1969 – Stream On Demand

‘Woodstock: The Director’s Cut’ – three days of peace and music on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Academy Award, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, Documentary, DVD, music, National Film Registry, SVOD 01/01/2023 Sean Axmaker

More than just a concert film, this is a chronicle of both the music of a generation and the community that formed around it for a weekend in 1969.

Robert Redford stars in the ski drama directed by Michael Ritchie

Robert Redford is a ‘Downhill Racer’ on Prime Video and Paramount+

!Featured, BAFTA winner, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, drama, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Hulu, Paramount+, sports, SVOD 10/08/2022 Sean Axmaker

The feature debut of director Michael Ritchie, shot on location on the European ski circuit, looks at the industry and culture of professional sports.

David Bradley stars in the 1969 drama by Ken Loach

‘Kes’ – a boy and his kestrel on Prime Video and Criterion Channel

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Ken Loach directs this touching story of childhood in a brutal coal town culture in the North of England, a film that is celebrated as a small cinematic treasure in Britain.

Jean-Pierre Melville directs the French Resistance classic starring Lino Ventura and Simone Signoret

‘Army of Shadows’ – Jean-Pierre Melville’s French Resistance on MUBI

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Lino Ventura stars in this gravely personal drama about the early days of the French Resistance in World War II.

Ben Johnson, Warren Oates, William Holden, and Ernest Borgnine star in Sam Peckinpah's western masterpiece 'The Wild Bunch.'

‘The Wild Bunch’ – Sam Peckinpah’s frontier apocalypse

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William Holden and Robert Ryan are former partners turned adversaries in this landmark western set on the twilight of the frontier.

‘The Night of Counting the Years’ – rediscovered and restored

!Featured, Criterion Channel, Have You Seen...?, International Classics 04/19/2021 Sean Axmaker

A masterpiece of Egyptian cinema, The Night of Counting the Years (also known as The Mummy) (Egypt, 1969) is inspired by a real-life incident. An isolated mountain tribe in late 19th century Egypt was secretly selling off ancient artifacts from the tombs of the Pharaohs, specifically a cache of mummies hidden in the mountain caves […]

James Garner and Jack Elam star in Burt Kennedy's comedy western

‘Support Your’ James Garner comedy westerns on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Comedy, DVD, Hollywood Classic, VOD, western 04/18/2021 Sean Axmaker

James Garner established himself as a natural for the comic western with the TV series Maverick, playing the reluctant hero who avoided conflict and gunplay with charm, wit, and a con-man’s knack for keeping his opponents off balance. The brought that sensibility to the big screen with Support Your Local Sheriff (1969), playing a drifter […]

‘Easy Rider’ – On the road to find America on HBO Max

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Peter Fonda was already a counterculture icon when he suited up in black leather and a star-spangled helmet, mounted a Harley-Davidson chopper, tossed his watch to the desert floor, and drove off with a shaggy Dennis Hopper in search of America. The film was Easy Rider (1969), an independent film produced by Fonda, directed by Hopper, […]