Ellen, una pistolera solitaria, giunge nella cittadina di Redemption, dominata dal perfido Herod. Costui organizza ogni anno un torneo tra pistoleri, al vincitore del quale andrà una cospicua quantità di dollari.

I quarantenni Mitch Robbins, Ed Furillo e Phil Berquist, amici da sempre, si svegliano una mattina e scoprono che la loro vita è trascorsa senza lasciare un vero senso. Inutili le vacanze in Spagna ed i brividi di Mitch alla corrida di San Fermin a Pamplona: inutili e pericolosi gli excursus extraconiugali di Phil con la cassiera del supermarket del suocero; quanto ad Ed, non bastano la giovinezza e la bellezza di Kim, la fotomodella con cui vive, ad appagarlo. Ed ecco una vacanza diversa, una di quelle organizzate per turisti vogliosi di ritrovare quel contatto con la natura ormai perduto da generazioni nelle grandi città: il "cattle drive": i tre per due settimane si devono comportare come del veri cowboys: devono imparare a stare a cavallo, a lanciare il lazo ed a recuperare le vacche fuggite.

Call him a city slicker. Call him a tenderfoot. But don't call him a member of the family--yet. Rising L.A. lawyer James White is going home for the holidays with his fiancée, Sadie Ryder, to finally meet her family in rural Pine Gap. After blundering through a bad first impression, James attempts to win over Sadie's lawyer-loathing father Karl by pretending to be a horse-riding, hay-baling, game-hunting, seasoned square dancer. But a pair of worn jeans and a ten-gallon hat don't make a cowboy, and it's going to take more than mere posturing to charm Mr. Ryder... in fact, it just might take a miracle.

La grande distesa della prateria americana. Gli operatori Disney utilizzano tecniche ingegnose e innovative per catturare la magia della natura che ancora resiste nella prateria americana.

A group of women contracted a strange fever and a former sheriff is responsible for taking them to the hospital in the nearest town, but in their way they will encounter a gang of murderers. His only hope is a woman whose beauty is matched only by his skill with weapons.

A homesteading family in 1867 Wyoming faces a crisis when the husband is killed and the wife must decide whether to remain or take her son and daughter back East.

Kansas, 1910. Widowed farmer Jacob Witting finds that taking care of both his farm and two children, Anna and Caleb, is too difficult to handle alone. John takes out an ad in a newspaper for a mail-order bride, to which the "plain and tall" Sarah Wheaton answers, soon traveling from Maine to Kansas to become John's wife. Despite the love that grows between Sarah and the family, Sarah finds herself homesick, and she must ultimately choose whether or not to stay.

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, they're faced with an even greater challenge after their arrival: an ailing and bedridden Almanzo is unable to tend their new land. With winter fast on its way, Laura attempts to clear the land herself and plant the acres of apple trees that they hope will ensure their future.

Maximilian Glick è un ragazzino ebreo che vive in una famiglia tradizionalista degli anni Cinquanta. Le regole che gli vengono imposte non permettono a Maximilian di fare ciò che desidera come ad esempio dichiararsi a una ragazza di religione cattolica. Ma quando giunge in città un nuovo rabbino, le cose cambiano in maniera inaspettata...

It's the winter of 1935 and Max Brown is newly arrived in Willowgreen, Saskatchewan - a rural Canadian prairie town - on his first teaching job in a one room schoolhouse. He quickly realizes that this is not a dream situation: the winter is harsher than he's ever experienced, he's living in the basement of the school, the older of his students treat him poorly and his wages are paltry if and when he ever does get paid.

Minnesota 1880: The trust of three Norwegian sisters is tested when a stranger appears on their prairie. When the eldest invites him in to heal her dying sister, she doesn’t realize that a supernatural force is crossing her threshold.

In a post-apocalyptic future, a wheat farmer embarks upon a journey and encounters a variety of unusual characters, while traveling across the land.

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, evangelical household.

Phainesthai explores the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve that is located at the geographical center of the United States and is considered one of the most scarce and endangered ecosystems in the world. The film is an experiential non-verbal documentary addressing how geological and ecological memory can engage individual experience by the embodiment of place with human understanding and aspirations.

A prairie landscape undergoes a metamorphosis: rural idyll to over-urbanized dystopia. Director Anne Koizumi laments the changing face of her hometown of Calgary in this critique of the bacteria-like spread of suburbia and exurbia. This film was made as part of the third edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.