With new interviews, rare archival footage and a skull-rattling soundtrack, there's a whole lot to love about this theatrical experience.

Full of never-before-seen footage of the band’s first 18 months, interviews with John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, and new audio from the late John Bonham, the first authorised documentary about the best hard rock band to ever do it assumes a lot about what its audience already knows.

The release of the Becoming Led Zeppelin documentary pushes several albums by the band, including Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin II, and Four Symbols, up the UK charts.

Jimmy Page was a guitarist in the Yardbirds and one of the busiest session musicians in London in the mid-‘60s when he first proposed forming a group of his own with the Who’s rhythm section—and legend has it that Keith Moon joked that the band would go down “like a lead balloon.

Led Zeppelin's surviving members come together for the first time ever to tell their amazing origin story and 'Los Angeles' talks to the pair who made it happen

Becoming Led Zeppelin', the first documentary in which the surviving members of the band have ever participated, is in theaters now

DECIDER spoke to director-writer Bernard MacMahon and producer-writer Allison McGourty about this project that was decades in the making.