*AMAZING GRACE* : 46 YEARS

ARETHA FRANKLIN documentary to finally debut after 46 years.

After almost 50 years a documentary featuring performances by the late Aretha Franklin is set to debut.

''Amazing Grace'' will premier Monday on the DOC NYC festival in New York. Franklin died in August after battling pancreatic cancer. She was 76.

The documentary was mostly shot by famed director Sydney Pollack and captures Franklin's gospel performance over a two-day period at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles in 1972.

The music was released as a double live album, but the film was held because Pollack failed to sync the sound, which made it difficult to edit the Elliott acquitted the rights to the film from Pollack in 2007, and Pollack died the following year.

In 2011, Franklin sued to stop the film's release and argued she had only given permission to Pollack to release it.

Four years later she secured an injunction to stop it from being shown at the Telluride and Toronto film festivals. Following the showing at  DOC NYC, ''Amazing Grace'' will have a weeklong Oscar qualifying runs in Los Angeles and New York. [Agencies].