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CAMPUS contains over 3000 National Film Board (NFB) films, features and resources in both English and French.
1) High noon
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A retired marshal's wedding is interrupted when he learns a killer he had sent to jail will return to town on the noon train to seek revenge.
2) Oklahoma!
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In Oklahoma, several farmers, cowboys and a traveling salesman compete for the romantic favors of various local ladies.
5) Go West
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With little luck at keeping a job in the city a New Yorker tries work in the country and eventually finds his way leading a herd of cattle to the West Coast.
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Set in a mining town in the 1880s, THOUSAND PIECES OF GOLD is based on the classic novel by Ruthanne Lum McCunn with a screenplay by award-winning filmmaker Anne Makepeace (Tribal Justice). Upon its release in 1990, the film won immediate acclaim for its portrayal of the real-life story of Lalu (Rosalind Chao), a young Chinese woman whose desperately poor parents sell her into slavery. She is trafficked to a nefarious saloonkeeper in Idaho's gold...
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Based on Patrick DeWitt's novel, THE SISTERS BROTHERS revolves around the colourfully named gold prospector Hermann Kermit Warm, who's being pursued across 1000 miles of 1850s Oregon desert to San Francisco by the notorious assassins Eli and Charlie Sisters. Except Eli is having a personal crisis and beginning to doubt the longevity of his chosen career. And Hermann might have a better offer.
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Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson star in Arthur Penn's intense and startlingly realistic western classic. Rancher David Braxton is a self-made man who has transformed his rugged land into a vast empire. So when his livestock, fortune and family are threatened by a ruthless horse thief (Nicholson), Braxton hires a sadistic bounty hunter (Brando) to track down the outlaw, initiating a complex series of events that result in brutality and savagery far...
9) Hickok
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In hopes of escaping his past as gunslinger and outlaw, “Wild Bill” Hickok has drifted to Abilene, Kansas to start a new life as town marshal. His efforts are challenged when saloon owner Poe attempts to destroy him and the town he calls home.
10) First Cow
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1820. A skilled cook (John Magaro) travels west and joins a group of fur trappers in Oregon, though he only finds true connection with a Chinese immigrant (Orion Lee) also seeking his fortune. Soon the two will collaborate on a successful business, although its longevity is reliant upon the clandestine participation of a nearby wealthy landowner’s prized milking cow.
11) Django
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A lone gunman dragging his own coffin behind him joins downtrodden townspeople to battle a sadistic colonel and his band of religious fanatics.
12) Hondo
Series
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A cavalry dispatch rider recovers from wounds at the isolated home of a woman and her young son and protects them from an Apache attack.
13) The Westerner
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Judge Roy Bean, a self-appointed hanging judge in Vinegarroon, Texas, befriends saddle tramp Cole Harden, who opposes Bean's policy against homesteaders. **Academy Award** winner.
14) Daughter of Dawn
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After disappearing for nearly a century, THE DAUGHTER OF DAWN returns to once again break boundaries for Native American cinema. An all-Indigenous cast directed by Norbert Myles tell the story of a love triangle amidst rising conflict between Kiowa and Comanche villages, featuring thrilling fight scenes, dance performances and more. Newly restored in 2K by the Oklahoma Historical Society, this subtly acted, beautifully conducted silent melodrama remains...
15) The Iron Horse
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After witnessing the murder of his father by a renegade as a boy, the grown-up Brandon helps to realize his father's dream of a transcontinental railway.
16) 49-17
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49-17 is a charming and suspenseful western parody about a millionaire who hires a Wild West theatrical troupe to relive his past as a miner forty niner. Every sacred western cow is turned on its ear: the patriarchal representative of the law, the Young Man, the Gambler, the saloon brawl, and the Woman.
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On his way to Australia, frontier opportunist Jason McCullough (James Garner) stumbles into a gold-rush town and decides to earn a little extra pocket money by accepting a temporary assignment as their sheriff. Happily applying himself, McCullough manages to turn the town derelict (Jack Elam) into his deputy, outsmart the dreaded Danby clan (led by Walter Brennan), and fend off the advances of the mayor's daughter (Joan Hackett)...all without breaking...
18) Black Pioneer
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A film about a Southern slave who trekked thousands of miles and rose to become a Western hero.
19) One-Eyed Jacks
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After robbing a Mexican bank, Dad Longworth takes the loot and leaves his partner Rio to be captured but Rio escapes and searches for Dad in California.
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Set in remote Colorado in 1893, TWO PLAINS & A FANCY follows three tourists: a Dandy Watercolorist, a Mystic/Reformed Confidence Woman, and a Lady Geologist from France, looking for the perfect geothermal hot spring spa. Over three nights and four days, the tourists trek deeper and deeper into the plains, deserts and mountains. And it’s somewhere between a classic Western travelogue and a really epic day at the mall. Official Selection at the BFI...
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