The History of the West (How the West Was Won) is an epic western in 1962. The time is set from 1839 to 1889. The plot is the story of four generations of the pioneer Prescott family, alongside all the related people and things, showing half a century of American western history. The film is powerful and magnificent, with excellent screenwriting, filming, photography, soundtrack, sound effects, director and cast. The film consists of five parts: rapids, the Plains and the illegal Man, directed by Henry Hathaway; the Civil War by John Ford; and the Railway by George Marshall. The story tells the hardships and twists and turns of a family of three generations under various backgrounds, and describes the history of the American West through the family's half-century migration from the early 19th century to the 1880s. They set out from New York, experienced civil war, gold rush, met Indians and exiles in the southwest, went through all kinds of hardships and obstacles, finally reached the west, and joined other pioneers to build railways on the plains, bringing law and justice to the frontier.
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