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Ken Burns Films

Lewis & Clark

Portraits of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
Portraits of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

The film tells the remarkable story of the entire Corps of Discovery – not just of the two Captains, but the young army men, French-Canadian boatmen, Clark’s African-American slave, and the Shoshone woman named Sacagawea, who brought along her infant son. As important to the story as these many characters, however, was the land itself, and the promises it held.