Originally produced as a documentary television program in 1996.
Special features (disc 1): making-of featurette (9 min.); interview with Burns & Ives & Geoffrey C. Ward (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).
Special feature (disc 2): "The West" trivia quiz (10 questions).
Special feature (disc 3): "The West" trivia quiz (10 questions).
Special feature (disc 4): "The West" trivia quiz (10 questions).
Special feature (disc 5): "The West" trivia quiz (10 questions).
Program 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"--Container.
Editors, Richard Hankin, Michael Levine, Adam Zucker ; supervising editor, Paul Barnes ; director of photography, Buddy Squires with Allen Moore ; music by Matthias Gohl.
Narrated by Peter Coyote.
DVD, region 1; Dolby surround stereo.
In English.
Closed-captioned.
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