The Band plays its farewell concert at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco on Thanksgiving Day, 1976, and Martin Scorsese films it as a full concert document rather than a straightforward recording. The stage fills with guests across the night: Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, Muddy Waters, Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell, Neil Diamond, Dr. John, Ronnie Hawkins, Ron Wood, Ringo Starr, Emmylou Harris, and Paul Butterfield all take turns alongside Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, and Richard Manuel. Performances are intercut with interview footage of the band members reflecting on sixteen years of touring, the grind of one-nighters, and why they are stopping now. The camera work stays close on hands and faces rather than wide crowd shots, keeping the focus on musicianship over spectacle. It is as much a document of a band ending as it is a concert film, tracing what over a decade and a half on the road actually does to five musicians before they walk off stage together for the last time.