- Release Date:
- Runtime:11 hours 51 minutes
- Studio:PBS Home Video
- UPC:794054889123
- Production Year:2003
- Special Features
- cc The Making of The West
- Trivia on the West
- Interactive maps
- Chapters
- Side #1 -- Episode One: The People/Special Features
- 1. Prologue [10:40]
- 2. The People [8:52]
- 3. The Vision [14:36]
- 4. Thunder Rolling From the Mountains [10:00]
- 5. Dog Soldiers [18:51]
- 6. The Corps of Discovery [17:07]
- 7. Credits [2:41]
- Side #2 -- Episode Two: Empire Upon the Trails/Episode Three: The Speck on the Future
- 1. Prologue [4:56]
- 2. Empire Upon the Truth [5:57]
- 3. The Heart of Everything [4:51]
- 4. Tejas [12:11]
- 5. In the Midst of Savage Darkness [13:59]
- 6. The Barren Rock [13:43]
- 7. Westward I Go Free [12:16]
- 8. What a Country This Might Be [6:48]
- 9. So We Die [7:33]
- 10. Credits [2:41]
- 1. Prologue [6:56]
- 2. The Speck on the Future [6:29]
- 3. My Share of the Rocks [13:09]
- 4. Stay at Home [8:05]
- 5. The Diggings [13:37]
- 6. The Right of Conquest [14:34]
- 7. Emporium of the Pacific [10:21]
- 8. Days of '49 [9:24]
- 9. Credits [2:40]
- Side #3 -- Episode Four: Death Runs Riot/Episode Five: The Grandest Enterprise Under God
- 1. Prologue [5:55]
- 2. Death Runs Riot [9:33]
- 3. Mountain Meadows [15:58]
- 4. This Guilty Land [8:36]
- 5. Anarchy [7:28]
- 6. Preachers and Jackass Rabbits [5:22]
- 7. Who Is the Savage? [14:03]
- 8. The Everywhere Spirit [15:45]
- 9. Credits [2:38]
- 1. Prologue [5:14]
- 2. The Grandest Enterprise Under God [13:43]
- 3. The Artillery of Heaven [14:10]
- 4. One People [16:39]
- 5. Good Company [22:40]
- 6. A Wound in the Heart [9:54]
- 7. Credits [2:40]
- Side #4 -- Episode Six: Fight No More Forever/Episode Seven: The Geography of Hope
- 1. Prologue [7:10]
- 2. Fight No More Forever [13:27]
- 3. Hard Times [4:59]
- 4. A Good Day to Die [24:38]
- 5. Center My Heart [9:38]
- 6. Good Words [22:59]
- 7. Credits [2:42]
- 1. Prologue [7:10]
- 2. The Geography of Hope [16:37]
- 3. A Hard Time I Have [13:19]
- 4. The Romance of My Life [18:36]
- 5. Friends of the Indian [11:43]
- 6. Hell Without the Heat [15:14]
- 7. Credits [2:42]
- Side #5 -- Episode Eight: Ghost Dance/Episode Nine: One Sky Above Us
- 1. Prologue [4:39]
- 2. Ghost Dance [5:05]
- 3. The Outcome of Our Earnest Endeavors [14:11]
- 4. Like Grass Before the Sickle [17:15]
- 5. P.S. I Like You Very Much [15:19]
- 6. Credits [2:37]
- 1. Prologue [5:59]
- 2. One Sky Above Us [15:10]
- 3. This Isn't History [16:45]
- 4. I Will Never Leave You [12:09]
- 5. The Gift [10:31]
- 6. Credits [2:53]
- Menu
- Side #1 -- Episode One: The People/Special Features
- Play Episode 1
- Scene Selections
- Special Features
- The Making of The West
- Interview With the Filmmakers
- Interactive Maps
- How Native Americans Lost Their Lands: Maps of Native American Lands 1775-1894
- Continue
- View Animation
- View Indian Land Maps
- 1775
- More Information
- 1819
- 1864
- 1894
- Traveling West on the Iron Horses: Railroad Maps 1850-1883
- Continue
- View Animation
- View Railroad Maps
- 1850
- More Information
- 1870
- More Information
- 1883
- More Information
- How Early Maps Got It Wrong: Early North American Maps 1597-1806
- 1597
- More Information
- 1651
- More Information
- +Zoom In
- Sir Francis Drake
- West of the Appalachians to the Albion Coast
- Northwest Passage
- 1700
- More Information
- 1736
- More Information
- 1796
- More Information
- +Zoom In
- The Area West of the Rocky Mountains
- California Coastline
- 1803
- More Information
- 1814
- More Information
- Lewis & Clark Map Animation
- Play Animation
- The West Trivia Quiz
- Start
- Did You Know?... Frontier Facts
- How Did the '49ers Fight Flea Infestations During the 1849 Gold Rush?
- How Did Seagulls Save the Mormon Settlers?
- Where Do the Sierra Nevada Mountains Begin?
- Were Most of the '49ers Grizzled Old Prospectors Portrayed in Hollywood Westerns?
- What Was "Soft Gold?"
- Where Did the Shoe Factories of New England Get Their Leather?
- How Did Canaries Help Keep Miners Safe in Early Mines?
- Which Stagecoach Robber of the Old West Used Poetry to Taunt His Victims?
- What Is the Nation's Oldest Living Community?
- What Is the Origin of the Name of the State of California?
- Photo Credits
- PBS Online
- Side #2 -- Episode Two: Empire Upon the Trails/Episode Three: The Speck on the Future
- Play Episode 2
- Play Episode 3
- Scene Selections
- Episode Two - Empire Upon the Trails
- Episode Three - The Speck on the Future
- Special Features
- The West Trivia Quiz
- Start
- Photo Credits
- PBS Online
- Side #3 -- Episode Four: Death Runs Riot/Episode Five: The Grandest Enterprise Under God
- Play Episode 4
- Play Episode 5
- Scene Selections
- Episode Four - Death Runs Riot
- Episode Five - The Grandest Enterprise Under God
- Special Features
- The West Trivia Quiz
- Start
- Photo Credits
- PBS Online
- Side #4 -- Episode Six: Fight No More Forever/Episode Seven: The Geography of Hope
- Play Episode 6
- Play Episode 7
- Scene Selections
- Episode Six - Fight No More Forever
- Episode Seven - The Geography of Hope
- Special Features
- The West Trivia Quiz
- Start
- Photo Credits
- PBS Online
- Side #5 -- Episode Eight: Ghost Dance/Episode Nine: One Sky Above Us
- Play Episode 8
- Play Episode 9
- Scene Selections
- Episode Eight - Ghost Dance
- Episode Nine - One Sky Above Us
- Special Features
- The West Trivia Quiz
- Start
- Photo Credits
- PBS Online
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