Oscarizada superproducción de la época que narra las aflicciones y tribulaciones de una familia en el viejo Oeste a lo largo de cuatro décadas, desde su llegada a Oklahoma en 1889 hasta el surgimiento de sus aspiraciones políticas en los años 20. Amores, luchas, triunfos y separaciones, además de la famosa y verídica carrera de diligencias son los ingredientes de uno de los mayores éxitos de la RKO.
Cuando deciden comprar la mitad de un rancho, Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) y sus compañeros, California y Johnny, se verán en líos cuando alguien quiere monopolizar el agua y además presiente que, en aquella tierra, hay petróleo de por medio.
Sierra Nevada Jones es la joven e intrépida heredera de un rancho en el territorio de Montana. Tras la muerte de su padre en un enfrentamiento contra unos indios y unos blancos que pretendían apoderarse del terreno, Sierra Nevada debe luchar con todas sus fuerzas para conservar la propiedad del lugar. Por suerte para ella, contará con la inesperada ayuda de Farrell, un policía encubierto.
Cowboy puts on a black mask and a black outfit to fight a gang of land-grabbing crooks.
It's 1860 and the old Spanish land grants are being surveyed. Montez is after part of Don Regas' rancho and gets the surveyor to alter the boundary. But Don Regas still has the original grant written on a bandanna. Montez sends Indians after it but Bill Cody and Gabby fight them off and a wounded Gabby unknowingly ends up with the missing million dollar deed wrapped around his arm for a bandage.
A young girl goes to work as a live-in caretaker for a spooky old woman. She doesn't know that every night, the woman drains some blood from her to feed her strange plant.
Juan is about to elope with the convent-bred Elena, when he is chosen to assassinate the governor who is about to hand California over to the Russians. Since the governor also happens to be Elena's father, this puts him in quite a fix.
In this western, two cowboys ride to the rescue of ranchers who are fighting to keep a land-grabber from taking their land and selling it to the railroad
The End of Poverty? asks if the true causes of poverty today stem from a deliberate orchestration since colonial times which has evolved into our modern system whereby wealthy nations exploit the poor. People living and fighting against poverty answer condemning colonialism and its consequences; land grab, exploitation of natural resources, debt, free markets, demand for corporate profits and the evolution of an economic system in in which 25% of the world's population consumes 85% of its wealth. Featuring Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen and Joseph Stiglitz, authors/activist Susan George, Eric Toussaint, Bolivian Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera and more.
When he catches wind that bookish George Parradine (John Eldredge) is actually a ruthless outlaw who's had one man killed and is now trying to steal a fortune from another, U.S. Marshal Rocky Lane (Allan Lane) poses as a bandit and infiltrates Parradine's gang. But Rocky's quest for justice is jeopardized when the dead man's son (George Nader) also goes undercover to get revenge on his father's killer. Fred C. Brannon directs this 1950 Western.
When Matt Kilgore and his men frame and then hang an innocent man, Lige Saunders sends for his son Wild Bill Saunders who arrives to find his father shot by Matt's brother. When the brother is killed in his fight with Bill, Matt sends two fake Deputies to arrest Bill whom he then plans to hang. But Matt's sister, attracted to Bill, overhears the plan and rides for help.
Smokin' guns, swingin' fists, and a lovable side-kick can be found in this western.
Hundreds of thousands of Indian men and women – indigenous inhabitants and landless farmers – demand their right to existence by making a 400 kilometre protest march from Gwalior to Delhi. How can one fight for one’s rights without using violence? With such an important contemporary question, the film spreads far beyond the borders of India. It shows the multiple facets of this imposing protest march and focuses as well on the daily realities of these proud people.