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I can’t figure out how to embed it, but you can watch the documentary here.

I’ve always felt that John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s activities for peace were a bit cringeworthy—a misapplication of solution to problem, as if human aggression were the product of people being merely petulant, or distracted or forgetful. While I’m not totally convinced, this documentary does an excellent job of putting their (unquestionably benign) activities in the context of the era. The New Left made a huge mistake by retreating into mediated reality (what Lennon would call “advertising”) in the face of repression and violence in our physical reality; Gandhian mass-action might have worked better, but one can understand why John and Yoko chose mass-media. Media is what they knew, and the Bed-Ins were only months after the assassination of MLK and RFK. Said Lennon at the time: “I don’t want to be Mr. and Mrs. Dead Saint of 1970.” John and Yoko wanted to do something, and knew that humanity wouldn’t be saved by a dead Beatle…as we found out in 1980.

Like I say, I can’t figure out how to embed it, but it’s here.
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