The Newton Boys

The Newton Boys (1998) is Richard Linklater's true-crime drama you can watch online on iFILM. Four brothers from rural Texas decided in the early 1920s that sharecropping wasn't going to cut it — and went on to rob more banks than any other gang in U.S. history.

Willis, Jess, Doc, and Joe Newton had a working method: nitroglycerin for the vaults, no shooting civilians, and keep moving before anyone figures out the pattern. Matthew McConaughey plays eldest brother Willis with easy Texas charm, Ethan Hawke is the combustible Jess, Dwight Yoakam brings menace as their safecracker, and Vincent D'Onofrio rounds out the crew. Julianna Margulies plays the woman who sees Willis as more than just an outlaw.

Linklater frames the story less as heist thriller and more as a portrait of place and era — how four ordinary men built an extraordinary criminal record, and how the machine they robbed eventually caught up with them. Stream The Newton Boys (1998) online on iFILM.