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Moving pictures - with sound and everything!

Ready to sit for a spell? Rather watch and listen than walk and read? Well, how about a show then? Something entertaining and educational?

But no food or drink! We're not that fun.

The Drift

A film by Caldera Productions

Monday - Saturday, 12:15 PM, 3:15 PM;

Sunday, 3:15 PM

Cowboy. The word is synonymous with the mythology of the American West, and lives and breathes as the wild, stoic and fiercely independent men and women that run cattle in Wyoming’s Green River Drift. Follow the 100-mile journey into the majestic Rocky Mountains while unearthing a history that has spanned over 100 years of ups and downs and now modern challenges that threaten the cowboy and ranchers way of life forever.

Runtime: 57 minutes

Stay tuned after the program to witness the arrival of the 1526 steam engine to the Museum of the Great Plains!

Ropin' Fool

A silent film produced by Will Rogers

Monday - Saturday, 10:30 AM, 1:30 PM;

Sunday, 1:30 PM

This version of the 1922 silent film is narrated by Will Rogers, Jr., the son of the legendary Vaudeville comedian and Wild West show performer Will Rogers. Some of these rope tricks have to be seen to be believed!

Runtime: 11 minutes

Video footage was generously provided by the Will Rogers Memorial Museum. Stay tuned after the program to witness the arrival of the 1526 steam engine to the Museum of the Great Plains!

Choctaw Code Talkers

A documentary by Red-horse Native Productions

Monday - Saturday, 11:20 AM, 2:20 PM;

Sunday, 2:20 PM

In 1918, not yet citizens of the United States, Choctaw members of the American Expeditionary Forces were asked by the government to use their Native language as a powerful tool against the German Forces in World War I, setting a precedent for code talking as an effective military weapon and establishing them as America's Original Code Talkers.

Runtime: 56 minutes

Video footage of the 1526 steam engine's arrival to the Museum of the Great Plains plays immediately before the feature.

El Vaquero: The Forgotten Cowboy

A PBS documentary film

Monday - Saturday, 10:45 AM; 1:45, 4:15 PM

Sunday, 1:45, 4:30 PM

The unsung hero of the American West is the Mexican American "Vaquero," literally translated as "cowboy" in the Spanish language. Today, there are only a handful of these descendants of America's first cowboys since a rapidly changing industry has quickly made this lifestyle obsolete. Shot on location in South Texas, this moving documentary pays homage to a breed of men that history has overlooked as they continue a trade from an era gone by.

Runtime: 28 minutes

THE LAKOTA BERENSTAIN BEARS
"Trouble at School"

A collaboration between the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Lakota Language Consortium, and Berenstain Enterprises, Inc

Monday - Saturday, 10:15 AM; 1:15, 4:45 PM;

Sunday 1:15, 4:15 PM

When Brother pretends to be sick to avoid doing homework, it creates more problems than it solves.

The Lakota Berenstain Bears Project is a joint venture of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the Lakota Language Consortium. Voices of the characters are all from the Lakota-speaking Standing Rock, Cheyenne River, Pine Ridge, and Rosebud communities of North and South Dakota, and reflect all local dialects of the language.

Runtime: 14 minutes

ARRIVAL OF THE 1526

A home video by Archie Dunn

Monday - Saturday, 10:40,11:10 AM;

1:10, 1:40, 2:15, 4:10 PM;

Sunday, 1:40, 2:15, 4:10 PM

See footage of the Frisco 1526 steam engine as it inched to the Museum of the Great Plains in 1961! (Spoiler alert - tanks and a crane involved.)