The Buffalo War ambient background
CinebyCineby
The Buffalo War backdrop

The Buffalo War

The Buffalo War

★ 8.0/10•2001•57m•Documentary

Native Americans, ranchers, government officials, and environmental activists battle over the yearly slaughter of America's last wild bison, based on fear that migrating animals will transmit the disease brucellosis to cattle. Join a 500-mile spiritual march across Montana led by Lakota elder Rosalie Little Thunder expressing her people's cultural connection to bison, an environmental group engaging in civil disobedience and video activism, and a ranching family caught in the crossfire.

Matthew Testa · Director

StatusReleased
Runtime57m
LanguageEN
Release DateNov 1, 2001

Recommendations

A Toxic Love Story
Koyaanisqatsi
Come See Me in the Good Light
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story
Ghost Elephants
Grizzly Man
28 Up
180° South
Powaqqatsi
My Mom Jayne
Sidney
Fuck
In the Realms of the Unreal
Seaspiracy
McQueen
Racing Extinction
An Inconvenient Truth
Avatar: The Deep Dive - A Special Edition of 20/20
Being James Bond
Naqoyqatsi

Similars

Ghost Lands
From the Ashes
After the Revolution
Skydancer
Antarctica, a legacy mission
Un jour en Italie
Our Story: The Indigenous Led Fight to Protect Greater Chaco
Water Warriors
The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream
A New Inferno
Au nom des jaguars
Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret
Burned: Are Trees the New Coal?
A Wolf in the Suburbs
Different Lenses: The Photography of Edward & Asahel Curtis
The Native Americans: The Tribal People of the Northwest
The Apocalypse of the Animals
Dislocation Blues
Higher Grounds
Agatha's Almanac