John Lennon
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Along with fellow Beatle Paul McCartney, he formed one of the most successful songwriting partnerships of the 20th century.
Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon became involved as a teenager in the skiffle craze; his first band, The Quarrymen, evolved into The Beatles in 1960. As the group disintegrated towards the end of the decade, Lennon embarked on a solo career that produced the critically acclaimed albums John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, and iconic songs such as "Give Peace a Chance" and "Imagine". Lennon disengaged himself from the music business in 1975 to devote time to his family, but re-emerged in 1980 with a new album, Double Fantasy. He was murdered by Mark Chapman three weeks after its release.
Lennon revealed a rebellious nature and acerbic wit in his music, his writing, his drawings, on film, and in interviews, and he became controversial through his political and peace activism. He moved to New York City in 1971, where his criticism of the Vietnam War resulted in a lengthy attempt by Richard Nixon's administration to deport him, while his songs were adopted as anthems by the anti-war movement.
As of 2010, Lennon's solo album sales in the United States exceed 14 million units, and as writer, co-writer or performer, he is responsible for 27 number-one singles on the US Hot 100 chart. In 2002, a BBC poll on the 100 Greatest Britons voted him eighth, and in 2008, Rolling Stone ranked him the fifth-greatest singer of all-time. He was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.
Acted in
Revival69: The Concert That Rocked the World
2024
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The Bannfoot Ferry
2024
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The Beach Boys
2024
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Paul McCartney: Got Back
2023
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Now and Then - The Last Beatles Song
2023
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John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial
2023
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The Beatles and the BBC
2023
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Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
2023
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Paul Newman: The Restless
2023
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Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC
2023
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Louder Than Rock
2023
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The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
2023
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Little Richard: I Am Everything
2023
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Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022
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Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
2022
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The Beatles: 1964 US Tour Reconstruction
2022
If These Walls Could Sing
2022
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Paul McCartney at Glastonbury 2022
2022
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Mickey: The Story of a Mouse
2022
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The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert
2022
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The Beatles: Get Back
2021
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The Beatles and India
2021
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Parkinson at 50
2021
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McCartney 3, 2, 1
2021
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Best of the 60s: The Story of Ready, Steady, Go!
2021
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1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
2021
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Life In Ten Pictures: John Lennon
2021
The Beatles: Let It Be
2021
A Life in Ten Pictures
2021
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Under the Volcano
2021
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This Is Pop
2021
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Jealous Guy: The Assassination of John Lennon
2020
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Zappa
2020
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John Lennon: His Life, His Legacy, His Last Days
2020
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Lennon's Last Weekend
2020
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Meeting the Beatles in India
2020
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Paul McCartney: Wings of a Beatle
2019
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Manson: Music From an Unsound Mind
2019
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Deconstructing the Beatles' Abbey Road: Side 2
2019
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Deconstructing the Beatles' Abbey Road: Side 1
2019
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The Last 24 Hours: John Lennon
2019
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Understanding Lennon/McCartney
2018
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John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky
2018
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The King
2018
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The Beatles – Ready Steady Go!
2018
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Looking for Lennon
2018
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Arthur Janov's Primal Therapy
2018
Elvis Presley: The Searcher
2018
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Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars
2018
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George Harrison - All Things Pass
2018
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Take Your Pills
2018
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John Lennon: Hard to Imagine
2017
How the Beatles Changed the World
2017
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My Generation
2017
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I Don't Know Which Tree It Comes From that Fragrance
2017
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Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
2017
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The Defiant Ones
2017
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Sgt Pepper's Musical Revolution
2017
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It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper & Beyond
2017
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Free to Rock
2017
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Kyoko
2017
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Deconstructing the Beatles' White Album
2016
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The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
2016
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Stupor Mundi: Livre 1, Rituel de décapitation du pape
2016
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Stupor Mundi: Livre 2, Les Hommes qui mangèrent la montagne
2016
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Beatles chronology (1962-1970)
2016
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The Last Lennon Interview
2015
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The Nation's Favourite Beatles Number One
2015
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The Beatles 1
2015
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The Beatles 1+
2015
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Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon
2015
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Beatles på Sverigeturné
2014
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Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'
2013
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Population Boom
2013
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Good Ol' Freda
2013
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Salinger
2013
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Genius
2012
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Magical Mystery Tour Revisited
2012
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The Beatles: In Chicago 1964-1966
2012
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Infamous Assassinations
2012
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The Winged Beetle
2012
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Becoming the Beatles
2012
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George Harrison: Living in the Material World
2011
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Beatles Stories
2011
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George Harrison: Living in the Material World
2011
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The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 1
2011
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The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 4
2011
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The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 3
2011
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The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 2
2011
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I Was There: When the Beatles Played the Cavern
2011
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The Beatles - Unsurpassed Promos
2011
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The Beatles: A Magical History Tour
2010
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The Day John Lennon Died
2010
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Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him?)
2010
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Discovering Lennon
2010
LennoNYC
2010
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The 4 Complete Ed Sullivan Shows Starring The Beatles
2010
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Paul McCartney Really Is Dead: The Last Testament of George Harrison
2010
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2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
2010
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John Lennon: Love Is All You Need
2010
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Imagine Lennon
2010
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The Beatles: Fifty Fabulous Years
2010
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The Rise & Fall of WCW
2009
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The Beatles: Here There and Everywhere
2009
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The Beatles: The Mini Documentaries
2009
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The Beatles on Record
2009
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The Beatles: Budokan Tokyo 1966
2009
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The Beatles: Parting Ways
2009
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The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour Memories
2008
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Classic Albums: John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
2008
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Rare and Unseen: The Beatles
2008
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Composing the Beatles Songbook: Lennon & McCartney 1966-1970
2008
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365 Day Project
2007
The Beatles: Destination Hamburg
2007
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The Beatles: Help!
2007
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I Met the Walrus
2007
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Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
2007
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The Beatles Explosion
2007
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The Beatles: Love
2006
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John Lennon & Yoko Ono: Give Peace A Song
2006
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The U.S. vs. John Lennon
2006
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Doctor Who: Origins
2006
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I Killed John Lennon
2005
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The World's Greatest Gigs
2005
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Pink Floyd London '66-'67
2005
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The Beatles: Chronology Vol. 1 y 2
2005
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The Beatles: Love Me Do - A Documentary
2005
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Beatles Biggest Secrets
2004
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20th Century Greats
2004
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The Beatles: Watching Rainbows
2004
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Twenty to Life: The Life & Times of John Sinclair
2004
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Brian Epstein: Inside the Fifth Beatle
2004
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Inside John Lennon - Unauthorized
2003
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The Beatles: Around the World
2003
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Imagine Imagine
2003
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Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon
2003
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Beatles: The Journey
2003
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Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S.
2002
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Things They Said Today
2002
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Naqoyqatsi
2002
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Peter Cook: At a Slight Angle to the Universe
2002
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Beatles: Big Beat Box
2001
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Wingspan
2001
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The Real John Lennon
2000
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Gimme Some Truth: The Making of John Lennon's Imagine Album
2000
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John & Yoko's Year of Peace
2000
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Goodnight Moon & Other Sleepytime Tales
1999
as Self [The Beatles] (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Beatles: A Celebration
1999
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Television: The First Fifty Years
1999
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Happy Birthday to John
1997
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Behind the Music
1997
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Classic Albums
1997
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The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus
1996
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The Beatles Story
1996
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Alf Bicknell's Beatles Diary
1996
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The Beatles Anthology
1995
The Beatles Anthology
1995
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You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night'
1995
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The Beatles In Australia: 30th Anniversary
1994
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Ready Steady Go! The Beatles Live
1993
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Holiday Greetings from 'The Ed Sullivan Show'
1992
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Rolling Stone 25: The MTV Special
1992
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The John Lennon Video Collections - 1992
1992
The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit
1991
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Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections
1990
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Imagine: John Lennon
1988
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Ken Russell's ABC of British Music
1988
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Jimi Plays Monterey
1987
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The John Lennon Sketchbook
1986
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He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986
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Vain Glory
1986
as John Lennon
John Lennon: Live In New York City
1986
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Fun with the Fab Four
1986
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British Rock: The First Wave
1985
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Buddy Holly
1985
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Yoko Ono: Then and Now
1984
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When the Music's Over
1983
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The Compleat Beatles
1982
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Timewatch
1982
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Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
1982
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The Killing of America
1981
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This Is Elvis
1981
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Echoes of the Sixties: A Musical Trip
1979
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I Wanna Hold Your Hand
1978
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The Beatles at Shea Stadium
1977
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Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante
1977
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Mighty Good: The Beatles
1977
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The Day the Music Died
1977
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Fire in the Water
1977
Chelsea Girls with Andy Warhol
1976
A Salute to Sir Lew Grade
1975
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Braverman's Condensed Cream of the Beatles
1974
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Muhammad Ali: The Greatest
1974
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Imagine
1972
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The One to One Concert
1972
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Eat the Document
1972
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John Lennon - Imagine
1972
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
1972
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Brazil in Cannes
1971
Sweet Toronto
1971
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Up Your Legs Forever
1971
Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family
1971
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Apotheosis
1970
Let It Be
1970
as Self (The Beatles) (uncredited)
24 Hours: The World of John and Yoko
1969
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The Beatles: Something
1969
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The Beatles - Abbey Road
1969
as Self - vocals, guitar
Self-Portrait
1969
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Bed Peace
1969
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The Beatles: Get Back...Winter of Discontent
1969
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The Beatles - The Get Back Chronicles 1969 Volume Two
1969
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The Beatles - The Get Back Chronicles 1969 Volume One
1969
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The Beatles - The Get Back Chronicles 1969 Volume Three
1969
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The Beatles Mod Odyssey
1968
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Film No. 5
1968
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Hawaii Five-O
1968
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The Beatles: Revolution
1968
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The Beatles: Hey Jude
1968
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Yellow Submarine
1968
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Two Virgins
1968
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968
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The Movie Orgy
1968
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Magical Mystery Tour
1967
as Self / Ticket Salesman / Magician with Coffee / Narrator
How I Won the War
1967
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Omnibus
1967
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All You Need Is Love
1967
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Our World
1967
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Monument
1967
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El Rey en Londres
1966
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Beatles - Tokyo, Japan 66
1966
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Die Beatles
1966
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Reflections on Love
1966
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The Music of Lennon & McCartney
1965
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The Beatles: Live in Paris
1965
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The Beatles
1965
Help!
1965
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Doctor Who: The Chase
1965
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Pop Gear
1965
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The Beatles Unauthorized
1965
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Not Only... But Also
1964
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What's Happening! The Beatles in the USA
1964
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The Beatles: Live in The Netherlands
1964
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A Hard Day's Night
1964
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The Beatles Sing for Shell
1964
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The Beatles in Australia
1964
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Around the Beatles
1964
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The Beatles - Live at the Washington Coliseum
1964
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The Beatles: Live in Washington DC
1964
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Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Beatles in New York
1964
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Top of the Pops
1964
The Beatles Come to Town
1963
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The Beatles - Live at The Empire Theatre Liverpool
1963
The Mersey Sound
1963
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The Beatles
1963
as Lead Guitar
The Morecambe & Wise Show
1961
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Hanratty: The Whole Truth
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The Beatles - In Germany 24-26 June, 1966
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The Beatles are Coming
The Beatles - 1967-1970
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