This week is STAR WARS week, there is no doubt about it. There are six movies out on the home HD format Blu-Ray this week, and being a die hard fan of the series, I’m really excited about it – even if George Lucas has all of those terrible new changes. You see, the thing is, every time that the films are re-released in any form, the series gets a whole bunch of new fans, and getting new bums in front of quite possibly the greatest film saga ever made is no bad thing, right?
Well, aside from the BDs, which you can pick up for just under £70 from your local HMV, there are three feature length fan made documentaries online which are available on YouTube.com for FREE, right now! These are not sanctioned or authorised by Lucasfilm, but are made ‘by fans, for fans.’ Running at around two hours each, they are comprehensive, detailed and quite simply f-ing awesome! You can check them out, one for each of the films in the original trilogy, in full below.
Humbled by the dedictation, and amped that the guys behind the docs are going to tackle RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK next. This is just brilliant.
STAR WARS BEGINS
BUILDING EMPIRE
RETURNING TO JEDI
Hats off to filmmaker Jamie Benning (follow him on Twitter here). Check out a full preview of the ‘Raiders’ doc here.
