In Search of the Last Action Heroes is a 2019 documentary film written and directed by Oliver Harper, and co-written by Timon Singh.

Robin Block, a music documentarian looking to branch out into popular film history,[11] came across Harper's series and offered to sponsor his work.

[13] News of the documentary's production reached Timon Singh, an advertising creative and author of the book Born to Be Bad: Talking to the Greatest Villains in Action Cinema, who offered to collaborate on the venture and use the connections he had forged during the making of his book to arrange some of the film's interviews.

[1] Writing for Stuff, reviewer James Croot asserted that while "[p]erhaps not as in-depth, irreverent or stylish as Netflix’s The Movies That Made Us, or revelatory as the likes of Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films [...], In Search of the Last Action Heroes is still a thoroughly entertaining, inspiring watch.

[17] He also edited The Last Kumite, a throwback feature reuniting many familiar faces of 1980s films|martial arts cinema, including this film's interviewees Cynthia Rothrock and Stan Bush.