The Oscar-winning Hollywood star Kevin Costner has announced that he’s completed work on an eight-part docuseries. Indeed, he will be using it to tell the story of the history of the American West.
Kevin Costner’s The West
Kevin Costner’s The West is set to premiere on the HISTORY channel on May 26. People Magazine has just scored a first look at the docuseries’ trailer. It seems that it will be nothing short of epic!
“What do we see when we think of the West?” Costner, 70, questions at the start of the trailer.
“The West is a place where anything is possible,” states the renowned biographer and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, co-executive producer of the series. “It is the essence of the American dream.”
Historian Ned Blackhawk chimes in to add, “The American West conjures wonder, possibility, opportunity.”
American history expert Ed O’Donnell is also featured in the trailer.
“Many people have to pay the price of ambition and westward expansion,” he explains.“Everyone is willing to fight — and die — for it.”
“American forces have a sense of superiority. The Native Americans are going to prove them deadly wrong,” adds the author and activist Yohuru Williams.
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‘America The Beautiful’
The trailer is incredibly patriotic, as its set to a haunting rendition of “America the Beautiful.” It features powerful words on the screen like “power and power shift, law and lawlessness, order and disorder, hope and despair, strength and weakness, violence and beauty.”
“California’s reputation for banditry is a big problem,” one expert says in the trailer as he discusses the founding of the American West. “Their principal tools are violence and murder.”
“As America is moving west, there’s a seed that opens up between the free states and the slave states,” adds adventurer and historian Peter Stark. “It’s a defining moment in the history of America.”
Kevin Costner’s The West promises to cover everything from Lewis and Clark and Sacagawea to the tense showdowns between lawmen and outlaws. It will delve into the rise of cowboys and ranchers, and document the sheer toughness of pioneer women.
“These stories will captivate us — and shock us,” Costner concludes at the end of the trailer. “Now it’s time to come face to face with the real story of our wild past.”
Check out the trailer for yourself here.
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Yellowstone to Yosemite with Kevin Costner
Meanwhile, this comes two months after Costner released the docuseries Yellowstone to Yosemite with Kevin Costner. An official press release stated that the Fox Nation docuseries features “visuals of the geology, flora and fauna of Glacier Point to El Capitan, Yosemite Falls and more.”
The docuseries also featured Costner exploring the region’s “rich Indigenous American legacy, the serendipitous arrival of outsiders in 1850, and how John Muir evolved into a crusader for our wildest places.”
“Through Costner’s perspective, he illuminates the struggle waged by Muir as he contended with the intricate politics of resource management and how Roosevelt’s intervention culminated in the establishment of a more structured National Park System, the creation of 150 National Forests, 5 National Parks, and the preservation and protection of 230 million acres of precious land,” the press release added.
Costner has long been one of the few people in Hollywood who actually has respect for America. We can’t wait to see Kevin Costner’s The West when it premieres next month!
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