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The Way West

Directed by Ric Burns
1995    6h
8.1
Chronicles the way the West was lost and won between 1845 and 1893. It looks at the final decades of the American frontier from the time of the Gold Rush until after the last gasp of the Indian wars at Wounded Knee.
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Cast of The Way West
  • F. Murray Abrahamcast
  • Stephen AmbroseSelf
  • Russell BakerNarrator
  • Charlotte Black ElkSelf
  • Philip BoscoVoice
  • Dee BrownSelf
  • J.D. CannonVoice
  • John CarterSelf
  • Sam ElliottVoice
  • Ian FrazierSelf
  • Rodney A. GrantVoice
  • Graham GreeneVoice
  • Michael Her Many HorsesSelf
  • Holly HunterNarrator
  • Gene JonesVoice
  • Alvin M. JosephySelf
  • Amy MadiganVoice
  • E.G. MarshallVoice
  • David McCulloughSelf
  • Thomas McGuaneSelf
  • Matthew ModineVoice
  • Christopher MurneyVoice
  • Marie Not Help HimSelf
  • Mardell PlainfeatherSelf
  • George PlimptonVoice
  • Ving RhamesVoice
  • Harold SchindlerSelf
  • Frances SternhagenVoice
  • Wes StudiVoice
  • Sheila TouseyVoice
  • John TrudellVoice
  • Robert UtleySelf
  • Eli WallachVoice
  • M. Emmet WalshVoice

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