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The West, sometimes marketed as Ken Burns Presents: The West, is a documentary film about the American Old West. It was directed by Stephen Ives and the executive producer was Ken Burns. The film originally aired on PBS in September 1996.
Last Episode Aired
1996-09-23
S1E9 — One Sky Above Us (1887-1914)
Los Angeles steals its water supply, millions of Mexicans migrate north, and Hollywood begins to shape the West and the nation's image of it.
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Peter Coyote
Self - Narrator
N. Scott Momaday
Self - Writer
Murphy Guyer
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John Trudell
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Eli Wallach
Self
Arthur Miller
Self
John Lithgow
Self
Gary Sinise
T. P. Eagan
Jimmy Smits
Self
Keith Carradine
Self
Adam Arkin
Self
Matthew Broderick
Self - William Swain
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