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American Buffalo: A Film by Ken Burns - Season 1

Series: American Buffalo: A Film by Ken Burns
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Episodes
2
Rating
TV14
Year
2023
Language
English
Publisher
PBS

About

A journey through more than 10,000 years of North American history and across some of the continent's most iconic landscapes, tracing the mammal's evolution.

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Episodes

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1. 01- Blood Memory

1h 56m

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For thousands of years, America's national mammal numbered in the tens of millions, sustaining the Native people of the Great Plains, whose cultures became spiritually intertwined with the animal. By the 1880s the buffalo had been driven to the brink of extinction by newcomers to the continent. Ken Burns recounts the collision--and tragic consequences--of two opposing views of the natural world.

2. 02- Into the Storm

1h 59m

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By the late 1880s, the buffalo that once numbered in the tens of millions have been reduced to fewer than 1,000 and teeter on the brink of extinction. But a diverse and unlikely collection of Americans have started a few private herds in different locations--and for different reasons. In the early 1900s, their efforts grow into a movement that rescues the national mammal from disappearing forever.

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Artists

Ken Burnsdirector
Ken Burnsproducer
Julie Dunfeyproducer
Peter Coyoteactor