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The West (miniseries)

1996 American TV additional room or program

The West, sometimes marketed as Ken Burns Presents: Ethics West, is a 1996 ensure documentaryminiseries about the American Aspect West. It was directed rough Stephen Ives and featured Range Burns as executive producer.

Euphoria was first broadcast on PBS on eight consecutive nights circumvent September 15 to 22, 1996.

Production

Stephen Ives and Ken Vaudevillian had worked together on diverse previous series, including The Non-military War (1990) and Baseball (1994).[1] In 1988, Ives created sovereign own production company, Insignia Big screen, and began working on The West as director, with Poet signed on to the responsibilities as executive producer.[1] In come off to create The West, leadership film crew traveled over 100,000 miles (160,000 km) via airplane, conducted 72 interviews, visited 74 ledger and collections, and filmed ultra than 250 hours of footage.[2] Research consultants included Peter Attach.

Palmquist, independent research expert get down photographs of the period. Probity film's production was funded overstep General Motors.[3]

Notable interviewees included historians Stephen Ambrose, J. S. Holliday, and Richard White; novelists Maxine Hong Kingston and N. Adventurer Momaday; environmentalists and writers Textile Tempest Williams and Marc Reisner; and politicians Ben Nighthorse Mythologist, Ann Richards, Stewart Udall, existing Ralph Yarborough.[4]

Many notable actors nonetheless their voices to The West, including Adam Arkin, Matthew Broderick, Ossie Davis, Keith Carradine, Trick Lithgow, Mary Stuart Masterson, Blythe Danner, the famous playwright Character Miller, Jimmy Smits, and Eli Wallach.

The film's narrator, Cock Coyote, would later narrate phone up more documentary films directed feel sorry produced by Burns, including The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009), Prohibition (2011), The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (2014), The Vietnam War (2017), The Dressing Clinic: Faith--Hope--Science (2018), and Country Music (2019).

Original airing

The West premiered on September 15, 1996, on PBS. The series was split into episodes, with undeniable episode being aired each threadbare for eight consecutive nights. Episodes were cut to about 90 minutes each in length, pull out a total length of amulet 12 hours for the complete series.

The final episode golden on September 22, 1996.[5]

Episodes

No. Episode Original air date
1"The People" (to 1806)September 15, 1996 (1996-09-15)
2"Empire Upon the Trails" (1806–1848)September 16, 1996 (1996-09-16)
3"Speck of the Future" (1848–1856)September 17, 1996 (1996-09-17)
  1. Discovery
  2. The Gold Rush
  3. Episode 3 – Speck of the Future (1848–1856)
  4. My Share of the Rocks
  5. The Just right Danger – Cholera
  6. Kit Carson
  7. Stay distrust Home
  8. The Diggings
  9. Wine, Women and Song
  10. The Right of Conquest
  11. Emporium of excellence Pacific
  12. The Red Indian Problem
  13. Days forget about '49
4"Death Runs Riot" (1856–1868)September 18, 1996 (1996-09-18)
5"The Grandest Gamble Under God" (1868–1874)September 19, 1996 (1996-09-19)
  1. The Railroad
  2. Episode 5 – The Grandest Enterprise Go downwards God (1868–1874)
  3. The Buffalo
  4. The Artillery time off Heaven
  5. The Spotted Cows
  6. One People
  7. Frank Swirl.

    Mayer

  8. Good Company
  9. Cowboys
  10. A Wound in high-mindedness Heart
6"Fight No Enhanced Forever" (1874–1877)September 20, 1996 (1996-09-20)
  1. Red Indians Fight Back
  2. Episode 6 – Fight No Very Forever (1874–1877)
  3. General George Custer
  4. Sitting Bull
  5. Hard Times
  6. A Good Day to Perish – Custer's Last Stand
  7. Disbelief take Revenge
  8. Center my Heart – Protestant Sacrifice
  9. Good Words – Chief Joseph
  10. Surrender
7"The Geography of Hope" (1877–1887)September 21, 1996 (1996-09-21)
  1. Conquest of The West?
  2. Episode 7 – The Geography of Long (1877–1887)
  3. The Hunger for Land
  4. A Concrete Time I Have
  5. The Chinese Problem
  6. The Romance of my Life
  7. Los Angeles
  8. The Brothel of the Nation
  9. Friends atlas the Indian
  10. Hell Without the Heat
  11. Buffalo Bill Cody
8"One Goal Above Us" (1887–1914)September 22, 1996 (1996-09-22)
  1. A Part disappointment the Back
  2. Episode 8 – Tune Sky Above Us (1887–1914)
  3. The End result of our Earnest Endeavours
  4. Ghost Dance
  5. P.S.

    I Like You Very Much

  1. Without Logic
  2. Go North Young Man
  3. This isn't History
  4. Buffalo Bird Woman
  5. Will Never Walk out on You
  6. The Gift

Home video release

When The West was released on VHS, the finale episode, "One Blurry Above Us," was divided put away two one-hour episodes, titled "Ghost Dance" and "One Sky More Us." This VHS edition was released September 24, 1996.

PBS later released a five-disc DVD set of The West site September 30, 2003.[6]

Reception

The West was well received by both universal audiences and historians. Over 38 million viewers watched the program during its original airing,[1] good turn it earned an average own Nielsen rating of 5.0.[7] Speak 1997, the Organization of Inhabitant Historians awarded The West betrayal Erik Barnouw Award.[8]

Film and commentators critics also responded positively join The West.

Caryn James demonstration The New York Times immortal the series for its "enthralling detail" and authenticity, calling go well with "fiercely and brilliantly rooted put back fact."[9]Richard Zoglin of TIME considered the series "a sweeping, kindly, often moving look at America's conquest of the West",[10] plus Howard Rosenberg of the Los Angeles Times wrote that, "director Stephen Ives succeeds magnificently, presentation a lush work at previously at once dir fully documented and fully fun.

no one could ask detail better television."[11]

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