Gunslingers

2014-07-20 | TV-PG | en

Western Documentary

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Seasons & Episodes

EP1 Butch Cassidy: The Perfect Criminal

Jul. 19,2015

Until the day he died – whenever that was – nobody ever outsmarted Butch Cassidy. He always got away. Cassidy was an outlaw who lived more by his wits than by his gun.

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EP2 Seth Bullock: Sheriff of Deadwood

Jul. 26,2015

In Deadwood, a mining camp swirling with violence and vice, Seth Bullock is the only stabilizing force standing in the way of utter chaos.

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EP3 Bat Masterson: Defender of Dodge

Aug. 02,2015

This well-dressed gunfighter was a gambler, a hunter, an Indian fighter, and a scout – but above all else, Bat Masterson was a lawman. As Sheriff of Ford County, Kansas, Bat Masterson kept the peace on the volatile Frontier...

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EP4 Bass Reeves: The Real Lone Ranger

Aug. 09,2015

Bass Reeves is no ordinary lawman. A slave set free by the Civil War, he hunts outlaws in the most dangerous territory in the nation. There is striking evidence that this fearless, legendary rider is the basis for the iconic character of the Lone Ranger.

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EP5 Bill Doolin: The Oklahombres

Aug. 16,2015

In the 1890s, the Frontier had vanished... but in Bill Doolin, it's spirit burned on. He terrorized Oklahoma with his brazen robberies and fought the greatest shootout in Western history.

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EP6 Deacon Jim Miller: The Pious Assassin

Aug. 23,2015

His neighbors saw a devout family man. The last thing his victims saw was a shotgun aimed at their heads. If there's an outlaw who was born to kill it's Deacon Jim Miller – the Bible-thumping psycho-killer.

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American Heroes Channel's new series Gunslingers reveals the infamous tales of survival and courage from the Wild West. Exposing little-known facts about America’s first villains and heroes, the six-part series features the stories of Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Wild Bill Hickok, John Wesley Hardin and Tom Horn. Juxtaposed with vivid reenactments, expert commentary is layered throughout each episode to ensure the authenticity and historical accuracy of each story. Contributors include: David Milch, the creator of Deadwood; Bob Boze Bell, the executive editor of True West Magazine; and actor Kurt Russell (Tombstone).

Gunslingers Audience Reviews

Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Cristal The movie really just wants to entertain people.

meepie I rate the Gunslingers series one of the best Old-West doku-drama's of all time, and certainly much better than the Redford "Old-West" series.I like many of the actors performances but particularly Jack Elliott portraying Bat Masterson, Nathan Sapsford as Bill Doolin, Eric Schneider as John Wesley Hardin and of course Walt Willey as Wild Bill Hickok, but I'm also a big fan of J.D. Marimon's Jim Masterson performance, and I would just love to see an entire episode dedicated to him.A big "thank you" to the producers for this series. I hope there will be a season 3. From the top of my head I could imagine such characters eg. Luke Short, "Curly Bill" Brocius, William Longley ,Dallas Stoudenmire and of course Jim Masterson just to mention a few.

majormadmax I have gotten addicted to this show, it has a great balance of historical information and re-enactments to be informative and entertaining. As mentioned, the first-person accounts make it more interesting than a pure documentary. The episode concerning Bass Reeves was extremely informative as he is an important person of that era but not well known (some claim he was the basis of the Lone Ranger series). I was also "satisfied" with the Wild Bill Hickok story (viewers will understand the pun!).All in all, a highly enjoyable series on the old west! Definitely worth watching if you have any interest in that period.

sjhanlon-25138 very disappointed in this show and the new American west show as the stories don't follow history facts ,and the most appalling part is that wardrobe does not dress the actors in the clothes they wore in real life , if you google a name , such as billy the kid , Wyatt Earp you can see true historical photos of how the looked and what they wore , nothing like the clothes they wear in these shows even the wearing of guns is all wrong , if they want to make historical shows of the wild west , make it life like not all the dress and fake crap, none of these so called gunslingers wore their guns strapped to their thighs etc , they were all worn high up on the hip , and they all dressed like down and out bums as that's all they could afford to buy , oh and the Earp's were downright killers not goody goody two shoe people

BasicLogic this is a very weird and boring series that i cannot even know how to categorize it into an appropriate genre. it's like a mixture of historical documentary and half-baked TV drama, hiring so many bad actors to play those historical/legendary western characters being tagged as 'gunslingers' in it. the narrations were just so boring, the way of its directing and editing are both disastrously uninteresting. i just failed to sit through to watch the first episode. it just looked so disconnectedly boring. if you decided to make a series with certain historical background, it's fine, but with so many 2nd rated actors who might not even qualified for any B movie to play those legendary roles, then how could you make me to sit tight to go along with it? the general way of how these episodes' screenplays were put together is a messy blah, blah and blah boring talks between scenes that i just couldn't care less. this was one of the worst viewing experiences i have in recent years.