oklahoma

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oklahoma

The obstinate land

1977
During a hard winter the father of a pioneering German family settling the Cherokee strip in Oklahoma freezes to death and his fourteen-year-old son must assume responsibility for the struggling family.

Storm warning

the story of a killer tornado
2007

Staring at sound

the true story of Oklahoma's fabulous Flaming Lips
2006

Jim Thorpe

world's greatest athlete
1995
Traces the life of the Oklahoma Indian farm boy who became an Olympic gold medal winner and a professional athlete.

Grady's in the silo

2003
Grady the Hereford cow gets stuck in the silo of Bill and Alyne's farm in Yukon, Oklahoma. Based on an actual event that occurred in 1949.

Out of the dust

2006
In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.

The innocent man

2006
Presents the real-life case of Ron Williamson, a mentally ill former baseball player who was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death for the 1982 murder of a 21-year-old woman in his Oklahoma hometown.

The revenant

2011
Willie, having accepted a teaching job at the Cherokee Female Seminary under the name of a classmate, begins to question her belief in ghosts and is forced to face her past when strange things start happening at the school and she hears students discussing the death of a girl who is rumored to haunt the room in which Willie is staying.

Sacred ground

1995
Jennifer Talldeer is a private investigator in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the granddaughter of a powerful Osage Medicine Man. Her two worlds draw closer together when a routine insurance investigation begins to look like a fraud.

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