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1. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
PG-13 | 154 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Archaeologist Indiana Jones races against time to retrieve a legendary artifact that can change the course of history.
Director: James Mangold | Stars: Harrison Ford, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Antonio Banderas, Karen Allen
Votes: 198,049
2. Watchmen (2009)
R | 162 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
In a version of 1985 where superheroes exist, the murder of a colleague sends active vigilante Rorschach on the trail of a conspiracy that will change the course of history.
Director: Zack Snyder | Stars: Jackie Earle Haley, Patrick Wilson, Carla Gugino, Malin Akerman
Votes: 582,221 | Gross: $107.51M
3. Beverly Hills Cop III (1994)
R | 104 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Axel Foley, while investigating a car theft ring, comes across something much bigger than that: the same men who killed his boss are running a counterfeit money ring out of a theme park in Los Angeles.
Director: John Landis | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Jon Tenney, Joey Travolta, Eugene Collier
Votes: 87,487 | Gross: $42.61M
4. The Right Stuff (1983)
PG | 193 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The U.S. space program's development from the breaking of the sound barrier to selection of the Mercury 7 astronauts, from a group of test pilots with a more seat-of-the-pants approach than the program's more cautious engineers preferred.
Director: Philip Kaufman | Stars: Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid
Votes: 65,322 | Gross: $21.50M
5. Senna (2010)
PG-13 | 106 min | Documentary, Biography, Sport
A documentary on Brazilian Formula One racing driver Ayrton Senna, who won the F1 world championship three times before his death at age 34.
Director: Asif Kapadia | Stars: Ayrton Senna, Reginaldo Leme, John Bisignano, Neyde Senna
Votes: 75,741 | Gross: $1.61M
6. The Candidate (1972)
PG | 110 min | Comedy, Drama
Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment.
Director: Michael Ritchie | Stars: Robert Redford, Peter Boyle, Melvyn Douglas, Don Porter
Votes: 11,911 | Gross: $0.12M
7. Sergeant York (1941)
Passed | 134 min | Biography, Drama, History
A Tennessee farmer and marksman is drafted in World War I, and struggles with his pacifist inclinations before becoming one of the most celebrated war heroes.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie, George Tobias
Votes: 19,777 | Gross: $16.40M
8. Apollo 11 (I) (2019)
G | 93 min | Documentary, History
A look at the Apollo 11 mission to land on the moon led by commander Neil Armstrong and pilots Buzz Aldrin and Mike Collins.
Director: Todd Douglas Miller | Stars: Neil Armstrong, Mike Collins, Buzz Aldrin, Deke Slayton
Votes: 27,200 | Gross: $9.04M
9. Hero (I) (1992)
PG-13 | 119 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A not-so-nice man rescues passengers from a crashed airliner, only to see someone else take credit.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Geena Davis, Andy Garcia, Joan Cusack
Votes: 23,799 | Gross: $19.51M
10. Amelia (2009)
PG | 111 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.
Director: Mira Nair | Stars: Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston
Votes: 13,615 | Gross: $14.24M
11. Rescue from Gilligan's Island (1978 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy
The castaways must try to readjust to life in civilization after they are rescued from the island.
Director: Leslie H. Martinson | Stars: Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer
Votes: 1,995
12. Nothing Sacred (1937)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
An eccentric woman learns she is not dying of radium poisoning as earlier assumed, but when she meets a reporter looking for a story, she feigns sickness again for her own profit.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger, Walter Connolly
Votes: 7,253
13. The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
Approved | 135 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Charles 'Slim' Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: James Stewart, Murray Hamilton, Patricia Smith, Bartlett Robinson
Votes: 8,605
14. Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953)
Approved | 77 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Two workmen accidentally launch a space rocket intended for Mars, and find mistakenly landing in New Orleans just the beginning of their misadventures.
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Robert Paige, Mari Blanchard
Votes: 3,601
15. Jim Thorpe -- All-American (1951)
Approved | 107 min | Biography, Drama, Family
The triumph and tragedy of Native American Jim Thorpe, who, after winning both the pentathlon and decathlon in the same Olympics, is stripped of his medals on a technicality.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Charles Bickford, Steve Cochran, Phyllis Thaxter
Votes: 2,297
16. Christopher Strong (1933)
Passed | 78 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A famous female flier and a member of Parliament drift into a potentially disastrous affair.
Director: Dorothy Arzner | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Colin Clive, Billie Burke, Helen Chandler
Votes: 1,670
17. Have Rocket -- Will Travel (1959)
76 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
The 3 Stooges are cleaners at a spaceport when they accidentally take off and land on Venus. The boys encounter a talking unicorn, a giant fire breathing tarantula and an alien computer that creates three evil duplicates of the Stooges.
Director: David Lowell Rich | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe DeRita, Jerome Cowan
Votes: 1,001
18. Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938)
Approved | 299 min | Action, Adventure, Family
When a deadly Nitron ray strikes Earth, Flash Gordon and his friends travel to Mars to battle Ming the Merciless and his new ally Queen Azura.
Directors: Ford Beebe, Robert F. Hill, Frederick Stephani | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton, Frank Shannon
Votes: 1,052
19. Cops and Robbers (1973)
PG | 89 min | Crime, Comedy
Two disillusioned New York City policemen plan a ten million dollar robbery to fuel their low pensions, only to run into one debacle after another in the process.
Director: Aram Avakian | Stars: Cliff Gorman, Joseph Bologna, Charlene Dallas, James Ferguson
Votes: 871
20. China Clipper (1936)
Passed | 88 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Dave Logan takes his regional Pan American airline and with vision and sometimes ruthless determination establishes pan-American and trans-Pacific routes.
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Beverly Roberts, Ross Alexander
Votes: 679
21. Across the Pacific (2020)
History
This is a 3 part series from PBS, following WW1, airline executive Juan Trippe, pilot Charles Lindbergh
Stars: Christopher Cassarino, Brad Koed, Brian Muller, Sergey Nagorny
Votes: 70
22. The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936)
Unrated | 25 min | Documentary, Short, Drama
This documentary is about what happened to the Great Plains of the United States when a combination of farming practices and environmental factors led to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.
Director: Pare Lorentz | Stars: Thomas Chalmers, Bam White
Votes: 751
23. Day Dreams (1922)
Not Rated | 28 min | Short, Comedy
A sincere young man leaves his home to win his fortune so he can marry his home town sweetheart.
Directors: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Renée Adorée, Edward F. Cline, Joe Keaton
Votes: 2,704
24. Women in the Wind (1939)
Passed | 63 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
A pilot enters an aviation race in order to win enough money to pay for her brother's medical treatment, and encounters difficulty with a rival pilot.
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Kay Francis, William Gargan, Victor Jory, Maxie Rosenbloom
Votes: 283
25. Plane Crazy (1933)
20 min | Short, Comedy, Musical
A group of pilots and their planes are arriving at an air strip in New York City to do some flights for the public. One of the pilots, Freddy Richmond, is in love with a young groupie named... See full summary »
Director: Roy Mack | Stars: Dorothy Lee, Arthur Havel, Morton Havel, Brook Allen
Votes: 67
26. Pink of the Litter (1967)
Approved | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
While leisurely sitting on a park bench and eating a banana, the Pink Panther throws the banana peel on the ground and is instantly cited for littering. The diminutive trial judge orders ... See full summary »
Director: Hawley Pratt
Votes: 191
27. Goofy Movies Number Two (1934)
Approved | 10 min | Comedy, Short
A satire on movie newsreels combines with humorous narration of silent screen footage in this one reel comedy short.
Stars: Pete Smith, Billy Bletcher, Clara Pontoppidan, Valdemar Psilander
Votes: 127
28. General Patton (1963)
28 min | Documentary, Short
An overview of General George S. Patton Jr.'s life and campaigns during World War II.
Stars: George S. Patton, Ronald Reagan, Harold A. Garman, James Doolittle
29. USS Nautilus: Operation Sunshine (1959)
14 min | Documentary, Short
US Navy film documenting the voyage of the world's first atomic submarine, the USS Nautilus (SSN-571), from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean under the Arctic pack ice. Its course ... See full summary »
Star: Edward R. Murrow
30. 40,000 Miles with Lindbergh (1928)
Passed | Documentary, Biography, History
A compilation-film (with a linking titles-narrative of time and place and event) of all the M-G-M newsreel footage ever shot on Charles Lindbergh from the first days in which he became a ... See full summary »
31.
Screen Directors Playhouse (1955–1956)
Episode:
Life of Vernon Hathaway
(1955)
26 min | Drama
A daydreaming man discovers that his imagined adventures are happening in real life.
Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Alan Young, Cloris Leachman, Jay Novello, Douglass Dumbrille
Votes: 55
32.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
Cold Hands, Warm Heart
(1964)
TV-14 | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Following a mission to Venus, an astronaut finds himself constantly cold and has strange dreams about encountering an alien outside his spacecraft.
Director: Charles F. Haas | Stars: William Shatner, Geraldine Brooks, Lloyd Gough, Malachi Throne
Votes: 547
33.
Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World (2019)
Episode:
The Airplane
(2019)
TV-PG | 54 min | Documentary, History
Take to the sky with the dreamers whose work gave humans the ability to fly. From Leonardo da Vinci's "flying machines" to the modern commercial plane, without these inventions, we may have never left the ground.
Directors: Stephen Mizelas, Nathan Williams, Ben Harding | Stars: Jim Al-Khalili, Brandon Mikesell, Shini Somara, David Lentick
Votes: 32
34.
When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions (2008)
Episode:
Friends and Rivals
(2008)
TV-G | 44 min | Documentary, History
When We Left the Earth examines the Gemini program and how it prepared the space program for the landing on the moon.
Director: Nick Green | Stars: Gary Sinise, Jim Lovell, Gene Kranz, Glynn Lunney
Votes: 76
35.
When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions (2008)
Episode:
Mercury: Ordinary Supermen
(2008)
TV-G | 44 min | Documentary, History
When We Left Earth examines the history of American spaceflight starting with the X-15 rocket plane and the Mercury program.
Directors: Mary Crisp, Nick Green | Stars: Gary Sinise, Neil Armstrong, Gene Kranz, John Glenn
Votes: 82
36.
Days That Shook the World (2003–2005)
Episode:
Wright Brothers First Flight/Apollo Moon Landing
(2003)
Documentary, History
Profiles of two ground breaking days in aviation. The first powered, manned flight by the Wight Brothers in Kitty Hawk North Carolina and the landing of Apollo 11 on the moon.
Director: Carl Hindmarch | Stars: Ian Holm, Tim Askew, Bill Dobbins, Graeme Edler
Votes: 18
37.
Mystères d'archives (2009– )
Episode:
John F. Kennedy à Berlin
(2010)
Documentary, Short, History
Stars: Konrad Adenauer, Willy Brandt, Charles de Gaulle, John F. Kennedy
Votes: 9
38.
Tricky Dick (2019)
Episode:
Nixon's the One
(2019)
Not Rated | Documentary, Biography, History
Following political defeats in 1960 and 1962, Richard Nixon emerges at the height of the turbulent 1960s as the Republican Party's nominee for President in 1968.
Director: Mary Robertson | Stars: Richard Nixon, Roger Ailes, Walter Cronkite, Hubert H. Humphrey
Votes: 27