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 The two-part "Sinatra: All or Nothing at All", which centers
around Sinatra's 1971 retirement concert, uses old interviews,
concert footage, never-before-seen home video and photos.
"I think there was a moment where he thought he had had enough,
for all sorts of emotional reasons. And he gave a concert that
year, which was supposed to be his retirement concert," Alex
Gibney, the film's director, said.
"For me, as a guy who never wrote his autobiography, I thought
that concert was his autobiography in song."
The documentary uses music from the 1971 show and extracts from
almost 16 hours of audio of Sinatra talking about his life,
executive producer Frank Marshall said.
"We took a lot of interviews and a lot of his own words and were
able to kind of tell his life story in his own words. And that's
what made it special," he said.
The four-hour documentary will be screened on U.S. cable channel
HBO on April 5 and 6.
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Sinatra, whose swooning voice won him legions of fans around the
world, made his first recording in 1939. Known for classics such as
"My Way", "New York, New York" and "Strangers in the Night", he kept
recording songs almost until his death in 1998.
"It's all represented. It's very special, it's been a very
interesting process," Sinatra's youngest daughter Tina said at a red
carpet event for the film on Tuesday.
Celebrations honoring Sinatra, known as 'Ol' Blue Eyes' or 'Chairman
of the Board', will be held throughout the year to mark what would
have been his 100th birthday on December 12.
Last month, an exhibition entitled "Sinatra: An American Icon",
showcasing never-before-seen photos and personal mementos, opened at
New York's Public Library for the Performing Arts.
(Reporting by Alicia Powell and Reuters Television in New York;
Writing by Marie-Louise Gumuchian in London; Editing by Tom Heneghan)
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