On the Trail of Easy Rider: 40 Years On... Still Searching for America

Just saw the first part of the 4x 50 min. long documentary and was very pleased with it! I'm into EASY RIDER for 35 years now (I was just a baby when the film was made) and therefore had some high expectations. Shaking' THE CAGE was quite good but I might prefer ON THE TRAIL.. because it gives the right feeling to the subject. Well written & directed, very good photography & music (!) it also benefits a great deal from the presence of Jim Leonard (& Mike Kitrell). Jim has this huge archive on EASY RIDER and together they travel the route & locations with their 1:1 EASY bikes. Fantastic! Regarding 'making of' facts, there's not much new (most of it was covered in interviews, Peter's excellent DON'T TELL DAD and other coverage over the years) but it's well presented and finally Ben Hardy & Cliff Vaughns are acknowledged (Black Power built the EASY bikes). I'll be back with more when the next part will be screened in a week or so :)) Those who are really EASY RIDER fans might enjoy my special on it in Cinema Retro magazine (although that issue is hard to find now). There I tried to 'restore' the longer EASY RIDER version that never made it (due to length) to the big screen.