Product Details

• Actors: Yoko Ono, Tom Smothers, George Harrison, John Lennon
• Directors: Paul McGrath
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Hip-O Records
• DVD Release Date: October 3, 2006
• Run Time: 81 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000FBFUMW
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #217,032 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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As the years pass since John Lennon and Yoko Ono staged their 1969, weeklong "Bed-In for Peace" at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, the event’s reputation has taken on an increasingly clownish aspect in memoirs and biographies written about life with the Beatles. But John & Yoko: Give Peace a Song, a documentary drawing from hundreds of hours of film footage shot in the celebrity couple’s small bedroom, proves the time was well spent in exhaustive, public exchanges between Lennon and some of the most influential people of the day. Talking with and sometimes debating the likes of Timothy Leary, Tommy Smothers (fresh from the controversial cancellation of his outspoken comedy show on CBS), Dick Gregory, and assorted revolutionaries, Lennon stayed on-message about the practicality of non-violent solutions to the era’s most serious problems. It might be easy today for some of their then-contemporaries to look back and dismiss Lennon and Ono as self-aggrandizing and politically naïve publicity hounds. But the depth, rigor, and consistency of Lennon’s thinking about peace, both as a personal choice and collective tool for social change, was quite striking as evidenced in this movie. Everything leads to the momentous, chaotic, and fun recording of "Give Peace a Chance," which--as the film demonstrates—instantly became an anti-war anthem for millions. Special features include a terrific, complete television interview with Lennon on the CBC. --Tom Keogh

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GIVE PEACE A SONG - DVD Movie

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome Documentary, December 28, 2008

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Diana Mcmanus (Austin, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: John & Yoko: Give Peace a Song (DVD)

Give Peace a Song is a wonderful documentary showing the peace movement of the 1960s with John and Yoko lying in bed proclaiming their love for each other and anti-war statements. There are interviews with people today that were part of that movement including Yoko herself. The only way to stop war is to speak up against it and this is what the documentary is about.

0 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE PEACE CAMPAIGN, February 1, 2007

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Parvillers "SELTAEB" (Jacou / FRANCE) - See all my reviews

This review is from: John & Yoko: Give Peace a Song (DVD)

Interesting document for buyer around the world but it is pity there are not translation !