The writer and director talks about his new documentary, BAD 25, about Michael Jackson's follow-up to Thriller. Twenty-five years after the release of BAD and the suite of ground-breaking music videos that accompanied it, Spike Lee offers a portrait of Michael Jackson in 1989: an artist at the peak of his powers, a shrewd businessman, and a global celebrity trying to wrest back control of his public image. Twenty-five years after the release of Bad and the suite of ground-breaking music videos that accompanied it, Spike Lee offers a portrait of Michael Jackson in 1989: an artist at the peak of his powers, a shrewd businessman, and a global celebrity trying to wrest back control of his public image.