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Teddy Roosevelt's badlands, endless wheat and oil-boom towns — North Dakota tells spare northern stories. Its tales weather blizzards and booms alike.

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10 famous stories set in North Dakota

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Browse 23 books, 18 movies and 2 games set in North Dakota.

Jesus Camp

Jesus Camp

A&E IndieFilms-Loki Films
movie

Jesus Camp follows children at a Christian summer camp as they hone their "prophetic gifts" and are schooled in how to "take back America for Christ." The film is a first-ever look into an intense training ground that…

Setting: North Dakota, USATime Period: Contemporary
Monster Trucks

Monster Trucks

Paramount-Nickelodeon Movies-Disruption Entertainment-Paramount Animation
movie

Tripp is a high school senior with a knack for building trucks who makes an incredible discovery - a gas-guzzling creature named Creech. To protect his mischievous new friend Tripp hides Creech under the hood of his…

Setting: North Dakota, USATime Period: 2010s
Love, Lucy

Love, Lucy

by Lucille Ball
book

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe one and only autobiography by the iconic Lucille Ball, hailed by TV Guide as the "#1 Greatest TV Star of All Time."Love, Lucy is the valentine Lucille Ball left for her fans--a warm,…

Setting: Jamestown, New York, USATime Period: 1950s
The Messengers

The Messengers

Columbia Pictures-Ghost House Pictures-Mandate Pictures-Blue Star Pictures-Screen Gems-Scarecrow Productions
movie

When the Solomons trade in the craziness of big-city life for the quiet of a North Dakota farm little do they expect the nightmare that follows. Soon after arriving teenage Jess (Kristen Stewart) and her younger brother…

Setting: North Dakota, USATime Period: Contemporary
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter

Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter

Ad Hominem Enterprises-Lila 9th Productions
movie

Frustrated with her mundane life a Tokyo office worker becomes obsessed with a fictional movie that she mistakes for a documentary. Fixating on a scene where stolen cash is buried in North Dakota she travels to America…

Setting: Tokyo, Japan; North Dakota, USATime Period: 2010s
The Parts You Lose

The Parts You Lose

Samuel Goldwyn Films
movie

An unlikely friendship unfolds between a young deaf boy Wesley and a fugitive criminal who takes refuge in an abandoned barn on the family’s rural North Dakota farm.

Setting: North Dakota, USATime Period: Contemporary
The Overnighters

The Overnighters

Mile End Films West
movie

Desperate broken men chase their dreams and run from their demons in the North Dakota oil fields. A local Pastor's decision to help them has extraordinary and unexpected consequences.

Setting: North Dakota, USATime Period: 2010s
Welcome to Leith

Welcome to Leith

Sundial Pictures-No Weather Productions-The Cinemart
movie

In September 2012 the tiny prairie town of Leith North Dakota sees its population of 24 grow by one. As the new resident's behavior becomes more threatening tensions soar and the residents desperately look for ways to…

Setting: Leith, North Dakota, USATime Period: 2012
The Round House

The Round House

by Louise Erdrich
book

Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereOne of the most revered novelists of our time - a brilliant chronicler of Native-American life - Louise Erdrich returns to the territory of her bestselling,…

Setting: ['North Dakota (United States)']Time Period: UNKNOWN
Peace Like a River

Peace Like a River

by Leif Enger
book

Once in a great while, we encounter a novel in our voluminous reading that begs to be read aloud. Leif Enger's debut, Peace Like a River, is one such work. His richly evocative novel, narrated by an asthmatic…

Setting: ['United States of America', 'North Dakota (United States)']Time Period: 2001

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