John and Yoko's Year of Peace
John Lennon and Yoko Ono spend 1969 turning their honeymoon into a peace campaign, staying in bed for a week at a time in front of press cameras to promote the slogan "Bed Peace." The film follows that year through archival news footage and interviews with people who were close to the couple, tracking how the stunt turned into a wider effort against the Vietnam War. It sets the adoration they got from young fans against the suspicion and hostility coming from politicians and the press, who treated a married couple staying in a hotel room as a genuine threat. Interview subjects describe the toll that scrutiny took on Lennon and Ono personally, away from the cameras and slogans. The film stays close to the couple rather than the wider counterculture around them, using the contrast between their public campaign and private strain to make the case that their peace activism cost them something real.