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- Theodore Roosevelt: A Cowboy's Ride to the White House is the exciting story of a physically challenged young man from Harvard who came to the western frontier in 1883. Theodore Roosevelt bought a ranch, learned how to ride, shoot, hunt and acquired the skills that would make him a war hero and American President. It was in the Badlands of Dakota where young Roosevelt became a cowboy and learned about democracy and the American West. Filmed on location at the Roosevelt ranches in the heart of the beautiful and wild Badlands of North Dakota, the growing of age life experiences of the nation's 26th President, brought to life by nationally acclaimed historians H.W. Brands, Douglas Brinkley, Clay Jenkinson, and great-grandson Tweed Roosevelt. Henry William Brands is the author of 22 books and a professor at the University of Texas in Austin. Among his work: TR: The Last Romantic. Douglas Brinkley is an award-winning author and a professor of history at Tulane University. He has also served as a director of the Theodore Roosevelt Center for American Civilization and is a commentator for CBS News. Clay S. Jenkinson is an American Humanities and Rhodes Scholar and noted author. A Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt scholar, Jenkinson often does re-enactments of both. He is also the Chief Consultant to The Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University. Tweed Roosevelt is the great-grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt. He is the Chairman of Roosevelt China Investments of Boston. Roosevelt, like his great-grandfather a Harvard graduate, is a frequent contributor to books, seminars and other historical projects about President Theodore Roosevelt.
- Deep Time portrays the landowners, state officials, and oil workers at the center of the most prolific oil boom on the planet for the past six years.
- 'Just what, exactly, is going on here?' is not an unpopular question among visitors to the state of Utah. Tyrone Davies spent eight years with a video camera asking that question to nearly every Utahn he met. The result is a discursive collection of stories, interviews and media collages about the cultural landscape of the 'State of Deseret'. GLORIOUS THINGS ARE SUNG OF ZION presents a plethora of unexpectedly diverse 'best answers' to this enduring question that go far, far beyond the most common answer ('there are a lot of Mormons here') to reveal a collection of intricately intertwined stories about utopian ideology.
- Bear Butte, known to the Lakota as Mato Paha, is a sacred mountain held in reverence by Plains Indians. This film dramatically illuminates the struggle between native traditionalists, who regard Bear Butte as a place of quiet sanctity, fasting, and prayer, and non-Indian businesses that seek to exploit the land around the mountain. Rallying against increasing encroachment from campgrounds, biker bars, and convenience stores, a broad coalition marches 6 miles from Bear Butte to the Meade County court house in Sturgis, SD. But liquor-license applicant Jay Allen, a Californian, has already begun construction of the World's Largest Biker Bar at the base of Bear Butte ahead of the annual Sturgis Bike Rally... MATO PAHA follows this struggle for religious rights from 2006 until the present.
- Modern medicine is armed with cutting-edge science and developing day by day, then why the number of sick people is not decreasing?
- The Venom Trail explores the path snake venom takes going through a body and how the same venom is used by the medical industry to combat the symptoms.
- The refrain of one of Mexican composer Jose Alfredo Jimenez' greatest love songs advises, 'When they ask about your past, you must tell a lie. Say you come from a strange world where you've never known love or sorrow.' Un Mundo Raro/A Strange World is an experimental short documentary filmed on both sides of the US-Mexico border. As a rhythmic indie rock song lulls, 'It's alright, baby, it's alright. Form a line into the night...', fast paced scenes explore family life, immigration, ecology, the brutality of poverty and the drug trade. Socially loaded, violent and tender, this is a visual poem about a place where love and sorrow are constants, a human crisis in which we are all implicated.
- Ethnorepresentation is a documentary short that examines the impact of early 20th century film-making on contemporary portrayals of Native Americans in mainstream media. Early films portraying Native Americans reflected notions of racism and an ignorance to cultural empathy. If we look back into the previous decades of film-making, what section of history are we constantly ignoring that may help better understand our prejudices towards Native American actors and actresses?
- You can be illegal in Mexico as well.
- Cattle rustling might seem like a thing of the past, but thieves are currently in full swing across the state of Texas.
- The Bakken oil boom in North Dakota has brought much-needed jobs and economic development to the region. But the fast pace of the drilling has caused many problems, including industrial-scale impacts on Theodore Roosevelt National Park and the land surrounding it. 'A Boom With No Boundaries' explores how one of America's 59 national parks is already being affected by the pollution, traffic, and noise associated with oil and gas drilling. This video recommends that the oil and gas industry and the Obama administration slow down and take measures to protect the national park's resources. If they don't, this special treasure - once the home to our greatest conservation president - Theodore Roosevelt, will be irrevocably damaged.
- A child is searching for happiness in her life, while looking at other children around the street, even the child have equal rights to wear clothes, eat food and have shelter.
- Everybody has a choice, but sometimes you can not choose
- TULARE, THE PHANTOM LAKE explores the landscape of what was once the largest lake in America west of the Mississippi River, a lake that disappeared by the year 1900 due to water diversion and land reclamation for agriculture. The Tulare region in California's Central Valley is home to the most productive agricultural region the world has ever known. The same landscape also harbors less than five percent of the original natural landscape and the poorest Congressional region in the United States. In an age of climate change, we journey through this landscape guided by a series of individuals who never meet: an agricultural consultant; a Native American basket weaver; a journalist; a writer; a biologist; and an archaeologist.
- Interview with a curator about an unknown portrait painting. In fact, I painted it, and took this video with a woman who did model for the painting in the video.
- Using three stories from around the American West, The Next, Best West explores how the conventional concept of progress has influenced the exploitation of our natural resources, and how our collective understanding of progress is coming full circle with the promise of a brighter future. In southern Colorado, we go out on the range with a ranching family that practices a new approach that uses livestock to heal damaged places and takes a 500 year view of the future. In Eastern Montana, the American Prairie Foundation is embarking on perhaps the largest single ecosystem regeneration effort in American history. On Washington's Olympic Peninsula, the historic Elwha River Restoration Project is the nation's largest dam removal project to date.
- A documentary exposing the mounting issues facing this country's equines. Throughout history, these animals have faced problems of abandonment and neglect. Today, these problems have reached a level that is unacceptable by our society.
- How the world's energy companies met their match in a small group of Native American elders in the hottest desert on the planet.
- Struggling to survive the worst drought since the dustbowl, three desperate Montana families hire a rainmaker -- a retired New York cab driver -- in a last ditch effort to save their farms. Like Burt Lancaster's magnetic character in the 1950s film 'The Rainmaker', who barnstormed the windswept tumbleweed towns of the drought-ravaged American prairie selling empty promises of rain, the rainmakers of popular imagination are never quite what they claim to be. But what about the rainmaker stories that appear from time to time in farm journals and rural newspapers across the American farm belt - personal accounts from farmers who claim success with rainmakers? Set against the backdrop of the rapid decline of the American family farm, and a prolonged period of drought which has U.N. climate scientists calling for a new understanding of what constitutes 'normal weather', NEXT YEAR COUNTRY is an exploration of an old American legend set in the contemporary American West.
- Produced by Conservation Media for The Wolverine Foundation, this short film explores one of the most fascinating and least understood animals on the planet. This small, rare, and elusive creature may be able to kill a moose or fend a grizzly off a kill, but it faces serious threats such as climate change for which it is no match.
- Welcome to the bountiful desert of Borrego Springs, CA, where tumbleweeds "signify isolation" and "snakes and other large mammals" conveniently leave tiny skeletons that would make for very nice custom jewelry.
- La Quenceria - love of your place, your land, of the landscape that has contributed to who you are as a person. Rooted Lands witnesses the predominantly Hispanic rural villages of Mora and San Miguel Counties in New Mexico (labeled as among the poorest communities in the United States) stand up and speak out against one of the world's most powerful and dirty industries. Faced with the threat of natural gas development as mineral leases are bought by oil and gas speculators in their pristine landscape, the citizens rise up and defend the richness of their culture, their heritage, their landscape and their place. The film also explores how people living in full field development in the Four Corner's area have been impacted.
- Short film introducing Samar Sahhar a lioness of a woman in charge of running a girls orphanage in Bethany. This devoted Christian has made it her life work to serve and protect the abandoned and abused daughters of Palestine, inspired by the work of her parents who founded the Jeel al Amal boys home before her. We learn of the harrowing traumas the girls have endured, but also the inspirational way in which these girls have become stronger, with help from psychiatrists and medical staff, as well as the love and support of house-mothers which provide the environment of a real 'home' and not simply an institution for the needy.