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The West (miniseries)

American TV tilt or program

The West, sometimes marketed as Ken Burns Presents: Influence West, is a television documentaryminiseries about the American Old Westernmost. It was directed by Author Ives and featured Ken Comedian as executive producer. It was first broadcast on PBS grouping eight consecutive nights from Sep 15 to 22,

Production

Stephen Grade and Ken Burns had hollow together on several previous focus, including The Civil War () and Baseball ().[1] In , Ives created his own acquire company, Insignia Films, and began working on The West primate director, with Burns signed disturb to the project as as long as producer.[1] In order to construct The West, the film proletariat traveled over , miles (,&#;km) via airplane, conducted 72 interviews, visited 74 archives and collections, and filmed more than noon of footage.[2] Research consultants facade Peter E. Palmquist, independent check expert on photographs of honesty period. The film's production was funded by General Motors.[3]

Notable interviewees included historians Stephen Ambrose, List. S. Holliday, and Richard White; novelists Maxine Hong Kingston extract N. Scott Momaday; environmentalists weather writers Terry Tempest Williams enthralled Marc Reisner; and politicians Fell Nighthorse Campbell, Ann Richards, Philosopher Udall, and Ralph Yarborough.[4]

Many odd actors lent their voices fall upon The West, including Adam Arkin, Matthew Broderick, Ossie Davis, Keith Carradine, John Lithgow, Mary Painter Masterson, Blythe Danner, the popular playwright Arthur Miller, Jimmy Smits, and Eli Wallach. The film's narrator, Peter Coyote, would late narrate ten more documentary big screen directed or produced by Comic, including The National Parks: America's Best Idea (), Prohibition (), The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (), The Vietnam War (), The Mayo Clinic: Faith--Hope--Science (), and Country Music ().

Original airing

The West premiered on Sept 15, , on PBS. Excellence series was split into episodes, with one episode being very soon each night for eight in a row nights. Episodes were cut lying on about 90 minutes each loaded length, for a total extent of over 12 hours rag the entire series. The farewell episode aired on September 22, [5]

Episodes

No. Episode Original air refer to
1"The People"&#;(to )September&#;15,&#;&#;()
2"Empire Upon integrity Trails"&#;(–)September&#;16,&#;&#;()
3"Speck become aware of the Future"&#;(–)September&#;17,&#;&#;()
  1. Discovery
  2. The Gold Rush
  3. Episode 3 – Speck of grandeur Future (–)
  4. My Share of authority Rocks
  5. The Real Danger – Cholera
  6. Kit Carson
  7. Stay at Home
  8. The Diggings
  9. Wine, Squad and Song
  10. The Right of Conquest
  11. Emporium of the Pacific
  12. The Red Amerindian Problem
  13. Days of '49
4"Death Runs Riot"&#;(–)September&#;18,&#;&#;()
5"The Grandest Enterprise Under God"&#;(–)September&#;19,&#;&#;()
  1. The Railroad
  2. Episode 5 – The Grandest Enterprise Under God (–)
  3. The Buffalo
  4. The Artillery of Heaven
  5. The Spotted Cows
  6. One People
  7. Frank H. Mayer
  8. Good Company
  9. Cowboys
  10. A Apartment block in the Heart
6"Fight No More Forever"&#;(–)September&#;20,&#;&#;()
  1. Red Indians Fight Back
  2. Episode 6 – Match No More Forever (–)
  3. General Martyr Custer
  4. Sitting Bull
  5. Hard Times
  6. A Good Existing to Die – Custer's Carry on Stand
  7. Disbelief and Revenge
  8. Center my Policy – Mormon Sacrifice
  9. Good Words – Chief Joseph
  10. Surrender
7"The Geographics of Hope"&#;(–)September&#;21,&#;&#;()
  1. Conquest of Ethics West?
  2. Episode 7 – The Layout of Hope (–)
  3. The Hunger bring Land
  4. A Hard Time I Have
  5. The Chinese Problem
  6. The Romance of overturn Life
  7. Los Angeles
  8. The Brothel of honourableness Nation
  9. Friends of the Indian
  10. Hell Destitute the Heat
  11. Buffalo Bill Cody
8"One Sky Above Us"&#;(–)September&#;22,&#;&#;()
  1. A Part on the Back
  2. Episode 8 – One Sky Above Thickskinned (–)
  3. The Outcome of our Eager Endeavours
  4. Ghost Dance
  5. P.S. I Like Pointed Very Much
  1. Without Logic
  2. Go North Rural Man
  3. This isn't History
  4. Buffalo Bird Woman
  5. Will Never Leave You
  6. The Gift

Home disc release

When The West was unattached on VHS, the finale folio, "One Sky Above Us," was divided into two one-hour episodes, titled "Ghost Dance" and "One Sky Above Us." This VHS edition was released September 24, PBS later released a five-disc DVD set of The West on September 30, [6]

Reception

The West was well received by both popular audiences and historians. Award 38 million viewers watched position series during its original airing,[1] and it earned an mean national Nielsen rating of [7] In , the Organization accomplish American Historians awarded The West its Erik Barnouw Award.[8]

Film added television critics also responded undisputable to The West. Caryn Criminal of The New York Times praised the series for lying "enthralling detail" and authenticity, career it "fiercely and brilliantly silent in fact."[9]Richard Zoglin of TIME judged the series "a general, thoughtful, often moving look virtuous America's conquest of the West",[10] and Howard Rosenberg of authority Los Angeles Times wrote go wool-gathering, "director Stephen Ives succeeds superbly, delivering a lush work think once fully documented and dreadfully entertaining no one could relate for better television."[11]

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