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The West (miniseries)
1996 American TV series or program
The West, sometimes marketed as Ken Burns Presents: The West, is a 1996 television documentaryminiseries about the American Old West.
It was directed by Stephen Ives and featured Ken Burns as executive producer. It was first broadcast on PBS on eight consecutive nights from September 15 to 22, 1996.
Production
Stephen Ives and Ken Burns had worked together on several previous series, including The Civil War (1990) and Baseball (1994).[1] In 1988, Ives created his own production company, Insignia Films, and began working on The West as director, with Burns signed on to the project as executive producer.[1] In order to create The West, the film crew traveled over 100,000 miles (160,000 km) via airplane, conducted 72 interviews, visited 74 archives and collections, and filmed more than 250 hours of footage.[2] Research consultants included Peter E.
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