Season 1
5 episodes · 2018
America the Beautiful tells the story of the frontier and wildlife closest to America’s heart. We explore the woods that Davy Crocket once called home in the Great Valley of Appalachia, and where Wild Bill Hickok saw his last sunset in the Badlands of South Dakota.
1The Mighty Mississippi
The Mississippi, the Missouri and the Ohio rivers combine.
2Into the Appalachians
East meets Wild West in The Badlands of South Dakota. Famous frontier towns, Crazy Horse, and U.S. Presidents are immortalized here, but living legends thrive just over the hills.
3Secret Life of a Farm
The northern Land of Lakes is a lush realm of forests and wet bogs – but in winter, it’s governed by snow and ice. Timber wolves search widely with their powerful noses, while great greys- the largest owls in North America -plunge deep into the snow for a meal.
4Land of 10000 Lakes
Down on the Farm, people and animals in America’s heartland face a life fraught with risk and danger. In order to share the abundant ecosystem with farmers and their tools, it’s safest for wildlife on the fringes: in the field, above the hayloft, and hidden under plow.
5Into the Badlandsfinale
East meets Wild West in The Badlands of South Dakota. Herds of bison roam the grasslands, as much at home as the mustangs on a nearby mountain plateau.