Oshkosh Public Library

The West, Ken Burns presents ; directed by Stephen Ives ; written by Geoffrey C. Ward & Dayton Duncan ; produced by Stephen Ives, Jody Abramson, Michael Kantor ; executive producer, Ken Burns ; a co-production of Insignia Films and WETA-TV Washington ; in association with Florentine Films and Time-Life Video & Television ; The West Film Project, Inc., Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association, Inc

Title on container: Ken Burns presents The WestOriginally produced as a documentary television program in 1996Program notes on set container include episode summaries and a message from Ken Burns & Stephen Ives ("New perspectives on the West")Individual episodes of this program are indexed by the PBS Video database of America's history & culture merged index. The index is available in print and online"Presented in a format preserving the aspect ratio of its original television exhibition"--ContainerSpecial features (Disc 1): making-of featurette (9 min.); interview with Burns & Ives (originally broadcast on The Charlie Rose Show, 22 min.); 4 interactive maps; "The West" trivia quiz (10 questions); "Did you know ...? Frontier facts" (10 entries) -- (Discs 2-5) "The West" trivia quiz (10 questions)

mixed

quadrophonic multichannel or surround

Editors, Richard Hankin, Michael Levine, Adam Zucker ; music by Mathias Gohl

other

Full screen format.

9781415702482

videodisc

Narrated by Peter Coyote

5 videodiscs (707 min.), sd., col. & b&w, 4 3/4 in.

sound on medium

videodisc

(OCoLC)56612413a897226

DVD, region 1; Dolby surround stereo

097368858343841887051279

88583 -- PBS Home Video

DVD