Originally airing only once on MTV in February 1983, the Cameron Crowe directed Tom Petty: Heartbreakers Beach Party is a fun, candid and fast-paced film that captures Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers as they finish, promote and tour their groundbreaking Long After Dark album, their third and final album with the legendary Jimmy Iovine.

Nearly 40 years after the film had become folklore to fans, musicians and the music industry, the tapes from Cameron Crowe’s directorial debut were finally found. Interestingly, this also coincides with the Tom Petty Estate opening up the vaults and sharing previously unreleased music and some never-before-seen and rarely seen, remastered films from one of the band’s prolific and commercially successful eras — 1982 to 1983.

Tom Petty: Heartbreakers Beach Party was restored from its original 16mm source tapes and is exclusively streaming on Paramount + in the States, Canada, UK, Australia, Latin America, France, Italy and Germany, marking the first time that the now-fully restored version of Cameron Crowe’s directorial debut is widely available to international audiences.

The Tom Petty Estate has also released newly restored footage of Petty and company performing a rollicking and boozy, barroom blues-meets-Damn the Torpedoes-era Petty and Heartbreakers-like rendition of The Troggs‘ beloved and oft-covered 1966 rendition of “Wild Thing” filmed at Los Angeles-based studio The Record Plant in 1982.

Directed by Justin Kreutzmann, the video, which now boasts newly remastered audio, features footage of the band’s performance at The Record Plant, filmed for French TV program, Houba Houba, alongside never-before-seen footage originally filmed by Cameron Crowe for Tom Petty: Heartbreakers Beach Party.

Along with long-awaited release of Tom Petty: Heartbreakers Beach Party, Geffen/Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) just released the digital only Heartbreakers Beach Party: The Soundtrack, which includes 35 songs from the film with tracks from Long After Dark (Deluxe Edition).