This movie trivializes and mangles a century of American social, political and economic history in a series of unrelated scenes of exploration (?), conquest (?), self-discovery (?). Best viewed with the sound down low.

A beautiful telling of a story that launched a modern world in 100 years. A bizarre occurrence illustrating that we have no idea how big an effect our actions will have on our immediate future. We are fragile, blind, strong, foolish and amazing and we think we know how the story will go. There is no telling what will happen next.

yes, the west....is where you can see propaganda like no other....along with beautiful environments that no longer exist because of urban sprawl, and large parts of native history are ignored for tv dinner comfort food...thats right america go back to sleep, what you did is ok/dokey....buying and fighting for land that was never yours.... it makes me feel good like raping an indian!?!?!?!?!

Misses a lot of history and places the story in the wrong locale. The story is tied to Napoleon selling the Louisiana Territory to the US in 1804 but the first scene is Monument Valley which is in Arizona. The next scene is an arial shot of the oaks of the eastern slope of the coast range in California. Can any of you see the problem here? Neither of these scenes is any part of the LA Purchase and none was not US Territory 'til the Mexican-American War of 1846. So the movie does the viewer a disservice in conveying to him completely, blaringly erroneous facts. Anyone's interest that may have been inspired by this movie would leave him seriously confused and misinformed. So, the movie is an ahistorical and illiterate mess of hokum.. The real story is a lot better than this fraud passed on as American myth. Pretty pictures though but pretty worthless since much of the events narrated in this movie did not occur at the places shown to us. Once again, it is fraudulent.