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.
Genre: Documentary, History
Cast:Peter Coyote , Tantoo Cardinal , Michael Punke , George Horse Capture Jr. , Dustin Tahmahkera , N. Scott Momaday , Germaine White , Craig Mellish , Gerard Baker , Marcia Pablo , Rosalyn LaPier , Ron Parker , Hope Davis , Jeff Daniels , Paul Giamatti , Derek Jacobi , Adam Arkin , Tatanka Means
America's national mammal, once numbering millions, is driven to near extinction.
By the late 1880s, the buffalo that once numbered in the tens of millions is on the brink of extinction. But a diverse and unlikely collection of Americans start a movement that rescues the national mammal from disappearing forever.
Judy Woodruff moderates a one-hour conversation with filmmaker Ken Burns and three experts: Jason Baldes, Rosalyn LaPier, and Dan Flores.