Bruce Dickinson, Adrian Smith, Dave Murray and Nicko McBrain walked the carpet in Leicester Square with Eddie for the world premiere of Iron Maiden’s documentary.
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition, the band’s official documentary, had its world premiere at Cineworld Leicester Square in the West End on Tuesday 5 May 2026. Bruce Dickinson, Adrian Smith, Dave Murray and Nicko McBrain walked the carpet.
The bassist Steve Harris formed Iron Maiden in east London in 1975, taking the name from a film of The Man in the Iron Mask. The band made its debut at St Nicks Hall in Poplar on 1 May 1976.
Dickinson’s arrival as singer produced The Number of the Beast, which has sold close to 20 million copies. The band entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2026.
Malcolm Venville, who made Churchill at War, directed the film. It traces five decades with access to the band’s official archive, and Javier Bardem, Lars Ulrich and Chuck D appear on camera to speak about its reach.
Venville joined the four on the carpet with Eddie, the mascot on the cover of almost every Iron Maiden release for more than forty years. Fans outside the cinema joined them for interviews, two days before the film opened in cinemas worldwide.