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Buffalo Bill, PBS ; a HiddenHill Productions film for American Experience ; WGBH Boston ; written, produced and directed by Rob Rapley

eng

videorecording

MPAA rating: Not rated

Buffalo Bill

DVD

212879618

Originally broadcast on PBS as an episode of the television series American experience on February 25, 2008

PBS ; a HiddenHill Productions film for American Experience ; WGBH Boston ; written, produced and directed by Rob Rapley

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This film presents a portrait of the man who made the American West into the American story. For most Americans in the mid-1800s, the Wild West existed only in dime novels, but a young man from Kansas who had roamed the prairies in the war with the Plains Indians came to embody the picaresque frontier hero. As the frontier was rapidly disappearing, he realized he could market his life as entertainment, and millions around the world would pay for a taste of his Wild West. Tall, handsome, confident, and charismatic, he blurred the line between truth and entertainment, history and myth. Thus was a mere plainsman turned into an international celebrity and frontier hero, his meteoric rise to fame made possible by his genius and hucksterism. His name was William Cody, but the world remembers him as Buffalo Bill

Introduction -- Scout and buffalo hunter -- Inventing Buffalo Bill -- World at his feet -- Native Americans in the Wild West Show -- Frontier story is the American story

live action