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In Search of the Oregon Trail
About this film
"IN SEARCH OF THE OREGON TRAIL is a 3-hour documentary film created for national prime time release through the Public Broadcasting Service and accompanied with extensive educational outreach. Native American scholars, noted historians of the American West, emigrants' journals, breathtaking photography and historical reenactments combine to tell the real story of the migration of hundreds of thousands of Americans along the route known as the Oregon Trail. Actor Stacy Keach narrates this compelling story. The documentary is an effort to challenge the myths about this period of America's history, to tell the story more completely, including the Native American point of view, and to focus on the reality of the westward migrations as it was lived by the emigrants. While the popular story of the Oregon Trail is well known from Hollywood films and television, the story of the actual experience is much more compelling and complex--perspectives that are rarely communicated in grade school history. "In-school videotape rights accompanied the broadcast, and teachers had access to detailed teaching materials through the PBS Internet Website, PBS ONLINE. Since the April broadcast, thousands o…
Directors & creators
Nebraska Educational Television Network
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, Oregon Trail, Stacy Keach, Eliza Spalding, Narcissa Whitman, Henry Spalding, Marcus Whitman, John McLoughlin, Hall Jackson Kelley, John L. O'Sullivan, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Meyer Memorial Trust, Bureau of Land Management, National Endowment for the Humanities, Hudson's Bay Company, Great Awakening, Manifest Destiny, Westward expansion, Oregon Territory, South Pass, Rocky Mountains, Fort Vancouver, Columbia River
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