Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery (1997)

Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery (1997)(part 1of2).mp4

Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery (1997)(part 2of2).mp4



extras:

The Making of Lewis & Clark.mp4

Charlie Rose with Stephen Ambrose (March, 1996).mp4

Charlie Rose with Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan (November, 1997).mp4

Ken Burns - Making History.mp4

A Conversation with Ken Burns.mp4



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This Ken Burns documentary, narrated by Hal Holbrook,

chronologically traces the well-documented 1804-06 military

expedition of Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) and Lt. William Clark

(1770-1838) to survey newly acquired lands and seek a Northwest

Passage. Ordered by Thomas Jefferson (who labeled it the Corps of

Discovery), the expedition was approved by Congress in 1803, and

several dozen men were trained in Illinois in the winter of 1803-04.

On May 14, 1804, the explorers departed from St. Louis, heading up

the Missouri River by keelboat and continuing westward over the

Rocky Mountains to the Pacific. Ken Burns spent almost four years on

this project, retracing the route with cameras capturing mountains,

rivers, waterfalls, and forests at the same time of year as first

seen by Lewis and Clark. Traditional and Native American music

provides an accompaniment to the grandeur of these vast vistas,

while Stephen Ambrose and other historians offer illuminating

anecdotes. Paintings and maps are intercut, but unlike other Burns

documentaries, few archival photos are included (since photography

was not invented until decades later). Reenactments, seen at a

distance, are also kept at a bare minimum. The four-hour film

premiered as a PBS two-parter on November 4-5, 1997.