Sweetgrass

• Rated 6.7 out of 10
• Movie
• 2009
• 1h 41m
• Documentary

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.

Director

Lucien Castaing-Taylor

Starring

John Ahern, Elaine Allestad, Lawrence Allestad, Pat Connolly