Into the West
Into the West
| 10 June 2005 (USA)
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Steven Spielberg executive produced this TNT miniseries about American Westward expansion during the 19th century. Told from both the perspective of the white Wheeler family and the Native American Lakota tribe, the 12-hour epic follows the clans as they struggle to find their place in a country confounded by turmoil and change.

Reviews
AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks
GarnettTeenage The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.
KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.
Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.
malcotoro When I was a boy in northern England I watched many western movies, fascinated by cowboys and indians. In later life, I collected all of them on video, then replaced them with DVD and BluRay. After watching the historically accurate Spielberg produced Into the West, I sold them all. I came to the realization they were inaccurate… there is only one truth about cowboys and indians and it can be found here in Into the West. Particularly shameful when the children were removed from their aboriginal families, and taken away to schools like Carlisle PA, to be punished for speaking their own language IMHO. Now no other "western" movie is in my collection, Into the West says it all… Comment from Malcolm in Toronto, October 2014
rlm20001 I have studied American Natives for some twenty plus years and so far this film hit very close to home. Their (the American Natives) humanity is portrayed more realistically as I have ever seen or read during my research. In it's time, Dances With Wolves had the 'nod' that nod now goes to Into The West.I bought it and watch it more often than I like to admit. I guess, 16 Emmy nominations says more than I could ever say.However I would very much like to find the real music /(score) from the film "Into The West" not the CD of the same name. With the same Title and cover design. It's just not quite the same music as was in the film although it is very nice ti listen to.
Lizzie Parsons If I could give this more than 10, I would, a lot more! It was without a doubt the most exciting, thought-provoking, heartening, historically correct and gripping TV series I have ever had the pleasure of watching. It was lovely to see an unbiased account of what life was like for two sides of the fight, and it was wonderful to really warm to and become fond of the various characters (and trust me, there are plenty). Some would automatically think the second they heard it was produced by Steven Spielberg that it would be all 'airy-fairy' and patriotic, but that sense is not put across at all. The messages are of course heart warming at times and sorrowful at others, but surely that just goes with life?! Furthermore, the visual cinematography and scenes were absolutely phenomenal, and each episode seemed to grip me as intensely as the previous ones had done so. Each second, I felt completely entwined in the action and warming stories being portrayed. It had me crying a lot, but this is the only thing I can find is bad (and its not always a bad thing). It was incredible, and I am going to scream it from the roof tops until it gets the recognition it deserves! I can't help feeling that it was almost wasted on television, but then again we were due a genius new TV series at some point. I loved it! Everyone watch it, buy it, preach it!! It will have you talking about it for years.
dreaujyc Although the US has not a recorded history of 2000 years,there weren't less chaos and misery as it grew up.The west before exploration was almost an alien land of this planet for white settlers.Rifles cables railway and diseases changed all of these,and destroyed the world where simple innocent Indians lived.We who survive a regular society today hardly suppose things occurred 150 years ago.Everybody could pick up golds on the riverbed,raid fortune no matter whom it belonged to,kill "savages" with decrees from the "Washington Father".That was how the western part of the country began,with the efforts by Chinese,Indians,Irish,Germen,Italians and so on,beyond races,religions,languages,sabotaging old peoples,merging a new people,far from freedom and democracy.(Somehow Chinese do contribute to the US,which was scarcely mentioned)Spielburg gave us a mini picture of the Wheelers as well as America,which shock me and let me know the other side of America.We can't blame ancestors for what they had done in the old days but we can surely understand what we can do today on the earth.