Editing La Junta, Colorado (section)

==In popular culture==
* The [[Terrence Malick]] motion picture ''[[Badlands (film)|Badlands]]'' (1973), starring [[Martin Sheen]] and [[Sissy Spacek]] filmed scenes in and around La Junta.
* Richard Fleischer's ''[[Mr. Majestyk]]'' (1974), starring [[Charles Bronson]], used several exteriors and interiors in La Junta, including the hospital and police station, as well as Main Street for the downtown gun battle, and various streets in town for parts of the car chase.
* Scenes for the 1978-79 TV mini-series, [[Centennial (miniseries)|''Centennial'']], were filmed at [[Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site]], just east of La Junta.
* In [[The Net (1995 film)|The Net]] (1995), [[Sandra Bullock]]'s character Angela Bennett is from La Junta.
* In the 1946 movie [[Without Reservations]] starring John Wayne and Claudette Colbert, they become stranded at the La Junta train station. Wayne's character is a Marine Corps pilot and they go to the Army Air Field to try to catch a flight to California.
* In the 1952 movie [[The Narrow Margin]] one of the mobsters who is looking to kill the wife of a mob boss on her way to Los Angeles to testify, boards the [[Southwest Chief]] during a train stop in La Junta.