Few filmmakers achieve the level of notoriety and legendary status of Sam Peckinpah. He didn’t just direct movies — he detonated them. And while he never received any love from the Oscars, that was never his goal. Unflinching, uncompromising, and unrelenting, Peckinpah existed to turn on-screen violence into an art form… often in slow motion. Join us as we break down the bruised beauty of his short but lasting filmography — and pay homage to the man whose balletic violence and broken heroes changed the language of film forever.

Films Mentioned

*Recommended

(P) Peckinpah directed

*The Ballad of Cable Hogue (P)

Airport

Noon Wine (P)

**The Wild Bunch (P)

*Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (P)

**Straw Dogs (P)

*The Getaway (P)

*Convoy (P)

The Other Side of the Wind

*The Deadly Companions (P)

*How Green Was My Valley

*The Quiet Man

McLintock

*Ride the High Country (P)

*Lawrence of Arabia

*The Music Man

*To Kill a Mockingbird

*The Longest Day

*Major Dundee (P)

*Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid

*Midnight Cowboy

A Clockwork Orange

*The French Connection

*Fiddler on the Roof

*The Last Picture Show

Sunday Bloody Sunday

Junior Bonner (P)

The Last Straighter

Smokey and the Bandit

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (P)

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

*The Godfather

The Killer Elite (P)

*Cross of Iron (P)

*Inglorious Basterds

*Saving Private Ryan

The Osterman Weekend (P)

Straw Dogs (2011)

The Killer Elite (2011)

The Getaway (1994)

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