Bonus: Bring Me the Head of Sam Peckinpah!

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) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices