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- After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life.
- Lieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, finds himself engaging with a neighbouring Sioux settlement, causing him to question his own purpose.
- A family saga covering several decades of Westward expansion in the 19th century, including the Gold Rush, the Civil War, and the building of the railroads.
- In 1890, a down-and-out cowboy and his horse travel to Arabia to compete in a deadly cross desert horse race.
- The legendary Native American chieftain refuses to go with his people peacefully to the reservation and starts a rebellion.
- The history of the depiction of Native Americans in Hollywood films.
- A young boy who lives in a dysfunctional home went to the carnival and met a singer. Shortly after, a murder took place. The town's sheriff is seeking answers. The singer is trying to escape her environment so is the boy. But both has to face their own horror.
- Astronomy programme.
- In 1866 Wyoming, a frontier scout tries to prevent a war between the Sioux and the U.S. after the Army builds a road and a fort on territory previously ceded to the Sioux by treaty.
- In 1854, there were over 10,000 abandoned, orphaned children living on the streets of New York City. Out of this desperate situation was born the orphan Train. This is a fictionalized account, based on actual events.
- The Purple Pie Place is a seasonal business that started in 1981. This is their 2022 season.
- A crotchety old ranch owner fights to be able to live his life the way he wants to, and not the way other people--and the law--tell him he has to.
- A young drifter is mistaken for Billy the Kid. The consequences prove deadly.
- This Traveltalk entry looks at some natural wonders of the western United States, including the Grand Canyon and the Devil's Tower. The last stop on the tour, an "unnatural wonder," is the Mount Rushmore National Memorial, where sculptor Gutzon Borglum is hard at work. At the time of filming, only the head of George Washington was close to completion. Thomas Jefferson's face was almost finished; only the upper half of Abraham Lincoln's face is visible; and Theodore Roosevelt's head was not yet started.
- Two young men journey across the USA to honor one's mother by spreading her ashes at the monuments she always dreamed of visiting.
- A young girl discovers that America's wild horses are in danger of being wiped off the land they've called home for thousands of years, as American Mustang the Movie unveils the compelling story of the wild mustang.
- The movie is about the Kili Radio in Porcupine, in The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (SD). Several important Native Americans (and Whites), that have influenced Lakota culture over the years, are given a voice. Kili brings the Lakota and other Native Americans closer together.
- A documentary that chronicles a cowboy's triumph in his quest to protect wild horses and the American West.
- A Canadian filmmaker embarks on an epic road-trip, reaching the four farthest corners of the continental USA, in search of what is freedom and the great American dream.
- The story of why the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota Nations of Native Americans) are a "Sunka Wakan Oyate" (Horse Nation), demonstrating their philosophy and bringing together traditional and contemporary songs, stories, and teachings.
- The story behind the creation of Mount Rushmore National Memorial.
- A group of young women go through a Lakota rite of passage ceremony that the family hasn't held in public since it was made illegal in the 1800s.
- Where do dinosaur skeletons come from? Who are the scientists that find and study them? Who is interested in buying them and how much are they worth?
- Defying law and societal convention, Bertha Constantine resolves to honor her dead husband's wish to be buried in South Dakota's Badlands.
- A 30 minute DVD that follows the lives of six of Dayton Hyde's favorite wild mustangs at the Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary, South Dakota. We meet their friends and see what they like to do and where they like to hang out along with breath taking scenics of the Cheyenne River Canyon and the vast sanctuary prairie lands. A haunting sound track of indigenous Native American music captures the emotions of how we all feel watching these magnificent wild animals running free before us. We are reminded that there are positive solutions to wild horse management problems right here at the Sanctuary.
- A honeymoon couple chooses to tour the Northern United States rather than Europe. Their itinerary includes the northern Rockies, the Grand Tetons, and the Black Hills.
- Reservation Warparties is based on a true story, sprung from the memory of a ten-year-old Lakota boy. It shows what can happen when fun and games turn to danger under the influence of alcohol for Native Americans living on a reservation, while offering hope for the future.
- Governments and the uranium industry say the mining and milling of uranium provides high-paying and much-needed jobs in some of the most remote areas of the country, with manageable environmental risks. But it's an industry that has long attracted its share of controversy. This is a major concern for the Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary in western South Dakota, and other residents including environmental and conservation groups. The Sierra Club's Black Hills Group, says there's a high likelihood that aquifers will become polluted if an injection-well recovery system is used to mine the ore.
- SACRED GROUND shows the connection between Mount Rushmore and Wounded Knee. Mount Rushmore is an icon of the United States, attracting millions of visitors each year. The Wounded Knee Massacre site, only a two-hour drive away, receives just a handful of visitors each day. Mount Rushmore is carved into the granite spires of the Black Hills. To the Lakota, who where slaughtered at Wounded Knee, those hills are sacred. Today, Wounded Knee is in one of the poorest counties in the United States with a lower per capita income than Angola. By contrast, Mount Rushmore is a hub of tourism and commerce. Meet the people who live at, work at and visit each of the memorials.
- Crying Earth Rise Up is a compelling story of the human cost of uranium mining and its impact on the water, land and people of the Great Plains.
- A documentary on Russell Means, the Native American activist and actor.
- Short nature film depicting scenes from South Dakota's Black Hills National Forest. The film features a combination of time-lapse photography, aerials, and video to capture scenes from the forest. Outdoor recreation, wildlife, landscapes, and historical sites are covered.
- After a silent pandemic wipes Earth of its people, an unknown man awakens. His mind has gone. The world is vanished. All is lost. He begins piecing together a shattered life, and we begin to learn the fate of those who went before.
- Matt, Doc, and Festus are aboard a train in snow covered mountains when it is stopped by Indians who want 2 unknown passengers turned over to them for selling poisonous whiskey to them earlier.
- Matt avoids capture by the three Indian braves and continues on to the telegraph station. Exhausted, he finds out the telegraph lines are down. However, an advisory was issued before while the lines were still operating and Matt finds out who aboard the train sold the bad whiskey to the Indians. Matt borrows a horse from the telegraph operator and heads back to the train. Festus, meantime, is overpowered by panicky train passengers determined to give the Indians the guilty parties. They settle on two men who, it turns out, are deserters from the Army. The men protest, saying they had nothing to do with the whiskey. Matt gets back just in time to prevent the Indians from killing the soldiers. One of the guilty passengers tries to shoot it out with Matt but is killed. The other, whose pregnant wife is aboard the train, prepares to turn himself over to the Indians. Matt, however, convinces the Indians to let the surviving guilty man stand trial. The ordeal, while resolved, will cause major changes in the lives of the passengers, including an engaged couple, a pair of spinster sisters and a con man posing as a priest.
- Penn and Teller look at what it means to be patriotic. They look at Mount Rushmore which was built by a racist against the wishes of the native-Indian tribe.
- Predators didn't dominate the Cretaceous period - plant-eaters did. And their bodies were built to take a beating. The latest science reveals the anatomical secrets that made the earth's largest vegetarians successful.
- The advantages and disadvantages of the survival strategies of the maternal instincts of the herbivore Sauroposeidon and carnivore Tyranosaurus Rex.
- More than a million generations adapted dinosaurs to a changing planet. But each successful generation boils down to a single encounter between two like-minded reptiles. The latest science reveals the anatomical secrets to life and love among dinosaurs.
- This program presents Tyrannousaurus Rex as primarily a lumbering predator and secondarily a scavenger or cannibal. Deinonycus is presented as an agile, crafty pack hunter. Quetzalcoatlus was an observant, opportunistic predator that attacked easy prey and could make a quick getaway. The sensory and killing anatomy of each animal is examined in detail as well as its diet and predatory style.