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The Blazing Dawn is a four part twelve hour miniseries produced and directed by Steven Spielberg and released through MGM and History Channel from March 2-6, 2005. The series was written by Steven Spielberg, Randall Wallace, Robert Rodat, and John Lee Hancock. It was based on the novel of the same name written by James Wakefield Burke. The series starred Fess Parker as David Crockett, Christian Balde as Jim Bowie, and Alec Baldwin as William Travis. The series follows the lives of Crockett, Bowie, and Travis from their youths, and covers their lives to their deaths at the battle of the Alamo. The series was nominated for five Emmy Awards, and won two of them, Best Actor, (Parker), and Best Visual Effects, (Jim Stephenson.) It was released on DVD and home video on May 25, 2007, and then onto restored Blu-ray on July 4, 2016.