这部纪录片将呈现北美大陆上最壮丽物种的传记,一种不可思议、毛茸茸的野兽,它在许多令人激动、神话般甚至令人心碎的故事中扮演着核心角色。故事中,水牛给我们带来了很多思考。在19世纪末令人震惊的迅速消失浪潮中,仅存的最后一批较大规模的水牛群惨遭屠杀,当这个数个世纪以来数量庞大的的动物突然间只剩下几百头时,美国人不得不开始重视起来:他们竟能将一个物种推向灭绝边缘。
但是,如果水牛的故事代表了我们摧毁自然界的能力的最戏剧性的展示,它也提供了令人信服的证据,证明我们有能力将一个物种从灭绝的边缘拯救回来。美国水牛历史中最鲜为人知的部分是美国人意识到他们几乎令这种动物灭绝之后,为了弥补过错所做的事情。今天,美国有超过35万头水牛,其中大部分是20世纪初五个初始群体的77只动物的后代。这个故事——从未在电视上讲述过——和水牛消亡的故事一样充满戏剧性和扣人心弦,也同样充...
This western began in 1812 when the settlers tried to take away more and more territories from the indians. Tecumseh, who is the leader of the Shawnee indians, tries to do something. He plans a big indian state, and tries to win the English settlers over to this plan... Written by Kornel Osvart <kornelo@alphanet.hu>
By 1929, Canada's west, which had been home to generations of Métis, was taken over by the railroads and new settlers. The Métis became a forgotten people, relegated to eking out a living as best they could. In Places Not Our Own, Rose l'Esperance, a Métis, is determined that her children will have a normal life and an education. Her hopes reside in her daughter Flora, but the ...
The film written by Derosier centres on Angelique, a young Anishinaabe woman who embarks on a journey with her voyageur husband Charlie, despite the warnings of her grandmother, Green Thunderbird.
When they are abandoned on a deserted island before a harsh winter, Angelique finds her faith tested as she fights starvation, the elements and a treacherous Lake Superior.
In 1909, amidst the dying old west, Willie Boy, a long distance Desert Runner by Chemehuevi tradition, falls in love with young native beauty, Carlota. Carlota's father, a Chemehuevi shaman and local tribal leader, refuses to let the young couple be together. In a fatal confrontation, Carlota's father falls dead to an accidental gun shot and the young lovers flee to the sun ens...