Director: John Carpenter

Main Cast: Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin, Richard Jaeckel, Robert Phalen, Tony Edwards, Ted White, Dirk Blocker

Release Date: December 14, 1984

Main Plot: The Voyager 2 departed from Earth in 1977 with greetings and messages of peace. A small alien spacecraft approaches Earth in an attempt to make contact with humans but is shot down by military jets. After an alien spacecraft crashes in Chequamegon Bay, Wisconsin, the aliens steal DNA from the hair of young widow Jenny Hayden’s husband, Scott. They turn into a humanoid. The Starman communicates with his mother ship. He was told that he must be in the Arizona crater in a few days to return to his star; if not, he would be left behind, perish and die.

Director: David Mickey Evans

Main Cast: Sean Astin, Powers Boothe, Rachael Leigh Cook, Jesse Henecke, Owen Patchen Evans, Brett Claywell

Release Date: October 12, 2007 

Main Plot: Baseball is the essence of tradition in Norway, Iowa. Baseball is a legacy passed down from father to son and generation to generation in the little Midwestern town of 586 residents. Since 1990 team, coached by Jim Van Scoyoc, has had a history of beating the odds and playing “David” to the “Goliath” of the State’s much larger schools. It is nearly predicted that they will win their 19th State Championship in the past 23 years. The unexpected occurs when petty jealousies work together to deprive Norway of its history and a 20th State Championship. The bureaucracy intervenes to merge Norway into a larger school. The team’s downfall is ensured by the famous coach being sacked and replaced by his 24-year-old, one-season assistant coach, Kent Stock.

Director: Michael Apted

Main Cast: Robert Redford, Norman Zigrossi, Robert Sikma, Darelle ‘Dino’ Butler, Bob Robideau

Release Date: June 26, 1992 

Main Plot: The two FBI officers lost their lives in South Dakota. The third AIM (American Indian Movement) member, Leonard Peltier, was put on trial separately and found guilty of double homicide after the other two were acquitted based on self-defense. He is currently incarcerated for two consecutive life terms. According to Peltier’s attorneys, the FBI fabricated evidence against Peltier after losing the first case because it believed AIM was a plot against the government. This movie will make you angry at the FBI’s lawlessness and the dubious justice rendered in this case. The incident at Oglala is simply one more horrific illustration of how Native Americans have been treated by the US government.

Director: Gary Sinise

Main Cast: Richard Gere, Penelope Ann Miller, Brian Dennehy, Austin Bumgarner, Larry Poling

Release Date: September 16, 1988 

Main Plot: The Iowa farm owned by the Roberts family is a successful one. Even Nikita Khrushchev paid Frank Roberts, Sr., and his two young sons to visit in 1959 while the Soviet leader was touring the Midwest. Three generations of the Roberts family have farmed excellent land. Still, because costs have continuously increased and crop prices have scarcely changed, many farmers have been struggling. The crops have been devastated by a flood of rain. To pay their debts, they are forced to take drastic means, including selling almost all of their possessions at a yard sale. When the bank forecloses, Frank Jr. becomes increasingly angry. Eventually, he suggests to his younger brother Terry that they set the property on fire.

Director: Michael Helgens

Main Cast: Scott Blow, Samantha Callison, Alicia S. Callison-Schurbon, Bradley Cerny, Luke Darrah, Molly Garrett

Release Date: March 17, 2018 

Main Plot: A troubled teen named Morris Holmes (played by Dylan Jaeger and Caden Baker Miller) claims that his mother’s lover (Pamela Helgens) sexually assaulted him (Scott Blue). Due to his guilt over the fact that the same man and his sister were also attacked by the abuser. Morris struggles to maintain social relationships and keeps this struggle to himself, but later, he tries to fight.