Rumors that Taylor Swift may have been making a documentary about her recording-breaking Eras Tour have been circulating for well over a year — in part because many attendees, myself included, witnessed filming taking place during our Eras Tour dates.
On Monday, during an announcement on Good Morning America, we learned that the rumors are true. A six-part documentary series titled The End of an Era will be available on Disney Plus starting December 12, the day before Swift’s birthday. In addition, the streaming service will also have a concert film The Eras Tour | The Final Show, an updated version of the Eras Tour Movie filmed at, you guessed it, the final show that took place in Vancouver last December.
Swift’s fruitful partnership with Disney Plus began during the pandemic with the release of The Long Pond Studio Sessions — a reflection on her time making the album folklore with producers Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner, featuring live performances. The two newest offerings will mark Swift’s third and fourth collaboration with the streaming service, which surely earns her unofficial Disney princess status.
The End of an Era
The End of an Era is a documentary series in six parts, the first two episodes of which will be available on Disney Plus on December 12. It’s not yet clear when the other six episodes will be available — there could be a weekly release schedule or they could be dropped in batches.
The series is especially exciting for me as a fan who attended all but one of the Eras Tour Shows in London. The trailer for The End of An Era shows many of the key moments I experienced in person, including appearances by Gracie Abrams, Ed Sheeran, Florence and the Machine and the legendary Travis Kelce cameo.
Every one of these are etched in my memory as moments of pure magic, with the Wembley Stadium crowds collectively realizing something different, special and surprising was happening on each of those respective nights. The trailer suggests that we’ll see how these moments were rehearsed, and will shed new light into the various ways in which Swift planned and prepared to delight us as her audiences.
We’ll also gain new insight into how Swift coped with the emotional intensity of the tour. In one clip included in the trailer, the star is running a bath, overseen by her cat Benjamin, and talks about how hard it is to come down after the show. As she peels off her false eyelashes, she says she watched tons of TV, ate room service and signed a box of 2,000 CDs. “And then I’m tired,” she says. “And then we do the whole thing again.”
The Eras Tour | The Final Show
Over the course of two years, Swift did the whole thing again a total of 149 times, finally wrapping up the tour in Vancouver, BC on December 8 2024. That show was very different to the one that debuted in Glendale, Arizona in March 2023. It was different even to the show recorded for Disney Plus and made into the Eras Tour movie during Swift’s stint in Los Angeles.
By the time the Eras Tour hit Europe in May 2024, Swift had released a whole new album, The Tortured Poets Department, and had rearranged the setlist to include a new segment based on the TTPD era. In December, for the first time, this version of the show will be available as a standalone film.
The Eras Tour | The Final Show will show the last concert of the tour filmed in its entirety. It’s directed by Glenn Weiss, a different director to the original tour movie, and produced by Taylor Swift Productions in association with Silent House Productions.
As someone who only saw this version of the tour, to have a record of this to rewatch will be incredibly meaningful to me and many other Swifties who didn’t attend the Eras Tour with the original setlist. Just like Swift’s Reputation Tour movie, I know I’ll watch it for many years to come to relive the memories of an incredibly special summer.
