Man On The Run is a new documentary about legendary Beatles member Paul McCartney, and with an interesting twist— it takes place post-Beatles breakup.
The film which premiered at the 2025 Telluride Film Festival takes viewers on a journey through Paul McCartney’s extraordinary life following the breakup of The Beatles and the formation of Wings with his wife, Linda.
Directed by Oscar winner Morgan Neville, the film gets a limited theatrical release starting February 18, 2026, followed by its debut on Prime Video on February 27, 2026.
The year is 1970. The Beatles, the biggest band in the world, has just broken up. The members go their own ways. Where is Paul McCartney? Secluding himself off on a farm as he tries to find himself. Being so young and thrust into levels even above superstardom with The Beatles so early on, it left him reckoning with what he was supposed to do from there. We follow the start of his rough early career, to his work with the band Wings, through several interviews featuring Wings members, McCartney’s family, as well as McCartney himself. McCartney is never pictured on screen, and is only present through audio-only interviews, allowing the story to be lived in the present rather than looked back on in the past.
“We talk about how Paul himself has been coming to terms with what this music means over time, because at the time, a lot of this stuff was very painful for him,” says Neville in an interview with IndieWire. “Paul takes a lot of licks in the film. There’s a lot of stuff happening where it’s not working for him. I think Paul now is still processing and still figuring out how he feels about all this, trying to separate what was often painful at the time from how this music has endured. Having just spent years doing a deep dive through this catalog, it’s amazing the amount of incredible work he did through this decade.”
Watch the teaser trailer for “Paul McCartney: Man on the Run” above.
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