Hollywood Horsepower

Buckle up and hit the gas—Hollywood Horsepower is your ultimate joyride through the most iconic, adrenaline-pumping, scene-stealing cars ever to hit the silver screen. From the time-traveling DeLorean in Back to the Future to the bullet-dodging Aston Martins of James Bond, Hollywood Horsepower is a celebration of the four-wheeled legends that roared into pop culture history.

The Golden Age of the car-chase film—roughly 1966 to 1980—wasn’t confined to a backlot or a green screen. It was forged from screeching tires and roaring engines that did not need a sound designer to bring them to life. Filmmakers amplified car culture, stylized it, and sent it back into the world in ever more exciting forms. Hollywood Horsepower puts a spotlight on those filmmakers and the cars that changed the course of cinema, tracing the evolution of car-centric movies from The Silent Era, through the ’70s Golden Age, to today. Packed with archival photography and automotive knowledge, Hollywood Horsepower is a tribute to the film and automotive industries, showcasing their parallel coming of age, and the ways they informed and shaped the notions of movement, freedom, and modern life as we know it.