The Greatest Western Movie Ever Made Is Free To Stream on April 3

There are some movies that do not just define a genre but completely reshape it. A Fistful of Dollars is one of those movies. Long before the modern blockbuster franchise era, Sergio Leone’s lean, dusty, cool-as-hell Western helped reinvent what a cowboy movie could look and feel like. It stripped the genre down, made it meaner, quieter, and more stylish, and in the process helped create the whole spaghetti Western wave that followed. Now, more than 60 years later, the film is getting another streaming life, as A Fistful of Dollars will be free to stream on Kanopy starting April 3.