Oasis Documentary Teaser — Don't Look Back in Anger Sept 11
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The biggest musical event of the decade is officially getting the big-screen treatment. Disney has released the first teaser trailer for Don't Look Back in Anger, the long-awaited documentary chronicling Oasis's historic 2025 reunion tour — and in just 45 seconds, it manages to capture why the Gallagher brothers' reconciliation stopped the music world in its tracks.
The teaser, which dropped over the July 4 weekend on Disney's official channels, opens with explosive audience footage from the Oasis Live '25 Tour — a global run that began in Cardiff, Wales, on July 4, 2025, and closed out in São Paulo, Brazil, on November 23, 2025. Stadium crowds roar the band's anthems back at them across continents, a reminder that no British band since The Beatles has commanded singalongs quite like Oasis.
But it's the quieter moments that make the teaser land. The footage leans directly into the Gallaghers' famously bitter feud — the sibling war that kept the band apart for 16 years. "I just don't see myself on stage with Liam," Noel Gallagher remarks in one clip, while Liam reflects on the band's infamous 2009 implosion: "The way it finished, unacceptable." Hearing both brothers address the split on camera is exactly the emotional hook fans have been waiting for.
That candor is no accident. The documentary features rehearsal and backstage footage of Noel and Liam as they reconcile and prepare for their first tour together since 2009 — along with the brothers' first joint interview in more than 20 years. For a pair whose communication famously devolved into tabloid barbs and social media jabs, sitting down together on camera is arguably as historic as the tour itself.
The talent behind the camera is equally serious. Don't Look Back in Anger is created and directed by Steven Knight — the acclaimed British writer behind Peaky Blinders — and co-directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace, the duo who previously helmed acclaimed music films including LCD Soundsystem's Shut Up and Play the Hits. Knight's involvement signals a film with narrative ambition, not just a concert reel.
Disney is giving the film a genuine theatrical rollout. Don't Look Back in Anger opens in limited theaters worldwide on September 11, 2026, including select IMAX screens — a fitting canvas for footage of 90,000-person stadium crowds. After its theatrical run, the film will stream on Disney+ later in the year.
The studio bills the documentary as "an unapologetically uplifting account of the biggest musical event of 2025," capturing the experience and emotions of the band and their fans across the world. That framing matters: rather than dwelling on the decades of dysfunction, the film appears aimed at the catharsis — brothers burying the hatchet, a generation of fans getting the reunion they'd stopped believing was possible, and a younger generation discovering Wonderwall, Live Forever, and Champagne Supernova live for the first time.
The Oasis Live '25 Tour was a cultural phenomenon by any measure. Tickets sold out in minutes across the UK and Ireland, resale prices sparked government inquiries, and the band's runs at Wembley Stadium, Heaton Park in Manchester, and Croke Park in Dublin became instant folklore. The tour then swept through North America, Asia, Australia, and South America, closing in São Paulo — meaning the documentary has a full year of globe-spanning footage to draw from.
For Oasis fans, the film also carries echoes of history. The title borrows from one of the band's most beloved anthems — the 1996 single that became a communal hymn at every show on the reunion tour, with Noel's nightly performances of it producing some of the loudest crowd moments ever captured in a stadium. Naming the documentary after it is both a wink and a thesis statement: the entire project is about letting go of old grudges.
Reaction to the teaser has been immediate, with the trailer pulling in hundreds of thousands of views within its first day and fans flooding comments with memories from the '25 shows. Britpop nostalgia has been running at an all-time high since the reunion was announced, and the September theatrical date positions the film as a major fall event for music fans.
Questions still linger, of course — chief among them whether the documentary addresses what comes next for Oasis. The brothers have stayed characteristically cagey about new music or further touring, and any hint dropped in the film will be dissected frame by frame.
Don't Look Back in Anger hits theaters and IMAX worldwide on September 11, 2026, before streaming on Disney+. Watch the official teaser below — and try not to get chills when the first chords ring out over a sea of 90,000 voices.
There is also the question of legacy. Oasis defined an era when guitar bands ruled the world, and the reunion proved that era never really ended for the millions who grew up with it. A definitive theatrical document — shot across two continents' worth of stadiums with the band's full cooperation — cements the '25 tour as more than a nostalgia victory lap. It was, as the film's own billing insists, the biggest musical event of its year, and now it has the cinematic record to match.
For fans in the States, the September theatrical window also offers something the tour itself couldn't: a seat. Millions who missed out in the ticket scrambles of 2024 and 2025 will get the IMAX version of the front row — Liam's parka-clad swagger, Noel's acoustic interludes, and the wall of sound that made grown adults weep in stadium concourses from Manchester to São Paulo.
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