5 Best Taylor Swift concert movies and documentaries to watch right now

Few artists have turned their career into a cinematic universe quite like Taylor Swift. Over the years, she has done more than just giving fans albums and tours, she’s invited them into the story, frame by frame. Her concert films and documentaries are time capsules of who she was in that moment, whether it’s a glitter-covered pop titan, an indie-folk storyteller, or a woman unlearning the cost of perfection.

Whether you’re in it for the emotional gut-punch, the cinematic magic, or just to scream-sing along from your couch, there’s a front-row seat waiting for you. Here are five of her best concert films and documentaries, and why they’re worth pressing play.

Taylor Swift- The Eras Tour concert film

The Eras Tour concert film is like stepping into a time machine built out of sequins, guitar strings, and pure serotonin. Taylor Swift resurrects entire chapters of her life and invites you to wander through them. One minute you’re in the fairy-tale haze of her early days, the next you’re stomping through glittering pop anthems, and then suddenly you’re curled up in the smoky intimacy of her folk era.

The film captures all her performances from that tour as she walks you through each era; costume changes, elaborate sets and behind the scenes banter she has with fans. There's the pop set, then there's the acoustic set, the iconic Lavender Haze transition, and the theatrics for Tolerate It.

Besides that, the tour is also the most successful tour of all time, bringing in $2 billion dollars, the first ever artist to hold that record. It's a communal pulse, a chance to witness history with popcorn in hand. And trust me, you’ll wish it never ended.

Available to stream on: Disney+

Miss Americana

Miss Americana is the moment the glitter settles, the lights dim, and the pop star you thought you knew sits across from you, unarmoured. It’s a portrait of Taylor Swift as both architect and survivor, a woman who built a skyscraper out of melodies, only to realise she’d been living in a glass tower everyone could throw stones at.

The film moves through Taylor Swift's life like a mixtape of triumphs and fractures. There’s the perfectionist rehearsing in empty rooms, the daughter navigating fame’s strange math, the artist finding her voice in a political storm she once avoided. You catch glimpses of loneliness in hotel rooms, of whispered doubts in dressing mirrors, of the quiet rebellion in deciding not to disappear.

The documentary delves deeper into the time when she was canceled, and how she hid herself away from the public and settled down in a quiet British town for the storm to settle, only to come out of all of it stronger than ever. Whether you’re a Swiftie or a skeptic, Miss Americana offers a rare kind of access, not just to the woman behind the hits, but to the universal truth that even the brightest spotlight can leave shadows.

Available to watch on: Netflix

Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions

During the pandemic, Taylor Swift wrote one of the best albums of her career: an indie album called Folklore that consisted of seventeen songs that had some of the most poetic premises of her career. A love triangle split in three songs, personal ballads and fictional stories spun across the album that later gave her her third Album of the Year Grammy.

Having been in her own private zone for the pandemic quarantine, Swift gave fans a concert film called Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions where she sat with collaborators Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner and dissected every song, how it was born, how she came up with the lyrics and the idea and played an acoustic version of it.

Unlike the glitzy Taylor Swift fans were used to, this concert film offered something more intimate and personal. No crowds, no spectacles, just Taylor in the cosiness of the studio as she sits around bonfires and talks about everything that inspired her to create the art in Folklore.

Available to watch on: Disney+

Taylor Swift vs Scooter Braun: Bad Blood

In June 2019, Taylor Swift woke up to news she found chilling, Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings had bought Big Machine Label Group, and with it, the masters for her first six albums. She learned of it as it was announced to the world and immediately blasted the move as incessant, manipulative bullying. Fans rallied, hashtags #IStandWithTaylor trending, while Scooter’s side pushed back, saying she had chances to buy the masters but declined.

Taylor Swift retaliated by re-recording all her music with the tag of "Taylor's Version", having recorded all but two of the albums of her discography, before buying her masters back.

The Taylor Swift vs Scooter Braun: Bad Blood docuseries from 2024 on Max and Discovery+ unpacks all this, serving both perspectives, and giving fans a look into one of the biggest feuds in the music industry.

Available to watch on: HBO Max

Reputation Stadium Tour

Taylor Swift's Reputation Stadium Tour is both a spectacle and a statement, a glittering, fire-lit retelling of one of pop’s most defiant comebacks. Filmed during the second of two sold-out nights at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, it captures the electric finale of the tour’s North American leg. Released globally on December 31, 2018, exclusively through Netflix after being announced on Swift’s birthday, it quickly became more than just a concert film, it became a cultural time capsule.

The film captures both the scale and the soul: the sheer force of 60,000 people moving as one, and the vulnerability of an artist still letting you in. Whether you watch it for the spectacle, the setlist, or the satisfaction of a comeback fully realised, Reputation Stadium Tour leaves no doubt, this was a victory set to music.

The concert film holds more weight because the album it accompanied was born out of scrutiny. It's a concert film that truly captures her stardom, and her starforce as a pop-star, returning her to all her glory as she returns to her power.