Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War

Ed Harris—who gives a bona fide vocal performance here and should be a model for narrators everywhere. .... What director Patrick Reams does get from his interviewees, who include historian-authors Douglas Brinkley, David Eisenbach, John Boessenecker and Casey Tefertiller, is tremendously intimate detail about the legal, emotional and even media-centric aspects of the tale, and things we don’t expect.

Wyatt Earp And The Cowboy War takes an entertaining look at a surprisingly complex part of American history, with its judicious use of narration and interview supporting well-written and well-acted scripted reenactments.

“Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War” leans to characterizing him as a white hat. However, the docuseries doesn’t spare the vendetta slaughter that still makes the American icon a controversial figure, and a meaty documentary subject, over a century and a half later.