A comprehensive documentary of the rise and fall of a complicated man. We know him for the horse photos, but this film details his landscape photo work, his stereoscopic images, his "scientific" sequence photos that seemed to begin harmlessly enough but gradually became more and more voyeuristic and questionable. A man who lived through a time of profound mechanical change; a man constantly putting himself at risk for the sake of an image; a man of extreme temper... He may be the father of the moving image, but, surprisingly, his images also attest to him being an early proponent of photoshop! Gary Oldman adds some needed flavor and drama to the commentary, but all of the experts are interesting. I highly recommend!

This is not what I thought it would be. That said, I had not idea what I thought it would be. Obviously I have a conundrum here.

The one thing I remember from years gone by, was that he was the one who proved that when horses are galloping, all four of their legs are off the ground at the same time. And that was an amazing find - at the time.

Some of his nature photos were him proving his boldness (stupidity?). And other times seeing was not believing in what he did.

He certainly was not a one trick galloping pony when it came to photography and this documentary points them all out logically and honestly. There is no judgement on the parts of the experts, just observations.

I learned a ton about this man! And now I can gallop on.