The West

1996 television film
Movie television_film Q15036516
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The West

Summary

The West is a television film[1]. It draws 293 Wikipedia views per month (television_film category, ranking #417 of 3,555).[2]

Key Facts

  • The West's instance of is recorded as television film[3].
  • The West was directed by Stephen Ives[4].
  • The West's genre is documentary film[5].
  • The West was produced by Ken Burns[6].
  • The West was distributed by video on demand[7].
  • The West's original broadcaster is recorded as PBS[8].
  • The West's country of origin is recorded as United States[9].
  • The West was released on January 1, 1996[10].
  • The West's distributed by is recorded as Netflix[11].
  • The West's official website is recorded as http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/program/[12].
  • The West's number of episodes is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+8'}[13].
  • The West's number of seasons is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+1'}[14].
  • The West's Kijkwijzer rating is recorded as 9[15].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Secondary type(s): Compilation, Soundtrack[16]

  • First release date: 1996[17]

  • MusicBrainz ID: d167ce1b-3e6e-360a-a27e-fd070acc6759[18]

Body

Authorship and Creation

The West was produced by Ken Burns[6]. It was directed by Stephen Ives[4].

Publication

The West was released on January 1, 1996[10]. Its genre is documentary film[5]. It was distributed by video on demand[7].

Why It Matters

The West draws 293 Wikipedia views per month (television_film category, ranking #417 of 3,555).[2]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . kijkwijzer.nl. kijkwijzer.nl. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [16] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [17] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [18] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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