Daytime Revolution Documentary Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis: For one extraordinary week beginning on February 14th, 1972, the revolution was televised. Daytime Revolution takes us back in time to the week that John Lennon and Yoko Ono descended upon a Philadelphia broadcasting studio to co-host the iconic Mike Douglas Show, at the time the most popular show on daytime television with an audience of 40 million viewers a week. What followed was five unforgettable episodes of television, with Lennon and Ono at the helm and Douglas bravely keeping the show on track. Acting as both producers and hosts, Lennon and Ono handpicked their guests, including controversial choices like Yippie founder Jerry Rubin and Black Panther Chairman Bobby Seale, as well as political activist Ralph Nader and comic truth teller George Carlin. Their version of daytime TV was a radical take on the traditional format, incorporating candid Q&A sessions with their transfixed audience, conversations about current issues like police violence and women’s liberation, conceptual art events, and one-of-a-kind musical performances, including a unique duet with Lennon and Chuck Berry and a poignant rendition of Lennon’s “Imagine.” A document of the past that speaks to our turbulent present, Daytime Revolution is a time capsule reminding us of art’s power to break down barriers, and the bravery of two artists who never took the easy way out as they fought for their vision of a better world.
In theaters October 9, 2024.
In theaters October 9, 2024.
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00:00I'm 31 now, and I've grown up in many ways, and you have to be more politically aware in a day and age like this.
00:06It's almost impossible to close your eyes to it.
00:12It was a time of considerable fracturing.
00:14And you read in the newspapers that the war's over, but the war's not over.
00:21You have to understand where the Mike Douglas show sat in culture.
00:25Here is John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
00:27It was the most popular show on daytime television.
00:30When President Nixon leaves for Peking on Thursday...
00:32Yoko said, we're doing this show on Mike Douglas.
00:35We're having Bobby Seale and Jerry Rubin, and I'm going like, what?
00:42Here is Ralph Nader.
00:43Is it a running for president?
00:45No.
00:46John Lennon and Yoko Ono didn't want us to talk about their music.
00:50That spoke for itself.
00:52What would you like to talk about this week, John?
00:54Love, peace, communication.
00:57Drugs.
00:58Drugs.
00:59Anything.
01:05When I got to the studio, I got a glimpse of John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
01:10I said, oh my goodness.
01:13This is exciting.
01:15They did have an agenda, and the agenda had to do with how they were going to do it.
01:20It had to do with making the world better.
01:23Yeah, it was something that we were trying to get away with.
01:27Well, young people are known to be cynical, and I say to them, nobody's smart enough to be a pessimist.
01:36People tend to think that somebody will save them, and there's only people can save us.
01:41Only us all deciding to do something about anything, whatever it is.
01:44Just even making that decision, I want to do something, is a start.
01:50All the people living for today.