The American Buffalo Watch Party

The American Buffalo is a two-part, four-hour documentary directed by Ken Burns, written by Dayton Duncan, and produced by Julie Dunfey and Ken Burns that explores more than 10,000 years of North American history, across some of the continent’s most iconic landscapes, tracing the animal’s evolution, its significance to the Indigenous people and the Great Plains, its near extinction, and the efforts to bring the magnificent mammals back from the brink The screening was made possible through the support of Montana PBS.

Corporate funding for THE AMERICAN BUFFALO was provided by Bank of America. Major funding was provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and by The Better Angels Society and its following members: Margaret A. Cargill Foundation fund at the Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation; Diane and Hal Brierley; The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment; John and Catherine Debs; Kissick Family Foundation; Fred and Donna Seigel; Jacqueline Mars; John and Leslie McQuown; and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Tudor Jones. Funding was also provided by The Volgenau Foundation