Prairie Pioneers
It is 1853 and settlers are pouring into California which means trouble for the old Spanish landowners. The El Dorado Mine Co. wants the land of Don Ortega for the minerals and is using the settlers and his friend Don Ca
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It is 1853 and settlers are pouring into California which means trouble for the old Spanish landowners. The El Dorado Mine Co. wants the land of Don Ortega for the minerals and is using the settlers and his friend Don Ca
After experiencing the destruction and brainwashing during the Cultural Revolution, an old farmer, Lin Zhongshu, tries to reverse-brainwash the experts, media, and government officials to preserve a local musical traditi
Tex Benton (cowboy star Tom Mix) wants to marry Janet McWhorter (Kathleen O'Connor), but her father (Charles K. French) will give his blessings only if Tex works on his sheep ranch. Tex, a cattleman through and through,
Shot entirely on film south of Vermilion, Alberta, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe and blended with elements from the tales of Baba Yaga, and with dialogue from the ancient Buddhist text, the Fire Sermon, Prairie Gothic take
A Sioux tribe, led by their great chief, wreaks revenge on the palefaces by setting fire to a nearby village. But the cowboys fight back and mortally wound the great chief.
In the Old West, a young man seeks to take revenge on his older brothers, for an unspeakable crime.
Prairie Rhythms focuses on the Manitoban prairie, where Ramachandran grew up, in an exploration of the artist’s mixed-race identity. As music from a Tamil film plays over flickering views of the snow-covered prairies, th
In 1952 Rose Miller returns to her rural hometown of Beresford, South Dakota to care for her ailing mother. Once there, she falls in love with a deaf man and must decide if she has the courage to follow her heart.
A true Canadian iconoclast, acclaimed transgender country/electro-pop artist Rae Spoon revisits the stretches of rural Alberta that once constituted “home” and confronts memories of growing up queer in an abusive, evange
A young woman finds herself trapped by a bandit gang. Rather than be raped by the gang, she commits suicide. When her brother finds out what happened, he turns to a life of banditry, hoping to find the gang responsible f
The first segment of what would eventually be the Prairie Trilogy, about veteran North Dakota poet and socialist organizer Henry Martinson, who fought against economic exploitation. Martinson recounts the 1916 birth of t
Myriam, a survivor of the concentration camp at Auschwitz, is a filmmaker and journalist who has spent many years living abroad. She takes part in a memorial event at the town hall in Paris commemorating the liberation o
Awakening in a field far from home, two sisters embark on a magical and bizarre adventure through the pastoral Midwest. After finding a mysterious axe, Bethica and Christmas are tracked by a pair of sinister internationa
A singing medicine-show cowboy and his magician partner catch a killer.
Meet NIPPORI Ayumu, an 80 year-old man, who, due to a serious heart condition, has spent sixty years of his life confined to his house. One morning, he wakes up believing himself to be twenty again. In his mind, he has b
An experimental film containing many dark, brooding images: nighttime expressway traffic and street scenes, diner interior, etc.
Elvis must save Marilyn Monroe in an action-packed pop art Japanese monster movie set in the Wild West.
In one of his better early Westerns, Tim Holt, as Deputy Marshal Larry Durant, is sent to Spencerville where a gang of vigilantes has been terrorizing the citizenry. Going undercover as a gunsmith, Larry quickly learns t
We continue our journey east across BNSF's North Dakota former Northern Pacific main line in to the prairies of the Jamestown Sub. Traffic is mostly coal loads and empties to and from the Powder River coal basin, led by
A woman reminisces about her childhood on a Prairie farm during the Depression. Her memory album is a collection of watercolours by artist/filmmaker Blake James that describe a family's struggle to survive despite drough