“Streaming debut! An underrated classic from maestro Alex Cox that deserves rediscovering. Based on the true story of the American William Walker, the short lived dictator of Nicaragua in the 1850s, WALKER stars Ed Harris in one of his most intense and hilarious roles. Shooting on location during the height of the Contra War in the 1980s, Cox brings his rogue’s gallery of regulars together for this insane ride through America’s unsurprisingly shitty past.” —Susan A, production

A hallucinatory biopic that breaks all cinematic conventions, WALKER, from British director Alex Cox, tells the story of nineteenth-century American adventurer William Walker (Ed Harris), who abandoned a series of careers in law, politics, journalism, and medicine to become a soldier of fortune and, for many months, the dictator of Nicaragua. Made with mad abandon and political acuity—and the support of the Sandinista army and government during the contra war—the film uses this true tale as a satirical attack on American ultrapatriotism and a freewheeling condemnation of “manifest destiny.” Featuring a powerful score by Joe Strummer and a performance of intense, repressed rage by Harris, WALKER remains one of Cox’s most daring works.