Buffalo Bill / PBS ; a HiddenHill Productions film for American Experience ; WGBH Boston ; written, produced and directed by Rob Rapley.
This film presents a portrait of the man who made the American West into the American story. For most Americans in the mid-1800s, the Wild West existed only in dime novels, but a young man from Kansas who had roamed the prairies in the war with the Plains Indians came to embody the picaresque front...
| Uniform Title: | Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Rovi K-12 education materials. |
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| Language: | English |
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Closed captioned. |
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Boston, Mass. : Alexandria, VA :
WGBH Educational Foundation ; Distributed by PBS Home Video,
[2008], ©2008.
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| Series: | Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Rovi K-12 education materials. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Other Uniform Title: | American experience (Television program)
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| Format: | Video DVD |
Contents:
- Introduction
- Scout and buffalo hunter
- Inventing Buffalo Bill
- World at his feet
- Native Americans in the Wild West Show
- Frontier story is the American story.