American Midwest Movies

Coming back during Winter, Alex Powell explores both the places and personal connections found in his hometown and how they've changed. “Guide...

When the immigrants came to America, their cultures entered the "great melting pot." In Michigan's Upper Peninsula Finnish immigrants mixed their...

Mom and Me takes a look at tough guys and the even tougher women who raise them. Set in Oklahoma City, apparently voted the manliest city in the...

In 1979, Louis Malle films the thriving lives of a Minnesota farming community, but returns six years later to document its drastic economic decline,...

A severe storm unearths past and alternate lives of a midwestern farmhand.

A person performs routine tasks and relaxing activities to fight a troubling zeitgeist.

Despite Blacks making up only 7% of Madison WI's population, they are leading in so many important areas from education to politics, and are...

In 2004 a group of friends took the stage at a small coffee house in Dekalb Illinois with the sole purpose of pissing off everyone. Surprisingly,...

Brad Tolan is a martial arts instructor who moves to De Soto to open a karate school. he is framed by chief deputy George and his partner officer...

In the 1970s, a bubbly photographer falls in love with a charming man, only to realize that he's not the person she believed him to be.

A teenage runaway and a widowed father each fight to take matters into their own hands to redeem their dark past.

Celebrate the 150th anniversary of the short-lived but far-reaching American Institution The Pony Express by following a historical re-enactment...

A fascinating, fun-filled trip with segments on the 1884 courthouse riots, the 1937 Ohio River flood, Tony Trabert, Ezzard Charles, the Reds, the...

Two public broadcast employees, tired of their dead-end jobs, set out to make a documentary proving aliens exist in a small Minnesotan farming...

Dauph returns home to face her father's impending death. Outside of town, a crop circle has appeared. Their search for hope leads them to its center.

The Iowa State Fair draws millions of people to the city of Des Moines every year. However, this film is not about the Iowa State Fair or the people...

Behind the Bucket is a documentary following members of the 501st Legion--Star Wars Enthusiasts--showing how they are much more than adults playing...

Take another trip through yesterday's Cincinnati, and its people, places, and events, which includes highlights of Cincinnati's Bicentennial...

Douglas Privett is a young musician who returns to the small mid-western town of his childhood to see Ezrela Mae Privett, the ailing grandmother...

Three stories that take place in Jennings Lodge, a provincial town in the US.