Untitled Led Zeppelin film in post-production

Now in post-production, the as yet untitled Led Zeppelin documentary, directed by Bernard MacMahon, celebrates the world’s best-selling rock band on their 50th anniversary. The documentary traces the journeys of the four members through the music scene of the 1960s, their meeting in the summer of 1968 for a rehearsal that would change the future of rock, and culminates in 1970, when their second album knocks The Beatles off the top of the charts and they become the No. 1 band in the world.

With brand-new interviews of Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones, as well as rare archival interviews with the late John Bonham, this documentary will be the first of its kind: the Led Zeppelin story told through the words of the men who lived it, with no outside voices or conjecture. Featuring never-before-seen archive film and photographs, state-of-the-art audio transfers of the band’s music, as well as the music that shaped their sound, this documentary will be the definitive telling of the birth of the world’s biggest-selling rock band. It is the first and only time members of the band have participated in a documentary in 50 years.

The band’s surviving members said they were impressed with the work on the film.

“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,” Led Zeppelin guitarist Page said.

Lead singer Plant said he was inspired by the footage of vintage-era singers captured in the earlier film made by the team in charge of the Zeppelin project.

“Seeing Will Shade and so many other important early American musicians brought to life on the big screen in ‘American Epic’ inspired me to contribute to a very interesting and exciting story,” Plant said.

Keyboardist/bassist Jones said the timing is right for the Led Zeppelin film.

“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 that story to life,” Jones said.

The Led Zeppelin documentary comes from the award-winning team behind “American Epic,” directed by Bernard MacMahon, written by Bernard MacMahon and Allison McGourty, edited by Dan Gitlin, with sound supervision by Nicholas Bergh, and produced by Allison McGourty, Bernard MacMahon, Duke Erikson and Ged Doherty.

Executive producers are Peter Saraf and Marc Turtletaub.