Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour Documentary and ‘Final Show’ Film Coming to Disney+

A documentary about Taylor Swift’s Eras tour has long been rumored, and now it’s finally confirmed to be a reality – but there’s much more than met the eye. The singer announced Monday that a six-part documentary series, “Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour | The End of an Era,” will premiere on Disney+ on Dec. 12, accompanied by the simultaneous release of a new concert film, “Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour | The Final Show,” filmed during the tour finale in Vancouver, British Columbia.

As announced on “Good Morning America,” the documentary series is described as “an intimate look at Taylor’s life as her tour made headlines and delighted fans around the world,” spotlighting “artists, family members and friends,” including tour opening acts Gracie Abrams and Sabrina Carpenter and guests Ed Sheeran and Florence Welch. The first two of six episodes will be released for streaming on December 12, with two additional episodes at a time each of the following two weeks.

The concert film bows at the same time as these first two parts of the documentary series. This will be the first time fans will have the chance to see the material added to the Eras tour by the “Department of Tortured Poets” on the big screen. His previous theatrical concert film “Eras Tour” (which was also eventually released on Disney+) was released before this album was released or before songs from it were added to the tour set list.

A trailer for the documentary lasting one minute and 39 seconds was released immediately after the announcement; watch it below.

“It was the end of an era and we knew it,” Swift wrote in a post announcing the plans on her social media. “We wanted to remember every moment leading up to the climax of the most important and intense chapter of our lives, so we allowed the filmmakers to capture this tour and all the stories woven through it until its end. And to film the final show in its entirety.”

“Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour | The End of an Era” is directed by Don Argott, co-directed by Sheena M. Joyce and produced by Object & Animal. “Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour | The Final Show,” meanwhile, is directed by Glenn Weiss and produced by Taylor Swift Productions in association with Silent House Productions.

The concert film will show viewers the finale of the Eras tour which took place at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver on December 8, 2023. (Read Variety(review of that show here.) His setlist for the nearly two-year, $2 billion-grossing tour consisted of 45 songs and included the extra “Female Rage: The Musical Segment” that was added to the show after the release of “The Tortured Poets Department.” Additionally, the “surprise songs” segment of this show featured medleys of “A Place in This World”/”New Romantics” and “Long Live/New Year’s Day”. It was not immediately revealed whether the concert film would include the entire three-hour-plus show.

Information about which platforms would work with Swift’s next project — or, as it now turns out, projects — had already been announced on Sunday, when the Disney+ and Hulu logos were superimposed on the Instagram “GMA” image posted to tease a big on-air announcement from Swift for Monday morning. There’s a lot of synergy there, with the reveal coming to Disney-owned ABC.

The likely existence of a documentary and/or concert film had been weighing heavily on Swifties’ minds since they noticed the presence of camera crews beyond what was necessary to fill the arena’s big screens at the final show of the Eras tour in Vancouver, British Columbia, in December 2023. A previous concert film filmed on the tour, “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour”, had already been released in theaters at that time.

The superstar had already taken “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” to Disney+ in April 2024 after the film’s record theatrical release. Just as “Eras Tour” had quickly become the highest-grossing concert film ever released theatrically in late 2023, when it arrived on Disney+ a few months later, it set an initial release record for a concert film, garnering 4.6 million views on the platform in its first three days of availability. The tour film streaming exclusively on Disney+ was a sign that Swift was happy with how the platform handled the late 2020 release of her documentary “Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions.” (Swift has previously released concert films or documentaries through Netflix and Apple.)

This new documentary series and concert film will both bypass venues, unlike the “Eras Tour” concert film from two years ago. But theater owners don’t have much to complain about on Swift’s end at the moment. She has just offered them “Taylor Swift: The Release Party of a Showgirl”, a promotional event for the release of an album which was No. 1 at the box office with 33 million dollars gross in theaters for only three days.

These Eras Tour projects will come on the heels of Swift not only topping the box office with “Release Party of a Showgirl,” but topping the Billboard 200 with a record debut week for “The Life of a Showgirl” album. In just five days, it broke the record for an album in a single week, a record previously held by Adele’s first release of “25” 10 years ago.

In addition to ABC sharing a parent company with Disney+, Swift turned to ABC for the announcement that leveraged her longtime association with “Good Morning America” ​​— a week after she appeared to show all her love to NBC with appearances on Jimmy Fallon and Seth Myers’ late-night talk shows. Ratings showed that “The Tonight Show” had the best ratings in the 18-49 demo in eight months, and Myers’ “Late Night” had its best audience in that demo since January.