burn and ives combine to produce a work that very much up to ken burn standard . a a viewing experience and it everything you would expect . and then there the content . much have be make about the supposed bias of burn presentation of the history of the west . a lot of time be spend on the way the u treat the indigenous population and on the crime of the u military and on the theft of land and and the systematic attempt to eradicate native culture . the loss of the age before white settlement be lament . be this a balanced perspective . maybe not and although i do not think it as bias a other review would have you believe . the triumph of the west be tell as well a the loss . not all white be paint a evil and nor be all native paint a innocent . event be often just tell a they happen and and the viewer be leave to draw their own conclusion . a lot of the content doesn not concern native american at all . more important that all of that and however and be that it a story that need tell . american have be indoctrinate with romantic fiction about the west for over a century . give burn a chance to tell the other side of the story doesn not seem too much to ask . a few hollywood movie that paint the indigenous people of america before westward expansion a noble savage also a pleasant fiction and incidentally do not make up for a century of bias and misinformation and and outright lie teach to american schoolchildren . what bad be that for the most part and these fiction be still teach to american schoolchildren . at nearly nine hour and the west be an experience that will take up several of your evening and but it nine hour that may change the way you think about american history .