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Also known as
  
'The West'

Directed by
  
John Ealer

Country of origin
  
United States

Network
  
AMC

Locations
  
Utah, West Virginia

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7.6/10
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Genre
  
Docuseries

Narrated by
  
Bert Thomas Morris

First episode date
  
11 June 2016

Director
  
John Ealer

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Written by
  
Brian BursteinZachary HerrmannJeremiah MurphyJordan Rosenblum

Executive producers
  
Stephen David, Laura Michalchyshyn, Tim W. Kelly, Shirley Escott

Similar
  
Legends & Lies, The Life and Legend o, Hell on Wheels, Into the West, Cowboys and Outlaws

The American West (formerly titled The West) is a limited-event American television docu-series detailing the period 1865 to 1890 in the United States. The series is executive-produced by Robert Redford, Stephen David and Laura Michalchyshyn with Sundance Productions and began airing eight episodes on AMC on June 11, 2016.

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Overview

Following the American Civil War, the United States begins developing into the "land of opportunity," despite the danger from cowboys, Native Americans, outlaws and lawmen. The series chronicles the stories of Western legends, such as Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, George Armstrong Custer, Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull.

Production

Produced and distributed by Sundance Productions, the series features exclusive interviews with notable names from classic Western films, including Robert Redford, James Caan, Burt Reynolds, Tom Selleck, Kiefer Sutherland, Mark Harmon, Ed Harris and others.

The series was to be initially aired on Discovery Channel, but was changed to AMC and retooled in 2014. Production on the series began in August 2015, following AMC's ordering it straight to series.

Filming for the series was predominantly done in West Virginia's Berkeley and Jefferson counties, as well as Prickett's Fort State Park in Marion County.

Main

  • David H. Stevens as Jesse James
  • Derek Chariton as Billy the Kid
  • Will Strongheart as Crazy Horse
  • John C. Bailey as General George Custer
  • Moses Brings Plenty as Sitting Bull
  • Jonathan C. Stewart as Wyatt Earp

    • Supporting

  • Morgan Lund as Ulysses S. Grant
  • Michael Marunde as William T. Sherman
  • Eric Rolland as Thomas C. Durant
  • Joseph Carlson as Frank James
  • Ric Maddox as Pat Garrett
  • Hugh Scully as Allen Pinkerton
  • Nicolas Bialls as Morgan Earp
  • Sean Brown as Cole Younger

    • Interview subjects

    The series features several interviews from authors, celebrities, historians and political figures.

  • Mark Lee Gardener – author, Shot All to Hell
  • David Eisenbach – historian, Columbia University
  • Kiefer Sutherland – actor, Young Guns
  • Eric Foner – historian, Columbia University
  • H.W. Brands – historian, University of Texas at Austin
  • Danny Glover – actor, Silverado
  • Walter R. Borneman – author, Iron Horses
  • Paul Hutton, historian – University of New Mexico
  • Andrew Isenberg – author, Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life
  • Karl Jacoby – historian, Columbia University
  • Anne Collier – curator, Edmund C. Jaeger Cultural & Natural History Museum
  • Burt Reynolds – actor, Gunsmoke
  • Robert Redford – actor, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
  • Bill Richardson – former governor of New Mexico
  • Larry T. Pourier – Oglala Lakota Filmmaker
  • John McCain – U.S. Senator, Arizona
  • Kathleen Chamberlain – author, In the Shadow of Billy the Kid
  • Ann Kirschner – author, Lady at the O.K. Corral
  • Mark Harmon – actor, Wyatt Earp
  • Tom Selleck – actor, Quigley Down Under
  • John Morey – historian
  • Ed Harris – actor, Appaloosa

    • Reception

    Robert Lloyd of the Los Angeles Times compared the series to others in the genre: "What's fresh in this retelling...is the degree to which it has gone in for re-creation as opposed to documentation, and the fact that it has drafted movie cowboys." He added "it's more dress-up than drama, more reenactment than documentary."

    Rob Lowman of the Los Angeles Daily News called the series "more entertainment than insightful." He added "The American West doesn't dig into the ramifications of transformation of the West, preferring to keep skipping through history."

    Broadcast

    Internationally, the series premiered in Australia on History on October 11, 2016.

    References

    The American West Wikipedia
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