Fave Westerns

A cynical Buffalo Bill hires Sitting Bull to exploit him and add his credibility to the distorted view of history presented in his Wild West Show.

On 25th June, 1876, the Sioux and the Cheyenne, under Chief Sitting Bull, defeated the U.S. 7th Cavalry, under Lieut. Col. George Armstrong Custer, in the battle of the Little Bighorn. Sent against the Plains Indians to drive them out of the Black Hills of Dakota and back onto the reservations, Custer's last stand became one of the most controversial battles fought on American soil. Using original drawings and photographs, as well as limited reconstruction and aerial photography of the site, this film first traces the course of the battle and then establishes the historic background to the issues that led to the confrontation and its tragic aftermath.

A lieutenant assigned to a remote Civil War outpost starts questioning his purpose after making contact with a neighboring Sioux settlement.

Told from the perspective of contemporary Lakota people, this video explores the life of Crazy Horse (Tasunke Witko). Viewers see the natural world of the Dakotas, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Montana that Crazy Horse knew. His spiritual nature is discussed, as are his unique qualities as a leader. The final portion of the video examines his role at the Battle of Little Bighorn, his resistance against reservation life, and his violent death at Fort Robinson in 1877. Lakota people share what Crazy Horse means in their world today. The video features original music created for this story. Sharing their insights are Lakota historians Jace DeCory, Donovin Sprague, and Wilmer Mesteth.

Tells the story of the Si Tanka Wokiksuye; 'The Bigfoot Memorial Ride'. At first a small group, but eventually 300 Lakota Sioux Indian horseback riders with support crews of hundreds more, rode for two weeks through bitter, sub-zero winter weather, reverently praying and mourning over the lives lost exactly 100 years earlier at The Wounded Knee Massacre.

An aging group of outlaws in 1913 Texas look for one last big score, selling stolen Army rifles to a rogue Mexican general during that country's revolution, as the traditional American West is disappearing around them.

A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team.

A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene.

Robert Ford, who has idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the resurgent gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually becomes resentful of the bandit leader.

An American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm.

After they rob a bank in Mexico, Dad Longworth absconds with the loot leaving his partner, Rio, to be captured by the Rurales. 5 years later, Rio escapes from prison and seeks revenge on Longworth, but falls in love with his step-daughter.

In 1820, a cook travels to Oregon, where he meets a Chinese immigrant who is also looking to make his fortune. Soon, they team up in a dangerous scheme to steal milk from a prized local cow, the first and only in the territory.

Through a hidden path, a lone rider reaches a little town high up in the Alps. Nobody knows where the stranger comes from, nor what he wants there. But everyone knows that they don't want him to stay.

A father and daughter journey from Denmark to an unknown desert that exists in a realm beyond the confines of civilization.

In the dead of a Wyoming winter, a bounty hunter and his prisoner find shelter in a cabin currently inhabited by a collection of nefarious characters.

A bounty-hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.

Spirit of Crazy Horse is an experimental short filled with masks, music, and movement that creates a visual and lyrical celebration of the Lakota, Crazy Horse, and the American Great Plains while challenging the viewers to reflect on the ways the lands were and are being used. Act 1 Scene 4 of 'It Was a Beautiful Country' A Rock Opera written by Dean Wellman. celebrating the Native American reverence for Mother Earth and Nature. This song was written by Jeff Hill and recorded with permission by The Medicine Band. Shot on location and edited by Dean Wellman this film is intended to bring awareness to the plight of Native Americans as well as their reverence for nature and how that reverence can relate to all people today.

The life and times of the great Lakota chief Sitting Bull, told mostly from his own words and that of his contemporaries. An intimate in-depth portrait of one of America's great historical figures.

Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.

The story of a young boy who witnesses Billy the Kid's encounter with Sheriff Pat Garrett.

A mysterious stranger and a random act of violence drag a town of misfits and nitwits into the bloody crosshairs of revenge.

From the moment the new Reverend climbs the pulpit, Liz knows that she and her family are in great danger.

With the help of a German bounty-hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal plantation owner in Mississippi.

A small-time rancher agrees to hold a captured outlaw who's awaiting a train to go to court in Yuma. A battle of wills ensues as the outlaw tries to psych out the rancher.