Wild west

The half century between the end of the American Civil War and the closing of the frontier, and the enormous gap between what happened and the story that got told about it afterwards. Gunfights that lasted thirty seconds and were argued over for a century, land taken and renamed, and the people who were written out of their own country while the legend was still being printed.

• Kevin Costner's The West (2025) ★★★
• The West (1996) ★★★
• Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War (2024) ★★
• How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears (2016) ★★★