Ten episodes, one season, and a team that knew it was about to be broken up: The Last Dance is director Jason Hehir's 2020 documentary series on Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls, built around footage from the 1997-98 championship campaign.
What is The Last Dance about?
A camera crew followed the Bulls through the 1997-98 season, and much of what it recorded went unseen for years. Hehir's series opens that archive and sets it beside more than a hundred fresh interviews with players, rivals and well-known figures from in and around basketball. The result moves on two tracks. One stays inside that final season, with its locker-room tension and its pressure to win again. The other reaches back across the 1990s to explain how the dynasty was assembled and what it cost the people at its centre. Jordan is the constant subject, examined as a competitor whose standards shaped everyone near him.
About the cast
The series is built on first-hand testimony. Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Phil Jackson and Steve Kerr, credited in full as Stephen Douglas Kerr, all appear as themselves, speaking to camera about events they lived through. Their accounts are intercut with the archive material, so the same moments are seen both as they happened and as they are remembered. Jason Hehir directs all ten parts.
Context & significance
The Last Dance carries four genre labels, documentary, sports, biography and history, and it earns each of them. As sports television it replays a title run game by game. As biography it is a long portrait of one athlete at the height of his fame. As history it records a particular American decade, when the Bulls were a global attraction and basketball's reach was growing fast. Episodes run about 51 minutes, which gives the makers room to let interviews breathe and to linger on game film. The series stands among the most highly regarded titles in the catalogue, and its appeal extends well past committed basketball followers: the central questions are about leadership, rivalry and what sustained excellence demands of a group. Viewers who never watched a full NBA game can follow it without difficulty, since each chapter explains its own stakes before the footage begins.
Watching The Last Dance on Ktime
All ten parts of The Last Dance are on K-Time with a Persian dub and Persian subtitles. This page is free to read; to play the episodes, sign in with your K-Time account. The interface is in Farsi and the service is designed for Persian speakers living abroad.