• 1996
  • 1h
The West

Summary Stephen Ives' "The West" is a PBS 4-Video Series co-produced by Ken Burns: - "Death Runs Riot" 85 min. - "Fight No More Forever" 85 min. - "Ghost Dance" 58 min. - "The People" 82 min. View more details

  • 1996
  • 1h

The West

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Peter Coyote N. Scott Momaday Murphy Guyer John Trudell

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8.4

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Genres : History War Documentary

Release date : Sep 14, 1996

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Perspectives on the West

Language : English

Filming locations : Alamo Village - Highway 674, Brackettville, Texas, USA

Production companies : Florentine Films Insignia Films The West Film Project Inc.

Summary Stephen Ives' "The West" is a PBS 4-Video Series co-produced by Ken Burns: - "Death Runs Riot" 85 min. - "Fight No More Forever" 85 min. - "Ghost Dance" 58 min. - "The People" 82 min. View more details

Details

Genres : History War Documentary

Release date : Sep 14, 1996

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Perspectives on the West

Language : English

Filming locations : Alamo Village - Highway 674, Brackettville, Texas, USA

Production companies : Florentine Films Insignia Films The West Film Project Inc.

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Sep 14, 1996
The People
To the Europeans, the West was a wilderness to be conquered, a wilderness filled with boundless treasure, souls to be saved and new horizons to explore. Beginning with America's purchase of the Louisiana Territory in 1804, a young country prepared for its own epic march across the terrain of the West.
Episode 2 • Sep 15, 1996
Empire Upon The Trails
In the early 1800's, no one knew who would control the seemingly infinite spaces of the West.
Episode 3 • Sep 16, 1996
The Speck Of The Future
In 1848, a sawmill worker named James Marshall reached down into the stream bed of the American River in California -- and came up with the future of the West in the palm of his hand. He had discovered gold.
Episode 4 • Sep 17, 1996
Death Runs Riot
The West had always symbolized hope and new beginnings, but in the 1850s, as more American pioneers poured west to start over, they brought with them the nation's oldest, most divisive issue -- slavery.
Episode 5 • Sep 18, 1996
The Grandest Enterprise Under God
After the Civil War, the transcontinental railroad links East and West, and carries homesteaders, buffalo hunters, and cowboys into the west.
Episode 6 • Sep 19, 1996
Fight No More Forever
By 1877 only a few groups still resist America's westward push. The Lakota Sioux fight to protect their sacred Black Hills, but their victory over Custer at Little Big Horn does not prevent the end of their traditional way of life.
Episode 7 • Sep 20, 1996
The Geography Of Hope
The conquest of the West is nearly finished: In only 10 years, the native peoples are confined to reservations, allowing four-and-a-half million settlers to claim their land.
Episode 8 • Sep 21, 1996
Ghost Dance
As settlers race to claim tribal lands, Native Americans take up the Ghost Dance, to restore a lost way of life; the new century marks a new era in the West, an age of aqueducts and smelters.
Episode 9 • Sep 21, 1996
One Sky Above Us
Changes mark the turn-of-the-century in the West; tiny mining towns are transformed into industrial cities and white settlers displace the Plains tribes during the Oklahoma Land Rush.

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