Buffalo Common

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With the end of the Cold War, North Dakota's fearsome arsenal of intercontinental ballistic missiles suddenly found itself outmatched not by the Soviets, but by the budget cutters in Washington, DC. In his 2001 film, Bill Brown heads to The Peace Garden State to watch the nuclear weapons that haunted his childhood dreams get yanked out of the ground. Years before today's shale oil boom, he visits a state whose dwindling population and failed farm economy has lead to talk about turning the whole place into a reserve for buffalo.