'' The Beatles at Shea Stadium '' is a fifty-minute-long documentary of the Beatles ' 15 August 1965 , concert at Shea Stadium in New York City , the highlight of the group 's 1965 tour . The documentary was directed and produced by Bob Precht ( under his Sullivan Productions banner ) , NEMS Enterprises ( which owns the 1965 copyright ) , and the Beatles company Subafilms . The project , placed under the direction of manager of production operations M. Clay Adams , was filmed by a large crew led by cinematographer Andrew Laszlo . Fourteen cameras were used to capture the euphoria and mass hysteria that was Beatlemania in America in 1965 . The documentary first aired on BBC1 on 1 March 1966 . In West Germany , it aired on 2 August that year . It aired in the United States on ABC on 10 January 1967
1965 tour
The Beatles' 1965 US tour
The Beatles at Shea Stadium