An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture, revealing a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed.
Directed by: Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Ilisa Barbash
Starring: John Ahern, Elaine Allestad, Lawrence Allestad, Pat Connolly, Billy Allestad, John Jankens, Jackie McKenney, Mark Miller, John Sweet
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2009-11-18
Runtime: 101 minutes
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