John Beatle Lennon, MBE (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 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.
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| 1 | Beatles '64 (2024) | Self (archive footage) | - | - |
| 2 | Larger than Life: Reign of the Boybands (2024) | Self (archive footage) | 9 | |
| 3 | The Beach Boys (2024) | Self (archive footage) | - | - |
| 4 | Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback (2023) | Self (archive footage) | 7 | |
| 5 | Now and Then - The Last Beatles Song (2023) | Self (archive footage) | 9 | |
| 6 | Revival69: The Concert That Rocked the World (2023) | Self (archive footage) | 8 | |
| 7 | Little Richard: I Am Everything (2023) | Self (archive voice) | - | - |
| 8 | If These Walls Could Sing (2022) | Self (archive footage) | - | - |
| 9 | Mickey: The Story of a Mouse (2022) | Self (archive footage) | 7 | |
| 10 | The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert (2022) | Self (archive footage) | - | - |
| 11 | Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues (2022) | Self (archive footage) | 5 | |
| 12 | John Lennon: His Life, Legacy, Last Days (2020) | Self (archive footage) | 6 | |
| 13 | Zappa (2020) | Self (archive footage) | - | - |
| 14 | Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind (2019) | Self (archive footage) | 7 | |
| 15 | Take Your Pills (2018) | Self (archive footage) | 4.3 | |
| 16 | Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars (2018) | Self (archive footage) | - | - |
| 17 | The King (2018) | Self (archive footage) | - | - |
| 18 | My Generation (2017) | Self (archive footage) | 9 | |
| 19 | How the Beatles Changed the World (2017) | Self (archive footage) | 5.5 | |
| 20 | It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper & Beyond (2017) | Self (archive footage) | 5.5 | |
| 21 | The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years (2016) | Self (Archive Footage) | 7.9 | |
| 22 | Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead (2015) | Self (archive footage) | 8 | |
| 23 | Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin' (2013) | Self - Musician (archive footage) | - | - |
| 24 | Good Ol' Freda (2013) | Self (archive footage) | 5 | |
| 25 | Salinger (2013) | Self - Musician (archive footage) | - | - |
| 26 | Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed (2013) | (Archive footage) | 6.5 | |
| 27 | Beatles Stories (2011) | Self (archive footage) | - | - |
| 28 | Paul McCartney Really Is Dead: The Last Testament of George Harrison (2010) | Self (archive footage) | 8 | |
| 29 | The Beatles on Record (2009) | Self | 7 | |
| 30 | The Rise & Fall of WCW (2009) | Self (archive footage) | - | - |
| 31 | Rare and Unseen: The Beatles (2008) | Self (archive footage) | 6 | |
| 32 | Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens (2007) | Self (archive footage) | - | - |
| 33 | The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006) | Self (archive footage) | 8 | |
| 34 | I Killed John Lennon (2005) | Self (archive footage) | 6 | |
| 35 | Pink Floyd London '66-'67 (2005) | Self (uncredited) | 3 | |
| 36 | Inside John Lennon - Unauthorized (2003) | Self (archive footage) | 4 | |
| 37 | John Lennon: The Messenger (2002) | - | 7 | |
| 38 | Naqoyqatsi (2002) | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 7.2 | |
| 39 | Grass (1999) | Self (archive footage) | 8 | |
| 40 | The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus (1996) | Self - Lead Vocals | 7 | |
| 41 | You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night' (1995) | Self | - | - |
| 42 | Imagine: John Lennon (1988) | Self (archive footage) | 7 | |
| 43 | Jimi Plays Monterey (1987) | Self (archive footage) | 7 | |
| 44 | The Compleat Beatles (1982) | Self (archive footage) | 8 | |
| 45 | This Is Elvis (1981) | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | - | - |
| 46 | The Killing of America (1981) | Self (archive footage) | 8 | |
| 47 | I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978) | Self (archive footage) | 5 | |
| 48 | Oh Yoko! (1973) | Himself (voice) | 5 | |
| 49 | Eat the Document (1972) | Self | 5 | |
| 50 | The One to One Concert (1972) | Self | 1 | |
| 51 | Dynamite Chicken (1971) | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | - | - |
| 52 | Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family (1971) | Self | 6 | |
| 53 | Freedom (1970) | Director / Writer | 1 | |
| 54 | Apotheosis (1970) | Director / Writer | 2 | |
| 55 | Fly (1970) | Director / Writer | 2 | |
| 56 | Let It Be (1970) | Self - The Beatles (uncredited) | 8 | |
| 57 | Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1968) | Self | 8 | |
| 58 | Yellow Submarine (1968) | John (uncredited) | 6.9 | |
| 59 | The Movie Orgy (1968) | Self (archive footage) | - | - |
| 60 | How I Won the War (1967) | Gripweed | 6 | |
| 61 | Magical Mystery Tour (1967) | Director / Writer | 6.3 | |
| 62 | Help! (1965) | John | 6.8 | |
| 63 | A Hard Day's Night (1964) | John | 7.2 |

