Best Concert Films to Stream in the UK Right Now: 8 Brilliant Picks for 2026
Best concert films to stream in the UK right now
Concert films have quietly become one of the best things on streaming. The big-screen revival began with Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour and Beyoncé’s Renaissance selling out IMAX screens, but the lasting shift has happened on the sofa. Netflix, Disney+ and the BBC’s archives now hold a genuinely brilliant catalogue. So if you’re after the best concert films to stream in the UK without a £20 cinema ticket and a sticky floor, here are eight picks worth your evening – ranged from the canonical to the recently re-released.
In This Article
- Stop Making Sense (Talking Heads, 1984)
- Homecoming (Beyoncé, 2019)
- Summer of Soul (Questlove, 2021)
- The Beatles: Get Back (Peter Jackson, 2021)
- Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (Taylor's Version)
- Moonage Daydream (Brett Morgen, 2022)
- Amy (Asif Kapadia, 2015)
- The Last Waltz (Martin Scorsese, 1978)
- Glastonbury (Julien Temple, 2006)
- Getting the best concert films to stream sounding right at home
- Where the catalogues go from here
A note on what counts. We’ve stuck with films built around live performance, with the occasional documentary that earns its place by showing you the music rather than dramatising it. Biopics with actors miming aren’t here. What is here: anything you can put on tonight that genuinely repays a decent television and a quiet room.
Stop Making Sense (Talking Heads, 1984)
Jonathan Demme’s Talking Heads film keeps showing up at the top of every “greatest concert film” list and there’s a reason. The 2023 4K restoration, released through A24, scrubbed up the colours, the contrast and especially the sound, which now feels less like a tape from the eighties and more like David Byrne is in the room. It’s also, more than 40 years on, structurally clever – Byrne walks out alone with a cassette deck and the band assembles around him song by song, instrument by instrument. UK viewers can rent it on Apple TV or stream via MUBI when it cycles in.
What to play it on: any decent stereo pair will do, but a soundbar with a real subwoofer makes Tina Weymouth’s bass guitar work properly.
Homecoming (Beyoncé, 2019)
The Coachella set built around Beyoncé’s status as the festival’s first Black woman headliner. Homecoming is structured as much around the rehearsal and the historically Black college and university traditions she wove into the show as it is around the performance itself. Netflix UK still has it. It rewards a watch in one go and a watch with the volume up – the brass arrangements are extraordinary, and the editing between the live show and rehearsal footage is a masterclass in pace.
Summer of Soul (Questlove, 2021)
Questlove’s directorial debut, built from 40 hours of unseen footage of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival – Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Sly and the Family Stone, Mahalia Jackson, all six weeks across that summer in Mount Morris Park. The film won the Oscar for best documentary feature and you can see why. It’s on Disney+ in the UK under the Star banner. If you’ve enjoyed the recent wave of British music documentaries on streaming, this is a useful next step into American equivalents.
The Beatles: Get Back (Peter Jackson, 2021)
Yes, it’s eight hours. No, it isn’t really a concert film for most of those hours – it’s a fly-on-the-wall reconstruction of the Let It Be sessions stitched together from Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s original 1969 footage. But the rooftop concert at the end is the best 42 minutes of live music on any streaming service, and Jackson’s restoration of the audio is jaw-dropping if you have anything resembling Atmos. Disney+ UK has all three parts.
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version)
The cinema cut, with the extended Cardigan and a couple of acoustic-set additions, is on Disney+ in the UK now, having moved over from the original theatrical release. As a record of what felt at the time like the cultural event of 2023 it does its job, and as a watch-with-a-teenager experience it’s hard to beat. For the longer view, our piece on the musical evolution of Taylor Swift sits well alongside it.
Moonage Daydream (Brett Morgen, 2022)
Not strictly a concert film – more a kaleidoscopic essay on David Bowie built from concert footage, interviews and Bowie’s own archive – but the live sequences are the best Bowie performance footage ever assembled in one place. Brett Morgen had access to everything. Moonage Daydream is on Sky Documentaries and Now in the UK, and it sounds extraordinary, in part because Morgen’s team remixed the live tapes specifically for IMAX and that remix carries through to streaming. The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw called it a “truly amazing tribute” at Cannes and that’s about right.
Amy (Asif Kapadia, 2015)
Kapadia’s Oscar-winning Amy Winehouse film leans on the musical performances – the early Mercury session, the Glastonbury set, the Camden Roundhouse footage – to do most of its emotional work. Whether it’s strictly a concert film is debatable. That it’s one of the best films about a musician you can stream in the UK isn’t. Available on Channel 4’s free streaming service and Prime Video.
The Last Waltz (Martin Scorsese, 1978)
The Band’s farewell concert, filmed at Winterland in San Francisco the day after Thanksgiving 1976, with Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and Van Morrison all wandering on. Scorsese was 35 and brought a full film crew – the cinematography and the editing rhythm have been studied by every concert film since. The BFI’s Sight and Sound still ranks it in the top tier of the genre. UK rental on Apple TV or Prime. Worth the £3.49.
Glastonbury (Julien Temple, 2006)
Temple stitched together three decades of fan and BBC footage into a film that is part concert, part social history – the festival as a barometer of British culture from the 1970s onwards. It pops up on iPlayer in the run-up to the festival each year and is well worth catching when it does. With Glastonbury 2026 coming, this is the moment.
Getting the best concert films to stream sounding right at home
A concert film deserves more than your TV’s built-in speakers. None of this needs to be expensive. A budget soundbar with a wireless subwoofer will do more for any of these films than a 4K upgrade ever would – the dialogue and the kick drum are the two things laptop and TV speakers tend to get badly wrong, and a sub fixes the second one immediately. If you’ve already got Atmos, Get Back and Moonage Daydream are the films to put it through its paces.
Streaming services compress audio differently. Apple TV and Disney+ tend to deliver the highest-quality streams in the UK on the same titles, with Netflix close behind. Prime Video sits a step lower on bitrate for live music, anecdotally. Worth knowing before you commit to a rental of a film that’s available in two places.
Also worth picking up if you don’t have it: a pair of decent over-ear headphones for late-night solo watching when you don’t want to wake the house. The bass response on a £150 pair will outperform almost any TV speaker – and means The Eras Tour doesn’t have to wait until the kids are out.
Where the catalogues go from here
The next 12 months should bring more of this. Apple has been quietly hoovering up rights to archive concerts after the success of its Springsteen and Lewis Capaldi documentaries. Netflix’s slate includes a Lola Young concert film tied to her current album cycle. The BBC has hinted at restoring more of the Glastonbury archive for iPlayer in time for the 2026 festival, and HBO Max – finally available in the UK – has a deep back catalogue of HBO concert specials that’s still being uploaded title by title.
The streamers have worked out that a great concert film keeps people on the platform for two hours and feels event-sized. That incentive isn’t going anywhere.
So which one are you putting on first? If you’ve never seen Stop Making Sense on a proper system, start there. If you’ve seen it ten times, queue Summer of Soul. If you have a teenager in the house, you already know what’s going on.
What concert film do you keep going back to – and is there one you wish a streamer would track down and add?
