Frontier House (2002)

Genre

reality television

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 6 episodes

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three modern families live as homesteaders in 1880s Montana. They build farms and prepare for winter. Experts judge how well they would survive.

educationalslow-pacedobservationalgroundednostalgicintimateparticipatoryreflective

What happens

Frontier House is a historical reality television series that originally aired on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the United States from April 29 to May 3, 2002. The series followed three family groups that agreed to live as homesteaders did in Montana Territory on the American frontier in 1883. Each family was expected to establish a homestead and complete the tasks necessary to prepare for the harsh Montana winter. At the end of the series, each family was judged by a panel of experts and historians on their likelihood of survival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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