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1. The Missouri Breaks (1976)

PG | 126 min | Drama, Western

Tom Logan is a horse thief. Rancher David Braxton has horses, and a daughter, worth stealing. But Braxton has just hired Lee Clayton, an infamous "regulator", to hunt down the horse thieves; one at a time.

Director: Arthur Penn | Stars: Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid, Kathleen Lloyd

Votes: 12,274 | Gross: $14.00M

2. Wagons West (1952)

Passed | 70 min | Western

Jeff Curtis (Rod Cameron), a wagon-master on his way to accept the job of leading a pioneer train from Joplin, Missouri to the Oregon territory, picks up Ben Wilkins (Michael Chapin), a ... See full summary »

Director: Ford Beebe | Stars: Rod Cameron, Noah Beery Jr., Peggie Castle, Michael Chapin

Votes: 150

3. Yellowstone Kelly (1959)

Approved | 91 min | Western

In 1870s, in the Sioux territory south of the Missouri, trapper and Indian scout Luther Yellowstone Kelly is hired by the army at Fort Buford but runs into trouble with the Sioux.

Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Clint Walker, Edd Byrnes, John Russell, Ray Danton

Votes: 1,284

4. Riverboat (1959–1961)

60 min | Adventure, Western

Grey Holden wins a river boat in a poker game, which he then pilots, along with his crew, in various adventures along the Mississippi River. This action series is set in the nineteenth century.

Stars: Darren McGavin, Dick Wessel, Jack Lambert, Burt Reynolds

Votes: 228

5. Across the Wide Missouri (1951)

Passed | 78 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Trapper Flint Mitchell and other mountain men from the Rendezvous join forces to enter virgin trapping territory but must contend with a resentful Blackfoot chief.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Clark Gable, Ricardo Montalban, John Hodiak, Adolphe Menjou

Votes: 2,291

6. Silver River (1948)

Passed | 110 min | Romance, Western

After Mike McComb is booted out of the cavalry, he becomes riverboat gambler and silver mine owner in Nevada.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Thomas Mitchell, Bruce Bennett

Votes: 1,554

7. The Far Horizons (1955)

Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, History, Romance

After purchasing Louisiana from France, the USA sends surveyors Lewis and Clark, assisted by a Shoshone guide, to chart the new territory.

Director: Rudolph Maté | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Charlton Heston, Donna Reed, Barbara Hale

Votes: 1,304

8. Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery (1997 TV Movie)

TV-G | 240 min | Documentary, Adventure, Biography

The story of the most important American exploration expedition in American history and the participants in it.

Director: Ken Burns | Stars: Hal Holbrook, Adam Arkin, John Logan Allen, Stephen Ambrose

Votes: 1,427

9. Paul Bunyan (1958)

Approved | 17 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

The life, career, and challenges of the legendary giant lumberjack.

Director: Les Clark | Stars: Bill Lee, The Mellowmen Quartet, Thurl Ravenscroft, Max Smith

Votes: 1,193

10. Lillian (II) (2019)

130 min | Adventure, Drama

An emigrant in New York decides to walk back to her home in Russia.

Director: Andreas Horvath | Star: Patrycja Planik

Votes: 910

11. Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West (2002)

TV-G | 42 min | Short, Adventure, Drama

This documentary chronicles the Lewis and Clark expedition and breathtaking landscape they crossed while searching for the northwest passage. (Source: Netflix)

Director: Bruce Neibaur | Stars: Kelly Boulware, Sonny Surowiec, Alex Rice, Gregory Paul Jackson

Votes: 261

12. The River (1938)

Unrated | 31 min | Documentary, Short, History

This documentary short film looks at the devastating and costly problems, including seasonal flooding and erosion of precious topsoil, associated with the Mississippi River system and promotes more Federal projects to remedy the situation.

Director: Pare Lorentz | Star: Thomas Chalmers

Votes: 671

13. Woke Up This Mornin' in the Arkansas Delta (2015)

82 min | Documentary

Woke Up This Mornin' in the Arkansas Delta is a film that chronicles a filmmaker from Missouri who travels with a crew from north to south in the Arkansas Delta with a fresh pair of eyes ... See full summary »

Director: Benjamin Meade | Stars: David Pryor, Buddy Sutton, Bill Bowen, Stanley Reed

14. Lewis and Clark Pathways (2005 TV Movie)

58 min | Documentary

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Stars: Michael Casler, Richard Stenberg, Robert Weston Thomson

15. The Mississippi Traveler (1955)

17 min | Documentary, Short

Scenic tour of the river region.

Director: Richard Goldstone | Star: John Nesbitt

16. They Proceeded On... (2006)

26 min | Documentary, Short

"The country through which we pass today is much the same as that described of yesterday." The Journals of Lewis & Clark In 1803 the USA was confined to the Atlantic coast. The West was an ... See full summary »

Director: James R. Price

17. My Favorite Martian (1963–1966)
Episode: Go West, Young Martian: Part 1 (1965)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi

Brennan triggers the CCTBS, transporting the guys to 1849 St. Louis. They didn't carry the CCTBS with them so they are stuck. Using money seen as fake, Brennan's ancestor arrests and jails them. They escape and meet Mrs. Brown's ancestor.

Director: David Alexander | Stars: Ray Walston, Bill Bixby, Pamela Britton, Alan Hewitt

Votes: 70

18. Riverboat (1959–1961)
Episode: Path of the Eagle (1960)

49 min | Adventure, Western

A wealthy but inexperience party of pioneers hire Captain Holden to transport them to Independence, Missouri, so they can join a wagon train for California. One of the group's organizers ... See full summary »

Director: Jules Bricken | Stars: Darren McGavin, Burt Reynolds, Dianne Foster, Dayton Lummis

Votes: 11

19. Riverboat (1959–1961)
Episode: The Barrier (1959)

60 min | Adventure, Western

The boat's passengers include a young couple whose husband is on his way to his first assignment as an Indian agent. Also aboard is a man who plans to try to bribe the new agent to help him smuggle liquor to the Indians.

Director: Richard Bartlett | Stars: Darren McGavin, Burt Reynolds, John Kerr, Elizabeth Montgomery

Votes: 14

20. Riverboat (1959–1961)
Episode: The Face of Courage (1959)

60 min | Adventure, Western

Grey Holden and his riverboat are hired to deliver a cargo of guns, ammunition and troops to an army outpost on the Missouri River. When the Enterprise docks at a landing to pick up wood, ... See full summary »

Director: William Witney | Stars: Darren McGavin, Burt Reynolds, Tom Drake, Joanna Moore

Votes: 8

21. The New Detectives: Case Studies in Forensic Science (1996–2005)
Episode: Elements of Murder (2002)

TV-PG | 50 min | Documentary, Crime

The cases of Susan Galloway, who was murdered in Montana in 1982; Lenora Robinson, who died in Nashville, Tennessee in 1997; and Jennifer McCready, who was murdered in Belpre, Ohio in 1996.

Director: John Kavanaugh | Stars: Gene Galusha, Leanna Chamish, Ken Anderson, Brigette Baldwin

Votes: 13

22. Centennial (1978–1979)
Episode: The Wagon and the Elephant (1978)

TV-PG | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In the mid 1800s, Levi Zendt, a Mennonite, leaves Pennsylvania with his new wife Elly; the two head west for Oregon and along the way cross paths with Alexander McKeag.

Director: Paul Krasny | Stars: William Atherton, Raymond Burr, Barbara Carrera, Richard Chamberlain

Votes: 148

23. Longines Chronoscope (1951–1955)
Episode: Episode dated 25 April 1952 (1952)

News, Talk-Show

Huie and Lt. Col. Ansel E. Talbert, editor of the New York Herald-Tribune, interview Senator Frederick A. Seaton, a Repulican representing Nebraska. Topics include damage created by recent ... See full summary »

Director: Ted Estabrook | Stars: William Bradford Huie, David Ross, Frederick A. Seaton, Ansel E. Talbert

24. The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered (2017– )
Episode: The "Long Winter" of 1880/81 (2021)

15 min | Documentary, History

An early blizzard in October 1880 caught northern Midwest farmers with unharvested grain. And the snow was deep; up to the second floor windows in some places. And the snow kept falling ... See full summary »

Star: Lance Geiger

25. Geography Geek (2020– )
Episode: The Most Important Map in American History (2021)

9 min | Documentary

The Mitchell Map is the definitive map of colonial America. It was influential in settling British, French and Spanish claims, generally in favor of the new United States, following the American Revolution.

Star: Zack Fleming

26. Kamome (2021– )
Episode: US Geostrategic Weaknesses (2022)

15 min | Documentary

The United States strategic defense relies on the isolation provided by the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and friendly relations with its two neighbors, Canada and Mexico. Its competitors ... See full summary »

Star: Francesco Frau

27. The Investigators (2000– )
Episode: Into Thin Air (2003)

Documentary, Crime, Drama

The case of Christine Elkins, an ATF informant who disappeared in Maryville, Missouri in 1990.

Stars: Les Marshak, Clark Davenport, Michael Finnegan, Mike Green

28. The Naked Truth (2016– )
Episode: Standing Rock (2016)

22 min | Documentary

Actor Mark Ruffalo sits down with Fusion's Nelafar Hedayat to talk about the movement to halt the Dakota Access Pipeline. The Naked Truth:Standing Rock looks at the year of resistance that has captured the national consciousness.

Stars: LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, David Archambault II, Nelufar Hedayat, Julian Brave NoiseCat

29. The Michael Knowles Show (2017– )
The Kids Are All Right (2018 Podcast Episode)

42 min | Talk-Show

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Star: Michael J. Knowles