Homestead Film Festival featuring "The West"
Join the Homestead National Monument of America each weekend in January and February for the Homestead Film Festival at the Education Center.
This year's festival will feature Ken Burns' "The West" with nine episodes over nine weekends. Beginning Saturday and Sunday, January 3 & 4 at 2 pm, with Episode 1, "The People," see a different episode each week until March 1.
This masterpiece is a nine-part examination of all things "West," from the prehistoric through 1914. It shares all aspects of the Westward Expansion in an epic saga of America's most turbulent region. The film brings the West to lfe, overturning old stereotypes, discovering new personalities, and exploring countless triumphs and tragedies.
Film Festival Schedule, 2 pm each day:
January 3-4 - Episode 1: The People
January 10-11 - Episode 2: Empire Upon the Trails
January 17-18 - Episode 3: The Speck of the Future
January 24-25 - Episode 4: Death Runs Riot
January 31-February 1 - Episode 5: The Grandest Enterprise Under God
February 7-8 - Episode 6: Fight No More Forever
February 14-15 - Episode 7: The Geography of Hope
February 21-22 - Episode 8: Ghost Dance
February 28-March 1 - Episode 9: One Sky Above Us
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Date and Time
Saturday Jan 10, 2015
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