

The West: A Film by Stephen Ives and Presented by Ken Burns
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S1 AFL. 1 - The People
14 september 19961 uur 22 min.The West begins as the whole world to the people who live there. It becomes a New World when Europeans arrive, a world shaken by incompatible visions. And almost three centuries later, when Lewis and Clark venture west to find a Northwest Passage, this world becomes the testing-ground for a young nation's continent-spanning dream.Gratis proefversie van PBS Documentaries of kopenS1 AFL. 2 - Empire Upon the Trails
15 september 19961 uur 24 min.Americans head west along many pathways -- following the fur trade into the mountains, fighting for self-determination in Texas, seeking religious freedom in Utah or a better life along the Oregon Trail. But whatever direction they travel, they move closer with every step to a “Manifest Destiny” that will make the West their own.Gratis proefversie van PBS Documentaries of kopenS1 AFL. 3 - The Speck of the Future
16 september 19961 uur 25 min.The Gold Rush brings the whole world to the West, as 49ers from Asia, South America and the eastern states scramble for “a share of the rocks,” littering the hills with mining towns and creating the West’s first metropolis. But in the push to strike it rich, many are violently pushed aside.Gratis proefversie van PBS Documentaries of kopenS1 AFL. 4 - Death Runs Riot
17 september 19961 uur 24 min.Civil war comes early to the West. In “Bleeding Kansas,” abolitionists battle for free soil. In Utah, federal troops march against Mormon polygamy. And along the Rio Grande, oppressed Mexican Americans rebel. The war between North and South unleashes brute savagery in the West, and leaves behind an army prepared for total war against the native peoples of the plains.Gratis proefversie van PBS Documentaries of kopenS1 AFL. 5 - The Grandest Enterprise Under God
18 september 19961 uur 24 min.A triumph of the human spirit, the transcontinental railroad opens a new era in the West, carrying homesteaders onto the prairies, bringing cowboys up the cattle trail from Texas, helping give women the vote in Utah and sending buffalo hunters onto the plains, where they drive a symbol of the West -- and a way of life -- to the brink of extinction.Gratis proefversie van PBS Documentaries of kopenS1 AFL. 6 - Fight No More Forever
19 september 19961 uur 25 min.The federal government tightens its grip on the West, but three bold spirits remain defiant -- Sitting Bull, who prophesies his people's greatest victory but cannot prevent their ultimate defeat; Brigham Young, who must sacrifice a spiritual son to save his church; and Chief Joseph, who triumphs in defeat as an indomitable voice of conscience for the West.Gratis proefversie van PBS Documentaries of kopenS1 AFL. 7 - The Geography of Hope
20 september 19961 uur 25 min.Newcomers arrive by the millions, bringing a new spirit of conformity to the West. Indian children are taught to forsake their heritage, Mormons are told to abandon a tenet of their faith, and new laws deny Chinese and Mexican Americans a place in society. Yet the legend of the “Wild West” lives on, thanks to the greatest showman of the age.Gratis proefversie van PBS Documentaries of kopenS1 AFL. 8 - Ghost Dance
21 september 199659min.As settlers race to claim tribal lands, Native Americans take up the Ghost Dance, trusting in its power to restore a lost way of life until their hopes are crushed at Wounded Knee. The new century marks a new era in the West, an age of aqueducts and smelters. But the West remains what it has always been, a world waiting for a dream.Gratis proefversie van PBS Documentaries of kopenS1 AFL. 9 - One Sky Above Us
21 september 19961 uur 3 min.As the 20th century neared, Americans celebrated with the World Columbian Exposition, where they were told that the frontier had closed – symbolized by one state proudly displaying an entire heard of buffalo – stuffed. But in the real West, for every frontier story that ended, another one began.Gratis proefversie van PBS Documentaries of kopen
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- Stephen Ives
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- Peter Coyote
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