Season 1

The most commercially successful and controversial film of Eastwood's career. Based on Chris Kyle's autobiography, American Sniper sparked fierce national debates about heroism, patriotism, and the nature of modern warfare wh...

The most American of genres—the World War II movie—used to examine war from the perspective of America's enemies. Filmed entirely in Japanese with Japanese actors, Letters from Iwo Jima proved that Eastwood's understanding of...

What happens when the strong silent type becomes obsolete? At seventy-eight, Clint Eastwood used everything audiences knew about his screen persona to tell a story about America itself—a film about racism that was really abou...

A boxing movie that wasn't really about boxing. A story about dreams that was really about limits. A film about a trainer and fighter that became something much more profound—a meditation on love, sacrifice, and the terrible ...

Twenty-one years in the making. Clint Eastwood's final Western. The film that destroyed the myth of the gunfighter while creating a masterpiece about the costs of violence. Unforgiven was Eastwood's reckoning with his own scr...

A farmer loses everything. Becomes a killer. Learns to build a family from the wreckage of war. The Outlaw Josey Wales wasn't just another Western—it was Clint Eastwood's most complete statement about violence, healing, and w...

What happens when the man who's always in control becomes the victim? Eight months before Dirty Harry made him an icon, Clint Eastwood took his biggest risk—directing himself in a psychological thriller that flipped his scree...

Before Dirty Harry, before the Oscar wins, before he became a Hollywood institution, there was a broke TV actor who took a job in Spain for $15,000. It shouldn't have worked. Instead, it created the most famous cowboy in the ...

You don't start with Rawhide. You don't start with the spaghetti Westerns. You start with San Francisco, 1971, and a cop who changed everything. In our inaugural episode, we examine Dirty Harry—the film that transformed Clint...