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Delicate-Arch vistas, Sundance premieres and pioneer histories — Utah frames western light like nowhere else. Its stories run from desert silence to Park City buzz.
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Browse 70 books, 86 movies, 4 TV shows and 5 games set in Utah.
127 Hours
The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah.
The Last of Us
A third person shooter/stealth/survival hybrid, in which twenty years after the outbreak of a parasitic fungus which takes over the neural functions of humans, Joel, a Texan with a tragic familial past, finds himself…
The World's Fastest Indian
The life story of New Zealander Burt Munro who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle—a bike which helped him set the land-speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.
The Mark of Athena
Annabeth is terrified. Just when she's about to be reunited with Percy—after six months of being apart, thanks to Hera—it looks like Camp Jupiter is preparing for war. As Annabeth and her friends Jason, Piper, and Leo…
Escape
The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one woman’s courageous flight to freedom with her eight children.When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was…
High School Musical: The Musical: The Series
A group of East High students countdown to the opening night of their school’s first-ever production of “High School Musical.” Showmances blossom; friendships are tested while new ones are made; rivalries flare and…
SLC Punk
Two former geeks become 1980s punks then party and go to concerts while deciding what to do with their lives.
Broken Arrow
When rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately drops off the radar while on maneuvers the Air Force ends up with two stolen nuclear warheads -- and Deakins's co-pilot Riley Hale is the military's only hope…
Carnival of Souls
Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is…
Forever Strong
Rick Penning lives life just like he plays rugby; fast hard-hitting and intense. When life on the edge lands him in jail prison ward Marcus Tate offers him a chance to get back in the game by playing for his rival…
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