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Stephen Ives' "The West" is a PBS 4-Video Series co-produced by Ken Burns: - "Death Runs Riot" 85 min. - "Fight No More Forever" 85 min. - "Ghost Dance" 58 min. - "The People" 82 min.

Two journalists traverse the Grand Canyon by foot, hoping to better understand the revered canyon.

An immersive portrait of dance pioneer Alvin Ailey, told through his own words and a new dance inspired by his life.

A behind-the-scenes documentary following Beto O'Rourke's breakaway campaign to unseat Ted Cruz in the U.S. Senate.

Pour aider l'humanité à se rendre sur Mars, quatre scientifiques, un ingénieur et un architecte acceptent de se lancer dans la plus longue simulation spatiale de l'histoire des États-Unis.

When universal basic income (UBI) comes to the Kenyan village of Kogutu, lives are forever changed.

Constitution USA with Peter Sagal explores the Constitution and its role in the American story -- from its creation, to the crises that challenged and reshaped it, to contemporary debates over rights and the role of government.

A detective is on his feet after a string of murders take place, all containing the same manner of death and systematic familiar dates. What he finds out, hits home and hits hard.

Cornerstone: An Interstate Adventure is an intimate, humorous and provocative look at three very different Americans and the way that theater changed their lives. In 1991, the Cornerstone Theater Company - an innovative ensemble that mounts productions of classic plays in small towns, using local residents as cast and crew - took on their most ambitious project to date, a national tour of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. Rather than drawing participants from a single community, this production was composed of people - waitresses, farmers, teachers, nurses, hairdressers - from the many small, rural communities across America where Cornerstone had lived and worked from 1986-1990.

Follow award-winning public garden designer Lynden B. Miller as she sets off to explore the remarkable life and career of America's first female landscape architect, Beatrix Farrand. Miller journeys to iconic gardens designed by Farrand and engages with designers, scholars and horticulturists in a spirited dialogue about the meaning and importance of this ground-breaking early 20th-century woman.

After his famous flight, Charles Lindbergh becomes known to all the world but struggles with life in the limelight.

He was boxy, with stumpy legs that wouldn't completely straighten a short straggly tail and an ungainly gait; though he didn't look the part, Seabiscuit was one of the most remarkable thoroughbred racehorses in history. In the 1930s, when Americans longed to escape the grim realities of Depression-era life, four men turned Seabiscuit into a national hero. They were his fabulously wealthy owner Charles Howard, his famously silent and stubborn trainer Tom Smith and the two hard-bitten, gifted jockeys who rode him to glory. By following the paths that brought these four together and in telling the story of Seabiscuit's unlikely career, this film illuminates the precarious economic conditions that defined America in the 1930s and explores the fascinating behind-the-scenes world of thoroughbred racing. Scott Glenn narrates.

The West had always symbolized hope and new beginnings, but in the 1850s, as more American pioneers poured west to start over, they brought with them the nation's oldest, most divisive issue -- slavery.

In the early 1800's, no one knew who would control the seemingly infinite spaces of the West.

By 1877 only a few groups still resist America's westward push. The Lakota Sioux fight to protect their sacred Black Hills, but their victory over Custer at Little Big Horn does not prevent the end of their traditional way of life.

Changes mark the turn-of-the-century in the West; tiny mining towns are transformed into industrial cities and white settlers displace the Plains tribes during the Oklahoma Land Rush.

In 1848, a sawmill worker named James Marshall reached down into the stream bed of the American River in California -- and came up with the future of the West in the palm of his hand. He had discovered gold.

The conquest of the West is nearly finished: In only 10 years, the native peoples are confined to reservations, allowing four-and-a-half million settlers to claim their land.

After the Civil War, the transcontinental railroad links East and West, and carries homesteaders, buffalo hunters, and cowboys into the west.

To the Europeans, the West was a wilderness to be conquered, a wilderness filled with boundless treasure, souls to be saved and new horizons to explore. Beginning with America's purchase of the Louisiana Territory in 1804, a young country prepared for its own epic march across the terrain of the West.

William Randolph Hearst builds the nation's largest media empire by the 1930s. Born into one of America's wealthiest families, he used his outlets to achieve unprecedented political power, then ran for office himself.

William Hearst continued his rise to power and expansion into Hollywood. The model for Citizen Kane, he had a decades-long affair with actress Marion Davies, built an enormous castle at San Simeon, and forever transformed modern media.