Ellen rijdt met een bepaalde reden het kleine en saaie prairiestadje Redemption binnen. Wanneer Ellen de plaatselijke saloon bezoekt wordt daar net de jaarlijkse schietwedstrijd 'Quick Draw' georganiseerd door de charismatische John Herod, die het in Redemption voor het zeggen heeft.

Mitch is van beroep wit- en bruingoed verkoper in de grote stad en van middelbare leeftijd. Hij en zijn vrienden Ed en Phil zitten midden in hun midlife crisis. Ze hebben besloten dat het mooiste verjaardagscadeau voor een man een vakantie is in het 'Wilde Westen', om vervolgens gezamenlijk een grote kudde vee naar Mexico te drijven op de ouderwetse manier.

De documentaire concentreert zich op het deel van de Verenigde Staten dat wordt begrensd door de Rocky Mountains en de Mississippi Rivier. Na een korte opsomming van uitgestorven diersoorten toont de film ons diverse 'bedreigde' diersoorten, zoals de 'Whooping Crane', de buffel, de 'prong-horn'-antilopen, de 'big-horn'-schapen en de prairiehond. Terwijl de mensheid duidelijk schuldig is aan het uitsterven van veel dierensoorten, waarop de filmtitel zinspeelt, toont de film eveneens hoe verschillende diersoorten deelnemen aan een proces van natuurlijke selectie. Verder zien we nog een scène met de geboorte van een kalf bij een buffel.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Maximilian Glick is een joodse jongen die in een traditionalistisch gezin uit de jaren vijftig leeft. De hem opgelegde regels staan ​​Maximiliaan niet toe te doen wat hij wil, zoals uitgaan met een katholiek meisje. Maar als er een nieuwe rabbijn naar de stad komt, veranderen de zaken onverwachts...

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.

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.