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The American Buffalo, a new two-part, four-hour series, takes viewers on a journey through more than 10,000 years of North American history and across some of the continent’s most iconic landscapes, tracing the animal’s evolution, significance to the Great Plains, near demise, and relationship to the Indigenous People of North America.
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Preview Length 00:30 Premiere: 10/16/23

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Into the Storm
S1 E2 Length 1:59:04 Premiere Date 10/16/23

Blood Memory
S1 E1 Length 1:56:55 Premiere Date 10/16/23

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Episode One: Blood Memory - S1 E1

Explore the dramatic story of how America's national mammal, which sustained the lives of Native people, was driven to the brink of extinction. Ken Burns recounts the tragic collision of two opposing views of the natural world.

  • Sunday November 15, 2026 8:00 pm ET on KET2
  • Sunday November 15, 2026 7:00 pm CT on KET2
  • Tuesday November 17, 2026 2:00 am ET on KET2
  • Tuesday November 17, 2026 1:00 am CT on KET2

Episode Two: Into the Storm - S1 E2

By the late 1880s, the buffalo that once numbered in the tens of millions teeters on the brink of extinction. But a diverse and unlikely collection of Americans start a movement that rescues the national mammal from disappearing forever.

  • Sunday November 22, 2026 8:00 pm ET on KET2
  • Sunday November 22, 2026 7:00 pm CT on KET2
  • Tuesday November 24, 2026 2:00 am ET on KET2
  • Tuesday November 24, 2026 1:00 am CT on KET2

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