With a career spanning over six decades, Clint Eastwood is one of the most successful actors ever. But transitioning into an A-list director was a whole other journey. Known for his straight-shooting, unfussy filmmaking; this is the story of a master storyteller, working in the shadows of the Hollywood system, bucking traditional methods and making movies on his own terms, his own way. This is a portrait of a renegade artist straddling the worlds of studio filmmaking and independent passion projects, painted by those who have observed his work close-up.

Featuring interviews with son Kyle Eastwood, Eastwood biographers Marc Eliot and Michael Goldman, film critic Grae Drake, cinematographer Yves Bélanger, and actors Ryan Phillippe, Kevin Bacon, Paul Walter Hauser, and Spencer Stone.