Based on the Johnson County War of 1892. Michael Cimino's epic western is now hailed as a masterpiece of American cinema and is presented here in its newly restored and definitive director's cut. Harvard graduate James Averill has returned to Wyoming as a Marshall and sis facing growing divisions and escalating tensions in the local community The powerful, government-backed cattle barons are waging war on the immigrant settlers they brand 'thieves and anarchists' and are drawing up a 'death list' for their hired mercenaries to act upon. As hostilities mount, the inevitability of a full-scale and bloody war edges ever closer.