The Highwaymen: Friends Till The End

"Waylon was the first to say I'm not going to do things the normal way - I'm gonna do it my way."

Director and producer Jim Brown talks about the making of The Highwaymen: Friends Til The End, a documentary about Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, and Kris Kristofferson, who pioneered and led the outlaw country movement.

Spectators were taken by surprise when filmmaker Jon Small decided to do something extraordinary during "The Highwayman" music video shoot.

How did Kris Kristofferson convince Johnny Cash to record his songs when he was just a janitor? In this outtake clip from The Highwaymen: Friends Till The End, John Carter Cash recalls how Kris Kristofferson flew a helicopter into Johnny Cash's yard to convince him to record his songs.

"Willie cut 'Always on my Mind.' He called me the night he cut it and he said, listen to this. I heard it over the phone and I went wow, that’s a smash. That band was the same band that toured with Highwaymen every night." - Mark Rothbaum, manager of The Highwaymen

Discover the story behind the pioneering outlaw country music supergroup that featured Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson, told through vintage performances and new interviews about life on the road and in the studio.

In 1985, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, and Kris Kristofferson formed a country supergroup: The Highwaymen. In this excerpt from The Highwaymen: Friends Till The End, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson and others talk about how coming together as a group was crucial to their individual careers and the American music industry.