Bilforhandleren Jerry Lundegaard er i økonomiske vanskeligheder. For at løse problemet hyrer han to forbrydere til kidnappe sin egen kone. Da hans svigerfar er stenrig, så håber Jerry, at han kan få en klækkelig løsesum. Snart viser det sig at han har allieret sig med to af Minnesotas mest uduelige fyre. Det bliver ikke bedre for Jerry, da den snarådige politkvinde Marge Gunderson begynder at kigge på sagen.

Based on a true story, this riveting western follows a headstrong New York widow as she journeys west to meet Sioux chief Sitting Bull, facing off with an army officer intent on war with Native Americans.

I 1983 Owl, North Dakota, livet for tre beboere – den ældre Horace, som bruger sine eftermiddage på at mindes i den lokale kaffebar; teenage Mitch, deprimeret backup quarterback stjerne spiller-power-hest; og den nyudnævnte engelsklærer på gymnasiet Julia – sammen med de af byens andre beboere bliver de oprejst af en historisk whiteout snestorm.

Efter deres søn dør, og deres svigerdatter gifter sig påny med en voldelig mand, drager et aldrende par ud for at redde deres barnebarn fra hans magtfulde nye familie.

Da Dan O’Grady returnerer til USA efter at have besøgt Irland, medbringer han en krukke med guld han fandt for foden af regnbuen. Desværre er troldens, som ejer guldet, fulgt med og vil gøre alt for at få krukken med de 100 guldstykker retur. Det lykkes næsten, men det ender alligevel med, at han (trolden) spærres inde i en kasse i kælderen og Grady ender på plejehjemmet uden at nogen tror på hans historie om en trold. 10 år går og ind i huset flytter Tori (spillet af en meget ung og smuk Jennifer Aniston) og hendes far. Et familieteam af tre malere skal hjælpe med at få huset i stand og de falder over kassen med trolden, som tilfældigvis undslipper. Og han har ikke glemt, at der stadig er 100 stykker guld han skal have. Snart går jagten ind og vi oplever hvor grum sådan en bette karl kan være.

Frustrated with her mundane life, a Tokyo office worker becomes obsessed with a fictional movie that she mistakes for a documentary. Fixating on a scene where stolen cash is buried in North Dakota, she travels to America to find it.

Familien Solomon tager fra storbyen for at leve livet på en afsides solsikkefarm i North Dakota. Landidyllen blegner dog noget, da datteren Jess begynder at se spøgelser, der nok ikke vil familien det bedste. Men kun Jess kan se de uhyggelige genfærd, og hun har sit hyr med at overbevise resten af familien om den voksende fare i det hjemsøgte spøgelseshus.

For years, Ollie has illicitly helped the struggling residents of her North Dakota oil boomtown access Canadian health care and medication. When the authorities catch on, she plans to abandon her crusade, only to be dragged in even deeper after a desperate plea for help from her sister.

Nightclub singer Joan Gordon runs away from her gangster boyfriend to become a mail-order bride to a struggling North Dakota farmer. Their relationship has a rocky start, but just as Joan realizes she's developing feelings for her husband, her old boyfriend arrives to win her back.

In September 2012, the tiny prairie town of Leith, North Dakota, sees its population of 24 grow by one. As the new resident's behavior becomes more threatening, tensions soar, and the residents desperately look for ways to expel their unwanted neighbor.

Desperate, broken men chase their dreams and run from their demons in the North Dakota oil fields. A local Pastor's decision to help them has extraordinary and unexpected consequences.

In this evocative meditation, a disturbing link is made between the resource extraction industries’ exploitation of the land and violence inflicted on Indigenous women and girls. Or, as one young woman testifies, “Just as the land is being used, these women are being used.”

An outlaw is rescued from death by a nun who is traveling through the Badlands. She nurses him back to health in exchange for him guiding her to a Church in Williston. A deep friendship develops between these two unlikely people as they learn to work together to survive their dangerous journey.

In North Dakota an Indian nation finds itself at a critical moment in its long history. The Three Affiliated Tribes face catastrophic damage to their land and culture as a result of the recent oil boom on the Fort Berthold Reservation.

Linguist Indrek Park has been working with Native American languages for over ten years. The film sees him recording the language of the Mandan tribe, who live in the prairies of North Dakota, on the banks of the Missouri River. The job involves a lot of responsibility, and he is running out of time – his language guide, the 84-year-old Edwin Benson, is the last native speaker of Mandan.

An oil boom has drawn thousands to America’s Northern Plains in search of work. Against the backdrop of a cruel North Dakota winter, the stories of three children and an immigrant mother intertwine among themes of innocence, home, and the American Dream.

A look back at the murders of Barbara and Gordon Erickstad, who were brutally killed in their North Dakota home by their son, 18-year-old Brian Erickstad, and his friend, 27-year-old Robert Lawrence in September 1998.

A criminal on the run stumbles across the isolated farmhouse of an eccentric blind widow, and her charm, humor, and vulnerability lead to an unlikely romance.

Charles Murphy, a jaded detective ready to skip town for Christmas, receives his strangest case yet when a man is tragically drowned by eggnog.

This is the true story how one person made a difference in the lives of over 125 people by rescuing them from Nazi Germany. In 1903 Herman Stern arrived in America at the age of 15. He could not have imagined, 30 years later, he would be helping others come to America to escape persecution from his home country of Germany. There has been very little written about Herman Stern and his goal to save relatives, extended family and even strangers from possible death and persecution in the 1930’s in Nazi Germany. This project focuses on Herman Stern’s leadership skills and desire to help all in society as well as his civic and economic contributions to North Dakota. Video Arts Studios has produced an award winning video documentary as well as an accompanying lesson plan for schools, which have been distributed electronically to North Dakota schools via the ND University Systems. The video has also been made available to North Dakota libraries, museums and service organizations.