Becoming Led Zeppelin

3:30pm - Sunday, Mar 16, 2025

Becoming Led Zeppelin

BECOMING LED ZEPPELIN explores the origins of this iconic group and their meteoric rise in just one year against all the odds. Powered by awe-inspiring, psychedelic, never-before-seen footage, performances, and music, Bernard MacMahon’s experiential cinematic odyssey explores Led Zeppelin’s creative, musical, and personal origin story. The film is told in Led Zeppelin’s own words, diving deep into the rise of the epochal rock group, is the first (and only) documentary of its kind that the band themselves have participated in.
The documentary includes new interviews with Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones, as well as rare archival interviews with the band's late drummer John Bonham.

"A rich vein of anecdotes is found in Page and Jones's busy history as session players, with Jones particularly emerging as an affable raconteur with a juicy portfolio of anecdotes." (Uncut Magazine)

"A hagiographic look at the group’s beginnings, the movie is as straightforward as it is headbangingly diverting." (New York Times)

"The main attraction is finally the music, of which there is plenty." (RogerEBert.com)

Sunday, March 16
Doors 3:00 pm | Movie 3:30 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

BECOMING LED ZEPPELIN (Bernard MacMahon, 2025 / 122 mins / PG) The film traces the journeys of the four members of the Stairway To Heaven rockers through the music scene of the 1960s and their meeting in the summer of 1968, culminating in 1970.


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