| PBS | Season Premiere Date: October 16, 2023 |
Summary:
The two-part documentary directed by Ken Burns about the history and impact of the buffalo on America and the Indigenous people in North America.
Genre(s):
Movie/Mini-Series, Documentary
Season 1 Episodes
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S1:E2. Into the Storm
Air Date: October 17, 2023
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S1:E1. Blood Memory
Air Date: October 16, 2023
Oct 16, 2023
Oct 12, 2023
Much of it is heart-stoppingly beautiful. Who knew that Ken Burns — documentarian, entrepreneur, the closest thing we have to an unofficial curator of national memory — has a David Attenborough, wildlife-filmmaker side, too? That heart-stopping beauty makes the story Burns tells all more heartbreaking.
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Oct 17, 2023
For those with a taste for Burns’ stately brand of storytelling, “The American Buffalo” is another demonstration of what he can do when allowed to freely roam the plains of US history – representing a form of documentary programming with a capital D that at times feels like its own kind of endangered species.
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Oct 13, 2023
Oct 16, 2023
Owing to length and familiarity, The American Buffalo comes across as lesser Ken Burns, especially following the scathing Holocaust documentary. I think that assessment is limiting. The craftsmanship of the second part is top-notch and the takeaways regarding how frequently American pride has gone hand-in-hand with destroying aspects of America that we try to marginalize or deem not-quite-American are always vital.
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Oct 16, 2023
Oct 12, 2023
There's always a tone of melancholy in a Ken Burns film, aided and abetted, once again, by narrator Peter Coyote. And a plinky piano. And a sense of sins that need to be forgiven. There is also an unblended mix of hard fact—the awful statistics surrounding buffalo genocide—and the spiritual and religious arguments brought to the film by the Native Americans involved.
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Season 1
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Season 1 Overview
Air Date: October 16, 2023
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S1:E2. Into the Storm
Air Date: October 17, 2023
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S1:E1. Blood Memory
Air Date: October 16, 2023
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Season 1 Overview