The Great American Buffalo
The Great American Buffalo is a documentary on BBC4. The program has been available since 2024. A total of 2 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in January 2024.
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The Great American Buffalo
By the late 1880s, the buffalo teeter on the brink of extinction, but an unlikely collection of Americans have started a few private herds in different locations, and for different reasons.
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Ken Burns recounts how the collision between two opposing views of the natural world saw the buffalo, which had numbered in the tens of millions, driven to the brink of extinction.