Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "crop-failure"

1. Interstellar (2014)

PG-13 | 169 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

When Earth becomes uninhabitable in the future, a farmer and ex-NASA pilot, Joseph Cooper, is tasked to pilot a spacecraft, along with a team of researchers, to find a new planet for humans.

Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Mackenzie Foy

Votes: 2,102,968 | Gross: $188.02M

2. The Homesman (2014)

R | 122 min | Drama, Western

Three women who have been driven mad by pioneer life are to be transported across the country by covered wagon by the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy, who in turn employs low-life drifter George Briggs to assist her.

Director: Tommy Lee Jones | Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swank, Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto

Votes: 35,769 | Gross: $2.43M

3. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

Passed | 129 min | Drama

An Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin

Votes: 100,019 | Gross: $0.06M

4. The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)

Passed | 107 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

A nineteenth-century New Hampshire farmer makes a pact with Satan for economic success, then enlists famed orator Daniel Webster to extract him from his contract.

Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Edward Arnold, Walter Huston, Jane Darwell, Simone Simon

Votes: 5,616

5. The Curse (1987)

R | 92 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

When a meteorite lands near his family farm during a storm in Tennessee, the son of a struggling farmer believes it's connected to strange plague-like events afflicting the crops, the farm animals and even the family themselves.

Director: David Keith | Stars: Wil Wheaton, Claude Akins, Malcolm Danare, Cooper Huckabee

Votes: 3,887 | Gross: $1.93M

6. The Emigrants (1971)

PG | 151 min | Drama, History

Småland, Sweden, mid-19th century. A farming family struggle with their rocky, unyielding land, and decide to embark on the arduous journey to new hope in America.

Director: Jan Troell | Stars: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Eddie Axberg, Sven-Olof Bern

Votes: 7,473 | Gross: $1.16M

7. Parrish (1961)

Passed | 138 min | Drama

In the Connecticut River Valley, Parrish McLean and his mother are newly employed by the Sala Post tobacco farm that is engaged in a competition war with the neighboring Judd Raike tobacco corporation.

Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Troy Donahue, Karl Malden, Dean Jagger

Votes: 1,209

8. Monster (2019)

90 min | Drama

Ireland, 1845. As the famine progresses, a fisherman unable to protect his family is subsumed by darkness until a helpless little girl saves him from despair.

Director: Tom Sullivan | Stars: Dónall Ó Héalai, Saise Quinn, Dara Devaney, Eoin O'Dubhghaill

Votes: 503

9. Honey (2010)

Not Rated | 103 min | Drama

The quiet life of a boy and his family is endangered when his father does not return home from his work collecting honey in the forest.

Director: Semih Kaplanoglu | Stars: Bora Altas, Erdal Besikçioglu, Tülin Özen, Ayse Altay

Votes: 7,484

10. Forgotten Victory (1939)

11 min | Drama, Short

USDA scientist Mark Carleton appears to be traveling on some kind of junket as wheat farmers face disaster from drought, frost, and diseases. But in Russia, he finds a variety of wheat ... See full summary »

Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: John Nesbitt, Donald Douglas

Votes: 53

11. The Hot Spell (1936)

7 min | Animation, Short

Farmer Al Falfa and Puddy's farm is shriveling up under the intense heat. A peddler provides magic explosive pills that cause it to rain, and the crops swell up instantly. Unfortunately, it's all a dream.

Directors: Mannie Davis, George Gordon

Votes: 18

12. The Century: America's Time (1999– )
Episode: 1929-1936: Stormy Weather (1999)

Not Rated | Documentary

The Great Depression rocks America.

Director: Roger Goodman | Stars: Peter Jennings, Bill Bailey, Marvin Belli, Smedley Butler

Votes: 12

13. Festival of Family Classics (1972– )
Episode: Jack O'Lantern (1972)

Not Rated | Animation, Short, Adventure

A leprechaun, who had changed himself into a pumpkin seed to hibernate for the winter, comes to life as Mr. Jack O'Lantern, who then uses his pumpkin shell to help scare away Zelda the Witch and Archibald the Warlock.

Directors: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. | Stars: Carl Banas, Len Birman, Bernard Cowan, Peg Dixon

Votes: 43

14. DoS - Domain of Science (2010– )
Episode: The Map of Doom: Apocalypses Ranked (2020)

22 min | Documentary

Doomsday scenarios are a popular topic for science fiction and, from time to time, news stories. But with so many ways humanity could be wiped out which do we really need to worry about. ... See full summary »

Star: Dominic Walliman

15. Lawmen: Bass Reeves (2023)
Episode: Part II (2023)

TV-MA | 43 min | Drama, Western

Bass and his family endure tough times on their farm. Bass gets a visit from the law and is faced with an interesting proposition.

Director: Christina Alexandra Voros | Stars: David Oyelowo, Lauren E. Banks, Demi Singleton, Forrest Goodluck

Votes: 732

16. Historia Civilis (2014– )
Episode: The Bronze Age Collapse (approximately 1200 B.C.E.) (2020)

24 min | Documentary, History

At about 1200 B.C. the major empires in the Middle East collapsed and were invaded by the Sea Peoples. How powerful empires could succumb to invasion from the sea by a primitive group of ... See full summary »

17. Edward and Mary: The Unknown Tudors (2002– )
Episode: Mary I: The First Virgin Queen (2002)

TV-14 | 49 min | Documentary, History

How did Queen Mary become known to history as Bloody Mary? After an imagined pregnancy, Henry VIII's eldest daughter took out her frustration upon Protestants, sending hundreds to be burned at the stake.

Director: Lucy Swingler | Stars: David Starkey, Rachel Jenkins, Emilie Smith

Votes: 10

18. Star Trek Continues (2013–2017)
Episode: What Ships Are For (2017)

49 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Kirk struggles with aiding a society whose inhabitants view their isolated world in a very unique way.

Director: Vic Mignogna | Stars: Vic Mignogna, Todd Haberkorn, Chuck Huber, Christopher Doohan

Votes: 319