Eat the Document and prints are rarely screened in theaters. Some footage from "Eat the Document" was used in Martin Scorsese's 2005 documentary on Bob Dylan, "No Direction Home" and 3 song excerpts are Special Features on the DVD. "Eat the Document" includes footage from the infamous Manchester Free Trade Hall concert, wherein an audience member shouted "Judas!" during the electric half of Dylan's set. Dylan's band during these shows were The Hawks (later to become The Band). Songs from various shows throughout the tour featured in the film include "Tell Me, Momma", "I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have
The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack Suze Rotolo also granted a rare interview, and she later told "Rolling Stone" that she was very pleased with the project's results. Dylan himself also sat for ten hours in a relaxed and open conversation with Rosen in 2000. According to "Rolling Stone", an unnamed source close to the project claimed that Dylan himself had no involvement with the project apart from the interview, saying that "[Dylan] has no interest in this … Bob truly does not look back." However, work on the first installment of Dylan's autobiography, "Chronicles, Vol. 1", did overlap production of the project, though it is