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
Bob Dylan complex composition "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall", alongside several other enduring songs of the era. For many of these songs he adapted the tunes and sometimes phraseology of older folk songs. Dylan went on to release the politically charged "The Times They Are a-Changin'" and the more lyrically abstract and introspective "Another Side of Bob Dylan" in 1964. In 1965 and 1966, Dylan encountered controversy when he adopted the use of electrically amplified rock instrumentation and in the space of 15 months recorded three of the most important and influential rock albums of the 1960s, "Bringing It All Back Home",