‘One to One: John & Yoko’ Trailer – HBO Documentary Gives Inside Look at First Year Living in New York City

The documentary One to One: John & Yoko gives a rare inside look at John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s first year in New York City in the early 1970s.

Filmed in a meticulously faithful reproduction of the duo’s New York City apartment, it features music newly remixed and produced by son, Sean Ono Lennon.

Directed by Academy Award winner Kevin Macdonald, One to One: John & Yoko premiered at Sundance Film Festival, and debuts Friday, November 14 (8:00-9:45p.m. ET/PT) on HBO and will be available to stream on HBO Max.

In 1971, John and Yoko had just arrived in the United States. They lived in a tiny apartment in Greenwich Village and watched hours of American television. The film integrates a riotous mélange of television to conjure the era through what the two would have been seeing on the screen – the Vietnam War, “The Price is Right,” President Richard Nixon, Coca-Cola ads, Walter Cronkite, and “The Waltons.” As they experience a year of love and transformation in the U.S., the couple begins to change their approach to protest. This ultimately led to the “One to One” benefit concert, which they organized after seeing Geraldo Rivera’s exposé on child neglect and abuse at the Willowbrook State School.

On August 30, 1972, John performed at the “One to One” benefit concert at Madison Square Garden – his only full-length show after leaving The Beatles. Footage of this electrifying performance from John and Yoko along with The Elephant’s Memory Band had been restored for the documentary and is interwoven throughout the film along with other never-before-seen material.

Watch the official trailer for One to One: John & Yoko.