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- Earth is invaded by Martians with unbeatable weapons and a cruel sense of humor.
- The effects of a devastating nuclear holocaust on small-town residents of eastern Kansas.
- A vicious Kansas City slaughterhouse owner and his hick family are having a bloody "beef" with the Chicago crime syndicate over profits from their joint illegal operations. Top enforcer Nick Devlin is sent to straighten things out.
- After a traumatic accident, a woman becomes drawn to a mysterious abandoned carnival.
- Follows Linda Lovelace's fictional grass roots campaign to run for president.
- Through the eyes of a British "documentary", this film takes a satirically humorous, and sometimes frightening, look at the history of an America where the South won the Civil War.
- A young man returning home to attend a wedding hooks up with a drifter who turns out to be a violent bank robber. Before he knows it, the man finds himself involved in the robber's plans.
- A young lady is kept away from boys by her overprotective mother because flames tend to spontaneously erupt whenever her hormones are aroused; for her, "protection" on a dinner date is carrying a fire extinguisher.
- Sentimental drama about an aging man's fond reminiscences of his relationship with his grandfather in 1950 midwest and the time they spent together raising racing pigeons.
- In a small California town, three young men decide to make money by hijacking a school bus full of children and demanding a ransom for the safe return of the kids.
- Without a trace, Susie Potter vanished from her home in the quiet town of Skidmore, Missouri. Ten years later two reporters uncover a harrowing new detail, which leads them on an obsessive hunt for the truth through the dark labyrinth of rural northwest Missouri.
- Beautiful young Daisy feels stuck working as a shopgirl by day and caring for her ailing mother by night. A suicide gone wrong leaves Daisy wrongly imprisoned, while the neighbor whose testimony put her away struggles with guilt. A tongue-in-cheek homage to 1950s women-in-prison films.
- Story of the rise and fall of 1920s' Ku Klux Klan leader D.C. Stephenson.
- A cautionary training film for those who operate and repair heavy equipment. Vignettes show men taking short cuts in their work, doing things they aren't trained for, neglecting to warn a less-experienced worker, using the wrong tool or a tool that's in disrepair, ignoring proper safety practices, trying to appear macho in front of fellow workers, thinking their reflexes are quicker than they are, working while distracted, and generally putting themselves and others at risk. The film is punctuated by the song, "Shake Hands with Danger," the story of Three-Finger Joe. Filmed using Caterpillar equipment.
- Set in Kansas during the early 1900s, a teen-aged Native American boy (newcomer Winter Fox Frank) is taken from his family and forced to attend a distant Indian "training" school to assimilate into White society. When he escapes to return to his family, Sam Franklin (Wes Studi), a bounty hunter of Cherokee descent, is hired to find and return him to the institution. Franklin, a former Indian scout for the U.S. Army, has renounced his Native heritage and has adopted the White Man's way of life, believing it's the only way for Indians to survive. Along the way, a tragic incident spurs Franklin's longtime nemesis, the famous "Indian Fighter" Sheriff Henry McCoy (J. Kenneth Campbell), to pursue both Franklin and the boy.
- A young couple dances through the extremes of human passion -- from lust to love, from obsession to murder!
- The Maguire family is forced to take sudden refuge from a deadly tornado in a seemingly-abandoned storm cellar.
- Therapist John Loeb is on a mission to chemically erase the traumatic memories surrounding the death of his wife. How far would you go to forget?
- When former Wall Street executive Peter Salem is released from prison, he heads for the small town of Bunker Hill, Kansas, where his ex-wife and their children have started a new life. Soon after he arrives in town, all power is lost - there is no electricity, and cars and computers suddenly shut down. Community leaders are at a loss to explain. Is it the rapture? A massive terrorist attack? Aliens? Cut off from the world, the town's militant past is reawakened and forces coalesce to protect citizens from an unseen enemy, represented to some by Mr. Farook, an elderly Pakistani immigrant who owns the local convenience store. The town's fear leads to the creation of a posse of gunmen, resulting in torture, illegal searches and eventually, murder.
- The Listeners follows new volunteer trainees in suicide prevention as they answer suicide hotlines. Through their eyes and ears the film examines mental health and suicide prevention, volunteerism and the life-saving power of empathy.
- The shocking story of Rev. Fred Phelps, the Westboro Baptist Church, those who oppose it, and those who chose to leave it all behind.
- A portrait of Nicole Sherry, head groundskeeper for the Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards - one of only two women in that position in Major League Baseball.
- Daniel loses his wife and son in a car accident. While slowly recovering from his injuries, he rebuilds his son's video camera that was destroyed in the crash. Infused with power from the moment of the crash, the camera develops the ability to stop time when Daniel presses the pause button. This discovery restores Daniel's purpose, and he fills the vacuum in his life by taking responsibility for another victim, Sarah, a newlywed who lost her husband in the same accident. At first Daniel only watches her, then tries to improve her life in small ways. But using his power to "help" becomes an addiction, and the vastness of Daniel's power can do only one thing...corrupt him.
- When her mother suffers a heart attack, successful New York writer Stephanie Golden sets aside her job and fiancé to return to her hometown in Kansas. There she finds a family in turmoil and her younger sister Monica sinking into the dark world of drug addiction.
- David Conrad is a college professor and sometimes philanderer raising three children in a small Kansas suburb with his wife Kelly. When sudden tragedy strikes the family in the days before Christmas, David and Kelly's marriage is brought to its breaking point and David's desire for retribution leads him into uncharted moral territory with the question: what can we forgive?
- Directed by Oscar winner Kevin Willmott, No Place Like Home takes you on a tour of a deep red state, to meet people who have found themselves in a battle for LGBTQ rights in the most unlikely places. In places like rural Trego County, Salina and Topeka, you'll meet some of the people C.J. Janovy profiles in her book No Place Like Home: Lessons in Activism in LGBT Kansas (University Press of Kansas, January 2018). You'll also meet emerging activists - ordinary people doing extraordinary things, all because they're committed to securing justice for everyone in their home state.
- The story of real-life crop artist Stan Herd. In 1994, Stan risked everything and traveled from Kansas to New York City to create a massive environmental artwork on land owned by Donald Trump.
- A recent college graduate house sitting for her ailing grandfather finds herself caught in a deadly cat-and-mouse game with thieves who become haunted by something protecting her in the mysterious mansion.
- A group of unlikely allies modernized college sports and changed a small Midwestern town, serving as a parallel to the Civil Rights movement that would transform the entire American society.
- The life and legacy of Dr. James Naismith, inventor of the game of basketball and its 13 original rules, is told through the mission of his grandson, Ian, who travels the country in an RV, carrying the original rules in a golden attache case, spreading the cause of sportsmanship.
- Joseph "The Profit" Smith is an engaging, gregarious seven-foot pro basketball All Star. He is also the poster child for the bad athlete, a womanizer, selfish, immature and irresponsible. He has burned through 70 million dollars in nine years. And now, two bad marriages, baby mamas, a series of lousy investments, a bum knee and a potentially life-threatening heart condition have landed him back at his college campus in Iowa to rehab his bad knee for a final season that will earn him much needed full retirement benefits. Invited by his esteemed former coach to mentor young All American Jamal "Big Chest" Chesterfield, Profit reestablishes relationships in his college town with his world-weary former drug dealer and his ex girlfriend Maggie, who is now an Athletics Department NCAA compliance attorney. When his nefarious agent comes up with a plan that would ensure the retirement money he so desperately needs, plus a nice kickback from the proceeds of Jamal's first multimillion dollar professional contract, Profit is faced with the kind of adult dilemma he has steadfastly avoided - should he take the deal and enjoy the ride, or man-up, confront the corruption and live with the consequences?
- A man's relationships begin falling apart as his dream world threatens to rupture reality.
- 'Race to World First' documents the struggles, triumphs, and frustrations of the 25-man World of Warcraft guild Blood Legion as it prepares to beat the newest bosses released within the game by Blizzard Entertainment. This is a global battle between 12 million people and competition is intense. As the race gets underway, the film broadens in scope to include players from Finland, Russia, Australia, Great Britain, Greece, and Germany. They discuss what it takes to compete at the highest level, and the rivalries and life/game conflicts that inevitably arise. 'Race to World First' redefines the image of the gamer, focusing on the commitment, cooperation, and tremendous diversity within this culture. For gamers both proud and closeted.
- A black-gloved killer stalks the guests of a fabulous resort! It's up to world famous detective Miss Mandrake to solve this string of brutal slayings. But can she unmask the murderer before he strikes again? More importantly, does ...she even want to?
- As the peaceful town is disrupted by an unusual death, Sheriff Manduque becomes entangled in a web of deception orchestrated by the enigmatic Carson, split between burying the town's secrets and discovering the truth.
- A teen drops out of a gang when they mug his father for his pencil.
- Lying about having cancer can sometimes be the best way to heal.
- Don and Nicky journey to the big city one night, and pick up two trashy girls who smoke cigarettes and--even worse--wear eye makeup, so naturally they have sex. The next night Don, newly un-virginized, persuades his girlfriend Betty to have sex with him, too. Soon Don and Nicky discover that they have sores and itching "down there", and Don goes to see the school doctor. He is told that he has syphilis, and to tell Betty and have her get examined. It turns out she has syphilis, too. Can their disease, caused by Don's outrageous behavior--which, as the doctor sternly notes, "is condemned by society"--be successfully treated in time?
- Directed by renowned independent filmmaker Kevin Willmott and narrated by acclaimed broadcast journalist Bill Kurtis, William Allen White will re-introduce the "Sage of Emporia" to new generations in a society that could benefit from a bit of his prairie wisdom. Utilizing materials housed at Emporia State University, The Emporia Gazette, the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Kansas and other outlets, the documentary team will interview historians, journalists and members of the White family, and offer a modern perspective about one of America's most illustrious figures, a journalistic giant who advised presidents and world leaders, befriended the greatest thinkers of his time, and was never shy about tackling the most controversial and complex issues. In the process the team will also create an 8 to 12-minute short video for use in secondary schools and college classrooms.
- Cindy, a 12-year-old tomboy, is devastated when she learns that she hasn't been invited to a neighborhood birthday party. That night in bed, her fairy godmother visits her, tells her enough with this tomboy baloney, gives her a frilly new party dress and some rules on how proper young girls are to behave at parties.
- Pretty, bright high school student Jean is in no hurry to start her homework--not when she has comic books and the radio to keep her occupied. Her mother is tired of Jean's procrastination.
- Gloire and Stella look back on their relationship in therapy.
- The life and legacy of Leo Beuerman. A disabled and disfigured man living in Lawrence in the 1950s and '60s.
- Old short about the importance of good platform posture and how we can improve it through the simple knee test.
- A musical romp through the Ozark Mountains with a handful of rascally modern-day hillbillies.
- Clint, Derek and Ben, three young bachelors who think they have life figured out. But when Clint is confronted by the return of the one who got away, he is forced to re-examine his lifestyle. Clint's quest for answers sends the household into tumult. Derek questions the solidarity of his relationship, beginning a quest to recapture his single days. Meanwhile, Ben struggles to find compromise between his desire and his gentlemanly ways. Can old flames be rekindled? Can you ever be sure you've found the right one? Do nice guys always finish last? They hope to find answers but the lines between love, lust and desperation may be more blurred than they ever believed.
- Character-driven story of the politics and motivations behind the school board decision to challenge the teaching of evolution in Kansas public schools. Kansas educators and scientists organize a worldwide boycott of the hearings, which some say confuses the issues. Participating school board members admit they don't believe in evolution at the outset and some admit they don't understand the science presented by the witnesses. All witnesses brought in by Intelligent Design Network. Film shows both sides with in-depth, revealing interviews and 3-camera coverage of the hearings.
- The film provides insight into the public health efforts to combat the spread of syphilis. The infection has gotten out of control in a small town where local health officials seek assistance from the state health department. Help comes in the form of a health representative who interviews young people who are infected in order to identify others who are at risk of being infected. He then attempts to notify those exposed so that they can obtain testing and treatment. Though techniques have been refined and modified, this public health strategy is still utilized by health departments today for a variety of infections.
- A student suffers the consequences of cheating.