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The West [digital videodisc] / 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.

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[United States] : PBS ; [Burbank, Calif.] : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2003]

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

West (U.S.) -- History.

0780643615 (set)

5 videodiscs (ca. 720 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

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.

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