George Hanson (Jack Nicholson) smokes a joint beside Wyatt (Peter Fonda) as the two sit at a campfire in a scene from the 1969 film ‘Easy Rider.’ | John Springer Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty ...

Today is the 50th anniversary of the first public screening of the cult 1969 movie Easy Rider. In the USA, many theatres are showing the film again. Here in Australia, you can watch it on DVD and ...

Peter Fonda famously throws away his watch in the cult 1969 movie Easy Rider, starting a fad with riders and other travellers to discard their watches and disregard the constraints of time. A watch is ...

When a group of “dirty” actors rolled into rural Pointe Coupee Parish on motorcycles to film “Easy Rider” more than 50 years ago, few people, if any, imagined the movie they made would achieve the ...

“A man went looking for America and couldn’t find it anywhere.” That was the tagline to “Easy Rider,” the beloved buddy pic that starred Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper as a Harley-riding hippie duo who ...

Robert Evins Pickard is an adjunct professor of U.S. and world history at Tennessee State University and Nashville State Community College. On July 14, 1969, "Easy Rider" debuted, receiving mixed ...

The tiny village of Morganza played a big role in “Easy Rider.” On Saturday, at the former Morganza High School, the unincorporated Pointe Coupee Parish community embraced its part in the ...