The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart

The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart is a documentary about the Gibb brothers, Barry, Robin and Maurice, who rose to fame as the Bee Gees. It traces their career from childhood in 1950s Australia through the London music scene of the 1960s and later years spent in Miami, following the group as tastes shifted and their early success gave way to a reinvented sound built around three-part harmony and falsetto singing. The film also deals with the pressures of the music business and the closeness and strain of working as a family.

Frank Marshall directed the documentary, with Mark Monroe writing the screenplay. It sits between Marshall's earlier narrative features, from Arachnophobia in 1990 to Eight Below in 2006, and his subsequent music documentaries The Beach Boys, Pete Townshend: Behind Blue Eyes and Sail. The cast includes Barry Gibb on screen, with Maurice Gibb and Robin Gibb appearing through archival footage, alongside Andy Gibb, Lulu and Noel Gallagher.

The film runs 111 minutes and was released in October 2020 in the United States. It holds an IMDb rating of 8.1 from roughly 6,200 votes, while on TMDB it has a 7.6 rating from a much smaller vote count of 75. The larger IMDb sample, with a high average, indicates strong approval among those who have seen it, and the wide gap in vote totals reflects the difference in reach between the two platforms.