Video: HBO Documentary Films: The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town Trailer (HBO)

Bruce Springsteen's Darkness therapy. The stakes are remarkably high and the film is reminiscent of the Beatles' Let It Be , as we glimpse a band under the pressure of expectations. It's almost impossible to imagine Bruce Springsteen's predicament back in 1977. Two years earlier, Springsteen and the E Street Band released the epic Born to Run, arguably the greatest rock album of all time. The record had everything: great hooks on every track, lyrical beauty, and in its two cornerstone pieces, "Backstreets" and "Jungleland", a sweeping operatic majesty. The album was mythic urban romance writ [...]