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Ken Burns' The American Buffalo

The American Buffalo

A New Documentary from Ken Burns Premieres October 16
 

The American Buffalo, a new two-part, four-hour series, takes viewers on a journey through more than 10,000 years of North American history and across some of the continent’s most iconic landscapes, tracing the animal’s evolution, its significance to the Indigenous people and landscape of the Great Plains, its near extinction, and the efforts to bring the magnificent mammals back from the brink.

The American BuffaloThe American Buffalo: A Story of Resilience
56:35
Published:
Expires: 2029-12-01
Rating: TV-PG

Judy Woodruff moderates a conversation with filmmaker Ken Burns and three experts.