En 1969, Rick Dalton – star déclinante d'une série télévisée de western – et Cliff Booth – sa doublure de toujours – assistent à la métamorphose artistique d'un Hollywood qu'ils ne reconnaissent plus du tout en essayant de relancer leurs carrières.

Professeur de mathématiques dans un lycée de jeunes filles, Pierre Durois est contraint de bâcler ses cours pour honorer les engagements qu'il prend par ailleurs. Sollicité par son père, célèbre chirurgien et maire de la ville, forcé par un austère proviseur et imploré par un ami journaliste, Pierre, dans sa classe, doit écrire les discours électoraux de la future campagne, corriger les copies d'un collègue malade et, enfin, rédiger un article à sensation à partir de clichés scandaleux, sur la présence en ville de la star Jackie Logan. Malicieusement, les élèves mélangent les dossiers. Le maire emporte l'article et le journaliste les copies. S'apercevant de la substitution, Pierre commence une course effrénée pour restituer à chacun son dû !

Les hasards de la route font se rencontrer un certain Beau-Fixe, joueur professionnel, et Cruze, un ex-marshal fatigué de s'attirer des ennuis en défendant le bon droit. Cruze, à peine arrivé en ville, rosse un buveur peu gracieux et se voit de nouveau proposer l'étoile : il refuse...

Lewis Tater writes Wild West dime novels and dreams of actually becoming a cowboy. When he goes west to find his dream he finds himself in possession of the loot box of two crooks who tried to rob him.

Un récit de la vie et de l'œuvre du réalisateur américain Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), un artiste torturé dont le génie et les démons intérieurs ont changé à jamais le genre du western.

De « La Prisonnière du désert » aux « Raisins de la colère », John Ford a contribué à bâtir la légende américaine. Avec pour fils rouges la Monument Valley qu'il immortalisa de si belle manière et le silence farouche qu'il opposait aux intervieweurs, un portrait à la mesure du géant du cinéma américain.

First part of a three-part documentary series on the making of Once Upon a Time in the West, Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone's masterpiece, released in 1968. (Followed by The Wages of Sin.)

This documentary traces the history of the B-Western from it's silent movie origins to its demise in the early 1950s. The film contains a large number of scenes from early silents and seldom seen films, as well as old photographs of the stars and one-sheet advertisements for lost films.

Third part of a three-part documentary series on the making of Once Upon a Time in the West, Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone's masterpiece, released in 1968. (Preceded by The Wages of Sin.)

The life and work of one of the great masters of Italian cinema, Sergio Leone (1929-89); a rich and fascinating portrait through unpublished testimonies of collaborators, actors, directors and critics who reconstruct every aspect of his creative activity.

Second part of a three-part documentary series on the making of Once Upon a Time in the West, Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone's masterpiece, released in 1968. (Preceded by An Opera of Violence; followed by Something to Do With Death.)

Mac is at the threshold of losing everything while directing his feature film.

Joe and Benny are two cowboys on tour in the Wild West as a singing duo, usually without a penny in their pockets to spare. Joe is a talented rodeo-rider, which fascinates the little girl Susanne and gives her the wish to have him as a father. Her mother Maria, however, is to marry the evil, rich farmer Dave. Susanne wants to stop the wedding, so she sneaks aboard Joe and Benny's wagon to persuade them to intervene. Dave brands them as kidnappers, forcing them to flee as outlaws to one of the families tyrannized by Dave. Together, they strike back at Dave, at which point Maria sees that he's the wrong man for her.

On the Run from the Law, the criminal Rolling Chambers Has to escape the law before it is too late

Comedian Rich Hall goes west to find out what killed off that most quintessentially American of all film genres, the western. Through films such as The Searchers, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, Little Big Man, The Wild Bunch and Unforgiven, Rich charts the rise and fall of America's obsession with its own creation myth - the Wild West. He explores how the image of the cowboy as a moral, straight-talking heroic figure was created by Hollywood but appropriated by Washington, as one president after another sought to associate themselves with this potent symbol of strength and valour.