How the West Was Won

You trek west with a pioneer family in the 1830s and cross the plains, plains that soon blur into decades of war and expansion. Through it all they endure, carry on, and shrink into another face in the westward crush. The camera lingers less on their drama than on the land swallowing them whole.

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John Ford directed How the West Was Won in 1962. See John Ford's full filmography, where to start with John Ford, or where to go after you've seen everything by John Ford.

How the West Was Won was released in 1962 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 164 minutes.