Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Great Plains Films/Documentaries


I would like to thank Richard Edwards at the University of Nebraska for suggesting many of these titles.

I am sure that there are many more titles that could be added to this list. If you have one in mind, please feel free to suggest it. Ideally, this list will grow substantially as the semester progresses. If you wish to earn extra credit by watching a movie that is not on this list, preapprove it with me beforehand.

Films/Documentaries

About Schmidt (2002). Alexander Payne, dir.

Badlands (1973). Terrence Malick, dir.

Canteen Spirit Nebraska Educational Television 2004.

Dances with Wolves (1990). Kevin Costner, dir.

Days of Heaven (1978). With Richard Gere; Terrence Malick, dir.

Drylanders (1963). Donald Haldane, dir.

Heartland (1979). With Rip Torn, Conchita Ferrell; Richard Pearce, dir.

The Emigrants. (1972) With Max von Sydow and Liv Ullman; Jan Troell, dir.

The Homesteaders (1919) Oscar Micheaux, dir.

King Korn (2007), Aaron Woolf, dir.

The Last Picture Show (1971). With Cybill Shepherd, Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges; Peter Bogdanovich, dir.

The Learning Tree (1963) Gordon Parks, dir.

The New Land (1972) With Max von Sydow and Liv Ullman; Jan Troell, dir.

Northern Lights: The Land, the People, the Struggle (1979).

Oklahoma! (1955) With Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones; Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein, composers/producers

Open Range (2003). Kevin Costner, dir.

Paper Wheat (1979). Albert Kish.

The People in the Pictures: Stories from the Wettach Farm Photos (2002). Iowa Public Television.

The Plow That Broke the Plains (1934, 1937) Pare Lorentz, dir.

Powwow Highway (1989). Jonathan Wacks, dir.

Red River (1948) Howard Hawks, dir.

The Settling of the Plains (“Great Plains Experience,” program #4). Great Plains Network.

Skins (2002). Chris Eyre, dir.

Sun River Homestead: A Documentary by Maggie Carey (2001). Maggie Carey and KUFM-TV/The University of Montana.

The Wind (1928). With Lillian Gish; Victor Seastrom, dir. & prod. (b&w, silent).

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