Name: The Wild Horse Redemption
Genre: Adaptation, Documentary, Foreign, Sports
Released: 2007
Duration: 1 min 31 s

Brief Synopsis

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Genre

Adaptation

Documentary

Foreign

Sports

Release Date

2007

Production Company

Canadian Broadcasting Company (Cbc); National Film Board Of Canada

Distribution Company

SundanceTV

Technical Specs

Duration

1h 31m

Synopsis

Three times a year, the United States Bureau of Land Management rounds up some of the thirty-two thousand wild horses roaming in the American Southwest. Some of these mustangs make the journey to the prison in Canon City at the base of the Colorado Rocky Mountains. There they become part of the Wild Horse Inmate Program, an initiative intended to rehabilitate horse and prisoner alike. Under the supervision of professional trainers, about forty inmates are paired with mustangs in order to train the horses for government service, such as patrolling the border. The training is difficult and dangerous, demanding that horse and man reach new plateaus of patience and understanding. It also prepares them both for a future beyond their respective pens.