Across a blistering decade and a half that redefined American movies, William Friedkin chased a singular obsession: the terrifyingly thin line separating the righteous from the corrupt. This in-depth retrospective digs into the stories, production battles, and moral rot running through an unmatched run of films — the street-level grit of his origins, the raw procedural violence of THE FRENCH CONNECTION, the spiritual dread of THE EXORCIST, a jungle nightmare in SORCERER, the shadows of CRUISING, and the wired-up decay of TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. Every one of these films follows a man consumed by his own mandate, destroying himself and everyone around him in pursuit of control. This series tracks the rise, the fury, and the technical genius of a filmmaker who pushed casts, crews, and real-life cops past the brink to drag something true onto the screen