The American Buffalo

The American Buffalo (2023)

EndedDocumentary showNature, History

The American Buffalo 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 the landscape of the Great Plains, its near extinction, and the efforts to bring the magnificent mammals back from the brink.

For thousands of generations, buffalo (species bison bison) have evolved alongside Indigenous people who relied on them for food and shelter and, in exchange for killing them, revered the animal. The stories of Native people anchor the series, including the Kiowa, Comanche, and Cheyenne of the Southern Plains; the Lakota, Salish, Kootenai, Mandan-Hidatsa, and Blackfeet from the Northern Plains; and others.

Ken Burns recounts the tragic collision of two opposing views of the natural world—and the unforgettable characters who pointed the nation in a different direction.

 

 

Network
Scheduleevery Tuesday at 20:00 (120 min)

Last Episode

Into the Storm
Season 1Episode 2120 min

Into the Storm

By the late 1880s, the buffalo that once numbered in the tens of millions is teetering on the brink of extinction. But a diverse and unlikely collection of Americans start a movement that rescues the national mammal from disappearing forever.

oct. 17, 2023

Recent Episodes

EpisodeNameAirdate
S01E02Into the Stormoct. 17, 2023
S01E01Blood Memoryoct. 16, 2023
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Cast

Peter Coyote

Peter Coyote

voices himself
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Characters

Narrator

Narrator

voiced by Peter Coyote
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Also known as

  • The Great American Buffalo (United Kingdom)

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