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After 30 years of live radio broadcasts of "A Prairie Home Companion," the popular show comes to DVD for the first time, offering a rare inside look at one of radio´s most beloved shows. Taped before live audiences at th
How can we harness the power of mushrooms to fight climate change? In the American West, wildfires spread fast. To slow the flames, forest managers are thinning the forests. Cutting down trees. But where does all that
A ballet about the settlement of the Canadian West and the fate of a young wife who comes to the prairies with her husband.
America's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie tells the rich and complex story of one of the most astonishing alterations of nature in human history. Prior to Euro-American settlement in the 1820s, one of the major lan
THE TALES OF THE OLD WEST ARE FULL OF HOLES! These dogs are responsible for most of them.
"Little House: The American Dream" focuses on the true life journey of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the show's beginning, Michael Landon, the casting process, building and working at exterior/interior sets, life on set, the sho
A look at some of the creepiest haunted locations throughout Illinois including cemeteries, buildings, and road side haunts. Featuring authors, researchers, investigators and paranormal experts Chad Lewis, Troy Taylor, J
"Prairie Grizzly's Peneplain" is a meditation on various natural and manufactured landscapes in southern Saskatchewan. This region is part of an ancient Precambrian seabed rebounding from the last Ice Age which once had
A celebration of some of the finest original prairie grassland in North America, this program also explores how good stewardship can protect a delicate ecosystem.
TAMING THE WILD AND VAST WESTERN FRONTIER... ...was filled with many painful defeats and costly victories. And behind every legend there were scores of nameless heroes whose brave sacrifices have gone unsung. These sto
Founded in 1974 by Eli Lilly, Prairietown at Conner Prairie immerses guests in 19th-century Indiana life through trades, foodways, music and daily activities. In 2024, its 50-year legacy is celebrated with a documentary.
Wilder's personal story as a writer, wife, and mother is explored through interviews with scholars and historians, passages from the Little House on the Prairie books, archival photography, paintings by frontier artists,
The untold history of television's most unique series, Mystery Science Theater 3000, from its UHF origins to its eventual cancellation from the SCIFI network.
In northern Montana is a massive wildlife sanctuary on track to become one of the largest, protected ecosystems in the United States: the American Prairie Reserve. Here, scientists and ranchers are working in partnership
The vast area of the American prairie tells the story of a 150 year experiment: the settlement of the American plains. The radical plan of a scientist couple from New York is to make the Great Plains public property, a c
A short film about existence and sentience. Satirical in tone, the film chronicles evolution and the development of the carnivore.
Laura, her husband Almanzo and their daughter Rose leave South Dakota and head for Missouri in search of a better, more financially stable life. It's a daunting journey, but they're sustained by their resolve. However, t
SILICON PRAIRIE: AMERICA'S NEW INTERNET ECONOMY EXPLORES THE POTENTIAL THAT THE OPEN INTERNET HOLDS TO PROMOTE OUR ECONOMY—NOT JUST IN SILICON VALLEY, BUT IN CITIES AND TOWNS (AND FARMS!) ALL OVER AMERICA. Silicon Prair
In this film we follow three prairie boys as they finish a day of work and get ready to go out for the evening. The film highlights the playful nature of young Black men and demonstrates the cultural blending that exists
