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5 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in
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Originally televised in 1996
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
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
Special features: The making of The West, interview with the filmmakers, interactive maps, The West trivia quiz
Director of photography, Buddy Squires with Allen Moore ; music by Matthias Gohl ; edited by Richard Hankin, Michael Levine and Adam Zucker
Peter Coyote
DVD; stereo, surround
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