ten of the greatest concert movies that will rival them. The best concert movies typically feature a thoughtful combination of behind-the-scenes documentary footage mixed with exciting high-quality coverage of one or several of the artists' actual concerts. For fans of Taylor Swift and Beyoncé who weren't fortunate enough to sit front row at one of their concert, these upcoming concert films are...

Exclusive: Netflix is developing a docuseries focused on the infamous Woodstock ’99 music festival, a four-day event designed to celebrate the 30-year anniversary of the original 1969 Woodstock festival that ended in fiery chaos, sources tell Deadline.

The project, which we hear has started production, hails from Raw, which produced the Netflix documentaries Don’t F**k with Cats and Fear City: New York vs. The Mafia, the latter released last month, and Bbh Entertainment, the development arm of the global creative agency Bbh, which co-produced the 2019 Depeche Mode concert/documentary film Spirits in the Forest.

According to sources, the series will delve deep into the culture that created Woodstock ‘99 and tell the real story behind how “three days of peace, love and music” went down in flames. Featuring unseen archive footage and intimate testimony from people behind the scenes, on the stages and in the crowds, the series aims at telling...

“Depeche Mode: Spirits in the Forest,” the film by Anton Corbijn that follows the band and a group of fans on its Global Spirit Tour, has hauled in $4.5 million at the box office, making it one of the best-performing event cinema releases of the year.

The Trafalgar Releasing, Sony Music Entertainment and Bbh Entertainment film was released in 76 countries. On its opening night at the global box office, the film landed in the No. 2 spot in U.K. and Italy and No. 3 in Mexico. It was also a standout success in Germany, taking the No. 2 spot on the night it was released, with box office receipts totaling $1.3 million. Globally there were about 220,000 admissions across 2,800 cinemas.

Depeche Mode played to more than three million fans at 115 shows on the Global Spirit tour. Filmmaker Corbijn is a longtime artistic collaborator with the band. His film meshes the stories of six fans with...

The members of Depeche Mode take a backseat in Anton Corbijn’s new concert film, “Depeche Mode: Spirits in the Forest.” Instead, the director shifts the spotlight to six fans, whose personal stories are woven throughout footage from the final night of band’s Global Spirit Tour in Berlin. Originally, the Dutch director simply wanted to create a document of his stage design for the tour, but the band felt that there needed to be a more impactful reason for the film and took inspiration from Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker 1989 endeavor on the group, “101.”

“I don’t like to watch concert films, myself,” Corbijn tells Variety. “[This] was initially very narcissistic for me. But it ended up being a great way to do it.”

The six fans, who come from all over the world — including Los Angeles, Romania and Mongolia —were selected from a massive pool of possible subjects.

and hear something holy in the band’s rapturous synth-pop hymns, Anton Corbijn’s “Spirits in the Forest” is the definition of a “fans only” experience, and yet the fun of this delightful bop of a film — not to mention its basic thesis — is located in the idea that Depeche Mode fans are way more widespread and diverse than you might imagine these days. In fact, you might be one of them, even if you don’t know it yet (or have forgotten it at some point over the years).

Co-directed by Pasqual Gutierrez and John Merizalde, “Spirits in the Forest” centers on two ecstatic arena shows that Depeche Mode performed at Berlin’s Waldbühne in July 2018 at the tail end of their most recent world tour. And while the band’s music is what holds this movie together, Corbijn is more interested in the people who take it with them wherever they go.