French filmmaker Anne Feinsilber began thinking about Billy the Kid when she read a New York Times article about the controversies surrounding his death and the efforts to exhume his corpse for DNA sampling. Her documentary looks not only at that inter-jurisdictional tug of war and the people involved, but it also examines the myth of Billy, his history, the land that claims him and other films about him.


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