Filmed in the mountains of Montana, this poignant, engrossing chronicle focuses on an extraordinary stallion, whose life has been recorded since his birth in the wild in 1995 by Emmy-winning filmmaker Ginger Kathrens.
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This program premiered November 4, 2001.
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I pray that people everywhere will come to appreciate the great gift that America’s wild horses are…and that the BLM will someday be dismantled, to let God and the horses decide their own destiny.
Please be aware that the BLM is going to “manage” Cloud and his band out of existence. All of these horses will be rounded up. The BLM is talking euthanasia because of budget cuts. They will all die.
I cannot believe that anything as beautiful and wild as those horses will be rounded up and killed. Is there nothing one can do to stop this ?
I cannot believe that anything as beautiful and wild as those horses will be rounded up and killed. What can we do to stop this practice ?
I loved the video on the horses in the Rockies. The footage on the horse was wonderful. And the mountains were beautiful. I have always wanted to live in the mountains. I loved watching Cloud as he was was growing up. I have always been interested in photography and horses. God has surely blessed with so many beautiful animals and places to enjoy. Let God have control over nature, that He has given us. God bless you in your work. Monica Brown
blm needs to be stoped now killing these inocent animals especially if there not hurting a thing.
I bought a horse form the BLM.. He’s sweet and very friendly now. But I thought it was sad looking at all those poor horses rounded up and not back where they came from, otherwise known as ‘home’.
I love watching wild horses roam and interact with each other. It is so beautiful. I bought the Cloud DVD’s on amazon.com and I loved them. I will cherish them forever. I hope that someone comes along and disbands the BLM. They should never interfere with mother nature. Some of those wild horses could be decendents of our war heroes. They don’t deserve to die. These horses are not doing any harm? What about all the other wild animals on this earth? Is the BLM going to round up all the squirrels and do away with them? It’s stupid to just pick an animal in our world to just do away with. They are God’s creatures and God wants them on this earth just like you and me. Maybe, instead of doing away with them, the BLM could have anyone sponsor the horses and these people could pay to take care of them individually.
I so much enjoyed the story of Cloud. Please let me roam free and not be killed.
I watched this wonderful documentary on Sunday evening with my wife and 5 year old daughter. We thoroughly enjoyed admiring the beauty of wild horses in their habitat.
I do want to warn other parents who may consider watching this with their young kids. There is a part in the documentary towards the end where a pony is born without the use of its hind legs. After nudges of encouragement from other horses, a dominant horse realizes there is something wrong with the small horse. Then surprisingly the adult horse bends down and grabs the pony by the neck and strangles it to death lifting it off the ground several times. I realize the horse probably did this to put the pony out of its misery however this was very traumatic for my 5 year old. She cried the rest of the night and then woke up thinking about it. If you watch this online, be aware of it, it is at the beginning of part 5.
Otherwise, we saw a beautiful documentary.
I saw part of the documentary on Sunday eve. and I went online to see the whole thing. It was beautiful. I would love to see more!! How can we stop the BLM from hurting those horses?????? Please tell me there is a way!!
why is blm rounding up these horses, is it because the ranchers want grazing for them selves, who do i call to protest.
Any one can tell me if the Arriflex camers used bt Ginger Kathrens ia a 35mm or a Super16, and perhaps the model number. It would be much appreciated. Carrying this camera as Ginger has must be hard on the back. Thanks, Yvon
So very good. Thanks
This is such stunning videography! I’ve been a horse lover all my life and it’s a treat to watch. The warning about the foal being killed is good to heed-it was difficult to watch as an adult. However, I’ve known many horses in my life and I don’t think the stallion was ‘euthanizing’ the foal. Horses are very much like people in that some are kind, some are shy, some are bold and unfortunately, some have a mean streak. They do have personalities! These horses have not been shaped by training. Training should bring out the best and dampen the negative in a horse’s personality. Anyway, thanks for a beautiful show!
I have enjoyed these beautiful mustangs running wild. My only prayer is for the BLM to leave these beautiful horses alone and let them live so more generations to come can enjoy their beauty as I have. I would adopt them all if I had a million acres. They are so much fun to see and a pleasure to watch. Why on earth would anyone want to distroy them.
A heartbreakingly beautiful piece, told with excellent cinematography and poignant story telling. The horses are amazing to watch, each one so unique, each with personalities as varied as their colors. It is truly chilling to think that one day such enchanting creatures and their lovely habitat will be probably be destroyed.
Amazing when the red stallion killed the colt who could not stand up, amazing nature’s cruel protection, we should show this to all stupid terrorists in the world to teach them a lesson, not to impose their stupidity, kidnaping people left and right.
Bravo! This was one of the most touching works i have seen on television in a long time. It captured perfectly the raw beauty of freedom and the pangs of emptiness are left with when that freedom is taken away. On a side note, Mr Morales , if ‘… we should show this to all stupid terrorists in the world to teach them a lesson, not to impose their stupidity, kidnaping people left and right’, we should also show this to all the stupid leaders in the world , to teach them a lesson, not to impose their stupidity, starting pre-emptive wars left and right.
i love horses more than any one in the world.
I love Cloud! It is so col! I even started a website about it.
Wow! this was the most beautiful documentary I have ever seen! Its so wonderful to see how beautiful nature is with its freedom…horses are amazing! I wish I could see more! =]
I love these horses, and I hope the BLM does not continue to round them up, and I hope that they discontinue their plans for the slaughtering of tons of wild horses, including Looking Glass, and Shaman.
l love this movie l love baby foals
What a wonderful video!
I wish so much that we will always have enough space on earth for these wild horses.
How happy they obviously are…
Now I see the passion I expected from all of the above responses – all of natures creatures are so awe-inspiring, but the horse has such grace. I’ve loved them all of my life and pray for their safety and protection. Thank you for this contribution on their behalf.
I hope that blm stops euthanizing and hurting horses animals also have feelings.God created nature so let it be
Wow. I watched everymovie and it is just extreamly fasinating. I have learned so so much from these movies. Lovely!
I don’t like BLM they are mean thank goodness that they let out cloud i hope they have more parts of that video to see if cloud has mad a band .
Guess what? Right now, the BLM is going to kill 70,000 mustangs, and capture the rest! Not only will millions of horse-lovers cry, but the whole eco-system will be thrown out of wack.
i love cloud i was so happy to find the movie on net i we sees it before.. BLM is going to make a misstake if the round up horses to kill, dont forget horses was there before the humans. i am locking forward to se the new movie in the spring 09…
i love this movie so much i have modles of cloud!!!!
:]i was sad when looking glass killed the baby foal:[
Ginger Kathrens couldent find cloud in the winter because HES WHITE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Being a horse lover all my life and watching Ginger Kathrens documentary was so beautiful and hard at the same time. Just finding out that BLM want to round every mustangs up so they can destroyed them is unbelievable. They are part of our herritage and they should be protected like any old house or cemetaries. We are what we are today because they have help us so much in our life since the beginning of time to even today. Quarter horses, paleiminos, pintoes, the canadianhorse and so many others are descendant of the wild horse. I am a canadian and I know we must do everything in our power to help and protect those beautiful horses in the wild.
I really like this video. Reading the comments, I do want to point out that what the BLM does is necessary, although they don’t always go about it in the best way. Horses are not native to the Americas, adult horses have no natural predators here, and they breed like crazy. If the population wasn’t managed by humans, they’d be likely to outcompete native wildlife and wreak havoc on the whole delicate mountain and desert ecosystem. Obviously, it’s a tragedy that any of them end up getting killed, and that part of the program should be managed more effectively. I’ve heard that they’re starting to use birth control for the mares in some places, which seems like a good idea. But it doesn’t make much sense to talk about protecting the horses from the BLM or letting nature take its course, because the horses aren’t in this environment naturally to start out with.
What a beautful story of Life, Cloud has now touched my Heart and found myself going out in my back yard breathing the beautiful air Called ” Freedom & Peace ” It sadens me to hear about the Killing of these beautiful wild horses :( and the selfeshness of Man and disreguard Life that God Created for All Men to learn from. Now i understand the Love John Denver had for nature & Life even more. Some Day all this will pass and peace shall Reign forever and ever, and the selfeshness of man will no longer RULE !
I hate the BLM! I want to give them the pain they give to the horses! When they die, I will spit on their graves. I love horses and I wish for no harm to them, this is cruel. What if they liked it if they got rouned up and killed? or choose life? Where they run free and enjoy their peacefull lives. I hope the BML was reading this, to just see what they’ve done to nature. God should send them to hell, then we can laugh at them from heaven.
Why do you all think BLM is the bad guy? If all those foals born were left free, the area wouldn’t be able to support so many grazing animals. They would starve, and most die. BLM is rounding up yearlings to auction off, so they will hopefully go to loving homes. Yes, I would love all these mustangs to roam free too, but the fact is, they can’t. BLM is taking a healthy amount of horses to sell and release the rest.
Mustangs are not native here, and really are not wild, they are feral. They are domestic creatures that live and roam freely. So it would be a shame for them to eat all the food and starve the animals who ARE native, say big horns and mule deer. The eco system is really much better off with BLM controlling the populations. And actually, the horses are much better off be owned and cared for by humans (they wouldn’t starve, be killed by lighting, etc.). But, I agree, it is sad some die. This problem could be fixed by people instead of breeding their horses, adopting a mustang.
I have not yet seen this episode yet but i will get ready to in a little bit but by all the comments that i have read and i am dieing to see this movie and i am also a big horse lover so to all you people out there i am with you all. these BLM people are really getting on my nerves and i am only 16 and i have loved horses all my life and i hope that we can win over these nasty people and stop them from killing the creations that god put on this earth for us to cherish and to enjoy but not to kill. i have all kinds of horse movies and i watch them every day but i know that some day that i will help save these beautiful creatures from being killed i will help ssavve these animals from being extinct and i will trample anyone who gets in my way and i dont care who you are!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
when cloud was a band stallion in his band one hore looked like barbaro
I am a canadian and a big horse lover. Seeing this documentary about Cloud and the wild mustang sure was a great one but a very very sad one seeing what people who are the BLM have no feeling for them, but employed to control and I thaught to protect them also. I do hope that President Obama will do something about this awfull thing that is happening to these horses. If they have roundup to many allready why do they go back and get some more. Just leave them alone like they were met to be. They are part of our heritage even for us the Canadians.
Please make sure I don’t get rounded up and killed.
Wonderful views…no film is better than this. In this film I could see much of the attidudes of horses and it points me out attidudes of the horses in our barn.
Amazing film!!
I love to watch them mate!!!!
I think Looking Glass is a stunning stallion,but his additude is terrible. He must have done it for mercy. I agree about the BLM. There isn’t much land and I am sort of ok with auctioning…But not killing. I want to go to the ArrowHead mountians now!Cloud is an ok name…I think he has grown out of it though..He is muuch more regal…..lol.
The wild horses of America i wish were appreciated more
I really liked cloud and his family, but it was sad that his family died. Other stallions died too, it was really disapointing, and horriblethat they were eaten by other animals. I wish that stallion wouldn’t make that little foal die. The foal just had a problem on it’s hind legs. I liked that in the ending Cloud was content, and he had a family with a mare and foal. the part i liked was when his father rubbed himself in the water, then on the dirt.It was funny.
I think, if Cloud was token care of, he been with a beautiful coat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cloud looks like cloud and snow!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Horses are native to North America: http://www.awionline.org/legislation/pdf/Wild_Horses_Native_NA_WildlifeFINAL.pdf
Here is what you need to do: Contact your congress person and senators. Follow link via PETA. http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/wild_horses
A lot of the horses at these auctions end up at slaughterhouses. Isn’t that sad. These horses are part of the American West. They helped settle this country. It’s just so sad.
Most of these horses do not go to slaughter houses or are killed… that’s total & pure BS… the slaughter houses (only located in Canada) use surrendered horses (private owner) or Canadian wild horses… it is illegal in the US to do so… they are to be broken & adopted… the homes they go to are highly regulated because they are government property… most are taken to a horse breaking facility in Colorado… it is a program ran by the prisons for eligible convicts… most people in the program become professional horse trainers… it is one of the most successful programs in America… most of the horses go on to become performance horses (ie jumping, saddlery, etc)… how do I know this? I was involved & so are hundreds of other people… PS horses are not a natural part of an American ecosystem… they were introduced by Europeans but their numbers increased after the great depression when people could no longer afford them…
Cloud is soo awesome, blm should just leave them alone.. if you go to http://www.thecloudfoundation.org you can make donations and get the latest updates on the wild horses :)
these horses are wild no one should be rounding them up!
plus thats mean!
anay way what is happening to clouds heard and him?
what bat jelly says is true!
my dad did a review on it for work but i still feel bad for the horses!
Beautiful film, but I am left saddened and outraged. I found a site offering ways to protest the BLM’s horrific and unjustified ’roundup’ plans. PLEASE go to the site and do what you can! Here is the link: http://www.wildhorsepreservation.com/action.html
Some of you might not know this but I believe it was about 1 or 2 years ago when they were capturing the wild horses and killing them…then they would send them over to China or Japan for food..because they consider horse meat to be a delicacy…The government put an end to it..I believe it was because of people like us who want the horses to be free, wild and happy.
Well I guess they are still doing what I mentioned above..it is sad..follow the link that Elisha Celeste posted we have one more month to help this bill for the horses get through the senate!
i say leave the wild heard alone ive watch the first cloud and they belong to the wild without them there
wont be anymore wild horses and too me the sucks if its illegal then why are the going to do it? im against animal cruelity is wrong on anyone who dose it and should be punished and not nicely ethier i say leave them horses alone can anyone talk to obama abput this and tell him to stop this most stupid and wrong doing yet cuz he most do something about if hes our leader and all that thank you for reading this everyone
I believe that BLM should adopt as many mustangs as they can to individuals that will care and love them. As far as killing any of them, I believe if they leave them alone, that the population will take care of itself.
Just like deer, predators keep the population down. Wild horses will be the same, God will regulate them, we don’t need polititions messing it up.
Roundup started yesterday. After receiving over 10,000 petition signatures. After a letter from Congressman Grijalvo to BLM to STOP. On a news show this morning there was a BLM guy pulling dead grass out of the “desert” at the end of summer to prove the horse can’t survive – is this either a slap on our face from BLM or is reflective of the intelligence we can expect from all BLM? I’m not one to blame the fighters for the war – but really – dead grass in the desert – WOW, how incredable! You can see with your own eyes on TheCloudFoundation.org web that the “rangeland” is bountifull and the horses are fat. Is there still time to stop this? Please try – call, e-mail, do everything within your power!
I thought that the part where the baby horses gets killed by looking glass was the hardest part for me to watch.
Bat Jelly, Are you really that nieve and gullable?Most of these horses are mot adopted which suites the horse slaughterhouses quite well. Its true that the mast horse slaughter house was closed in the US, but they are attemptiing to opem one in Billings, MT. All so sad and wrong.
……………where ever they are located, it is a privilige to see them running free. I wish we could just let them alone, and let the mother earth care for them naturally………
People, the reason these horses have to be managed is because humans have wiped out all of their natural predators. Wolves and cougars can no longer keep up with the wild horse population. If we let them be, the population would explode. Horses would die of disease and starvation, and we’d end up with less than we have now.
Humans wiped out the natural order of things, so the BLM is doing their part to make up for the things we’ve done wrong. For the most part, they try to do things as humanely and with as little injury to the horses as possible, and they try to get rid of excess horses by adoption. Horse slaughter has been banned in the United States, and these horses are safe and their population is healthy.
This video was heart touching. I now wonder if there is a way to start protecting the wild horses from being captured and killed. This clip has inspiered me to start noticeing nature more and more. I am proply going to think twice about becomeing a vet. Thank You Ginger Katherens for inspiering people to protect horses.
This has changed the way I see nature.
Thank You Ginger
Mariah
I love horses!! i watch this video like 100 times!!
it sure is nice to see some people still interersted in the wild mustang. we lost over 8oo here a few years back and the govt dont seem to care abouat our history they never left any to reproduce here in alberta
i love clould he is such a heathy looking whild horse
they should leave the horses alone leave them in the wild they are god creature mother nature will take care of them as they see fit, these people should mind there own businesse i am writing from ottawa ontario canada its not fair for what they are doing.