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 ...

What happens when you let longhairs who want to destroy the movie business make a movie? You get Easy Rider, a rambunctious assault of a film that's as much a prediction of generational doom as it 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 ...

Mardi Gras, held this year on March 5, was used as a backdrop for 50-year-old film 'Easy Rider' as producer-star Peter Fonda reveals a plan to save money on extras by filming during the festivities ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider captured the imagination of a generation as a symbol of counterculture and living free. A time capsule from the 1960s, it chronicles a cross-country United States road trip ...