It has been fifty years since ABBA's founders first met, forty since their last concert, and the songs are still everywhere. This multi-Gold Award-winning documentary features new interviews with all four members; Agnetha, Benny, Björn, and Frida. Rare archive footage, and contributions from Bono, Donny Osmond, and Neil Sedaka. From the inside story of their Eurovision breakthrough to the creation of the Mamma Mia! phenomenon, this is the most complete telling of one of the greatest pop stories ever told, in the voices of the people who lived it.

Why It Matters: ABBA were written off as manufactured pop for most of their working life, and the songs outlived every critic who said so. Being dismissed that thoroughly and then vindicated on that scale is rare, and it is a useful corrective to the assumption that anything which sells easily cannot also be built well. For anyone who arrived through Mamma Mia! or Voyage, it explains why the people who were there still take the band seriously.