Premiering Monday on PBS, Ken Burns' latest big documentary is on the big American bison, but really it's mostly about people.
Ken Burns, American director of big multi-part documentaries on big American subjects, is back Monday with 'The American Buffalo' on PBS. As history is the thing we need to learn from so as not to repeat it, or learn to repeat the good parts, even Burns' relatively lighthearted works, like 'Baseball' and 'Jazz,' 'Benjamin Franklin' or 'Mark Twain' have some contemporary relevance. But following last year's 'The U.S.
If the second half is hopeful — we have the reassuring sight of herds running free in wild landscapes — the first is a difficult watch, if the sight of rotting carcasses, mountains of skulls and decapitated animal heads — animals killed, by white men, for money, fun or out of a pathological expression of masculinity — disturbs you at all.
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