Movie

Sweetgrass (2009)

• November 18, 2009
• 1h 41m

• Documentary

Overview

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.

Directors

Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Ilisa Barbash

Starring

John Ahern, Elaine Allestad, Lawrence Allestad