The new documentary, EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, drawn from newly discovered performance and rehearsal footage, and spoken audio recordings, is an exhilarating look at the King. The feature-length film, from director Baz Luhrmann, comes more than three years after his acclaimed biopic, Elvis, from 2022. EPiC debuted on IMAX screens on Feb. 20, 2026, and will open wide a week later, on Feb. 27, via NEON and Universal Pictures International. The film, which had its worldwide premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 6, 2025, has earned a 95% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Audiences are loving it, too, with a 99% rating. Watch the official trailer and several other clips below.

EPiC features long-lost footage from Presley’s legendary Vegas residency in the 1970s, woven together with rare 16mm footage from Elvis on Tour and treasured 8mm film from the Graceland archive, with the King himself as narrator, thanks to rediscovered recordings of Elvis telling “his side of the story.”

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The spectacular footage moves seamlessly back-and-forth from rehearsals with Presley’s phenomenal TCB band to the stage. All the while, we’re treated to the King in his colorful outfits that he wears in the rehearsal studio, while working out the arrangements for the setlist for their shows at Vegas’ International Hotel.

And those songs! The concerts feature a blend of classics, well-chosen covers of newer songs, and gospel and country standards. We see rehearsals for the 1969 Tony Joe White hit, “Polk Salad Annie,” with the large band perfecting their parts. It then morphs into a tour-de-force on stage. Presley had the intuition to blend his 1961 hit “Little Sister,” written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman, with the Beatles’ “Get Back” for his concert audiences.

He similarly puts his own stamp on renditions with the band of such contemporary songs as “Bridge Over Troubled Water” and “Never Been to Spain.” And though the film footage has not yet been made public, we see the exceptional rehearsal and concert debut of his 1972 smash, “Burning Love.”

Luhrmann shares numerous colorful crowd shots of the Vegas concert audiences including a seemingly never-ending parade of adoring lovely women, all eager for a kiss from the King. (Spoiler alert: he frequently obliges.) And there are glimpses of such A-listers as Cary Grant and Sammy Davis Jr. at one of the Vegas shows.

There is one significant oversight by the filmmakers: none of the numerous band members or backup singers are ever identified. They’re led by drummer Ron Tutt and lead guitarist James Burton, who served as the backbone of the mighty band.

The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, a collection of 27 recordings heard in the upcoming film, featuring updated mixes of iconic live performances alongside new remixes and medleys of classic Elvis recordings, arrived Feb. 20 via Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, and RCA Records. Listen to many of the tracks below. (The 2-LP edition will be released on April 24.) Both are available to order in the U.S. here, in Canada here and in the U.K. here. An Amazon-exclusive edition on translucent yellow and orange vinyl is available here.

As Luhrmann told an industry gathering last May, “During the making of Elvis, we went on a search for rumored unseen footage from the iconic 1970s concert films Elvis: That’s The Way It Is and Elvis on Tour. My initial thought was that we may be able to restore the unused footage (if we could find it) and use it in our Elvis feature. I had researchers go into the Warner Bros. film vaults buried in underground salt mines and, to the astonishment of all, we uncovered 68 boxes of film negative, as well as unseen 8mm footage.”

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It took two years to restore the footage to a quality that it has never been projected at previously. The director added, “One of the great finds has been unheard recordings of Elvis talking about his life and his music. It was this that gave the inspiration for EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, which is not specifically a documentary, nor a concert film: Elvis takes the audience through the journey of his life, weaving never-before-seen footage with iconic performances that have never been presented in this way, from the 1970 Vegas show, on tour in 1972 [and more].”

Listen to “Wearin’ That Night Life Look,” which draws from four classic Presley recordings (“Wearin’ That Loved On Look,” “Night Life,” “I, John,” “Let Yourself Go”) to “create an entirely new track from Elvis DNA,” as envisioned by Luhrmann and the film’s GRAMMY nominated music producer Jamieson Shaw

The soundtrack includes covers of such popular songs as “Always on My Mind,” “Bridge Over Troubled Water” and “Never Been to Spain,” as well as such Presley staples as “Suspicious Minds,” “Burning Love” and “Can’t Help Falling in Love.”

Listen to a performance of the gospel classic, “Oh, Happy Day,” popularized by the Edwin Hawkins Singers

In his Sept. 7 review for Variety, Owen Gleiberman called the film “extraordinary.” “Think back to the greatest concert you ever saw,” he wrote. “Now think back to the greatest moment in that concert, the one that gave you chills you can still feel. That’s the kind of experience I predict you’ll have watching EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert.”

The Wrap wrote, “It’s the most imaginative, generous and entertaining look at a time in which Elvis’ comeback still had real life to it.”

The film is produced by Sony Music Vision, in partnership with Legacy Recordings, Bazmark and Authentic Studios. Luhrmann’s Elvis biopic took in $288 million at the worldwide box-office and earned eight Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and Best Actor for its star, Austin Butler.