EPISODE
SCHEDULE
The American West - Season 1
The series tells the tales of Western legends such as Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, featuring “the violent world of cowboys, Indians, outlaws and law men.”
23 October 1949, Frankfurt, West Germany
29 January 1945, Detroit, Michigan, USA
15 November 1947, Pasadena, California, USA
30 September 1986, Laguna Beach, California, USA
22 July 1946, San Francisco, California, USA
31 January 1988, Walton, New York, USA
June 14, 2016
The cinematography is admirable, and the accounts from historians and academics are sound. But the sight of Burt Reynolds in rose-tinted glasses explaining that George Armstrong Custer "was a hell of a soldier" does little to inform the project.
June 13, 2016
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... as talking-head commentators alongside the customary scholars.
