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- Season 1 How the West Was Lost
- Season 1 The Dirty South
- Season 1 Continental Drifters
- Season 1 Inventing the Indian
- Season 1 You Can Go to Hell, I'm Going to Texas
- Season 1 California Stars
- Season 1 Presidential Grudge Match
- Season 1 Countrier Than You
- Season 1 Working for the American Dream
- Season 1 Red Menace
The Rich Hall BBC Four Specials Collection - Season 1 Episode 1 How the West Was Lost
0.00 90 minutes Comedian Rich Hall goes west to find out what killed off that most quintessentially American of all film genres, the western. Through films such as The Searchers, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, Little Big Man, The Wild Bunch and Unforgiven, Rich charts the rise and fall of America's obsession with its own creation myth - the Wild West. He explores how the image of the cowboy as a moral, straight-talking heroic figure was created by Hollywood but appropriated by Washington, as one president after another sought to associate themselves with this potent symbol of strength and valour. From Tombstone to Texas, Montana to Wyoming, Rich travels across a landscape that is both actual and mythic in the minds of not just Americans, but all of us.
