Examining the center of one of the country’s most mythic and heartbreaking tales.
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, significance to the Great Plains, near demise, and relationship to the Indigenous People of North America.
AIR DATE 10/16/23
Once numbering in the tens of millions and sustaining the Native people of the Great Plains, America’s national mammal is driven to the brink of extinction. An improbable collection of unforgettable characters rescues it from disappearing forever.
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