September 17th, 1976. Monument Valley, Utah. 6:47 a.m. Two men stood 30 ft apart in the desert. Robert Redford, Clint Eastwood, no cameras,…

Warner Brothers Studio, Burbank, California. September 14th, 1955. The late afternoon sun slants through the dusty windows of stage 7 as John Wayne,…

January 1976, John Wayne collapsed on the set of The Shootest, his final film about a gunfighter dying of cancer. [music] What his…

1959 Ward Bond can barely stand on his own film set. Drunk, shaking, forgetting his lines, the producers want him gone. John Wayne…

The Arden Forest, Belgium, December 19th, 1944. 0700 hours. The German assault had come in the night, fast and violent, exploiting the fog…

The California sun hung low over the Ventura Sporting Club as Clint Eastwood pulled his pickup into the gravel lot. It was October…

Arizona, August 15th, 1958. Old Tucson Studios. The sun hangs mercilessly in a cloudless sky, a white hot coin against azure emptiness. Temperature…

May 18th, 1968. [singing] The year America tore itself apart. Sirens wail through New York streets like wounded animals. Protest signs wave above…

1960 Elvis Presley is the biggest star in the world. He can sing, he can dance, he can make women faint with a…

Tombstone, Arizona. July 8th, 1967. Sheriff Jake Morrison kicks down the door of Maria Santos’s boarding house at 3:00 a.m. His badge glinting…