Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "black-smoke"

1. Deepwater Horizon (2016)

PG-13 | 107 min | Action, Drama, History

A dramatization of the disaster in April 2010, when the offshore drilling rig called the Deepwater Horizon exploded, resulting in the worst oil spill in American history.

Director: Peter Berg | Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, Douglas M. Griffin, James DuMont

Votes: 182,311 | Gross: $61.43M

2. Midway (2019)

PG-13 | 138 min | Action, Drama, History

The story of the Battle of Midway, told by the leaders and the sailors who fought it.

Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Ed Skrein, Patrick Wilson, Woody Harrelson, Luke Evans

Votes: 94,424 | Gross: $56.85M

3. Pearl Harbor (2001)

PG-13 | 183 min | Action, Drama, Romance

A tale of war and romance mixed in with history. The story follows two lifelong friends and a beautiful nurse who are caught up in the horror of an infamous Sunday morning in 1941.

Director: Michael Bay | Stars: Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Josh Hartnett, William Lee Scott

Votes: 351,711 | Gross: $198.54M

4. Backdraft (1991)

R | 137 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

Two feuding siblings carrying on a heroic family tradition as Chicago firefighters. But when a puzzling series of arson attacks is reported, they are forced to set aside their differences to solve the mystery surrounding these crimes.

Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Robert De Niro, Donald Sutherland

Votes: 87,828 | Gross: $77.87M

5. Battle of Britain (1969)

G | 132 min | Action, Drama, History

In 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle to prevent the Luftwaffe from gaining air superiority over the English Channel as a prelude to a possible Axis invasion of the U.K.

Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Harry Andrews, Curd Jürgens

Votes: 24,503 | Gross: $4.36M

6. Midway (1976)

PG | 132 min | Action, Drama, History

A dramatization of the battle that was widely heralded as a turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II.

Director: Jack Smight | Stars: Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford

Votes: 21,485

7. Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

G | 144 min | Action, Drama, History

The story of the 1941 Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor, and the series of preceding American blunders that aggravated its effectiveness.

Directors: Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masuda, Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Martin Balsam, Sô Yamamura, Jason Robards, Joseph Cotten

Votes: 37,202 | Gross: $29.55M

8. Hellfighters (1968)

G | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Divorced Chance Buckman fights international oil rig fires. An injury brings his daughter and to his dismay, she weds Greg, a team member. Chance gets a desk-job, so he and Madelyn remarry, but a Venezuelan oil rig fire reunites them.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: John Wayne, Katharine Ross, Jim Hutton, Vera Miles

Votes: 6,407

9. The Blue Max (1966)

Approved | 156 min | Action, Drama, Romance

A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.

Director: John Guillermin | Stars: George Peppard, James Mason, Ursula Andress, Jeremy Kemp

Votes: 7,619

10. The 27th Day (1957)

Approved | 75 min | Sci-Fi

Aliens take five people, give them small capsules which can kill mankind without additional damage, with the understanding they will colonize Earth only if they use the weapons.

Director: William Asher | Stars: Gene Barry, Valerie French, George Voskovec, Arnold Moss

Votes: 1,832

11. The Hindenburg (1975)

Approved | 125 min | Adventure, Drama, History

A chronicle of the Hindenburg disaster in which a zeppelin burst into flames.

Director: Robert Wise | Stars: George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft, William Atherton, Roy Thinnes

Votes: 6,585 | Gross: $27.95M

12. Wild Witch (2018)

90 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

"Wild Witch" is a fantasy film for the whole family based on the popular book series by Lene Kaaberbøl.

Director: Kaspar Munk | Stars: Gerda Lie Kaas, Sonja Richter, May Lifschitz, Vera Mi Fernandez Bachmann

Votes: 686

13. Aces High (1976)

PG | 114 min | Action, Drama, War

In World War I, the high casualty rate amongst the rookie pilots of the Royal Flying Corps puts an enormous strain on the survivors.

Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Christopher Plummer, Simon Ward, Peter Firth

Votes: 2,986

14. Lessons of Darkness (1992 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 54 min | Documentary, War

This film surveys the disaster of the Kuwaiti oil fields in flames, with little narration and scarcely any interviews. Hell on Earth is presented in such transcendent visions and music that one can only be fascinated by it.

Director: Werner Herzog | Star: Werner Herzog

Votes: 6,742

15. Hindenburg: The Last Flight (2011)

180 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

About the supposed conspiracy that led to the catastrophic deadly crash of the Hindeburg zeppelin in 1937.

Stars: Hannes Jaenicke, Maximilian Simonischek, Lauren Lee Smith, Stacy Keach

Votes: 1,166

16. Inuyashiki (2018)

Not Rated | 127 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

An middle-aged office worker encounters aliens and is gifted with alien technology and limitless powers.

Director: Shinsuke Sato | Stars: Noritake Kinashi, Takeru Satoh, Kanata Hongô, Fumi Nikaidô

Votes: 2,801

17. December 7th (1943)

Unrated | 82 min | Documentary, Action, Drama

"Docudrama" about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering of the ships, the improving of defense in Hawaii and the US efforts to beat back the Japanese reinforcements.

Directors: John Ford, Gregg Toland | Stars: Walter Huston, Harry Davenport, Dana Andrews, Paul Hurst

Votes: 1,007

18. Fighter Attack (1953)

Approved | 80 min | War

World War II action in Italy involving fighter pilot's last sortie, and the help he receives from Italian partisans in an effort to complete it.

Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Sterling Hayden, J. Carrol Naish, Joy Page, Kenneth Tobey

Votes: 199

19. What a Wonderful Family! 3: My Wife, My Life (2018)

123 min | Comedy, Drama

Not everyone values the housewife enough. When the local friendly neighbourhood burglar hits their house, the husband and wife descend into a quarrel that ends up with the woman departing ... See full summary »

Director: Yôji Yamada | Stars: Isao Hashizume, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Masahiko Nishimura, Yui Natsukawa

Votes: 467

20. Krakatoa (2008 TV Movie)

87 min | Documentary, Drama

The greatest volcanic eruption in recorded history, the Krakatoa explosion of August 27 1883.

Directors: Jeremy Hall, Stuart Everett | Stars: John Shrapnel, Michael Bernardin, Sasha Waddell, Nick Ewans

Votes: 126

21. Fires of Kuwait (1992)

36 min | Documentary, Short

Man's emergency creativity can be seen at its best, after Saddam Hussein had the Kuwait oil wells lit up, as teams from all over the world fought those fires for months, and had to save the oil resources, as well as reduce air pollution.

Director: David Douglas | Star: Rip Torn

Votes: 579

22. Avarice (I) (2012)

15 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy

A little girl is awakened one morning by a magical Light. She pursues the Light until something darker and more mysterious catches her attention in an ominous forest. Faced with the ... See full summary »

Director: Rachel M. Taylor | Stars: Taylor Daniel, Brent Diggs, Jennifer Gann, Amy Harwell

Votes: 16

23. A Fire (1961)

24 min | Documentary, Short

An oil well is on fire near Ahvaz in the south of Iran and firemen are trying hard day and night to put it out.

Director: Ebrahim Golestan | Star: Myron Kinley

Votes: 168

24. Norfolk & Western Articulated Steam Locomotives in the 1940s and 1950s (2019 Video)

31 min | Documentary, Short

Mostly track-side footage of Class A 2-6-6-4 and Class Y 2-8-8-2 articulated steam locomotives of the Norfolk and Western railroad, taken during the last decades of steam power in the 1940s... See full summary »

25. Moimi glazami (2013)

24 min | Thriller

An experiment on the transmigration of souls is underway at a secret facility. One of the test subjects is a serial killer. However, something goes wrong during the experiment, and the criminal's soul breaks free.

Stars: Anastasiya Stezhko, Andrey Kozlov

Votes: 126

26. Help! My House Is Haunted (2018– )
Episode: Old School House, Morchard Bishop (2019)

43 min | History, Mystery, Thriller

The team encounter something they have not met with before when they are asked to investigate a 16th century cottage in the village of Morchard Bishop in Devon.

Director: Ben Cole | Stars: Chris Fleming, Barri Ghai, Jayne Harris, Ian Shaw

27. Ward Carroll (2020– )
Episode: The Real Truth About the Russian Carrier Kuznetsov (2023)

16 min | Documentary

Russia's aircraft carrier Kuznetsov is technically an aircraft carrying heavy cruiser with a dozen anti-ship missile launch tubes and a take off ramp for low speed fighter jet launches. ... See full summary »

Star: Ward Carroll

28. The 100 Days: That Defined Modern History (2022–2023)
Episode: The Gulf War - 1990-91 (2023)

Documentary, History

In 1990, the UN passed Resolution 678, giving Iraq an ultimatum to leave Kuwait following their invasion.

Directors: Edmund Duff, Mike Kenneally | Stars: Lloyd Cox, Amin Saikal, Lawrence Freedman, Louise Kettle