On February 7, 1964, the United States - and subsequently, the whole world - was irrevocably changed. The Beatles touching down at John F. Kennedy airport, meeting thousands of adoring, screaming fans on the runway altered the brain chemistry of a country ...

Beatles ’64, a new documentary, charts the first flush of Beatlemania in America. Drawing heavily from newly restored remarkable verite footage shot by renowned filmmakers Albert and David Maysles alongside newly restored footage discoveries and significantly improved audio,

Director David Tedeschi takes vérité footage shot by the Maysles brothers and incorporates it into a meditation on what the Beatles meant in 1964.

The Beatles' U.S. visit in 1964 also included concerts at Carnegie Hall, a gig at the Washington Coliseum in Washington, D.C., and a visit to Miami, where the band met Muhammad Ali