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1. Pete's Dragon (1977)
G | 128 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
An orphan boy and his magical dragon come to town with his abusive adoptive parents in pursuit.
Directors: Don Chaffey, Don Bluth | Stars: Sean Marshall, Helen Reddy, Jim Dale, Mickey Rooney
Votes: 26,538 | Gross: $40.10M
2. Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
PG | 94 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
In 1931, three half-white, half-Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their houses to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a journey across the Outback.
Director: Phillip Noyce | Stars: Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Kenneth Branagh, Laura Monaghan
Votes: 30,271 | Gross: $6.17M
3. Bad Guy (2001)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Romance
An unfeeling gangster seeks to ruin the life of a young girl who rejected him. He forces her into prostitution and spies on her regularly, then he soon begins to fall for her.
Director: Kim Ki-duk | Stars: Cho Jae-hyun, Won Seo, Kim Yun-tae, Choi Deok-moon
Votes: 10,601
4. Unconquered (1947)
Passed | 146 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Intrepid frontiersman Chris Holden foils the political and personal ambitions of renegade Martin Garth in the Ohio Valley following the French and Indian War.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Howard Da Silva, Boris Karloff
Votes: 2,893
5. Comet (2014)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Set in a parallel universe, Comet bounces back and forth over the course of an unlikely but perfectly paired couple's six-year relationship.
Director: Sam Esmail | Stars: Justin Long, Emmy Rossum, Kayla Servi, Eric Winter
Votes: 19,665
6. The Hanging Tree (1959)
Approved | 107 min | Western
Unusual western about a doctor with a dark past, whose life is complicated and ultimately redeemed by a young thief, and a pretty Swiss immigrant whom he nurses back to health.
Directors: Delmer Daves, Karl Malden, Vincent Sherman | Stars: Gary Cooper, Maria Schell, Karl Malden, George C. Scott
Votes: 4,757
7. The Hawaiians (1970)
R | 134 min | Adventure, Drama
Captain Whip returns to Hawaii. He's inherited "worthless" land. He starts a plantation, staffed with a Chinese couple from his ship. Drilling thru lava for water and stealing/smuggling pineapple from French Guyana, things look brighter.
Director: Tom Gries | Stars: Charlton Heston, Tina Chen, Geraldine Chaplin, Mako
Votes: 1,437 | Gross: $0.28M
8. The Kentuckian (1955)
Passed | 104 min | Drama, Western
A Kentucky widower bound for 1820's Texas with his young son is thwarted in his efforts by a corrupt constable, a long-standing family feud, and a beautiful indentured servant.
Director: Burt Lancaster | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Diana Lynn, Dianne Foster, John McIntire
Votes: 3,116
9. A Story from Chikamatsu (1954)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
Ishun is a wealthy but unsympathetic master printer who has wrongly accused his wife and best employee of being lovers. To escape punishment, the accused run away together, but Ishun is certain to be ruined if word gets out.
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Kazuo Hasegawa, Kyôko Kagawa, Eitarô Shindô, Eitarô Ozawa
Votes: 4,951
10. The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936)
76 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A Fleet Street barber recounts the story of Sweeney Todd, a notorious barber who in the last century murdered many customers for their money.
Director: George King | Stars: Tod Slaughter, Stella Rho, John Singer, Eve Lister
Votes: 1,452
11. 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: 2,758
12. The Beautiful Country (2004)
R | 125 min | Drama
After reuniting with his mother in Ho Chi Minh City, a family tragedy causes Binh to flee from Viet Nam to America. Landing in New York, Binh begins a road trip to Texas, where his American father is said to live.
Director: Hans Petter Moland | Stars: Damien Nguyen, Bai Ling, Dang Quoc Thinh Tran, Thi Hoa Mai
Votes: 3,976 | Gross: $0.44M
13. The Man Who Came Back (2008)
R | 112 min | Action, Drama, Western
A dozen years after the Civil War, former slaves go on strike at a powerful judge's plantation.
Director: Glen Pitre | Stars: Eric Braeden, Billy Zane, Carol Alt, James Patrick Stuart
Votes: 906
14. Plymouth Adventure (1952)
Passed | 105 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Trials and tribulations beset the one hundred odd settlers that journey to Virginia in 1620 including unexpectedly arriving in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Gene Tierney, Van Johnson, Leo Genn
Votes: 1,653
15. Sangaree (1953)
Approved | 94 min | Drama, History
Lamas plays an indentured servant who rises to power in Georgia shortly after the Revolutionary War.
Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Fernando Lamas, Arlene Dahl, Patricia Medina, Francis L. Sullivan
Votes: 253
16. Lullaby of the Earth (1976)
111 min | Drama
The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and deceptiveness of the outside world, when her grandmother dies.
Director: Yasuzô Masumura | Stars: Mieko Harada, Natsuko Kahara, Meiko Kaji, Shigeo Katô
Votes: 254
17. Kavi (2009)
TV-PG | 19 min | Short, Drama
The story of a young boy who attempts to escape from the brick kiln where he is forced to work as a bonded labor slave in India.
Director: Gregg Helvey | Stars: Sagar Salunkhe, Ulhas Tayade, Rajesh Bagotra, Madhavi Juvekar
Votes: 416
18. The Hoosier Schoolmaster (1935)
Approved | 75 min | Drama
Right after the Civil War, an ex-Union soldier sets out to become a schoolmaster in his small town, even though many locals still harbor a resentment against "Yankees".
Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Norman Foster, Charlotte Henry, Dorothy Libaire, Tommy Bupp
Votes: 84
19. Daughters of the Sun (2000)
92 min | Drama
Amangol's father cuts her hair and sends her to a village to work as a boy in a carpet weaving shop.
Director: Maryam Shahriar | Stars: Altinay Ghelich Taghani, Soghra Karimi, Zahra Mohammadi, Habib Haddad
Votes: 156
20. Slave Sisters (1995 Video)
57 min | Adventure
Director: Olivia Outre | Stars: Porsche Lynn, Valhalla, Christine West
21. Enslaved (1999 Video)
60 min | Drama, Family, History
"Enslaved" traces the origins of the institution of slavery. In the earliest days of colonial America there were no slaves, but the need for labor led the colonists to seek workers anywhere... See full summary »
Director: William G. Wagner | Stars: Willie Balderson, Devon Canaday, Ron Carnegie, Cena Chisom
22. Samuel Slater - Hero or Traitor? (2006)
26 min | Short, History
Director: Lloyd Johnston | Stars: Nicholas Bentley, Chris Herriott, Barry Coope, Lester Simpson
23. One Dollar Bid (1918)
50 min | Drama
Toby, a peculiar young man, lives in a shack in the Kentucky hills, spending his days drinking moonshine and whittling toys for the local children. Fearful of his influence, the villagers ... See full summary »
Director: Ernest C. Warde | Stars: J. Warren Kerrigan, Lois Wilson, Joseph J. Dowling, Leatrice Joy
24.
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996)
Episode:
Episode 2
(1996)
Unrated | 47 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Moll travels to Chatham and becomes Mrs Flanders, a rich widow. She marries a Virginian sea captain, sails to the colonies and meets her new mother-in-law. They have two children, but then ... See full summary »
Director: David Attwood | Stars: James Bowers, Alex Kingston, Roger Morlidge, Sam Halpenny
Votes: 12
25.
Murdoch Mysteries (2008– )
Episode:
Love and Human Remains
(2010)
TV-PG | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Two murdered but well-preserved bodies are found after a shed is torn down, and it's discovered that one of them had fought in the War of 1812.
Director: Sudz Sutherland | Stars: Yannick Bisson, Helene Joy, Thomas Craig, Jonny Harris
Votes: 382
26.
The Louise Log (2007– )
Episode:
How to Take It Like a Girl
(2008)
PG | Comedy
Louise tries some old tricks.
Director: Anne Flournoy | Stars: Christine Cook, Jim Fouratt
27.
Captivating History (2017– )
Episode:
The Legend of Davy Crockett Explained in 12 Minutes
(2022)
13 min | Documentary, History
Born to a frontier family struggling to survive. He cultivated his now legendary frontiersman image in his political career which was stymied by enmity with Andrew Jackson. His legendary ... See full summary »
28.
Who Do You Think You Are? (2004– )
Episode:
Amanda Holden
(2016)
57 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The actress looks into rumoured French ancestry on her mother's side of the family, uncovering a Napoleonic-era cross-Channel romance. Amanda also seeks answers to the tragic death of her paternal grandfather.
Director: Russell England | Stars: Amanda Holden, Cherie Lunghi
Votes: 48
29.
Outlander (2014– )
Episode:
Free Will
(2020)
TV-MA | 63 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
The growing Regulator threat forces Jamie, Claire and Roger to embark on a mission to raise a militia.
Director: Jamie Payne | Stars: Caitríona Balfe, Sam Heughan, Sophie Skelton, Richard Rankin
Votes: 2,244