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List Price: $129.98 Features • Box set • Black & White • Closed-captioned • Color • DVD-Video • NTSC In Theaters : 1996 DVD Release : 30 September, 2003 |
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The West description Since its premiere on PBS in September 1996, The West has rightfully assumed its place as a milestone event in television history, and remains the single most ambitious and authoritative audio-visual history of the American West. Spanning centuries but focusing primarily on the period of 1800 to 1915, when America was virtually re ... review details |
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| Ken Burns 'West' was just what I as a resident alien wanted to see , after trying to find some comprehensive history of this region. The documentary puts everything in perspective with some memorable quotes 'One man's exploration is another man's home' , 'It is North for the Mexicans, South for the British Canada, Home for the Native people, West for the Americans'. But it is the 'West' that has attracted people from around the world. The dispossession of the Native Indians is indeed tragic. Most literature on this phase of history has been one-sided with each seeing themselves as a victim. This documentary is not judgemental, but lets us meditate over all the facts in a hope some of the wrongs wont be repeated.
People have flocked to the West via sea routes, overland routes, railroads, freeways, and air route.Having landed here via the air route, I chuckle when some American tells me that I am brave to be here on my own. The 'West' is a story of few extraordinary successes that has enticed so many people hoping to replicate that success. The letters of the unsuccessful gold rush pioneer to his wife, the struggle of the couple to make it in a ranch in the mid-west are tragi-heroic. Most of them do not achieve what they want but the journey somehow enriches them. |
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