Overview

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.

Network

• PBS

Seasons & Episodes

Cast

• 

  John Lithgow

  Self / Self / Uriah Oblinger (voice)

  10 eps

• 

  Keith Carradine

  Self / Self (voice)

  10 eps

• 

  Ossie Davis

  Self / Self / John R. Gills (voice)

  10 eps

• 

  Peter Coyote

  Self - Narrator

  9 eps

Themes

• wild west

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