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How the West Was Won

It's here! The mightiest adventure ever filmed!

Rating 7.0 / 10Release November 2, 1962Runtime 164 min

The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.

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