Overview
- The feature-length documentary premiered on Channel 4 on 3 January 2026 at 10pm.
- Director Jonathan Stiasny reexamines Bowie’s 1990s as a period of struggle and renewal that set up his late‑period work, culminating in Blackstar.
- Testimony from Tony Visconti, Earl Slick and John Giddings appears alongside archive material and interviews with Bowie.
- The film shows his 2004 onstage distress in Prague, recounts reported heart attacks, and a nine‑year retreat before a surprise 2013 return.
- It balances tribute with critique by revisiting Tin Machine’s hostile reception, notes secret rave‑tent gigs in the era, and details his privately held 2014 liver cancer diagnosis during the making of Blackstar.