Apologies for resurrecting a 13 year old thread, but it’s probably more practical to address this here anyhow.
I’ve spent the better part of 20 years watching these fan documentaries on repeat and only recently it has dawned on me that they’ve started to become rather important markers of Star Wars and pop culture history of a bygone era, specifically those relating to news coverage and the ‘Lines.’ I’ve started to make a concentrated effort to get a hold of as many of these as possible because, as my searching quickly revealed, many of the projects in the OP are now long scrubbed from the internet with little trace of their existence remaining.
I have DVDs of most of what has been released on DVDs, and trawled through endless early 2000s SW fan site links on the Wayback Machine in some instances to retrieve horrendous lq .wmv line videos. Some of those listed in the OP I have absolutely no idea what they’re meant to be (“Jikes!” ???), and some are still floating around on YouTube. I’d say I’ve managed to track down about 80% of OP’s list, but there are a few that are still escaping me.
Specifically:
Beginning of the End - Originally a direct download or stream from Erik’s several websites, the files have not been archived on any of them by Wayback. Search engine results are lucky to return the occasional article around its release, but to my knowledge there is no way to watch this. I’ve managed to retrieve a trailer, a 4:30 preview clip and one deleted scene. There is another lost deleted scene I’m aware of, and a “mega-cut” referenced on MySpace that incorporates several deleted scenes. I have reached out to Erik to see if he’d be willing to share the film online again.
Millennium’s End: The Fandom Menace - This one had a VHS release and I believe a DVD release. I’ve had eBay alerts on it for about five years now and it never pops up. Plenty of old articles, but nobody has uploaded it. I managed to pull a trailer off of Wayback. I reached out to Jeff a couple of years ago and he expressed interest in uploading the film, but it never came to be.
Galaxy’s End: Revenge of the Myth - Also by Jeff, but I’m not convinced this one was ever actually released publicly. It had a few screenings but I cannot find a single other thing about it.
In the incredibly off chance anyone has the files or VHS/DVDs for the above sitting around please reach out. It would be great to pool resources and get some kind of preservation package of all these together.
