Director: Paul Dugdale
Recorded live at Madison Square Garden in March 2024, The 100th: Billy Joel at Madison Square Garden - The Greatest Arena Run of All Time captures a milestone concert on television for the first time.
What is The 100th: Billy Joel at Madison Square Garden - The Greatest Arena Run of All Time about?
The film documents a single performance from Billy Joel's long-running residency at Madison Square Garden, marking the hundredth consecutive show in that run, a streak no other artist has matched at the venue. Rather than stitching together highlights from multiple nights, the special stays with one full set, letting the arena's energy and the audience's reaction carry the film as much as the setlist itself. Framed as both a career victory lap and a document of a genuinely rare live-music achievement, it plays less like a highlight reel and more like being handed a seat in the room.
Cast & crew
Billy Joel is the only performer on screen, and the film is built entirely around his stage presence: the interplay with the crowd, the banter between songs, the sheer stamina of playing a full arena set at that career stage. Director Paul Dugdale, known for large-scale concert filmmaking, shoots the show with wide crane angles and tight close-ups that alternate between spectacle and intimacy, giving television viewers a sense of what it was like to be in the room for a night that closed out a historic run.
Context & significance
The concert marks the closing chapter of Joel's residency at Madison Square Garden, a run that stretched across roughly a decade of monthly shows and became one of live music's longest-running standing engagements at a single venue. Airing on broadcast television was itself notable, since most of Joel's late-career live performances had stayed within concert-tour and streaming circuits, so a network broadcast gave the milestone a wider audience than a typical arena show would reach.
Where & how to watch
The page describing this concert film is open to everyone. Watching it in full requires signing into a K-Time account; the platform is built around a Farsi-language experience for Iranian audiences abroad, and login is the only step between browsing and streaming. No Persian dub or subtitle track accompanies this release.