With seventeen feature films to his credit, John Boorman has transcended historical eras, cultural boundaries, and genres over the course of a groundbreaking fifty-year career. Born in England in 1933, and a resident of Ireland for the last four decades, Boorman in his films, has both reflected his origins and pushed far outside any semblance of a comfort zone. His natural curiosity and desire to challenge himself have resulted in movies made on five continents, and in epochs ranging from mythical early Britain to three centuries into the future. He has directed Hollywood productions and self-financed independent films; harrowing dramas and ebullient comedies; groundbreaking crime-thrillers and cult science-fiction sagas. His collection of papers, artifacts, and reel-to-reel films—recently acquired by the Lilly Library—spans the years 1940-2014 and contains over 150 cubic feet of materials from his life and work. Correspondence, photographs, screenplays, sketches and storyboards, publicity materials, and memorabilia from all of his directed films, as well as several unmade projects, form the bulk of the archive. This exhibition displays a sampling of the Boorman collection, which is now accessible to researchers.