DocumentaryMusic

One to One: John & Yoko

- A war of love and transformation.

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.

Release Date : 2025-04-09

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Mercury StudiosPlan B / KM Films

Production Country : United Kingdom

Alternative Titles : One to OneOne to One: John and Yoko

Cast

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Original Name : John Lennon

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : Yoko Ono

Gender : Female

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : Stan Bronstein

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : Dick Cavett

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : Charlie Chaplin

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : Shirley Chisholm

Gender : Female

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : Kyoko Ono Cox

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : Walter Cronkite

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : Mike Douglas

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : Bob Dylan

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : Roberta Flack

Gender : Female

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : Rick Frank

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : Wayne 'Tex' Gabriel

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : Allen Ginsberg

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : Adam Ippolito

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : Jim Keltner

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : Robert F. Kennedy

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : Allen Klein

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : Pete Kleinow

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : Timothy Leary

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : Sean Ono Lennon

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : Melanie

Gender : Female

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : Elliot Mintz

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : Pat Nixon

Gender : Female

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : Richard Nixon

Gender : Male

Character Name : Napaloni - Dictator of Bactera (archive footage)

Original Name : Jack Oakie

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : May Pang

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : David Peel

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : Jerry Rubin

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : John Sinclair

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : Gary Van Scyoc

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : George Wallace

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : John Ward

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : Andy Warhol

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : A.J. Weberman

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : Stevie Wonder

Gender : Male

Reviews

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2025-04-16

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.