Run time: 132 mins
Ten years on from the release of his final album Blackstar, Jonathan Stiasny’s landmark documentary charts the extraordinary final creative chapter of one of music’s most iconic and inventive artists.
The team behind Freddie Mercury: The Final Act and ABBA: Against the Odds turns its focus to David Bowie, crafting a vivid portrait of an artist who met mortality with defiance, imagination and renewed creative fire. The film charts Bowie’s turbulent 1990s, when shifting tastes and harsh criticism left him fearing his star was fading, yet from that uncertainty emerged one of his boldest reinventions.
His resurgence unfolds through a triumphant Glastonbury headline set, a return to his South London roots and an early embrace of the internet’s creative potential. These shifts paved the way for Blackstar, the haunting final album that transformed his confrontation with death into a stark, luminous statement.
Blending rare archive footage with intimate interviews from collaborators, friends and cultural admirers, the documentary highlights the strategic brilliance and restless imagination that powered Bowie’s final decade. Insightful and moving, it reframes his last chapter not as a decline but as a visionary creative rebirth from one of music’s most endlessly shape-shifting artists.