HFC Film Festival: Back to Nature

A big horned sheep peaks over a hill of red earth looking towards us

Badlands National Park: Land of Stone and Light

Badlands National Park
2006, 21:56 min
The film covers the natural and cultural history of the region and showcases the spectacular scenery of the Badlands.
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A red rock formation creates a canyon with various levels of geology showing underneath a blue sky with whispy clouds

A Song of Seasons: Bryce Canyon National Park

2019, 24:07 min
Bryce Canyon National Park
The geologic wonders of Bryce Canyon draw visitors from around the world, but the Park has much more to offer.
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A ranger wearing a hard hat with a headlamp walks though a cave

Hidden Worlds: Carlsbad Caverns National Park

2015, 15:56 min
Carlsbad Caverns National Park
This film features the cave’s otherworldly natural wonders and follows scientists studying the cavern’s robust bat colony.
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Sunbeams shine down through a thick green canopy of trees to the forest floor below

Wilderness Shaped by Water: Congaree National Park

2014, 19:21 min
Congaree National Park
Astonishing biodiversity exists in Congaree National Park, the largest intact expanse of old growth bottomland hardwood forest remaining in the southeastern United States.
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A small figure of a person is shown to the left of the image dark against the grey stone walls of the cave

Jewel Cave National Monument – Discovery in the Darkness

2019, 23:46 min
Jewel Cave National Monument
This film touches on everything from the ongoing explorations, to public tours, and the amazingly varied crystal rock formations found in the cave.
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The sun creates a hazy glow over the horizon as its reflection is show in the water below

Life in the Desert: Lake Mead National Recreation Area

2013, 21:59 min
Lake Mead National Recreation Area
With striking landscapes and brilliant blue waters, this park spreads across 1.5 million acres of mountains, canyons, valleys and two vast lakes.
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A birds eye view of the river delta

River of Change

2018, 18:26 min
Missouri National Recreational River
One of the last free-flowing remnants of America’s longest river, this stretch of the Missouri offers a glimpse of the dynamic waterway as it was before human alteration.
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A brown wooden panel sign on a stone base for Natchez Trace Parkway

Traces Through Time

2014, 17:24 min
Natchez Trace Parkway
Travel the Natchez Trace Parkway, a 444-mile ribbon of road that winds through forests, prairies, swamps, and 10,000 years of human history.
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A brown animal stretches in the sunlight

Prairie River Home

2017, 20:11 min
Niobrara National Scenic River
This Nebraska waterway is an ecological crossroad where diverse plant and animal species mingle, and where people have sought refuge and renewal since ancient times.
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Last updated: August 10, 2020

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