How the West Was Won

“It's here! The mightiest adventure ever filmed!”

What happens to a single family when a whole continent gets settled around it? The Prescotts, led by Zebulon (Karl Malden), set out in the 1830s, and their children and grandchildren carry the story on past the Civil War toward the century's end. Henry Hathaway and John Ford split the directing across the decades, and every generation has to decide what it will give up for land.