photo by Dick Barnatt, Redferns, London, December 1968/Getty Images


Next week’s Cannes Film Festival in France will feature the premiere of a new documentary celebrating the legacy and 50th anniversary of iconic rock band Led Zeppelin.

The film, which is still untitled, will exclusively feature new interviews with band members Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones, plus archival footage of interviews with late drummer John Bonham, previously unreleased footage, music from the band and their influences, and more, marking the first time the Zeppelin bandmates have participated in a documentary about the group.

The filmmakers, including director Bernard MacMahon (who also helmed the ambitious American Epic), aimed to present “the Led Zeppelin story told through the words of the men that lived it, with no outside voices or conjecture.”

“When I saw everything Bernard had done both visually and sonically on the remarkable achievement that is American Epic, I knew he would be qualified to tell our story,” says Page, while Jones adds, “The time was right for us to tell our own story for the first time in our own words, and I think that this film will really bring this story to life.”