The world is revisiting Robert Redford’s screen work after the actor and filmmaker died Tuesday at age 89, and many of his most celebrated films are available to stream across major platforms.
Not every landmark in Redford’s career is currently on a subscription service: his breakthrough role in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is not included in most streaming libraries, though it can be rented or bought digitally (Amazon lists a rental at $3.79 and a purchase at $14.99). Other titles, however, are available to watch at no additional cost beyond an existing subscription or on free, ad-supported services.
Netflix subscribers can find a trio of Redford films, including the 1975 drama The Great Waldo Pepper, which features Redford as a World War I veteran-turned-stunt pilot and was scheduled to leave Netflix on Sept. 30, 2025. The streamer also carries two 2017 Netflix originals: Our Souls at Night, a late-in-life romance that reunited Redford with Jane Fonda, and The Discovery, a science-fiction drama in which Redford plays a scientist whose research into an afterlife has far-reaching consequences.
Amazon Prime’s library includes A Bridge Too Far (1977), the sprawling World War II epic directed by Richard Attenborough in which Redford appears as an American major among an ensemble cast. Prime also streams All Is Lost (2013), a late-career solo performance that earned Redford the New York Film Critics Circle award for best actor; that film is also available on ad-supported services such as Tubi and Pluto TV. The Conspirator (2010), a historical drama Redford directed about the aftermath of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, is likewise available on Prime for subscribers.
Disney+ hosts Redford in both family and franchise fare. He appears as Conrad Meacham in the 2016 live-action Pete’s Dragon, and he played Alexander Pierce, a senior figure in S.H.I.E.L.D., in the Marvel film Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014). Redford told Entertainment Weekly that one reason he took the MCU role was to experience “this new form of filmmaking…where you have kind of cartoon characters brought to life through high technology.”
Subscribers to MGM+, the service run by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, can access several of Redford’s directorial and acting highlights. MGM+ carries Three Days of the Condor (1975), the Sydney Pollack spy thriller in which Redford plays a CIA analyst hunted after his colleagues are killed. The service also streams Ordinary People (1980), Redford’s Oscar-winning directorial debut that won Best Picture and established him as a filmmaker in addition to a leading man, and A River Runs Through It (1992), an Oscar-nominated period drama directed by Redford.
Other streaming options include Paramount+, which lists Lions for Lambs (2007), a film Redford directed and starred in as an idealistic professor. The Criterion Channel offers All the President’s Men (1976), the landmark political thriller in which Redford and Dustin Hoffman portray Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Viewers with access to library-based Kanopy can stream titles such as Barefoot in the Park (1967), the Neil Simon comedy that paired Redford with Jane Fonda early in his career, and select films that are also available to rent or buy.
Tubi, an ad-supported service, streams Jeremiah Johnson (1972), a western directed by Sydney Pollack in which Redford plays a mountain man. Several of Redford’s films that are not broadly available on subscription platforms can be rented or purchased digitally through common storefronts.
Redford’s on-screen legacy spans decades and genres. He was propelled to stardom by his turn as the charming outlaw in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, a role that led to the lifelong nickname “the Sundance Kid” and inspired the name of the Sundance Film Festival, which he founded in 1978. He later expanded his career behind the camera, winning acclaim and industry honors as a director for films including Ordinary People and A River Runs Through It.
As audiences seek to revisit Redford’s work, availability varies by region and changes frequently. Several services offer free trials or ad-supported tiers that carry his films, so viewers looking to watch specific titles should check current listings on their streaming platforms or digital retailers for the latest availability and pricing.