N. Scott Momaday

A visual journey into the mind and soul of Pulitzer Prize–winning author Navarro Scott Momaday, relating each written line to his unique Native American experience representing ancestry, place, and oral history.

Return to Rainy Mountain is a feature length documentary film that tells the story of N. Scott Momaday. It is a personal account of his life and legacy told in his own voice, and in the voice of his daughter Jill. Momaday speaks of his Kiowa roots, family, literature, oral tradition, nature, identity, and the sacred and important things that have shaped his life.

The desert wilderness of New Mexico's Jemez Mountains

Half-hour portrait of writer N. Scott Momaday. Funded by Pacific Mountain Network (PMN). Accepted for PBS broadcast in 1993; PMN feed in November 1993. Received Honorable Mention, PMN “Best of the West” Awards, 1993; regional Emmy for Outstanding Program Achievement: Biographical/Historical Documentary, 1993. Distributed by PBS Adult Learning Service and PBS Video, 1996.

The West, sometimes marketed as Ken Burns Presents: The West, is a documentary film about the American Old West. It was directed by Stephen Ives and the executive producer was Ken Burns. The film originally aired on PBS in September 1996.

The dramatic story of America's national mammal, which sustained the lives of Native people for untold generations, being driven to the brink of extinction, before an unlikely collection of people rescues it from disappearing forever. Ken Burns recounts the tragic collision of two opposing views of the natural world—and the unforgettable characters who pointed the nation in a different direction.