''Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern'' is a 1995

documentary A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...

by filmmakers Jeanne Jordan and Steven Ascher. The film explores the

family farm A family farm is generally understood to be a farm owned and/or operated by a family. It is sometimes considered to be an Estate (land), estate passed down by inheritance. Although a recurring conceptual model, conceptual and archetype, archet ...

crisis through the story of Jordan's own family, as they take extraordinary measures to save their

Iowa Iowa ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the upper Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west; Wisconsin to the northeast, Ill ...

farm. The film received the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award for best documentary at the

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, and was nominated for an

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for Best Documentary Feature, among many other awards.

References

External links

Official Film Site
* 1995 films American Experience Sundance Film Festival award–winning films American documentary films Documentary films about agriculture in the United States Documentary films about families Films shot in Iowa 1990s English-language films 1990s American films English-language documentary films {{bio-documentary-film-stub