The Harder They Fall has gone on to become one of the most-streamed films of this year, topping charts on Netflix as well as other streaming platforms. The Netflix western, which stars the Idris Elba and Jonathan Majors, was the most-watched film during the span of November 1st through 7th by Nielsen U.S. The film currently boasts almost 1.2 billion minutes of streaming views.

The film has received critical acclaim and has understandably made it to the top of the charts. The Harder They Fall dethroned You (994 million minutes of viewing) as the most-watched content on Netflix. The film beat out a lot of competition to earn this place too as Netflix had multiple films on the list for the first week of November, like Love Hard, Replicas, American Gangster, and King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, which also made it to the most-watched list. The current Top 10 list of Netflix shows is as follows:

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  • The Harder They Fall – film, 1.195 billion minutes viewed. You – 30 episodes, 994M min. CoComelon – 15 eps., 767M min. Squid Game – 9 eps., 673M min. Seinfeld – 166 eps., 672M min. Locke & Key – 20 eps., 635M min. Criminal Minds – 317 eps., 605M min. Shameless – 134 eps., 594M min. Maid – 10 eps., 524M min. NCIS – 353 eps., 519M min.

The revisionist Western film directed by Jeymes Samuel is set in the Wild West after the abolition of slavery and is a fresh take on the genre as most of the principal cast members are all Black. In a conversation with ComicBook.com, Samuel said:

The Harder They Fall tells the story of the real-life outlaw Nat Love, who seeks revenge on the man who murdered his parents, dangerous criminal Rufus Buck. The film takes inspiration from real-life stories of outlaws and cowboys and features a rich soundtrack incorporating hip-hop into the trademark Western theme.

I love westerns, I don’t get them enough, so I really wanted to tell a story where I can use the camera to do stuff that they couldn’t do when John Ford was making westerns, that they couldn’t do when John Huston was operating and alive… I really wanted to utilize drones and show a train robbery. I love bank robberies, train robberies, jailbreaks, but I wanted to show a jailbreak and the train robbery in the same scene, and tell that story utilizing split screen. I wanted to do all these things with my debut feature film and that’s what I got to do.