Hidden cameras, no script: Oasis documentary goes inside the Gallagher brothers’ split

“I wasn’t prepared for the outpouring of joy and tears, and the sense of what it meant to people,” says Noel Gallagher. He is interviewed somewhere in the middle of the mighty Oasis reunion tour of 2025, chronicled in a new documentary, Don’t Look Back in Anger, that screened at the Venice Film Festival. “The gravity of it took me by surprise. It knocked me back.” Noel and Liam Gallagher attend the Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger screening at the Venice Film Festival. Getty ImagesThe film, scripted , is full of rolling tides of people in bucket hats and parka jackets surging into stadiums, weeping as they hear their favourites or simply laughing with glee. A Catholic bishop in Manchester gives a sermon comparing the streams of people heading for the concert to a pilgrimage. It isn’t just about the music, as one fan says. It’s the reconciliation of two of Manchester’s favourite sons that has moved the crowds across the world. Fifteen years after a final fight between the Gallagher brothers broke up the band, Noel tells the directors that touring with his estranged brother is “a chance to change the narrative of the band”. Famously, they hadn’t spoken since their blazing row in a Los Angeles dressing room, right before they were due on stage, leaving fans hanging. Liam, in a separate interview to camera, predicts simply – and true to form – that their first comeback show in Cardiff will be “f---ing carnage”. Both turn out to be right. The Gallaghers were in Venice for their premiere but – also true to form – didn’t come to the press conference. There was some speculation that they didn’t want to be pinned down on the prospects of another tour; more likely, it was just the Gallaghers being Gallaghers. Meanwhile, Knight, Southern and Lovelace fielded questions. Stephen Knight says how surprised he was to be asked ’s team “to create a documentary with a plot” around the tour, given he had previously written only fiction. He jumped at it. “Of course, who wouldn’t? I’m a big fan.” Meanwhile, he says, everyone connected to Oasis was surprised , playing songs from their first two albums. The shows sold out immediately. “There was such a demand for tickets – not only from the generation that grew up with them, but the next generation who had a strong attachment to the music.