Imagine: John Lennon

Biography of John Lennon using his personal film archives, music and Lennon’s own voice to narrate his life story., A documentary exploring the life of the Beatles’ John Lennon, utilizing clips of home movies and interviews with family members., The personal film archives of Yoko Ono were utilized for this feature-length documentary on the life of John Lennon. Predictably, it downplays Lennon’s association with the Beatles and concentrates on his years with Ono. The film spends a lot of time recounting Lennon’s anti-war activities, highlighted by a confrontation on a talk show hosted by conservative cartoonist Al Capp. The title of the documentary is, of course, taken from Lennon’s idyllic ballad about a world free of hatred and discord. Imagine: John Lennon is a reverent but ultimately depressing chronicle of an artist who died the untimeliest of deaths., Study of the post-Beatle years, including home movies narrated by Lennon (1940-80) himself, and remarks from his widow, Yoko Ono, his ex-wife, Cynthia, and sons Julian and Sean., Made from around 240 hours of film and videotape taken by Lennon of his life. The archive footage is transformed into a fascinating life story of one of the most complex men of the modern music era.