The interview that nearly ended a legend — watch the trainwreck unfold in real time.
Martin Bashir conducts a rare interview with Michael Jackson and is given unprecedented access to the reclusive performer's private life over a span of eight months, from May 2002 to January 2003.
Acting
Jackson's performative innocence vs. Bashir's calculated sympathy
Direction
Editing that weaponizes access against its subject
Director
Julie Shaw
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jackson's own rebuttal documentary, 'Living with Michael Jackson: The Footage You Were Never Meant to See,' released months later with his own camera crew's footage, making this possibly cinema's first dueling documentary war.
This 60-minute special directly triggered the 2003 police raid and subsequent trial; it's arguably the most consequential celebrity interview since Diana's Panorama confession.
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