Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery [Ken Burns]

Overview

This four-hour PBS documentary traces the well-documented 1804-06 expedition of Lewis and Clark as they journeyed up the Missouri River and continued over the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific.

Product Details

Release Date:	09/28/2004
UPC:	0841887051385
Original Release:	1997
Source:	Pbs (Direct)
Presentation:	[Full Frame]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	5:10:00

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Adam Arkins	Voices
Murphy Guyer	Voices
Sam Waterston	Voices
Matthew Broderick	Voices
Kevin Conway	Voices
Gene Jones	Voices
Tantoo Cardinal	Voices
Tim Clark	Voices
Ken Little Hawk	Voices
John Trudell	Voices
Daniel Von Bargen	Voices
Erika Funkhauser	Voices
Hal Holbrook	Narrator

Technical Credits

Dayton Duncan

Ken Burns	Director,Executive Producer,Producer
Dayton Duncan	Producer,Screenwriter
Dominick Tavella	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

Characterized by celebrity voice-overs, authentic period music, and fluid camera movement over vintage photographs, Ken Burns's style in such public television documentaries as Baseball (1994) and The Civil War (1990) had connected US audiences with their history and made the writer-director a star of public television. His ensuing biographies, Thomas Jefferson (1997) and Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery (1997), presented him with subjects from before the invention of photography; he met this challenge by filming the literal geography of his subjects' lives, replacing photos with lush landscapes and epic structures. Thomas Jefferson filmed at Monticello, while Lewis & Clark ambitiously retraces the explorers' route at the same time of year that they passed through each location. Like most of Burns' films, Lewis and Clark relies on only a few scholarly sources, in this case primarily Dayton Duncan and Stephen E. Ambrose, both of whom accompanied Burns for portions of the journey. Burns also earned kudos for giving voice to the Native American perspective on Lewis and Clark by recognizing Sacagawea's participation in the journey and using several Native American historians and writers in the on-camera commentary.