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View Easy Rider film page
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Spoiler-free premise

Bikers Wyatt and Billy cross the American Southwest toward New Orleans, encountering communes, prejudice, and lawyer George Hanson.

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After a drug sale, bikers Wyatt and Billy ride from Los Angeles toward Mardi Gras in New Orleans with money hidden in Wyatt's motorcycle. Their road passes ranchers, a commune, small-town jail, and alcoholic lawyer George Hanson.

Why it belongs

Through location riding, rock music, jump cuts, and changing American encounters, Easy Rider makes the open road both freedom image and hostile territory.

Read expanded why it belongsThe fuller editorial case

Chrome bikes, desert highways, campfires, communes, psychedelic editing, 16mm inserts, and songs by Steppenwolf and others transform travel into countercultural montage; Jack Nicholson's George gives the journey its clearest political diagnosis.

Major award record

Metadata only · zero points in 40/40/20
Cannes1 win1969 · official festival record ↗

Plus 1 additional win

No headline-category win to name

Totals include every recorded competitive win. Only Picture or top-film honors, Direction, Screenplay, and lead or supporting performances are named.

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Institutional reference ranks

Sight & Sound—IMDb Top 250—AFI 10084
Reference metadata only · not part of the 40/40/20 score

Great Cinema Master List scores

Greatness8.6
Engagement7.7
Ease7.3

English · Not Rated
Narrative Feature
Mood: Absorbing & Reflective