The West

Author

Stephen Ives

Call Number

• DVD 978 W5161 (CEN)

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Languages

Closed-captioned.

Performers

Narrator, Peter Coyote.

Publication Information

[Alexandria, VA] : PBS Distribution, [2013]

Physical Description

5 videodiscs (approximately 720 minutes) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

This 12-hour film chronicles the epic saga of America's most vast and turbulent region, beginning before European settlement and continuing into the 20th century.

Notes

Originally broadcast as a documentary television program on PBS in 1996.

Special features The making of The West ; trivia on The West ; interactive maps.

Contents

• The people (82 min.)
• Empire upon the trails (84 min.)
• The speck of the future (84 min.)
• Death runs riot (84 min.)
• The grandest enterprise under God (84 min.)
• Fight no more forever (85 min.)
• The geography of hope (84 min.)
• Ghost dance (58 min.)
• One sky above us (62 min.).