the movie billy jack was a life changer . . . i can't count how many people i convinced to sit down & watch it.

The icon Billie Jack, was a hero to those that could not defend themselves. Enjoyed all his movies as they came out! Long live Billie Jack!

I enjoyed this documentary but I think it underestimates Billy Jack's impact on the world. The movie Billy Jack was hard hitting and well received by millions of people who suddenly found a story about a hero standing up against racism and bigotry of the times. The movie itself was well received by martial artists in general. At the time, there were two martial art heroes: Bruce Lee and Billy Jack. Billy Jack not only fought for the people he fought for himself by trying to dig deeper into the spiritual roots of Native American shamanism and medicine. Billy Jack was always my hero growing up. He always tried to do what's right and, even when things were going against him, he found the courage to face things.

The person who made this video is just transcribing Laughlin's Wikipedia entry, almost verbatim. And as for Laughlin's "sad ending"? He lived to be 82 years old. He made three iconic films, possibly four (The Master Gunfighter). And ten years after his death, people are still interested in his work. There's nothing sad about that.

Loved the Billy Jack movies. RIP 🙏 Tom

Long live the legend of Billy Jack

What is so sad is that Tom Laughlin and the Billy Jack character are unknown to our current American generation !

Billy Jack always my hero.❤ and I also love Delores Taylor. Good people.❤

It's sad to know that Tom Laughlin aka Billy Jack has been gone this long. Even though I was just a young pup when I watched Billy Jack and the rest of these movies I have always had strong feelings for my brother's the natives of this great nation.

Those movies touched me as a young boy and had a profound effect on me, and molding me into the man I am today at 61 yrs young. Thank you Billy Jack/ Tom Laughlin

Tom and his character Billy Jack magnetized me to his movie of the same name during the early 70's which appeared on tv. I was glued to the tv set and enjoyed his character and the storyline. It was the realism of the fighting and the purpose of his character Billy Jack which I could relate to. He was a hero who defended the weak and stood for justice. I couldn't wait for it to show on tv.

Tom Laughlin was a pioneer for martial arts, along with the incredible Bruce Lee. Billy Jack was an amazing and empathetic figure. Sure miss him and his filmmaking.

Tom Laughlin was really out to represent the oppressed and underserved in society. I think he was a true American hero who never got the recognition he deserved.

a hero who will not be forgotten, an imspiration , the original martial arts action hero

Kinda weird how Billy Jacks 5th movie could never get completed. Exposure! Loved his work.

I resent the fact that you call Billy Jack a comedy. Saw the movie in a full theater and never before had witnessed movie goers yelling at the screen.." Get him Billy". Loved it do much I bought the movie on DVD.

I heard about Tom Laughlin before Billy Jack movies only because he went to the same high school as I did years after he did and the drama club was big on him and Gene Wilder...Years later when Billy Jack came out we were all proud of him.

Loved the Billy Jack character and Tom Laughlin has always been one of my idols. In the movie Billy Jack, he kicks the head honcho, town bad guy bossman in the side of the face. I had never seen that kick before and I had been doing different Martial Arts since early childhood. I learned that the kick was called a inside crescent kick. I had to learn that kick. I practiced that kick for 2 hours every day for many months, probably a year at least. Until I was able to execute that kick perfectly. It was very effective. I wish Billy Jack number five had been completed. It always seemed like he had so much against him trying to release his films. Really miss his character in films, he was one cool guy.

Very great film.! One of a kind. There will be no other film like Billy Jack

My siblings and l have sang the song 'One Tin Soldier' since we were little. Mom died yesterday and l am just looking up the background of it. So sad.

Loved Billy Jack I was never trained in martial arts but I was born with the ability of the arts still work out at the age of 70 still fast as heck don't know why luv all who has the ability to do it Chuck Norris is the best

I think Tom was an admirable man. RIP

One Tin Soldier rides away. rip Tom and Delores

I saw this film Billy Jack about 1973 and was deeply impressed.

I really enjoyed the 'Billy Jack' movies. They were cool and as those of us who have seen them we all enjoyed seeing bullies getting their butts handed to them

Thank you. Very nicely done tribute.

His film Billy Jack brought Hapkido to the United States. His double in the big courthouse fight scene was Bon Soo Han. The first time we saw that martial art. I suspect that film had a bigger impact on people taking martial arts than Bruce Lee. That film exploded into our culture

Loved all the Billy jack films. Brings back memories

Milwaukee Wisconsin!!! God Bless you SIr. Was moved by a Father from Marquette. May God Bless you Sir.

He was my hero in the 70's...

His life was Full of bless and Grace!!! He make a diference in this word!!!🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

The first time I actually saw Billy Jack movie i was in the Marines. We went out in town that Saturday afternoon. Ever since that movie I’ve been a Billy Jack fan.

Before Chuck Norris, we had Billy Jack! RIP Tom

Billy Jack was my first action hero. I was only 5 years old when I first went to the theatre to see his movie . I do not remember much about the movie but for the “ I’m gonna kick your head on that side with this foot “ kick .

My dad took our family to see The Born Losers at the local Drive In, when I was about 10 years old, back in the early 70's. He liked motorcycles, and had no idea how raunchy the film was. My mom started screaming at him to start the car and leave, after the first nudity/rape scene. Me and my little brother had got an eye full, and were laughing hysterically. My Dad was in the doghouse for quite awhile after that.😂

One truth Laughlin never dealt with on film was the fact that communist Ho Chi Minh committed mass-murder on landlords in North Vietnam in the 1950s. Even Ken Burns wrote of this in his book on Vietnm.

Very informative video. Billy Jack was a cool movie

Bong Soo Han was his Hapkido instructor and also acted in one of his film. I loved his Billy Jack character for defending the oppressed Native Americans.

I enjoyed the movie Billy Jack as a kid, I wonder if his movies influenced Chick Noris and the series Walker Texas Ranger.

Loved his movies. They we're great for the time.

I didn't know about the Montessori School part of Tom and Delores' career. I will say the Montessori methodology is the best of all early childhood educational systems around and those two dropping everything to ensure their child had the best education they could give her and in the process build a large and thriving school for the wonderful education of other children makes these two truly successful. Ask any mother what she is most proud of - a brilliant career or the daughter that she raised.

Loved me some Billy Jack..............................

Tom Laughlin and Terrence Hill would have made an amazing Duo

Billy Jack was an awesome move one of the best drive In movies I’ve ever seen …. So you all remember drive ins ????

I HAVE ALL THE BILLY JACK MOVIES ON DVD IN MY COLLECTION , I LOVE THE BILLY JACK MOVIES.

He was only fair at karate, all the action scenes were done by his Karate teacher/stunt double, He was a producer/director. He Made the Billy Jack series by himself independently on a super low budget and made millions from it. After that he retired and lived just down the street from O.J. Simpson.

No mention of Bong Soo Han and how Tom Laughlin learned Hapkido?

That crescent kick😂😂😂😂

I really enjoyed this documentary as there was info about his movie life I didn't know. Too bad he wasn't better received in his later years in the movie industry.

Billy Jack lives on!

I have a button like that ..... billy jack for president

Loved the Billy Jack movies. RIP.

FYI: The park fighting scene in Billy Jack was actually Tom's martial arts teacher, who also played several cameos in his films. One in which he played an instructor at the school. In the movie Tom is knocked off his feet with a leg sweep and hurt himself. I believe he broke a rib or two !

He made to 82. Thank you Tom!

I will always remember ... the first and best , a real Hero.

Every darn tale he tells ends with a sad ending. EVERY ONE!

one of my heros

Sad. Good films. Woke Hollywood feared him.

Oh man! Seeing this made me watch The Born Losers again! I’d forgotten what terrible acting there was in that movie but I still loved every minute of it! I remember seeing the movie in the early 70s. Had a huge crush on Tom Laughlin, man he was fine!

He will always be "Billy Jack."

Billy Jack was the man, Tom was my hero, these were great movies, my whole family would sit and watch together, being indian it was really cool seeing native American heros being defended by billy jack, wow seems like 1000 yrs ago now, RIP Billy Jack, Tom Laughlin

Watch his feet he can kill you with his feet! Loved that movie Billy Jack!

I love Billy jack the movie great movie!

he was a great actor

I was 14 in '87 and sheltered. My dad rented me The legend of Billy Jack. RATED PG. It had full on graphic "forced affection" in broad daylight ,outdoors. I sat there at 14 absolutely horrified. Quit hapkido and had nightmares for a long time. I was just a kid and I still remember how devastated I was Billy Jack would even want that in his movie.

I had no idea that he was born so long ago!

Billy Jack was one of the early films my grandfather did the special effects on ( Cliff Wenger). I remember stories about how nice the actor was. And a few more stories. It was a long time ago. Xoxo

I fondly remember going to the drive in and watching every Billy Jack movie from the back of my car. In Dec. 2014 as I was shopping for random gifts at the local Rite Aid, I turned and there it was - The whole Billy Jack boxed set, all 4 movies starting with Born Losers. All 4 DVD's nicely packed into a box with bonus material for, wait for it.... $9.99 I have it in my collection as one of my greatest finds. Billy Jack was the rebel American veteran hero in the 70's, who really belonged in the 60's. I would have loved for him to make a war movie about his Special Forces days in Vietnam. Billy Jack that is, not Tom Laughlin. Just one kick ass jungle war movie about his Green Beret's and their exploits in The Nam. Never happened, though.

Dieing at 82 is not a sad ending and he wasn't found on a street corner begging for change.

I think he had made enemies that messed up his career and future because of his ambition to change the movie industry.his accident was very convenient for some people.

One of the last photos here, is not Billy Jack. It is Hymy, the Robot from TV series Get Smart.

There's a story that in High School, Tom Laughlin beat up classmate and future actor Gene Wilder. Can anyone verify?

What was the controversy at the high school? And you are literally reading from Wikipedia.

Before we get too weepy, remember he was 82!

Best Movie 🇺🇸1971

Do you know what a timeline is?

Billy Jack it was a good movie

See u later Tom Rip❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉.

I’d love to hear this, but I can’t listen to the automated machine voice

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I like the movie

There were men claiming to be the real Billy Jack all over the place when I was growing up. Many people believed it too.

Bill Jack was great but this video is not

All this and not one word about Laughlin's martial arts expertise? He was highly trained in Hapkido.

Marine to my brother

Possibly the most realistic biker movie ever made, Billy Jack.

I loved the movie Billy Jack. How he stood up against the bigotry and mistreatment of Native Americans. I was always amazed at his martial arts ability, which was one of the reasons me and my older brother got involved in martial arts. Great movie but such a sad ending.

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nothing i love more than listening to a robotic voice.

Billy Jack was has iconic a movie ever made. It opened up alot of eyes to the plight of the native American, made by a nation that only wanted to sweep atrocities made by our government under the Flag.

8:35 ...NOT Laughlin. That's Dick Gautier in Ensign Pulver.

An entire video consisting of stills from Billy Jack movies. Clickbait,

No there's no sad sad ending to his life he made a stand against evil and the corruption in the government omisego he made a stand in that movie to tell people to no it's not a sad I normally don't say movie stars of heroes but he made a good point very good point that's going to last forever as long as it's playing people listen they will get it they don't get it and then we're lost

IF TOM LAUGHLIN, WAS ANYTHING LIKE BILLY JACK OR BILLY JACK THE SAME WAY, WE COULD OF USE TOM LAUGHLIN TO BE A STATE SENATOR, CONGRESS MAN, THE GOVERNOR OF AZ, TEXAS, OR EVEN CALIFORNIA, BECAUSE IT SEEMS THAT TOM REALLY LOVE HIS COUNTRY AND THE ORIGINAL NATIVES OF THE COLONY'S THAT BECAME AMERICAN, WITH TOM, ITS WAS THE LOVE FOR THE NATIVES, AND HIS AMERICAN BORN COUNTRY AND TOM REALLY LOVES HIS FELLOW AMERICAN BORN CITIZENS ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE BEGINNING OF THE NATIVES OF THIS LAND, THAT BECOME THE UNITED STATE... GOD BLESS TOM AND HIS FAMILY

"SAD ending "?...he died ! We are ALL, mes amis, going to die.

Billy Jack goes to Washington didn't the politicians have that movie shelved?

Yeah, his girl-friend was kind of homely too.

One tin soldier rides away...

How come nobody wore hoodies pulled up over their heads back in the old days ?

What was the athletic controversy, Hymie? Dont leave us hangin! SHIRLEY YOU AIN"T CLIT BAIT?