On the Trail of Easy Rider: 40 Years On... Still Searching for America - Production & Contact Info

On the Trail of Easy Rider: 40 Years On... Still Searching for America (2011–2011)
TV Series | 200 min | Documentary

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On the Trail of Easy Rider: 40 Years On... Still Searching for America (2011–2011)

TV Series | 200 min | Documentary

"A man went looking for America.... And couldn't find it anywhere!" proclaimed the original Easy Rider poster. Four decades later filmmakers Simon Witter and Hannes Rossacher set out to see if they could find America, retracing the film's ...See more"A man went looking for America.... And couldn't find it anywhere!" proclaimed the original Easy Rider poster. Four decades later filmmakers Simon Witter and Hannes Rossacher set out to see if they could find America, retracing the film's original route across the country with Easy Rider super fans Jim Leonard and Mike Kittrell, on a quest to find out how the many issues that resonated through the film had developed, for better or worse, in the interim. Along the way they met musicians, journalists, academics, seasteading idealists, drug policy experts and healers, and heard from the film's makers and extras about the dramatic genesis of the cult film that blew like a wind of change through the stilted kitsch of mainstream cinema in 1969, re-writing the rulebook on genre, drugs, music, cinematography and even the use of non-actors, holding a mirror up to the values of a changing America, dividing audiences and making so much money that it ushered in a new era of independent filmmaking that would define Hollywood throughout the 1970s. Written by Anonymous See less

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21 cast members

Name	Episodes	Known for
Dennis Hopper Self Self See fewer		Easy Rider (1969)
Kris Kristofferson Self Self See fewer		Blade (1998)
Peter Coyote Self Self See fewer		Bitter Moon (1992)
Peter Fonda Self Self See fewer		Easy Rider (1969)
Buffy Sainte-Marie Self Self See fewer		An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
Jon Ronson Self Self See fewer		Frank (II) (2014)
Roger McGuinn Self Self See fewer		Easy Rider (1969)
Todd Boyd Self Self See fewer		The Wood (1999)
Country Joe McDonald Self Self See fewer		Taking Woodstock (2009)
Erin Kaplan Self Self See fewer		The City (2008)
Rick Doblin Self Self See fewer		The Drug Years (2006)
Charles Shaar Murray Self Self See fewer		The Beatles Story (1996)
Guy Lawson Self Self See fewer		War Dogs (2016)
Joel Selvin Self Self See fewer		Born in Chicago (2020)
James Leonard Self Self See fewer		I Am Number Four (2011)
Patri Friedman Self Self See fewer		Death Grip (2012)
Ron Adler Self Self See fewer		On the Trail of Easy Rider: 40 Years On... Still Searching for America (2011)
Manfred Henningsen Self Self See fewer		On the Trail of Easy Rider: 40 Years On... Still Searching for America (2011)
Michael Simmons Self Self See fewer		On the Trail of Easy Rider: 40 Years On... Still Searching for America (2011)
Ethan Nadelmann Self Self See fewer		Druglawed (2015)
Mike Kittrell Self Self See fewer		Subdued (2014)