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2025·104 min·Released

One to One: John & Yoko

“A war of love and transformation.”

Documentary
Music

An exploration of the seminal and transformative 18 months that one of music’s most famous couples — John Lennon and Yoko Ono — spent living in Greenwich Village, New York City, in the early 1970s.

7.2(16 votes)

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Cast & Crew

John Lennon

John Lennon

Self (archive footage)

Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono

Self (archive footage)

Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon

Self (archive footage)

Stan Bronstein

Stan Bronstein

Self (archive footage)

Dick Cavett

Dick Cavett

Self (archive footage)

Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin

Self (archive footage)

Shirley Chisholm

Shirley Chisholm

Self (archive footage)

Kyoko Ono Cox

Kyoko Ono Cox

Self (archive footage)

Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite

Self (archive footage)

Mike Douglas

Mike Douglas

Self (archive footage)

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

Self (archive footage)

Roberta Flack

Roberta Flack

Self (archive footage)

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CinemaSerf

Written on 4/16/2025

This is quite an eye-opening documentary that uses the 1972 “One to One” concert that John and Yoko did to raise funds for the infamous Willowbrook hospital - where the appalling treatment of kids with learning difficulties turned heads and stomachs in equal measure, to shine a light on Nixon’s United States. Using an astonishing collection of archive of not just this couple, but of newsreels and television content, Kevin Macdonald presents a pretty galling indictment of a society riddled with racism, homophobia and ignorance against a backdrop of a flower power movement determined to stop the war in Vietnam. I suppose Jerry Rubin would have been called an agitator by the authorities, with his vocal and vociferous criticism of all things government, and his relationship with the Lennon’s is also under a spotlight of scrutiny that led to their threatened deportation. By the end of this, and after Nixon’s landslide victory in the election, it isn’t hard to see why the administration wanted shot of the pair - though that might have had more to do with her terrible singing than with his determination to turns weapons into plant pots and release all prisoners. It is still quite a resonating position even now when the naïveté of their grand design appeals on a superficial level but never delivers adequate enough solutions for the general population who still tend to believe what they are told by the folks they vote for, and obviously the timeframe of this feature is well before the full impact of “Watergate” kicks in rather torpedoes that faith. I could have done with more music, and perhaps a little more from the pair about his leaving the “Beatles” and of her own subsequent vilification from just about everyone, but this is still an illuminating look at a society struggling to emerge from the 1960s, showing the simultaneous power and the impotence of protest, and is worth a watch.

Media

Kevin Macdonald on One to One: John and Yoko | BFI IMAX Q&A

Kevin Macdonald on One to One: John and Yoko | BFI IMAX Q&A

Official Clip

Official Clip

Interview with Director Sam Rice-Edwards

Interview with Director Sam Rice-Edwards

Official Trailer

Official Trailer

Official Teaser

Official Teaser

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