Kevin Costner's The West (Season 1)

Kevin Costner's The West (2025) is a documentary series you can watch online on iFILM. The Yellowstone star walks viewers through the conquest of the American frontier — the version the classic westerns tend to leave out.

Instead of the tidy legend, Costner digs into the machinery of the land grab itself: wars with Native nations, settlers, gold, the railroad and the larger-than-life figures whose names have since hardened into myth. Historians like Doris Kearns Goodwin and H.W. Brands help separate record from cowboy folklore and trace how that fight over territory still shapes the country today.

Directed by Austin Peters, the project plays more like a sweeping history than a dry lecture. It works for Yellowstone fans and for anyone curious about what really built the frontier. Stream Kevin Costner's The West (2025) online on iFILM.