Academy Award-winning  filmmaker Kevin Costner directs a multi-faceted chronicle covering the Civil War expansion and settlement of the American West.   A story of America too big for one film, this truecinematic event also stars Costner.  “Horizon: An American Saga” explores the lure of the Old West and how it was won—and lost—through the blood, sweat and tears of many.  Spanning the four years of the Civil War, from 1861 to 1865, Costner’s ambitious cinematic adventure will take audiences on an emotional journey across a country at war with itself, experienced through the lens of families, friends and foes all attempting to discover what it truly means to be the United States of America.   Starring Kevin Costner, Sam Worthington and Sienna Miller.  Rated R (181 min)

Costner hasn’t forgotten where to point a camera, and outside all the table-setting, Horizon has moments designed to astonish.