BBC iplayer https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074sgb/arena-bob-dylan-no-direction-home-part-1 Available for 1 month Arena Bob Dylan: No Direction Home: Part 1 Duration 115 mins First shown 9pm 26 Sep 2005 The story of Bob Dylan, from a rock 'n' roll-loving kid in the Midwest to his arrival as a major force in the world of folk music. Including unseen footage and rare recordings. Part one ends with what seems to be the dawn of a new generation - Dylan, hands intertwined with musician Pete Seeger, the Freedom Singers and Odetta singing Blowin' in the Wind at the closing night of the Newport Folk Festival in 1963. BBC iplayer https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074sgc/arena-bob-dylan-no-direction-home-part-2 Available for 1 month Arena Bob Dylan: No Direction Home: Part 2 Duration 90 mins First shown 9pm 27 Sep 2005 He is already on the move, finding a new musical vocabulary to capture the complexity of a seismic cultural shift. He injects a heightened sense of poetry into his writing and adds electricity to his music, electricity that now seems inevitable but at the time saw him labelled a sell-out and a traitor. Scorsese delicately balances Dylan's internal world with signpost images from the external world. Scorsese takes the time to let viewers really see the music unfold in revelatory concert performances.
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