Prior to Euro-American settlement in the 1820s, one of the major landscape features of North America was 240 million acres of tallgrass prairie. But between 1830 and 1900 -- in the span of a single lifetime -- the prairie was steadily transformed to farmland. This drastic change in the landscape brought about an enormous social change for Native Americans. In an equally short time their cultural imprint was reduced in essence to a handful of place-names appearing on maps.

The extraordinary cinematography of prairie remnants, original score and archival images are all delicately interwoven to create a powerful and moving viewing experience about the natural and cultural history of America.

Amongst those interviewed are writer Dayton Duncan, Wes Jackson of The Land Institute, biologist Laura Jackson, linguist Jerome Kills Small, historian Anton Treuer, landscape historian Lance Foster, writer Richard Manning, and Nina Leopold Bailey and Carol Leopold -- two of Aldo Leopold's children.

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Reviews
"As someone who has lived many years on the earth's surface where the tallgrass prairie used to be, I've been accustomed to the snatches we see of its startling beauty, and immunized to the grief for its loss. But a prairie walk can always disabuse me of the notion that the hills are covered with monotonous grass, that the vista is boring, that the prairie is worthless. This film provides that prairie walk experience, plus much more. The colors, shapes, forms, movement of this place as it changes through the day, through the season, are astonishing. [America's Lost Landscape] will immerse you in beauty, and then, providing you with historical, cultural, and scientific information, lead you to not only appreciate this disappearing landscape, but to question our cultural role within the earthly ecosystem. With appreciation will come the tools for change. A beautiful, fulfilling film."