“They couldn’t have paid me no amount of money in the world to make me feel I had any satisfaction inside,” Presley added.

As in-depth Netflix film details, his career was in a slump before the show that superfan Bruce Springsteen calls "the rebirthing" of the legend."

Although Elvis Presley died almost 50 years ago, the world is still infatuated with the star. Not only did a biopic on Elvis do very well, but there have been several documentaries and shows about the singer that were also successful.

A new Netflix documentary is tackling Elvis Presley's 1968 comeback special that revitalized his faltering career and aired amid racial violence, assassinations and a divided country. The big picture: The documentary to be released Wednesday comes as other recent projects on Elvis have re-examined his role in racial desegregation after previous generations dismissed him as an appropriator of Black art.

Colonel Tom Parker, Presley’s famously controlling and bullheaded manager, wanted a more conventional Christmas special, the kind of milquetoast program many other singers had d