The Golden Age of Hollywood was long gone. The crown has slipped, and the shine had tarnished – where could movies go? Well, up, surprisingly. In the 70s Hollywood boomed for a myriad of reasons, but no small part was played by a new wave of bold and experimental filmmakers who took the medium and forced it to fit their will. They were new, bleak, challenging, outrageous, violent, and exciting.

The cinema of the 1970s is of vast importance to this day. Directors of now-monolithic status cut their teeth in the decade, with Lucas, Spielberg, Kubrick, Carpenter, and Coppola, to name but a few, releasing movies which were recognised as masterworks in their time and have come to hold important cultural legacies.

If you’re looking to celebrate the much beloved and respected titles of the 70s, here are the best t-shirts out there.