Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
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Actor: Adam Arkin, Hal Holbrook, Matthew Broderick, Murphy Guyer, Sam WaterstonBrand: PAR
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 240 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-09-28
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: PBS
Product features:
- Condition: New
- Format: DVD
- Color; DVD; Full Screen; NTSC
Movie Reviews of Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
Movie Review: Travel with the Corps of Discovery
Summary: 5 Stars
I absolutely love this movie. Something about the Lewis & Clark expedition appeals to the adventurer in each of us. The United States as a country is less than 30 years old on May 14, 1804, as Lewis & Clark leave with Jefferson's "the Corps of Discovery" on their famous expedition to explore the west. The photography of this DVD is stunningly beautiful, the music hauntingly reminiscent of the early 1800's. The story is told through reading excerpts from the Corps' diaries and journals, beautiful photography, and interviews with Dayton Duncan (writer), John Logan Allen (geographer), Stephen E. Ambrose (historian), William Least Heat-Moon (writer), James P. Ronda (historian), Mylie Lawyer (Twisted Hair Descendant), and others. This movie leaves the sense of having travelled with the Lewis & Clark expedition and having seen the beautiful country with their eyes, as you hear their words and see the land they saw.
As stated of the Corps of Discovery in the movie's Introduction, "They were beginning the most important expedition in American History, the United States' first official exploration into unknown spaces, and a glimpse into the future of their young nation. They would become the first United States citizens to experience the Great Plains, the immensity of its skies, the rich splendor of its wildlife, the harsh rigor of its winters. They would be the first United States citizens to see the daunting peaks of the Rocky Mountains, the first to struggle over them, the first to cross the Continental Divide -- to where the rivers flow west. And after encountering cold, hunger, danger, and wonders beyond belief, they would become the first of their nation to reach the Pacific Ocean by land. It would be the greatest adventure of their lives. . . It's a great story. It's a human story. It's a story of those who went first. THEY were first. They led the way. They opened the trail." "It's America's story . . . They turned the nation and faced it west. And that's where the future has always been, that's where hope and possibility have been. And I think that is what draws us to Lewis and Clark, it's about possibilities, it is about what could be. . . it's about potential, the future, and hope."
I first borrowed this DVD from our local library, but then had to buy it for my own. Sometimes I watch it just for the beauty of the scenery and the hopeful young optimism of a new country, looking west all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
Disc One has these chapters:
Introduction (the start of the Corps)
The Grandfather Spirit (the Mississippi River)
The Garden of Eden (the Great Plains)
Our Friends (the Mandan Indians and Fort Mandan)
The Real Unknown (Montana)
The Portage (around the Great Falls of the Missouri River)
The Northwest Passage (the Rocky Mountains and the Continental Divide)
Special Features:
Interview with Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan
Interview with Stephen Ambrose
Disc Two
Introduction (summer of 1805 and summary of accomplishments)
The Most Terrible Mountains (Rocky Mountains)
Watkuweis (the elderly woman of Nez Perce "Returned From Being Lost")
O! The Joy (the Pacific Ocean)
Rainy and Wet (Fort Clatsop)
Done for Posterity (the end of the expedition)
Special Features
The Making of Lewis and Clark
Ken Burns: Making History
A Conversation with Ken Burns
You can read more on PBS' Lewis & Clark website:
http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/
Summary of Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
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Item Rating: NR
Street Date: 08/02/05
Wide Screen: no
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
LanguageENGLISH
Foreign Film: no
Subtitlesno
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: yes
Re-Release: no
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Another reliably well-crafted, generally engrossing documentary from Ken Burns, Lewis & Clark employs the director's now-familiar approach to his subjects, from its elegant juxtaposition of period illustrations and portraits against newly filmed footage of historic sites to Burns's repertory of accomplished actors to provide gravitas for quotes from the key figures. Granted the formula has become familiar enough to allow parody, but Burns knows how to invest his historical investigations with movement and drama, making this four-hour journey a worthwhile trip.
As narrated by Hal Holbrook, Dayton Duncan's script explicates the agenda presented by Thomas Jefferson to Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, placing it in the context of the young country's gamble in Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase, and the expedition's goals for opening the West. While preserving the heroic scale of the undertaking, Burns also finds time to delve into the politics of the venture and the disparate personalities of the two explorers; in particular, Duncan and Burns look at the career of Lewis, the presidential protégé, his moody demeanor, and his untimely death. The film also looks beyond its titular leaders to examine the personalities of their corps of soldiers, their boatmen, and the Indians they met and depended on, most notably their female Shosone guide, Sacagawea. --Sam Sutherland
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