Into the West (miniseries)

Into the West ( Original title: Into the West ) is a mini-series, consisting of six 90 -minute films and was produced by Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks. As a director of the series functioned Robert Dorn helmet. In the U.S. it was aired from 10 June to 15 July 2005. In Germany premiere she showed as six double episodes from 6 May to 10 June 2006.

The series is from the perspective of the white American Jacob Wheeler ( Matthew Settle ) and the Lakota Indian, the buffalo love ( Joseph M. Marshall III. ) Says. It describes in a period from 1820, the year of the first expedition through the West to California until 1895, when the West was opened up as complete, the lives of the families of the two narrators over several generations. There occur both real and fictional characters and events that are part of the action.

There are around 250 characters in the miniseries. In addition, worked with 15,000 extras.

In the United States Into the West has been released on DVD. Under the bonus material are interviews with the producers, the director and the actors.

Meanwhile, a DVD box set has also been published in Germany, on three DVDs also contains a bonus disc with extensive additional material in addition to the six episodes.

Action

Episode 1: Departure

The love the buffalo has a vision that he announces that its culture will be destroyed by the white man. Jacob Wheeler is not happy as wheelwrights in Virginia and joins the wagon trek to Jedediah Smith. He returns with the sister of the love the buffalo woman with thunder heart, as his wife.

Episode 2: Survival

Jacob and his wife go with other family members, an arduous journey with a column settlers to California. On the way to die some settlers and Jacob is left alone, severely wounded. Among the Lakota comes to dispute whether they should accept the white man 's technology to their advantage or not.

Episode 3: Gold Rush

1849 breaks the gold rush in California. Also Jethro Wheeler, who now lives with woman with thunder heart succumbs to the greed that is his undoing. Their daughter Margaret Heller bill, the town her father Jacob again and a husband. The Lakotas and other Native American tribes sign a contract with the U.S. Army, but they must realize that this will bring them no peace.

Episode 4: The iron horse

During the construction of the railway from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the story is told of other Wheelers that the wheelwright Wheeler to Robert and Clara, which the worker Abe Wheeler and the Army of Scouts Jacob Wheeler Jr..

Margaret Heller bill joins the Cheyenne and taken into their tribe. She returns to her mother's Native American culture until the U.S. Army against the corresponding peace treaties the village of Cheyenne destroyed and she captures.

Episode 5: Knowledge is Power

Under the leadership of Crazy Horse ( Tatanka Means ), the Lakota Indians defend the sacred Black Hills. You defeat the army of U.S. General Custer at Little Big Horn. But the victory leads to an even greater hatred against the Indians. Meanwhile, Margaret is ( Irene Bedard ) placed in a reserve where she tries to cope with the sad situation.

Episode 6: Ghost Dance

A mysterious shaman promises to the Indians with the Ghost Dance, the liberation of their country. But the brutality of the U.S. Army reached with the massacre at Wounded Knee its peak. Jacob and the The Buffalo loved ones are reunited. If the dark vision of the The Buffalo loves true or holds the Ghost Dance a hopeful future?

Criticism

" Gripping staged history lesson "

" The example of a family's epic miniseries visualized visually impressive and historically largely precisely the most important stages of the development of the so-called Wild West: Dawn, Gold Rush, railroad, Oregon trek, Indian wars, Christianization. Although the main focus is on the pioneers, the film does not save from the Native American history. "

Geoff Zanelli John Terry (actor) Tyler Christopher (athlete) Graham Greene (actor) Lakota people Cheyenne people Battle of the Little Bighorn
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