Fleetwood Mac’s Authorized Documentary, ‘Fleetwood Mac: The Chain,’ Hits Apple TV on Jan. 29

Fleetwood Mac are ready to tell their own story. Apple TV announced Thursday (Oct. 22) that Fleetwood Mac: The Chain, directed by Frank Marshall, premieres on the service on Friday, Jan. 29, Pitchfork reports. The announcement came with a very short teaser, and the film’s title and date arrive nearly two years after the project was first revealed.

The film keeps its focus on the band’s most popular era: the 1974–2018 lineup of Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie and the late Christine McVie, per Pitchfork. Apple says it includes interviews from all five, and sums up the pitch this way:

It will take fans through the highs and lows of their brilliant career, illuminating the exceptional ingredients each member brought to the band’s uncommon alchemy – a musical union that sold more than 220 million records worldwide.

Apple Original Films, American Songwriter

Pitchfork notes the “first fully authorized” billing is a bit of a technicality, since the band took part in the BBC’s one-hour 2009 documentary Fleetwood Mac: Don’t Stop. The new film has more room. When Apple first announced it in November 2024, Marshall said the band “somehow managed to merge their often chaotic and almost operatic personal lives into their own tale in real-time, which then became legend,” per Dork. “This will be a film about the music and the people who created it,” he added.

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Marshall has made a specialty of this kind of film. Dork lists his Beach Boys documentary for Disney+ and the Bee Gees film How Can You Mend a Broken Heart among his recent credits.

The timing is deliberate. American Songwriter notes the January premiere lands a month before the 50th anniversary of Rumours, the 1977 album that won album of the year at the Grammys. Nicks has been busy in the meantime: she joined Sabrina Carpenter for “Landslide” at the Met Gala in May, and she is on the soundtrack of Practical Magic 2.

Fleetwood Mac: The Chain premieres Jan. 29 on Apple TV.

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