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Disney+ began streaming a newly restored version of the 1970 Beatles documentary Let It Be on Wednesday, and today Apple Corps has released a new music video of the same name.

The music video features clips and outtakes from the 1970 documentary Let It Be, which has undergone a meticulous restoration at Park Road Post Production, the company founded by Oscar-winning director Peter Jackson, best known for the The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies.

Let It Be, the documentary, was filmed and directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg in January 1969 and released to theaters in May 1970, one month after Paul McCartney announced he was no longer working with The Beatles, publicly acknowledging what insiders already knew: The Beatles were done.

The movie is widely thought to present a darker view of The Beatles’ waning moments as a working band than The Beatles: Get Back, a more uplifting 2021 docuseries directed and produced by Peter Jackson, which is also based on Lindsay-Hogg’s voluminous 1969 footage.

You can watch the music video here.

The Let It Be documentary was filmed during the making of what would be The Beatles final album of the same name and contains footage not featured in the “Get Back” docuseries, though there is overlap, such as the group’s iconic final live performance on the rooftop of the Apple Corps building in London.

In 2021, The Beatles’ Let It Be album was remixed in stereo, 5.1 surround, and Dolby Atmos by producer Giles Martin and mixing engineer Sam Okell for a range of Special Edition packages released by Apple Corps Ltd./Capitol/UMe. The album’s Super Deluxe CD, vinyl and digital collections also feature 27 previously unreleased session recordings, a four-track Let It Be EP, and the never before released 14-track Get Back stereo LP mix compiled by engineer Glyn Johns in May 1969.