Date of birth: 1933-02-18
Place of birth: Tokyo, Japan
Known for: Acting
Also known as: 小野洋子, 오노 요코, Youko Ono, Yôko Ono, Ono Yōko, オノ・ヨーコ, Yoko Ono Lennon, Yōko Ono
Yoko Ono is a Japanese artist, musician, author and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking as well as her marriage to John Lennon. Ono brought feminism to the forefront through her music which prefigured New Wave music (whether she was a direct influence is still debated). She is a supporter of gay rights and is known for her philanthropic contributions to the arts, peace and AIDS outreach programs.
2000-04-11
An instant classic when released in September 1971, John Lennon's Imagine was the ex-Beatle's solo m
1988-09-30
The biography of former Beatle, John Lennon—narrated by Lennon himself—with extensive material from
2003-11-25
Fueled by archival film clips and captivating anecdotes from friends and family, this unauthorized b
2020-12-21
An exploration of the life and career of the Beatles superstar, with a look at the strange parallels
2003-08-07
Yes he is a legend, and this collection of 20 newly remastered favorites will remind you just how po
2020-11-27
With the help of more than 10,000 dedicated Zappa fans, this is the long-awaited definitive document
1965-04-23
A young Japanese girl arriving in New York City gets mixed up with mobsters and dope dealers.
2023-03-24
The quixotic journey of Nam June Paik, one of the most famous Asian artists of the 20th century, who
2023-04-13
May Pang lovingly recounts her life in rock & roll and the whirlwind 18 months spent as friend, love
1964-01-01
A group of youths try to create works they think suitable for filling up the "hollowness" of life. F
2008-04-01
A portrait of New York artist Keith Haring. The film looks to Haring as an artistic role model for h
2001-07-19
Part of "The Women in Music" series
1972-05-11
On John's 31st birthday, Yoko held an art exhibit, "This Is Not Here", at the Everson Museum of Art
2010-10-26
The life and work of the enigmatic singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson.
1972-12-23
A surreal, half-fiction, half real life footage of a day in the life of John lennon and Yoko Ono, co
2022-01-30
On the 30th of January, 1969, the Beatles performed an unannounced concert from the rooftop of their
2008-04-29
A documentary about the making of John Lennon's seminal solo debut album, "Plastic Ono Band," featur
1971-11-22
Sweet Toronto is a documentary by D.A. Pennebaker of the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival, a one day fe
2010-09-25
This documentary takes an intimate look at the time Lennon, Yoko Ono and their son, Sean, spent livi
2008-10-20
George Harrison's friendship with Cirque founder Guy Laliberté led them to an inspired idea: bring t
2006-10-03
John Lennon & Yoko One: Give Peace A Song
2016-03-13
A mental journey - historical, political, musical and metaphysical - in contemporary times, from the
2010-07-19
This incredible documentary features in-depth contributions from wives Yoko Ono and Cynthia Lennon,
2019-04-26
A documentary highlighting the 20 year history of influential indie record store Other Music in Manh
1966-02-06
This film consists entirely of close ups of famous persons' bottoms. Ono meant it to encourage a dia
1970-12-31
This short follows Lennon and Ono as they take a hot-air balloon ride over snow-covered countryside.
1986-02-22
A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surro
2021-08-28
Sir Michael Parkinson looks back over his 50 years as a broadcaster, revealing some tricks of the in
2013-03-06
From Led Zeppelin to The Rolling Stones, Elvis to Madonna, John Lennon to Johnny Rotten, Bob Gruen h
2001-10-02
Come Together: A Night for John Lennon's Words and Music was a 2001 television program tribute to Jo
2019-01-01
On a cold, dark winter night on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City, one man made a fate
1972-11-27
Eagle Rock are delighted to announce the release of two films by John and Yoko, Imagine and Gimme So
1969-10-06
The promo video for "Something" featuring The Beatles with their wives.
1997-10-09
On October 9, 1972, the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse hosted an exhibition of John Lennon and Yo
1993-01-01
This is a full-length documentary honoring the life and work of American composer and artist John Ca
1971-12-24
The importance of the Cannes Film Festival in world terms and what it represented for Brazil in 1971
1977-08-01
Gérard Courant applies the Lettrist editing techniques of Isidore Isou to footage of late 70's pop c
2023-12-13
The story of The Beatles' last song featuring exclusive footage and commentary.
2010-01-09
Documentary in which art critic Waldemar Januszczak argues that beauty is still to be found in moder
1995-12-01
Ornette Coleman is always asked, “what is Harmolodics?” Harmolodics is the term he coined to describ
2011-12-15
Unable to sleep, Jonas Mekas drifts through New York nights, moving between apartments, studios, gal
1965-01-01
Filmed at New York’s Carnegie Hall, Cut Piece documents one of Yoko Ono’s most powerful conceptual p
2012-06-14
Entangled (hi)stories transform a museum into a sitcom. Storytellers and voices amongst others: Yoko
2004-01-06
Documentary about British Art in the 60's produced by the BBC starting with Fraser and Kasmin, movin
2001-05-11
When the most famous and influential pop band in the world, the Beatles, broke up in 1970, hardly an
1969-12-15
Initially Broadcast in 1969 on the BBC, this documentary short spotlights the creativity and activis
2000-01-01
The year: 1969. Headlines blare war and civil unrest while John Lennon and Yoko Ono are in love. The
1987-11-01
This film is a fascinating look at some people afflicted with congenital deformities of an extreme n
2019-02-05
On the morning of December 8 1980, John Lennon was happy in New York, and looking forward to the fut
1970-12-01
Yoko Ono plays with our sense of anticipation by constructing a metaphor for the liberation of the f
2007-05-19
An account of the professional and personal life of renowned American photographer Annie Leibovitz,
2023-06-22
John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Little Richard, The Doors, Chuck Berry, Alice Cooper, and other legendary mus
2015-01-25
A look at the history of the American comedy publication and production company, National Lampoon, f
1972-12-15
August 30, 1972 benefit concert at Madison Square Garden for the victims of Willowbrook. John Lennon
2006-02-10
The opening ceremony for the XX Olympic Winter Games was held at the Stadio Olimpico in Turin, Italy
2007-12-31
This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calenda
1988-01-02
This 53-minute television special retraces Michael Jackson’s rise from child prodigy with the Jackso
2018-03-23
In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an
2016-11-16
Scott Freiman gives some context into what The Beatles were up to during the making of the best sell
1969-03-24
John and Yoko in the presidential suite at the Hilton Amsterdam, which they had decorated with hand-
1984-10-09
An in-depth look at one of the world's most controversial artists. This personal narrative features
1990-09-18
This 56-minute documentary on America's most controversial and unique composer manages to cover a gr
2017-09-01
In his latest film, Mekas shares what he describes as “a valentine to Yoko Ono,” done in his signatu
1996-10-12
A 1968 event put together by The Rolling Stones. The film is comprised of two concerts on a circus s
2017-05-26
Featuring interviews with former employees, fellow musicians, family members and journalists, and su
2003-06-17
Utilizing rare archive footage, news reels and unique interviews, this riveting music documentary fo
2014-07-09
The documentary project The Term was conceived in May 2012. When the directing trio commenced mappin
1995-03-03
Nam June Paik's first single-channel videotape since 1989 is a heartfelt tribute to his long-time co
2015-08-20
Are bad girls casualties of patriarchy, a necessary evil, or visionary pioneers? By tracing the conc
2013-06-10
In the winter of 2011, after a controversial election, Vladimir Putin was reinstalled as president o
2018-02-21
In 1961 Lithuanian American artist and impresario George Maciunas established the avant-garde art mo
2006-09-15
A documentary on the life of John Lennon, with a focus on the time in his life when he transformed f
1976-01-01
In 1969 Michel Auder began a series of video diaries that chronicled the art scene in downtown New Y
2005-09-13
Shot by movie maestro Peter Whitehead, this film features rare full length performances from the cla
2018-11-24
Film telling the untold story of John Lennon's 1971 album Imagine, exploring the creative collaborat
1986-04-10
In 1986, seventeen years after Yoko Ono and John Lennon’s animated conversation about love and six y
1971-08-12
The film consists of continuous panning shots up a series of 367 human legs.
2010-10-15
The story of music and the music industry told through interviews with musicians, composers and prod
1968-06-10
A video to accompany 19 minutes of music from John and Yoko's Two Virgins album. We see Lennon's and
1964-02-14
Hi-Red Centre were comprised of Genpei Akasegawa, Natsuyuki Nakanishi and Jiro Takamatsu, who enacte
1994-01-01
Not a documentary in the strictest sense of the word. Rather, it is a journey through the world of t
1966-03-10
A 16 mm film, featuring Yoko Ono's own eye slowly blinking, shot by Peter Moore with a high-speed ca
1965-11-28
The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were
1990-07-18
Iconic American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol is the subject of this documentary, which looks at
2017-03-11
In 1971, John Lennon and Yoko Ono embark on a search for a girl named Kyoko. On April 23rd, they are
2017-10-23
The fascinating story of the cultural, social, spiritual, and musical revolution ignited by the comi
2016-05-08
Yoko Ono Lennon's Courage Awards 2016
2004-06-19
John Sinclair first emerged out of his small-town Michigan background to forge a legendary course th
1970-10-04
Documentary about filmmaker Shirley Clarke which originally aired on the French television series “C
1990-06-01
Jonas Mekas’s intimate diary film spans 1963 to 1990, capturing Andy Warhol alongside friends and co
1968-03-01
Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s Ne
2011-01-01
“Drawing on his personal archives, Mekas has assembled a Fluxus vaudeville starring Yoko Ono, Joseph
1970-05-13
A documentary chronicling the Beatles' rehearsal sessions in January 1969 for their proposed "back t
1992-10-05
The video compilation contains 19 music videos from Lennon's solo career, 16 of which had never been
2004-12-02
Featuring new and exclusive interviews, Beatles' Biggest Secrets, reveals the inside story of the wo
2020-09-14
The tapes in the program consist of some of Mekas’ earliest cassettes from the 1990s not long after
2010-12-06
Reconstructing John’s last day in detail by way of radio and TV reports, the memories of people John
1986-01-24
August 30, 1972, John Lennon and Yoko Ono backed by The Plastic Ono Elephant's Memory Band, played a
2015-12-08
Two days before John Lennon was shot, British journalist Andy Peebles did a long radio interview wit
2002-05-02
On August 22, 1962, Michael Gregsten was murdered, and his lover Valerie Storie raped and shot on th
2020-10-04
In December 1980, John Lennon and Yoko Ono had not spoken to the media for more than five years. Wit
1992-11-18
A special examining the music, people and issues that have been covered in "Rolling Stone" magazine
2003-09-20
This British documentary is more than an analysis of John Lennon's song "Imagine" and its ramificati
2012-11-19
Notoriously press and camera-shy, David Geffen reveals himself for the first time in this unflinchin
1986-01-25
Tony Cox discusses his life and escape from cult leader John Robert Stevens of "The Walk" (Church of
2025-04-11
An exploration of the seminal and transformative 18 months that one of music’s most famous couples —
2010-01-01
This remarkable five DVD box set and bonus CD take the viewer on a journey from the early days of th
2024-10-09
For one extraordinary week in February 1972, the Revolution WAS televised. DAYTIME REVOLUTION takes
1979-03-24
On March 24, 1979, The Kitchen presented a two-part program dedicated to the work of various Fluxus
2024-11-24
Featuring never-before-seen footage of the band and the legions of young fans who helped fuel their
2006-11-01
This was filmed on October 9, 1972 in Syracuse, N.Y., on John Lennon's Birthday; during Lennon/Yoko
2006-11-01
In May 1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono held their famous Bed-In For Peace event. It was attended by ma
2006-11-01
Consists of images of the Andy Warhol show at the Whitney Museum in May of 1971. It also includes a
2025-05-02
A visionary new documentary exploring the final decade of John Lennon's life in extraordinary detail
2018-09-07
A 30 years odyssey: the world's most intriguing artists and thinkers from the fields of visual art,
1971-06-06
Video of the famous performance released by both Zappa and Lennon
1971-12-10
Concert film documentary. The John Sinclair Freedom Rally was a protest and concert in response to t
1971-01-20
A collection of subversive comedy sketches and routines relating to the peace movement.
2024-11-15
Sir Elton John looks back on his life and the astonishing early days of his 50-year career in this e
2006-01-01
Friends and colleagues (including Yoko Ono and Merce Cunningham) of Nam June Paik share their though
The film portrays a group of artists who since the early 1960s have completely disrupted our ideas o
John & Yoko’s historic One To One Concert at Madison Square Garden, New York City on 30 August 1972.
2006-04-28
One record producer, the creators of "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" and top indie rock artists come tog
1971-12-31
Yoko & John Party hold. Recycled with Paul Ryan's video tape. This is interesting beacuse of your sh
1966-01-01