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1. The New World (2005)
PG-13 | 135 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of the English exploration of Virginia, and of the changing world and loves of Pocahontas.
Director: Terrence Malick | Stars: Colin Farrell, Q'orianka Kilcher, Christopher Plummer, Christian Bale
Votes: 90,113 | Gross: $12.71M
2. From Here to Eternity (1953)
Passed | 118 min | Drama, Romance, War
At a U.S. Army base in 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his commanding officer's wife and top aide begin a tentative affair.
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed
Votes: 50,995 | Gross: $30.50M
3. Tigerland (2000)
R | 101 min | Drama, War
A group of recruits go through Advanced Infantry Training at Fort Polk, Louisiana's infamous Tigerland, last stop before Vietnam for tens of thousands of young men in 1971.
Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Colin Farrell, Matthew Davis, Clifton Collins Jr., Tom Guiry
Votes: 43,438 | Gross: $0.14M
4. Rachel Getting Married (2008)
R | 113 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman who has been in and out of rehab for the past ten years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.
Director: Jonathan Demme | Stars: Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Debra Winger, Sebastian Stan
Votes: 51,399 | Gross: $12.80M
5. A Soldier's Story (1984)
PG | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An African-American officer investigates a murder in a racially charged situation in World War II.
Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Howard E. Rollins Jr., Adolph Caesar, Art Evans, David Alan Grier
Votes: 11,453 | Gross: $21.82M
6. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983)
R | 123 min | Drama, War
During WWII, a British colonel tries to bridge the cultural divides between a British POW and the Japanese camp commander in order to avoid bloodshed.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Takeshi Kitano
Votes: 20,122 | Gross: $2.31M
7. Treasure Island (1950)
PG | 96 min | Adventure, Family
The treasure seeking adventures of young Jim Hawkins and pirate captain Long John Silver.
Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Bobby Driscoll, Robert Newton, Basil Sydney, Walter Fitzgerald
Votes: 9,518
8. The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977)
PG | 99 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
A shipwrecked survivor discovers a remote island owned by a crazed scientist who is carrying out sinister experiments on the island's inhabitants.
Director: Don Taylor | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Michael York, Nigel Davenport, Barbara Carrera
Votes: 7,184 | Gross: $8.72M
9. Stop-Loss (2008)
R | 112 min | Drama, War
A veteran soldier returns from his completed tour of duty in Iraq, only to find his life turned upside down when he is arbitrarily ordered to return to field duty by the Army.
Director: Kimberly Peirce | Stars: Ryan Phillippe, Abbie Cornish, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rob Brown
Votes: 20,912 | Gross: $10.91M
10. Seven Cities of Gold (1955)
Approved | 103 min | Adventure, Biography, History
In 1769, a Spanish expedition to California seeks to conquer the land and discover its famed gold treasures while missionaries aim to gain new converts and establish a network of Catholic missions.
Director: Robert D. Webb | Stars: Richard Egan, Anthony Quinn, Michael Rennie, Jeffrey Hunter
Votes: 590
11. Allegheny Uprising (1939)
Approved | 81 min | Adventure, Drama, History
In 1759, in Pennsylvania's Allegheny Valley, local settlers and Indian fighters try to persuade the British authorities to ban the trading of alcohol and arms with the marauding Indians.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Claire Trevor, John Wayne, George Sanders, Brian Donlevy
Votes: 1,807
12. Wake of the Red Witch (1948)
Approved | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
During the 1860s in the South Pacific, Capt. Ralls, skipper of the Red Witch, has a series of adventures involving sunken gold bullion, pearls, natives, an unscrupulous ship owner and a giant octopus.
Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: John Wayne, Gail Russell, Gig Young, Adele Mara
Votes: 2,948
13. Rachel and the Stranger (1948)
Approved | 93 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A widowed farmer takes an indentured servant as his new wife, but the arrival of his old friend threatens their burgeoning relationship.
Director: Norman Foster | Stars: Loretta Young, William Holden, Robert Mitchum, Gary Gray
Votes: 2,767
14. Andersonville (1996)
84 min | Drama, History, War
The story of the most notorious Confederate prisoner of war camp in the American Civil War.
Stars: Paul Andre Gibbons, Jarrod Emick, Frederic Forrest, Ted Marcoux
Votes: 2,103
15. The Secret War of Harry Frigg (1968)
Unrated | 110 min | Comedy, War
In 1943, a group of captured Allied brigadier generals cannot agree on an escape plan. Allied headquarters develops a plan to send in an escape artist to be captured himself so he can coordinate the generals escape.
Director: Jack Smight | Stars: Paul Newman, Sylva Koscina, Andrew Duggan, Tom Bosley
Votes: 1,790 | Gross: $7.70M
16. Lafayette Escadrille (1958)
Approved | 93 min | Drama, Romance, War
American youth and flying ace flies for France in World War I, meets and loves a French girl and a prostitute.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Tab Hunter, Clint Eastwood, Etchika Choureau, Marcel Dalio
Votes: 934
17. 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
18. Killer: A Journal of Murder (1995)
R | 91 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A prison guard at Leavenworth with lofty ideals and hopes of reform struggles to understand a violent, hateful and conscienceless convict. The result is a written testimonial to a crime that no one could have predicted.
Director: Tim Metcalfe | Stars: James Woods, Robert Sean Leonard, Ellen Greene, Cara Buono
Votes: 2,410 | Gross: $0.07M
19. Macho Callahan (1970)
R | 99 min | Drama, Western
Macho Callahan breaks out of a Confederate military prison, intent on revenge against the man who conscripted him into the army. Before he gets started, he kills another man in a petty dispute and is in turn pursued by the vengeful widow.
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski | Stars: David Janssen, Jean Seberg, Lee J. Cobb, James Booth
Votes: 484
20. The Pirates of Blood River (1962)
Approved | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A group of ruthless pirates attack a seventeenth century Huguenot settlement on the Isle of Devon in search of treasure and will stop at nothing to obtain it.
Director: John Gilling | Stars: Kerwin Mathews, Glenn Corbett, Christopher Lee, Peter Arne
Votes: 1,207
21. Captain Conan (1996)
129 min | Drama, War
The war exploits of French captain Conan and his men during World War I and during the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War.
Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Philippe Torreton, Samuel Le Bihan, Bernard Le Coq, Catherine Rich
Votes: 2,456
22. Captain John Smith and Pocahontas (1953)
Approved | 75 min | Drama, History, Romance
Captain John Smith overcomes the treachery of some of his men and resentment of the local Native Americans to establish the colony of Jamestown.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Anthony Dexter, Jody Lawrance, Alan Hale Jr., Robert Clarke
Votes: 191
23. In the Arms of My Enemy (2007)
R | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Four men living in Eastern Europe in 1856 get caught up in tales of thievery, murder and revenge.
Director: Micha Wald | Stars: Adrien Jolivet, Grégoire Colin, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, François-René Dupont
Votes: 591
24. Sir! No Sir! (2005)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary, History, War
NO! SIR! tells an almost entirely forgotten story of the military men and women who forced the U.S. government to end the Vietnam War
Director: David Zeiger | Stars: Michael Alaimo, Edward Asner, Joe Bangert, Tom Bernard
Votes: 847 | Gross: $0.11M
25. Tumbleweeds (1925)
Approved | 78 min | Western
The government will grant a fringe of terrain for the settlers who want to live and work there. The starting sign will be a gunshot which will iniciate the run for the best fields and claims.
Directors: King Baggot, William S. Hart | Stars: William S. Hart, Barbara Bedford, Lucien Littlefield, J. Gordon Russell
Votes: 674
26. Little Old New York (1923)
Passed | 110 min | Comedy, Romance
An Irish girl comes to America disguised as a boy to claim a fortune left to her brother who has died.
Director: Sidney Olcott | Stars: Marion Davies, Harrison Ford, Courtenay Foote, Mahlon Hamilton
Votes: 1,089 | Gross: $2.40M
27. Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp (1939)
Approved | 22 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Working in the story department of Surprise Pictures, Olive Oyl writes a script based on the story of Aladdin, casting Popeye as the thief and herself as the Princess.
Directors: Dave Fleischer, Dave Tendlar | Stars: Margie Hines, Jack Mercer, Carl Meyer, Tedd Pierce
Votes: 817
28. The Lone Ranger Rides Again (1939)
Approved | 263 min | Western
Homesteaders are moving into the valley settled many years ago by rancher Craig Dolan. He wants to keep them out by legal means but his nephew Bart brings in outlaws to drive them out. The ... See full summary »
Directors: John English, William Witney | Stars: Robert Livingston, Chief Thundercloud, Silver Chief, Duncan Renaldo
Votes: 142
29. Fort Utah (1967)
Passed | 84 min | Western
An ex-gunfighter goes up against a man who is trying to stir up trouble with the Indians to enrich himself.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: John Ireland, Virginia Mayo, Scott Brady, John Russell
Votes: 313
30. When Hell Broke Loose (1958)
Approved | 78 min | Drama, War
In 1945, a GI falls in love with a German woman while elite German troops in U.S.uniforms carry out sabotage and assassinations behind American lines.
Director: Kenneth G. Crane | Stars: Charles Bronson, Richard Jaeckel, Violet Rensing, Robert Easton
Votes: 324
31. The Case of the Stuttering Pig (1937)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Porky and his family are the target of a monster who wants their inheritance.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Mel Blanc, Sara Berner, Billy Bletcher, Shirley Reed
Votes: 552
32. Winning of the West (1953)
Approved | 57 min | Drama, Music, Western
One of a bunch of gangsters trying to push the old protection racket on western ranchers turns out to be Gene's younger brother.
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Gene Autry, Champion, Gail Davis, Richard Crane
Votes: 116
33. Under Fire (1957)
Passed | 76 min | Drama, War
On the same day that he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary valor in the European campaign during World War II, Sergeant Joe Dusak is charged with desertion during... See full summary »
Director: James B. Clark | Stars: Rex Reason, Harry Morgan, Steve Brodie, Peter Walker
Votes: 50
34. Loose in London (1953)
Approved | 62 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The Bowery Boys find themselves in London, in an old mansion complete with a dungeon, an ominous bell tower and the ghost of an old hangman.
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bernard Gorcey, Angela Greene
Votes: 350
35. Pink Ice (1965)
Approved | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A talking Pink Panther is the owner of a diamond mine and has unearthed a large gem, but a dastardly pair of rival miners take the diamond and ineptly try to eliminate the panther.
Directors: Friz Freleng, Hawley Pratt | Star: Rich Little
Votes: 273
36. Escape from Devil's Island (1935)
Approved | 64 min | Drama, Romance
Johanna Harrington waits eagerly at her cottage on the edge of the jungle that flanks the Devil's Island penal colony for the arrival of her father Steve Garrington, her sweetheart Dario, ... See full summary »
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Victor Jory, Florence Rice, Norman Foster, Stanley Andrews
Votes: 27
37. Rabbit in the Moon (1999)
85 min | Documentary, Biography, History
This documentary is about the internment of Japanese Americans in camps during World War II.
Director: Emiko Omori | Stars: Emiko Omori, Chizuko Omori, Frank Emi, Aiko Yoshinaga-Herzig
Votes: 128
38. Daniel Boone Thru the Wilderness (1926)
Passed | 62 min | Adventure, History, Romance
In pre-revolutionary war days, Daniel Boone captures the white renegade Simon Gerty but lets him go. After Boone moves from North Carolina to homestead in Kentucky, Gerty reappears. This ... See full summary »
Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: Roy Stewart, Kathleen Collins, Edward Hearn, Jay Morley
Votes: 19
39. The Fourth King (1977 TV Movie)
23 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy
The animals decide they must send a representative after the three wise men begin following the star of Bethlehem. Uno, the Lion, arrogantly decides he should be the one to go, and that he ... See full summary »
Director: Romano Scarpa | Stars: Ted Ross, Laurie Beechman, Arnold Stang, Ed Clein
Votes: 14
40. The Power of Thought (1948)
G | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Heckle and Jeckle know something other animated toilers don't: they're cartoons. That means unlimited power, which they use to outwit a bulldog cop.
Director: Eddie Donnelly | Star: Dayton Allen
Votes: 49
41. The Story That Couldn't Be Printed (1939)
Passed | 10 min | Short, Biography, History
The story of John Peter Zenger, who was tried for sedition based on what he printed in his newspaper. His subsequent acquittal established the concept of freedom of the press.
Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: John Nesbitt, Naomi Childers, Mary Gordon, Edward Hearn
Votes: 69
42. Buddy's Trolley Troubles (1934)
7 min | Family, Animation, Short
Buddy runs his own trolley. Most of it seems to be a musical number. However, there is a criminal living in the ditches as he breaks loose and hijacks Buddy's trolley.
Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Bernard B. Brown, Stanley Fields, Shirley Reed
Votes: 108
44. Ninety Six: Crossroads of a Revolution (2009 Video)
26 min | Documentary, Short, History
Starting as a trading post at the crossroads of several trade routes, the town of Ninety Six grew into a small, but vitally important town on South Carolina's frontier. It became the focus ... See full summary »
Directors: Sonny Hutchinson, Chris Wheeler | Stars: Trace Adkins, John Koopman, John Pagano, Ken Treese
45.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
George Washington: The Man Who Wouldn't Be King
(1992)
Approved | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The personal development of George Washington is the focus as Producer David Sutherland brings to life a uniquely human Washington who transformed himself from social climber into a patriot willing to give up everything for a higher cause.
Director: David Sutherland | Stars: David McCullough, Robert Dawidoff, Thad Tate, Paul Longmore
Votes: 51
46.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
One for the Road
(1957)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
A former nurse learns that when her husband is away on business trips, he's seeing another woman.
Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, John Baragrey, Georgann Johnson, Louise Platt
Votes: 676
47.
The Dakotas (1962–1963)
Episode:
Mutiny at Fort Mercy
(1963)
60 min | Western
Deputies Stark and Porter return Davids, an escaped prisoner, to Ft. Mercy which is commanded by the tyrannical Capt. Ridgeway. When the other prisoners riot, Stark is taken hostage and subjected to a life-threatening ordeal.
Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Larry Ward, Jack Elam, Chad Everett, Michael Greene
Votes: 19
48.
Laramie (1959–1963)
Episode:
Death Wind
(1960)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
A stage arrives with passengers that want to continue on at the same time a twister is supposed to hit the area. One of the passengers is hurt when Slim has to hit him when he pulls a gun. They are followed by a hit man who is after him.
Director: Francis D. Lyon | Stars: John Smith, Hoagy Carmichael, Robert Crawford Jr., Robert Fuller
Votes: 92
49.
Laramie (1959–1963)
Episode:
Fugitive Road
(1959)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Jess's brother-in-law, an Army deserter, shows up looking for help to reach Canada via the Lola Pass. Slim is against Jess helping so he refuses to share his map of the trail. However, he relents under pressure against his better judgment.
Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: John Smith, Hoagy Carmichael, Robert Crawford Jr., Robert Fuller
Votes: 125
50.
Northwest Passage (1958–1959)
Episode:
Break Out
(1958)
30 min | Adventure
Maj. Rogers, Sgt. Marriner and Ens. Towne are captured by a French patrol and thrown into a prison stockade. There they are subject to inhuman conditions and brutal torture by the sadistic French commander, Maj. Marten.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Keith Larsen, Buddy Ebsen, Don Burnett, Adam Williams
Votes: 25