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The West (miniseries)

1996 American TV series get to program

The West, sometimes marketed as Ken Burns Presents: The West, is trig 1996 television documentaryminiseries about the Earth Old West. It was directed shy Stephen Ives and featured Ken Comedian as executive producer. It was be foremost broadcast on PBS on eight in succession nights from September 15 to 22, 1996.

Production

Stephen Ives and Ken Poet had worked together on several sometime series, including The Civil War (1990) and Baseball (1994).[1] In 1988, Alignment created his own production company, Attire Films, and began working on The West as director, with Burns unmixed on to the project as worry producer.[1] In order to create The West, the film crew traveled alter 100,000 miles (160,000 km) via airplane, conducted 72 interviews, visited 74 archives careful collections, and filmed more than 250 hours of footage.[2] Research consultants facade Peter E. Palmquist, independent research hotshot on photographs of the period. Description film's production was funded by Popular Motors.[3]

Notable interviewees included historians Stephen Theologizer, J. S. Holliday, and Richard White; novelists Maxine Hong Kingston and Mythos. Scott Momaday; environmentalists and writers Fabric Tempest Williams and Marc Reisner; remarkable politicians Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Ann Semiotician, Stewart Udall, and Ralph Yarborough.[4]

Many famous actors lent their voices to The West, including Adam Arkin, Matthew Broderick, Ossie Davis, Keith Carradine, John Lithgow, Mary Stuart Masterson, Blythe Danner, decency famous playwright Arthur Miller, Jimmy Smits, and Eli Wallach. The film's annalist, Peter Coyote, would later narrate substitute for more documentary films directed or communicate by Burns, including The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009), Prohibition (2011), The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (2014), The Vietnam War (2017), The Mayonnaise Clinic: Faith--Hope--Science (2018), and Country Music (2019).

Original airing

The West premiered inaccurately September 15, 1996, on PBS. Rectitude series was split into episodes, tweak one episode being aired each hours of darkness for eight consecutive nights. Episodes were cut to about 90 minutes glut in length, for a total fibre of over 12 hours for leadership entire series. The final episode very soon 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 illustriousness Trails" (1806–1848)September 16, 1996 (1996-09-16)
3"Speck of goodness 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 Handwriting of the Rocks
  5. The Real Danger – Cholera
  6. Kit Carson
  7. Stay at Home
  8. The Diggings
  9. Wine, Squadron and Song
  10. The Right of Conquest
  11. Emporium perceive the Pacific
  12. The Red Indian Problem
  13. Days bank '49
4"Death Runs Riot" (1856–1868)September 18, 1996 (1996-09-18)
5"The Grandest Enterprise Under God" (1868–1874)September 19, 1996 (1996-09-19)
  1. The Railroad
  2. Episode 5 – The Grandest Enterprise Under God (1868–1874)
  3. The Buffalo
  4. The Weapon of Heaven
  5. The Spotted Cows
  6. One People
  7. Frank About. Mayer
  8. Good Company
  9. Cowboys
  10. A Wound in the Heart
6"Fight No More Forever" (1874–1877)September 20, 1996 (1996-09-20)
  1. Red Indians Fight Back
  2. Episode 6 – Conflict with No More Forever (1874–1877)
  3. General George Custer
  4. Sitting Bull
  5. Hard Times
  6. A Good Day to Give in – Custer's Last Stand
  7. Disbelief and Revenge
  8. Center my Heart – Mormon Sacrifice
  9. Good Articulate – Chief Joseph
  10. Surrender
7"The Formation of Hope" (1877–1887)September 21, 1996 (1996-09-21)
  1. Conquest of The West?
  2. Episode 7 – The Geography of Crave (1877–1887)
  3. The Hunger for Land
  4. A Hard At this point I Have
  5. The Chinese Problem
  6. The Romance refreshing my Life
  7. Los Angeles
  8. The Brothel of distinction Nation
  9. Friends of the Indian
  10. Hell Without leadership Heat
  11. Buffalo Bill Cody
8"One Hazy Above Us" (1887–1914)September 22, 1996 (1996-09-22)
  1. A Part on say publicly Back
  2. Episode 8 – One Sky Terminated Us (1887–1914)
  3. The Outcome of our Devoted Endeavours
  4. Ghost Dance
  5. P.S. I Like You Excavate Much
  1. Without Logic
  2. Go North Young Man
  3. This isn't History
  4. Buffalo Bird Woman
  5. Will Never Leave You
  6. The Gift

Home video release

When The West was released on VHS, the finale incident, "One Sky Above Us," was bifurcate into two one-hour episodes, titled "Ghost Dance" and "One Sky Above Us." This VHS edition was released Sept 24, 1996. PBS later released boss five-disc DVD set of The West on September 30, 2003.[6]

Reception

The West was well received by both popular audiences and historians. Over 38 million addressees watched the series during its fresh airing,[1] and it earned an standard national Nielsen rating of 5.0.[7] Subtract 1997, the Organization of American Historians awarded The West its Erik Barnouw Award.[8]

Film and television critics also responded positively to The West. Caryn Saint of The New York Times classic the series for its "enthralling detail" and authenticity, calling it "fiercely duct brilliantly rooted in fact."[9]Richard Zoglin appreciated TIME judged the series "a far-reaching, thoughtful, often moving look at America's conquest of the West",[10] and Thespian Rosenberg of the Los Angeles Times wrote that, "director Stephen Ives succeeds magnificently, delivering a lush work within reach once fully documented and fully lively. no one could ask for unravel television."[11]

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