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Round Midnight (2005)
Iowa City
12 Stories About Eileen (2003)
Ames
30 (2007)
Iowa
About Schmidt (2002)
Council Bluffs
All the King's Horses 1978 Des Moines
Alone in the Dark
1993 Adel TV project
Amber (2004)
Bettendorf
American Pork (2002)
Ames
America Kenny Rogers
1980 Cedar Rapids TV project
American Love 1991 Davenport
Amore americano, Un (1994) (TV)
An Ideal Life 2008 Boon ,
Comedy
Apples Way 1973
(western Iowa) TV project
Arnolds Park (2007)
Arnolds Park
Audition,
The (2002/I) Des
Moines
Audition, The (2002/II)
Des Moines
Bag Man, The (2005)
Iowa City
Balancing Act, A (2007)
Iowa City
Beauty Queen Butcher (1991)
Davenport
Behind the Scenes: An Untouchable Life (2007)
Des Moines
Beneath the Mississippi (2008)
Burlington
Better Homes and Gardens: Your Best Recipe
Contest (2008) (TV) Des Moines
Bi the Way (2008)
Des Moines
Big One, The (1997)
Des Moines
Bill's Big Pumpkins (2007)
Anamosa
Bix 1990 Davenport
Blood on the Mountain 1974 Des Moines
Body Human: The Vital Connection, The (1978)
(TV) Iowa
Bon Jovi TV (2005) (TV)
Des Moines
Boone
Style (2005) Des Moines
Boyz ll Men - Live
Broadcast Concert 1995 Cedar Rapids TV project
Bride Wore Blood: A Contemporary Western, The
(2006)
Iowa City
Bridges of Madison County 1994 Winterset Clint Eastwood,
Meryl Streep
Brother Enemy 1981 Des Moines
Brothers & Sisters 1991 Davenport Franco Nero,
Marianne Williams
Burned (2006)
Iowa City
Can You Imagine (1936)
Ridgeway
Cerveau en émoi, Le (1998) (TV)
Iowa City
Chemistry of Dating, The (2007)
Iowa City
Childhood Friend 1993 Davenport
Children of the Corn 1984 Sioux City, Dunkerton, Waterloo,
Whiting
Citizen Ruth (1996)
Council Bluffs
Coach 1989 Iowa
City TV project
Coffee Shop, The (2006)
Des Moines
Cold Turkey 1968 Winterset, Greenfield Dick Van Dyke
Confrontation (2006) (TV)
Des Moines
Cora Unashamed 1999 Cambridge, State Center
Count on Me (2007)
Iowa City
Country 1983 Waterloo
Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232 (1992)
(TV) Sioux City
Crimes of Passion
1989 Cedar Rapids, Davenport TV project
Cutter (2003)
Iowa
Diary of a Political Tourist (2004) (TV)
Des Moines
Diet America Challenge
1989 Sac City TV project
Disney Music Variety 1988 Waterloo TV project
Distant Thunder 1977 Des Moines
Dog Jack (2008)
Mt.Pleasant
DR-Explorer på Mississippi (2000) (TV)
Dubuque
Duck Farm No. 13 (2009)
Iowa
Dvorak and America (2000)
Iowa
Dying for Meth (2006) Ottumwa
Election (1999)
Carter Lake
End of the Sawdust Trail (2007)
Ames
Exquisite Corpse (2004)
Iowa City
Gaily Gaily 1969 Dubuque
Echoes of War 1985 Des Moines
Face in the Mirror 1982 Des Moines
Farm Aid VI 1993
Ames TV project
Farmlands (2006)
Sioux City
Fever Heat 1968 Des Moines
Field of Dreams 1989 Dyersville, Dubuque Kevin Costner, Amy
Madigan
James Earl Jones, Burt Lancaster
Finest Hours 1989 Fairfield
Final Season, The (2007)
Cedar Rapids
F.I.S.T. 1977 Dubuque Sylvester Stallone
For Always (2004)
Bettendorf, Davenport, West Branch
Formula, The (2002)
Cedar Rapids
Freestyle: The Victories of Dan Gable (1999)
Iowa City
Friendship Train, The (1948)
Clinton, Council Bluffs, Ames
Fuji TV Grand Kabuki Documentary 1990 Des Moines TV
project
Gaily, Gaily (1969)
Dubuque
Geek 1987 Davenport, Bettendorf
Ghosts Among the Corn (2005)
Iowa
Going Down to Neverland
Council Bluffs
Happiness Is 1976 Des Moines
Harvest of Fire
1995 Kalona TV project
Healing 1984 Des Moines
Heaven's Heroes 1980 Des Moines
Her Summer (2004)
Bettendorf
Hideout, The (2007)
Davenport
...aka Nascondiglio, Il (2007) (Italy)
Home Economics Story, The (1951)
Ames
Home Safe 1982 Des Moines
Homesteader, The (1919)
Iowa
Hostage 1966 Des Moines
Huckleberry Finn 1975 (along Mississippi River)
Image of the Beast 1981 Des Moines
In the Best Interests of the
Children 1991 Cedar Rapids TV project
Indian Runner 1990 Council Bluffs
In the Best Interest of the Children (1992)
(TV) Cedar Rapids
Incident at Oglala (1992)
Cedar Rapids
...aka Incident at Oglala: The Leonard Peltier Story (1992) (USA:
poster title)
Indelible (2007)
Des Moines
Indian Runner, The (1991)
Council Bluffs
...aka Indian Runner (1991) (Japan: English title)
Interior Design (2005)
Des Moines
Iowa 2005 Centerville
Keep Your Powder Dry (1945)
Des Moines
King Corn (2007)
Greene
King of Kong, The (2007)
Iowa
...aka King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, The (2007) (USA: new
title)
Last American Hobo, The (1967)
Britt
...aka Last of the American Hoboes, The (1967) (USA: video title)
Last Wright, The (2008)
Iowa
Let's Eat Food (1981) (TV)
Iowa City
Lights, Camera... Kill! (2004)
Ottumwa
Little Convict, The (1979)
Winterset
...aka Toby and the Koala Bear (1979)
Lost Nation: The Ioway (2007)
Iowa
Lost/Found (2003)
Bettendorf
Luther the Geek (1990)
Iowa
Main Stream, The (2002) (TV)
Iowa
Man Made: The Story of Two Men and a Baby
(2003) (TV) Cedar Rapids
Michael 1996 Cedar Rapids
Miles from Home 1987 Cedar Rapids Richard Gere
Miracle Man 1985 Des Moines
Mississippi 1982
Dubuque TV project
Mommy 1995 Muscatine
Mommy's Day (1997)
Bettendorf
Money Trouble (2006)
Des Moines
Music Man, The (1962)
Mason City
MTV's Remote Control 1990
Ames TV project
Next Table, The (2003)
Des Moines
Nite Song 1978 Des Moines
Noises Off 1991 Des Moines
Nobody Lives Forever (1998) (TV)
Davenport
Omaha 1994 Council Bluffs
On Dasher, on Dancer (2007)
West Des Moines
One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story (1978)
(TV) Clinton
...aka Man of Passion (1978) (TV) (USA)
One Night Stand (2004/I)
Dubuque
Paradise Trail 1979 Des Moines
Penitentiary 1935 Anamosa
Pennies from Heaven 1981 Dubuque
Poor Jennifer 1990 Des
Moines TV project
Portrait of America 1983
Soux City TV project
Power of Love, The (2003)
Des Moines
Prodigal Planet 1983 Des Moines
Puppetmasters 1994 Des Moines
Quiet Evening Home, A (1997)
Des Moines
Rain 2000 State Center
Recovered: Journeys Through the Autism
Spectrum and Back (2007) Waukon
Red, White & Blue: A Tale of Two Americas
(2008) Iowa
Remembering November (2002)
Rock Island
Rescue of Flight 232 Sioux City Charlton Heston
Retreat, The (2006)
Iowa
Ride the Wind 1977 Des Moines
Rites of Passage 1985 Des Moines, Adel
Rivers of the World 1986
Fort Madison TV project
Road 1995 Cedar Rapids
TV project
Ron Le Floure Story 1983 Clinton TV project
Room Next Door 1993 Davenport
Sammy 1977 Des Moines
Scandals 1989 Davenport,
Bettendorf TV project
Scoring 1978 Des Moines, Dubuque
Shades (2004)
Bettendorf
Shepherd 1984 Des Moines
Shimmer 1992 Toledo
Sigma Die! (2007)
Dubuque
Silent Night in Algona (2009)
Algona
Silverwings Des Moines
Six American Families (1976) (TV)
Iowa
Six Feet Frozen (2005)
Iowa
Sonny Boy (2004)
Iowa
SPIN: Multi-Day Cycling Events in the United
States (2006) Iowa
Spring Break Massacre (2008)
Dubuque
State Fair (1933)
Des Moines
Starman 1984 Cedar Rapids
Small Town USA 1957
Anamosa TV project
Still Life (2008/I)
Burlington
Straight Story 1998 Laurens, Clermont Richard Farnsworth,
Sissy Spacek
Stranger in My Forest 1976 Des Moines
Sugar (2008)
Burlington
Survival 1975 Des Moines
Talent Given Us, The (2004)
Des Moines
Take This Job and Shove It 1980 Dubuque Art Carney, Barbara
Hershey
Thacker Case, The (2008)
Alton
Thickness of Delirium, The (2007)
Iowa
Thief in the Night 1972 Des Moines
Thousand Heroes 1991 Sioux
City TV project
To Lie in Green Pastures (2005)
Touch 1996 Council Bluffs
Trekkies (1997)
Riverside
Trucking U.S.A. 1989 Mason
City TV project
Tully (2000)
Iowa
...aka Truth About Tully, The (2000) (USA: festival title)
Turn Up the Volume 1 (1991)
Sioux City
Twister 1995 Ames, Eldora Helen Hunt
Two Marriages 1983 Des
Moines TV project
UFC 21: Return of the Champions (1999) (TV)
Cedar Rapids
UFC 26: Ultimate Field of Dreams (2000) (TV)
Cedar Rapids
Union Pacific 1938 Council Bluffs
Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea
University Heights (2004)
Coralville
University Heights: A Look Behind the Scenes
(2004)
Unspoken 1997 Grand Junction
Warden 1968 Fort Madison
West of the Imagination
1985 Sioux City TV project
What It Takes (2008)
Iowa
What Would Jesus Buy? (2007)
Des Moines, Traer
Where the Night Begins 1990 Davenport
Whispers in the Dark (1992)
Des Moines
Whitcomb's War 1980 Des Moines
Whiteboys 1998 Davenport
Why Study Home Economics? (1955)
Des Moines
Woman Who Loved Elvis 1992 Ottumwa TV project
Women at War (1943)
Des Moines
Wonderful Thing, The (1921)
Appanoose County
Yearbook (2002/I)
Bettendorf, Davenport
Yearbook (2002/II)
Bettendorf, Davenport
Yoofo Club 1998 Des Moines
Zadar, Cow From Hell 1988 Iowa City
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Mamie
Eisenhower
Boone first lady
Mamie Eisenhower
Wife of President
Dwight D. Eisenhower
was
born in Boone in 1896 at 709 Carroll.
Charles Fulton, U.S. senator
Charles Grassley, U.S. senator
Edna Griffin, civil rights leader
Tom Harkin, U.S. senator
31st president of the United States West
Branch
Herbert Hoover, 31st president of the
United States
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Herbert Hoover
(August 10, 1874 - October 20, 1964
Life Facts
Personal:
• First Lady: Lou Henry Hoover, Wife Waterloo
• Wife's Maiden Name: Lou Henry
• Number of Children: 2
• Education Level: College
• School Attended: Stanford University
• Religion: Quaker
• Profession: Mining Engineer
Public Service:
• Dates of Presidency: 3/4/1929 - 3/4/1933
• Presidency Number: 31
• Number of Terms: 1
• Why Presidency Ended: Defeated
• Party: Republican
• His Vice
President's: Charles Curtis
• Cabinet Service: Sec. of Commerce (Warren G.
Harding and Calvin Coolidge, 1921-1928)
• Other Offices: Head of Commission for Relief in
Belgium; US Food Administrator; Director of American
Relief Administration
Did You Know?
• During his term as
President, Adolph Hitler came into power.
• He was president during the 1929 Stock Market
Crash.
• He was the first president born west of the
Mississippi.
• While he was in the White House, the Star Spangled
Banner
was adopted as our national anthem.
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Vice President Henry A. Wallace , Adair City
Served under President Franklin D.
Roosevelt
and founded Pioneer Hi-Bred International
John L. Lewis
labor leader, Lucas
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Chief Black Hawk
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Indian Chief Black Hawk died in 1832 and was buried on
James Jordan's farm near Iowaville. On July 3, 1839, James Turner, a
local dentist, stole the corpse, fled to Quincy, Illinois, cooked
off the flesh in a hog-scalding kettle, and prepared to exhibit the
skeleton. The Iowa governor insisted on its return, then gave the
skeleton to a physician friend, who kept it here in his Burlington
office. A fire destroyed both office and bones in 1855.
Chief War Eagle
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He was the last Sioux Chief to reside in the Iowa territory.
He was known as "The Friend of the White Man". His name was
Huya-na which means Little Eagle. He was born in Wisconsin
or possibly Minnesota and migrated west with the rest of the
Santee Sioux because of White encroachment. He was always
friendly to the whites, in spite of his militant name. A
tall, strong young man, he often served as a guide for
steamboats on the Upper Mississippi River. During the War of
1812 when many Santee Sioux sided with the British, War
Eagle served as an Army courier and interpreter for the
Americans. Later, War Eagle served as a scout and messenger
for the American Fur Company. He was able to traverse long
distances in a short amount of time and his skills as a
diplomat and orator soon earned him election as chief of the
Yankton Sioux in spite of his origin as a Santee. War Eagle
became disillusioned when he went to a Washington DC
conference only to find out that the United States was
taking all the Indian land east of the Mississippi. He could
no longer return to his ancestral home.
Cause of death: Died of exposure after drinking too much |
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Adrian Dave Armbruster,
Swimming Coach University of Iowa,
inventor of the butterfly stroke in swimming
Constantine
(Cap) Anson, Marshalltown, the greatest baseball
player of the 19th century
Willie Beamon, football player,
University of Northern Iowa
Ladell Betts, football player
University of Iowa
Stacey Blitsch,
roller derby star, Oelwein
Matt Bowen,
football player
Terry
Bradshaw, football player
Dallas Clark,
football player
Roger Craig,
football player
Troy Davis,
star running back of Iowa State. In 1996, he ran his
total yardsgained for two seasons to 3,970 yards, the most in
consecutive
seasons in Division 1-A football.
Tim Dwight,
football player
Bob Feller
Baseball Hall of
Fame member; pitcher for the Cleveland Indians
in the
1930s, ‘40s and ’50s
Bud Fowler,
the first African-American to play professional baseball.
He played
for the Keokuk, Iowa Western League Keokuks
baseball team in 1885.
Haydon Fry,
football coach
Robert
Gallery, football player
Dan Gable
Olympic
champion wrestler and coach, all-time leader in NCAA history for
titles won. Visit the new Dan Gable International Wrestling
Institute and Museum in Waterloo
Dan Gable,
wrestler and wrestling coach; Olympic gold medal winner. As a coach,
his wrestling teams at Iowa won 22 straight Big Ten titles and 15
NCAA team titles.
Frank Gotch,
World heavyweight wrestling champion
Ellis Hobbs,
football player
Bruce Jenner,
Olympic decathlete
Shawn Johnson
West Des Moines gymnist, 2007 champ: Pan American All-Around,
American Cup All-Around, national, world
Zach Johnson
Iowa City, Des Moines The Masters golf champion 2007
Nate Kaeding,
football player
Alex Karras,
football player and actor
Nile Kinnick,
football player
Paul Krause,
football player
Randy Lewis,
wrestler
John Matuszek,
football player
Ed Podalak,
football player and radio commentator
Bob Sanders,
football player
Billy Sunday,
baseball player and evangelist
Seneca
Wallace, football player
Kurt Warner,
football quarterback
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Corita Kent,
artist
Nellie Verne Walker Red Oak sculptor
Grant Wood
Leader of the
Regionalist art movement and painter of American Gothic
American Gothic House
In a 1930 visit, Iowa artist Grant Wood
sketched this house which he later used in the background for one of
the most famous American paintings of all times, the American
Gothic masterpiece featured above. This painting has probably
been copied and spoofed more times than any other painting (with the
possible exception of the Mona Lisa).
 
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