The West [videorecording] / a film by Ken Burns ; a co-production of Insignia Films and WETA-TV Washington in association with Florentine Films and Time-Life Video & Television ; produced by Stephen Ives, Jody Abramson, Michael Kantor ; directed by Stephen Ives ; written by Geoffrey C. Ward & Dayton Duncan.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmPublisher number: B8891 | PBS DVD GoldPublication details: [Alexandria, VA] : PBS DVD Gold ; Burbank, Calif.] : Warner Home Video, [2003]Edition: Standard versionDescription: 5 videodiscs (ca. 720 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 0780643615 (set)
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Contents:
Disc 1. Episode 1. The people. Bonus DVD features -- Disc 2. Episode 2. Empire upon the trails. Episode 3. The speck of the future. -- Disc 3. Episode 4. Death runs riot. Episode 5. The grandest enterprise under God. --Disc 4. Episode 6. Fight no more forever. Episode 7. The geography of hope. --Disc 5. Episode 8. Ghost dance. Episode 9. One sky above us.
Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Buddy Squires with Allen Moore ; music by Matthias Gohl ; edited by Richard Hankin, Michael Levine and Adam Zucker.
Peter Coyote.Summary: Chronicles the history of the American West beginning before the European settlers and continuing into the 20th century. Includes the peoples, the wagon trains, the Gold Rush, the Civil War, the transcontinental railroad and the destruction of the buffalo, wars against the Indians, settlers in the West, the Wounded Knee massacre, and beginnings of the new West.
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Book Storms Research Center Main Collection DVD F 591 .W45 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 98625718

Originally televised in 1996.

Special features: The making of The West, interview with the filmmakers, interactive maps, The West trivia quiz.

Disc 1. Episode 1. The people. Bonus DVD features -- Disc 2. Episode 2. Empire upon the trails. Episode 3. The speck of the future. -- Disc 3. Episode 4. Death runs riot. Episode 5. The grandest enterprise under God. --Disc 4. Episode 6. Fight no more forever. Episode 7. The geography of hope. --Disc 5. Episode 8. Ghost dance. Episode 9. One sky above us.

Director of photography, Buddy Squires with Allen Moore ; music by Matthias Gohl ; edited by Richard Hankin, Michael Levine and Adam Zucker.

Peter Coyote.

Chronicles the history of the American West beginning before the European settlers and continuing into the 20th century. Includes the peoples, the wagon trains, the Gold Rush, the Civil War, the transcontinental railroad and the destruction of the buffalo, wars against the Indians, settlers in the West, the Wounded Knee massacre, and beginnings of the new West.

DVD; stereo, surround.

Closed-captioned.

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