In Search of Doc Holliday

Tombstone is one of my favorite movies, so I was curious to watch this documentary. The info was interesting and I'm sure it was a lot of work to gather it all..... BUT, the quality is really bad. It reminds me of a high school production, with poor editing, awful segues and a narrator that is apparently bored out of his mind. All in all, it's worth an hour or so if you have a slow Saturday night and you're a Tombstone fan.

I wanted to know more about Doc Holliday but this documentary presents information as if it were written for a sixth grade homework assignment, main points of his life connected with long commentary and short on details. We hear a lot that Doc was a rascal, probably a murderer, that people didn't like him but those same people spent a lot of time with him and would rush to his aid when needed. Doc Holliday is one of the most famous characters of the old west and yet details about what made him a legend are scant. At one point they say he travelled and witness history and became part of history -- why? Put me in the old west, why was Holliday different than any of the other rough men that settled disputes with a gun? The narrator is monotone and his delivery has all the enthusiasm of Ben Stine reading his own obituary, he lulled me to sleep during the OK Corral segment which should have been the most exciting part. There is no reason to watch this documentary unless you have insomnia.

This is exactly what I was looking for free on YouTube with educated professor's real pictures shares gorilla style filmmaking and some great music that the filmmaker's work hard on This was made by lovers of history and of.com with it himself. It inspires me to do a documentary of my own thank you creators. The reenactment as good as I would have liked but The massage of the name main narrator was so authentic. Talk how they would rather have a movie like this than a big budget fiasco. Anyone else think it's weird that IMDB assess to have a minimum of what we want to say sometimes you say and you don't gotta say no more you just said it good movie by good people hope more people watch free on YouTube cause this is enough letters it's enough words come on IMDb.

An interesting attempt to tell the story of Doc Holliday, it falls short on production quality and accuracy.

While the story itself holds true to the documentaries I've read on him, Earp and Masterson the visuals that accompany the story line are sometimes not at all accurate to the area being discussed.

As a Westerner who has visited many of these places and now lives near Leadville and Glenwood Springs it irked me to see incorrect visuals presented with the story line. It led me to not trust the accuracy of the historic photos presented.

Overall though a solid documentary that is consistent with others about him, the Earps and Masterson.

My goodness, talk about ignorance, this "documentary" is loaded with historical inaccuracies. It particularly glosses over slavery and reconstruction in a manner that is absolutely shameful. To quote the film, "...to oversee the redistribution of land as the former plantations were broken up, and the former slaves were made land owning Tennant farmers." This is an absolute impossibility, one cannot be both a landowner and a tenant farmer, it's literally a logical impossibility. Beyond that, redistribution of land never happened, except on small scale on the coast of Georgia and it was undone by federal mandate.