Movies: John Lennon

In 1986, seventeen years after Yoko Ono and John Lennon’s animated conversation about love and six years after the beloved Beatle’s assassination, Ono commissioned independent animator John Canemaker to create a short animated film based on Lennon’s ...

In May 1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono held their famous Bed-In For Peace event. It was attended by many of their close friends, including Timothy Leary. This is a record of the event. Part of the cycle of The First 40....

Scenes of the erection of a building....

Man. is the story of Arc, an alien, who works with Rox and for Qe in a 9-5 office workspace. However, when the "Man" arrives, an alien story takes this world by storm....

USCO light, Beatles sound. A visionary realization of the USCO Riverside Museum installation exhibition in New York, the show which introduced the word 'Be-In' to the English language. Acid visuals accompanied by a muddy recording of The Beatles play...

An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s....

Four years in the making, the film features interviews and footage never seen before, as well as older scenes of John and Yoko together, in private and performing in public. Yoko Ono talks about her and John Lennon’s love and life together, about the...

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Depicts the Elm Conflict a.k.a. the Battle of the Elms, a dispute and public protest on 11-12 May 1971 at Kungsträdgården, Stockholm, Sweden....

A camera tracks through endless rooms while lives unfold....

Animation by japanese artist Keiichi Tanaami for John Lennon's song "Oh Yoko!" -- the song was released in 1971, and the animation made in 1973. Keiichi Tanaami (田名網 敬一, Tanaami Keiichi, born in 1936 in Tokyo) was one of the leading pop artists of po...

The film is based on an interview of John Lennon by Jerry Levitan in 1969. Levitan, then 14 years old, tracked Lennon to his hotel room at Toronto's King Edward Hotel after hearing a rumour that Lennon had been sighted at the Toronto Airport. Jerry m...

"Fame" was used as the soundtrack of an animated music video of the same title, directed by Richard Jefferies and Mark Kirkland while students at California Institute of the Arts. The film, released in 1975, went on to win the Student Academy Award f...

A man decides to edit a documentary on the 1960's at a remote cabin in the Scottish Highlands....

Over a half century age John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison named themselves the Beatles and soon after recruited their drummer, Ringo Starr. This superb documentary, The Beatles: Their Golden Age is a nostalgic look back at all the exci...

Concert film documentary. The John Sinclair Freedom Rally was a protest and concert in response to the imprisonment of John Sinclair for possession of marijuana held on December 10, 1971. Features performances from John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Stevie Wonde...

A tourist wanders around New York City trying to look for a leather jacket while waiting to hear from a friend....

Video of the famous performance released by both Zappa and Lennon...