Two years after David Bowie's death, a documentary is set to come out on HBO. Entitled, "David Bowie: The Last Five Years" The film will trace the twilight years of the legendary artist, and tell stories his art and death.

David Bowie's final two projects, the "Blackstar" album and his stage play "Lazarus", are the focus of the new HBO documentary "David Bowie: The Last Five Years." But British filmmaker, Francis Whately, uses Bowie's later work to examine the long career of one of rock music's most influential artists.

FRANCIS WHATELY DIRECTOR "These are prophetic. The stage play is prophetic. The 'Blackstar,' the album is prophetic and that he knew and he had calculated all this. Certainly in terms of 'Lazarus' the stage play, this was something that he'd wanted to do right back in. I think he first talked about it in 1967."

Bowie died on January 10th, 2016 at the age of 69 after battling liver cancer for about a year and half. Whately, who also directed the "Bowie: Five Years" documentary on Bowie's most influential early years, chose to focus on Bowie's final two projects because they touched on themes that ran throughout the rocker's artistic career.

FRANCIS WHATELY DIRECTOR "What is so interesting from a filmmaker's point of view is that this is a man at the end of his life consolidating the themes of his life into not one, but two albums," Whately said. "I found the idea of the themes raised on those albums -- of alienation, of fame, of mortality -- the themes that he had always talked about right back into the 1960s. And therefore, I thought that these two albums could act as a springboard back into his past career."

"David Bowie: The Last Five Years" will premiere on HBO at 8pm on January 8th.