Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition | Full Movie | Movies Anywhere

A high-energy doc that does a tidy job of spanning 50 action-packed years. We suggest you don’t run to the hills but your nearest cinema instead.

With intimate archive footage, new interviews, surprising lo-tech animation and superfan tributes – including from devotees such as actor Javier Bardem – it is a reverential affair.

There’s not much here to convert nonbelievers, but the affection is palpable.

Rather than alienating outsiders with dense fan service, Burning Ambition opens the door wide and makes a compelling case for why Iron Maiden continue to matter fifty years later.

It’s cheerful and watchable, if a relentlessly on-brand fan promo, corporately policed and controlled, using vintage archive photos and video rather than closeup talking-head footage of the band now.