Hollywood director and actor Clint Eastwood has brought his nearly seven-decade career to a close at age 96. His final directorial work, Juror #2, premiered two years ago and featured Nicholas Hoult and J.K. Simmons in a legal thriller that garnered significant critical praise, earning a 93% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Throughout his lifetime, Eastwood became one of cinema's most influential and prolific figures, establishing himself across multiple genres from spaghetti Westerns to contemporary dramas.

The streaming platform Paramount+ is now making available one of Eastwood's most celebrated films, the 2004 boxing drama Million Dollar Baby. The film held particular significance for Eastwood, as its creation proved compelling enough to draw him out of acting retirement after he had previously decided to focus exclusively on directing. Starting this August, audiences will be able to stream what many consider one of the finest boxing films ever made.