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The American frontier, also known as the Old West, and popularly known as the Wild West, encompasses the geography, history, folklore, and culture associated with the forward wave of American expansion in mainland North America that began with European colonial settlements in the early 17th century and ended with the admission of the last few ...
The American Film Institute defines Western films as those "set in the American West that [embody] the spirit, the struggle, and the demise of the new frontier". [1] The term "Western", used to describe a narrative film genre, appears to have originated with a July 1912 article in Motion Picture World magazine. [13]
Films set in the Thirteen Colonies (1607–1776) of British North America before the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
A German/Italian/American television film based on the novel Giacobbe by Francesco Maria Nappi. The novel is, in turn, based on the depiction of the patriarch Jacob in the Book of Genesis. Slave of Dreams: 1995: 1901–1850 BC: Set in Ancient Egypt and based on the story of Joseph, a Vizier depicted in the Book of Genesis.
Movies, comics, and American literature often neglect to show realities of the journey West, and the life on the frontier. Failing to show the brutalities of Indian warfare, racism toward Mexican Americans , African Americans , and Chinese Americans , and the boom-and-bust mentality rooted in the selfish exploitation of natural resources.
West coast of North America. The human history of the west coast of North America [1] is believed to stretch back to the arrival of the earliest people over the Bering Strait, or alternately along the ice free coastal islands of British Columbia (See, through the development of significant pre-Columbian cultures and population densities, to the arrival of the European explorers and colonizers.
Pages in category "Films set in the 1600s" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
This timeline of the American Old West is a chronologically ordered list of events significant to the development of the American West as a region of the continental United States. The term "American Old West" refers to a vast geographical area and lengthy time period of imprecise boundaries, and historians' definitions vary.