Good old homesteading movies rentals...

North to Alaska .....John Wayne

The Savage Innocence.....Anthony Quinn

Swiss Family Robinson

Robinson Crusoe

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Country (NOT pure country with George Strait)

Excellent farm movie that really hits home with most folks.

We are about to get a DVD player and go with Netflix as Dish raised our rates. Love this thread and need more ideas for good movies in general for ourselves. We liked The River and the one with Sally Field where her husband dies and she is forced to pick cotton to make a living; can't remember the title. We also liked the one with James Garner and Sally Field. It was filmed where we live. Can't remember the title either. Off the subject but a good movie is Finding Forrester with Sean Connery. I liked Man Without a Face with Mel Gibson too. Keep those movie titles coming.

:haha: When I saw your thread the first thing I thought of was "The Egg and I"..Ma and Pa Kettle's first film. Stars Fred McMurry and I think Claudette Coldbert'. Talk about a homesteading film. IT's the ultimate! LOL

have fun.........LQ

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one with Sally Field where her husband dies and she is forced to pick cotton to make a living; can't remember the title


That would be, if I am remembering correctly...Places in the heart
I love her movies. I love old movies in general,

Far and Away (1992)
Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise-set around the "land rush" and how they got there

Ever After
Drew Barrymore, the "cinderella story" Not so much homesteading but I love the catles and the wide open spaces


The Man from Snowy river



Dead Man's Walk-Gus and Call's first adventure (from Lonesome Dove)

A few more I thought of. . .

"The Doll Maker" with Jane Fonda (eeek, but she actually played the role well).

Also, "The House," a more modern story about a broken family which is brought together by the husband's following of his dream to hand-build a house in the country.

And, although not really a homesteading movie, "Bastard out of Carolina" was a good one for when you can handle something pretty intense. Set in the rural south, it is the story of a young girl marked with the brand of illegitimacy whose "rebar up the a**" attitude allows her to overcome tremendous abuse at the hands of a jealous step-father and a passively narcissistic mother. Beautiful acting and extremely touching portrayal of a young girl who shows a spirit and integrity far beyond that of any of her elders.

I also liked "A Home of Our Own,"--previously mentioned. It is about a depression-era single mother with children who, unable to make a meaningful life in the city, heads out with nothing but what can fit in the car to find a home in the country. The mother, played by Kathy Bates (excellent) has nothing but pure guts, and the unwillingness to accept failure, to make it happen.

There was another one--I can't remember the name--about a homesteading woman whose knowledge that she is dying causes her to advertise for a new wife for her husband. I'm thinking that Farrah Fawcett played the role of the young woman who awkwardly comes to live with the couple as a wife and mother in training.

I like "The Mosquito Coast with Harrison Ford. He's in a homesteading setting by choice but he's really not a homesteader at heart.

I should also qualify that this is a homesteading gone bad story

Anne of Green Gables - loved the tv movies and books. I think it's 4 parts.

PBS also did a conclusion - Anne of Avonlea - but it wasn't nearly as good as the original series. They strayed too far from the books, in my opinion.

Another good TV show is Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman. This a great thread keep the ideas comming.

amelia, they filmed that series in Montana. I watched it.
That was a wonderful program. I would love to purchase that along with many other PBS series for a fantastic video library.


DrippingSprings, it IS called Pure Country!


Just gotta add this too. Yeehaw!


almostthere, I remember that movie.
She had her husbands dead body lying out on the table with quarters on his eyes!!

I always enjoyed Dr. Quinn. Before that, there was a TV series called "Paradise" in which gunfighter Ethan Allen, the unwitting inheritant of his deceased sister's children, finds himself in an unlikely romance with Amelia Lawson. Does anyone remember it?

I would love to get a hold of taped reruns of these TV series but have no idea how you would ever find them.

PLACES IN THE HEART!!! I thought I was gonna loose my mind trying to think of that one.... You see, the embarrasing truth is..... It was shot about 2 miles from my home (I still consider it home) in Waxahachie.

The opening montage is of the beautiful Court House of Ellis County on the square. The house got painted blue.. used for a couple of other movies.... and them we moved away..... :waa:

But, the movie is good. Also stars Danny Glouber (sp?), John Malkovich, and even has "Mr. Peppermint" as the sherriff in the beginning on the porch. He was a kiddie program out of WFAA in Dallas back in the dark ages. LOL

OH.. another good one.. it's a bit different.. but REALLY gets to the point of how one has a 'heart' for homesteading. "The Trip To Bountiful".

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My favorites some are homesteading, some are family orientated and some are for adults.

The Little House Pilot Episode (2hrs)

Anne of Green Gables miniseries

How Green Was My Valley (set in a 19th century Wales mining community,BW long)

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn ( not HS but family and survival orientated)

National Velvet (early 20th century Scotland, horses)

The Quiet Man (Am. boxer seeks quit life in Ireland, gets more than he expected)

Meet Me in St. Louis ( the value of home and family)

Have Gun Will Travel series ( CBS western about an intelligent, charming bounty hunter, some adult themes)

I usually read and will go back to many favorite books. I've seen several of the movies mentioned above and enjoyed them.

I have all the books Betty MacDonald wrote, also 2-3 her sister wrote. They are much better than the movies. (The Egg and I) It also helps to have spent a lot of time in the Northwest to appreciate them to the fullest.

I'd give a lot for a full collection of "Northern Exposure", the TV series. That was one of the best series ever. Will you ever forget the piano fling?

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Country Wishes mentioned '' The Quiet Man'' with John Wayne... My alltime favourite *homesteading* movie. My next fovourite is ''Lonesome Dove''. Imagine overcoming THOSE odds?

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NOPE not the one I am talking about.

here is the one I was talking about

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087091/

Oscar nominated etc etc. When they are auctioning off all their belongings because of foreclosure it was a very emotional moment. By far one of the best movies of all time. I suggest anyone that has ever grown up on a working farm rent this one. It is so real on so many levels its like watching your own life on the screen. People moving their animals from farm to farm to try and stay away from the foreclosures. The banks pressuring the farmers into taking extra loans only to use it later to take their homes away. The ONLY movie that has ever made me cry.

Not really a movie, but the PBS documentary "The Farmer's Wife" is very moving and contemporary. It focuses on the struggles of a small family farm and the relationship between the "wife" and her husband and family.

Last of the Dogmen with Tom Berrenger and Barbara Hershey. Present day guy finds a band of Indians hidden away - living as they did a hundred years ago. There was another one maybe 20 years ago with Ellen Burstyn can't remember the name of it.

Found it
Silence of the North, July 18, 2000
A captivating movie which features two people trying to make a living in the early days of the frontier. One man's dreams and a womans need to believe in the one she loves, makes this an intriguing and soul-stirring movie. The hardships they have to overcome and the constant nomadic lifestyle they lead, gives the viewer something to identify with in this forever changing world of ups and downs. Adequately named, this movie "Silence of the North", gives us an insight to what the early settlers had to go through and how they survived and overcame the obstacles that was presented before them.

I've seen quite a few shows/movies where when someone dies they put Quarters on their eyes. Anyone seen the movie, "Nell"? About a recluse and her daughter that owns half the county, or something like that? And of coarse the city folks have to come in to "fix "things?. Coal Miner's daughter remindes my mom of her childhood. Next of Kin(patrick's family, 'back home') goes along the same lines...and every time I see that movie I can see him dancing with a girl named "Baby"....... . Excuse me while I wipe the sweat from my brow LOL...speaking of that, hubby just brought me home a new(to me, I've never seen it) Steven Segal . Did ya even notice that in nearly every movie he is some kind of survivalist?