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This fascinating documentary explores the new wave of artists that are beautifying Nebraska's cities one vibrant piece of art at a time.

Lincoln, Nebraska, is home to a college football cathedral. For 100 years, a once simple stadium has become hallowed ground for a sport and a state. Memorial Stadium, home of the Nebraska Cornhusker football team, is a mecca of the sport. On Saturdays in the fall, the fans that fill the stadium make it the third largest city in the state. Take a look at 100 years of Memorial Stadium.

Littleton Alston’s young life was sculpted by hardship and triumph. Fifty years later, the Omaha artist and Creighton University associate professor of sculpture is the first African American to create a work to be displayed in National Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol. Littleton Alston "A Sculpted Life" follows Alston on his creative quest to understand his subject, Nebraska writer Willa Cather, and explores how personal struggles have shaped his own life."A Sculpted Life" captures Alston as he creates a clay model of Cather in his Omaha studio, visits Red Cloud to explore her childhood home, and begins work on the 7-foot bronze likeness of Cather that will represent Nebraska to millions of visitors from all over the world.

From 1984, a history of farm protest movements in the U.S., especially those movements which began and flourished in the Great Plains area.