Documentary Description
The year: 1969. Headlines blare war and civil unrest while John
Lennon and Yoko Ono are in love. The eccentic rock ‘n’ roll couple has
just gotten married, and more than happy to be together, they want to
change the world.
Lying in a hotel bed surrounded by journalists, they announce their
mission for peace and invite the rest of the world to symbolically
climb into bed with them and share their dream. People call them silly,
naive, even ridiculous, yet one famous couple’s bed-in spread new hope
that there really could be an end to war, hate and violence.
Here is rare footage from that amazing time, including footage from
John and Yoko’s wedding, the infamous bedside confrontation between
John and conservative cartoonist Al Capp, Lennon debating media expert
Marshall McLuhan, and meeting Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
Now twenty years after Lennon’s murder, Yoko and others involved in the
peace mission reflect on the events of that magical, mystical year.
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