The West is a 4-part PBS documentary series co-produced by Ken Burns and Stephen Ives. The series consists of four episodes: "Death Runs Riot" (85 minutes),"Fight No More Forever" (85 minutes),"Ghost Dance" (58 minutes),and "The People" (82 minutes).
The documentary explores the history of the American West, tracing the experiences of Native American tribes and their encounters with European settlers, who ultimately conquered and settled the land.
Aired: Sep 15, 1996To the Europeans, the West was a wilderness to be conquered, a wilderness fil...
Aired: Sep 16, 1996In the early 1800's, no one knew who would control the seemingly infinite spa...
Aired: Sep 17, 1996In 1848, a sawmill worker named James Marshall reached down into the stream b...
Aired: Sep 18, 1996The West had always symbolized hope and new beginnings, but in the 1850s, as ...
5. The Grandest Enterprise Under God
Aired: Sep 19, 1996After the Civil War, the transcontinental railroad links East and West, and c...
Aired: Sep 20, 1996By 1877 only a few groups still resist America's westward push. The Lakota Si...
Aired: Sep 21, 1996The conquest of the West is nearly finished: In only 10 years, the native peo...
Aired: Sep 22, 1996As settlers race to claim tribal lands, Native Americans take up the Ghost Da...
Aired: Sep 23, 1996Changes mark the turn-of-the-century in the West; tiny mining towns are trans...
Currently you are able to watch "The West" for free with ads on PBS. It is also possible to rent or buy on AppleTV, Amazon, Google Play, YouTube, VUDU online.
