# The Real West

Televised on the NBC program Project 20 on March 29, 1961

A story of the American West, using vintage photographs and new film. Tells about hardship, hunger, failure, and murder, the wild fun of gold rushes, the cow towns, and the peace officers who were cowards; describes an army whose task it was to vanquish a people fighting for its homeland and worthless men who have become heroes on television

Producer and director, Donald B. Hyatt; writer, Philip Reisman; storyteller, Gary Cooper; music, Robert Russell Bennett; film editor, Silvio D'Alisera

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1961
- Runtime: 46 min
- By: NBC Television Network
- Genres: Education, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/therealwest)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/therealwest?play=1)