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In Search of Doc Holliday (2016)
You're better off reading a proper biography
Although the script read by the narrator seems to be accurate and Holliday's story is certainly interesting, the visual material is done so poorly you'd be far better served by reading one of the many excellent books on Doc. The film repeatedly uses the same photographs and video clips throughout, and they often have no correlation to the subject being discussed. For example, several scenic views of saguaro-studded hills are shown when the narrator is covering Doc's days in Colorado, New Mexico, or Tombstone. However, there aren't saguaros in Colorado, New Mexico, or Tombstone. Knowing this, I couldn't trust that any of the landscape photos shown were actually of the places being discussed (unless I happened to be personally familiar with those places). The narrator routinely mispronounces proper names, such as Prescott, the town in Arizona, which he stresses as press-CAHT. The authors interviewed served the film well and provided useful information, but deserved a better production. When brief dramatizations were included, they added nothing, and the hats weren't even accurate for Doc's years (and, like the saguaro photos and the random babbling water videos, they were repeated again and again). The film misses the mark.