Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "year-1893"

1. The Settlers (2023)

Not Rated | 97 min | Crime, Drama, History

In Chile in 1901, three horseman are paid to protect a vast estate. Accompanying a British soldier and an American mercenary is a mixed-race sniper, who realizes that his true mission is to kill the indigenous population.

Director: Felipe Gálvez Haberle | Stars: Sam Spruell, Mark Stanley, Alfredo Castro, Benjamin Westfall

Votes: 2,811

2. Gandhi (1982)

PG | 191 min | Biography, Drama, History

The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.

Director: Richard Attenborough | Stars: Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud, Rohini Hattangadi, Roshan Seth

Votes: 240,150 | Gross: $52.77M

3. Far and Away (1992)

PG-13 | 140 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

A young Irish couple flee to the States, but subsequently struggle to obtain land and prosper freely.

Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Thomas Gibson, Robert Prosky

Votes: 68,297 | Gross: $58.88M

4. Radioactive (2019)

PG-13 | 109 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

The incredible true story of Marie Sklodowska-Curie and her Nobel Prize-winning work that changed the world.

Director: Marjane Satrapi | Stars: Rosamund Pike, Yvette Feuer, Mirjam Novak, Ralph Berkin

Votes: 21,698

5. The Essex Serpent (2022)

TV-14 | 48 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Follows London widow Cora Seaborne who moves to Essex to investigate reports of a mythical serpent. She forms a bond of science and skepticism with the pastor, but when tragedy strikes, locals accuse her of attracting the creature.

Stars: Claire Danes, Tom Hiddleston, Frank Dillane, Clémence Poésy

Votes: 7,412

6. Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)

PG-13 | 88 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

Mel Brooks' parody of the classic vampire story and its famous film adaptations.

Director: Mel Brooks | Stars: Leslie Nielsen, Mel Brooks, Peter MacNicol, Steven Weber

Votes: 45,171 | Gross: $10.77M

7. The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. (1993–1994)

TV-14 | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A bounty hunter rides the Old West, fighting bad guys, many with futuristic-type gadgets.

Stars: Bruce Campbell, Julius Carry, Christian Clemenson, Comet

Votes: 9,228

8. Time After Time (1979)

PG | 112 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

H.G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper to the 20th Century when the serial murderer uses the future writer's time machine to escape his time period.

Director: Nicholas Meyer | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Mary Steenburgen, David Warner, Charles Cioffi

Votes: 20,626

9. The Devil in the White City

Drama, History, Thriller | Pre-production

An architect works to build up the 1893 World's Fair, while the serial killer H. H. Holmes uses the fair to attract and kill women.

10. Tesla (I) (2020)

PG-13 | 102 min | Biography, Drama

A freewheeling take on visionary inventor Nikola Tesla, his interactions with Thomas Edison and J.P. Morgan's daughter Anne, and his breakthroughs in transmitting electrical power and light.

Director: Michael Almereyda | Stars: Ethan Hawke, Eve Hewson, Eli A. Smith, Josh Hamilton

Votes: 10,512

11. Coco Before Chanel (2009)

PG-13 | 105 min | Biography, Drama

The story of Coco Chanel's rise from obscure beginnings to the heights of the fashion world.

Director: Anne Fontaine | Stars: Audrey Tautou, Benoît Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola, Marie Gillain

Votes: 42,090 | Gross: $6.11M

12. The Legend of Lizzie Borden (1975 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 96 min | Drama, History, Mystery

In 1893 Massachusetts, Lizzie Andrew Borden is put on trial for murdering her father and stepmother with an axe.

Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Elizabeth Montgomery, Fionnula Flanagan, Ed Flanders, Katherine Helmond

Votes: 1,954

13. Dracula 3D (2012)

Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Horror, Romance

Asia Argento stars in horror legend Dario Argento's sexy spin on the classic tale about the sharp-toothed count who craves human blood.

Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Thomas Kretschmann, Marta Gastini, Asia Argento, Unax Ugalde

Votes: 5,312 | Gross: $0.01M

14. Cattle Annie and Little Britches (1980)

PG | 97 min | Drama, Western

In 19th-century Oklahoma, two teen girls who love stories about outlaws are on a quest to meet and join up with them. They find a shadow of a former gang and, although disappointed, still try to help them escape from a vigorous Marshal.

Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Scott Glenn, Redmond Gleeson, William Russ, Kenny Call

Votes: 942 | Gross: $0.53M

15. Bonnard: Pierre & Marthe (2023)

122 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

Explores the art and love story of renowned French painters Pierre Bonnard and his wife Marthe.

Director: Martin Provost | Stars: Cécile de France, Vincent Macaigne, Stacy Martin, Anouk Grinberg

Votes: 193

16. The Outing (1987)

R | 87 min | Horror

A group of high schoolers decide to stay in a natural museum after closing hours, but a newly acquired and mysterious lamp hiding a deadly force will turn the fun into horror.

Director: Tom Daley | Stars: Deborah Winters, James Huston, Andra St. Ivanyi, Scott Bankston

Votes: 2,134 | Gross: $1.08M

17. The Music Lovers (1971)

R | 123 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

Piano teacher Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky struggles against his homosexuality by marrying, but unfortunately he chooses a nymphomaniac whom he cannot satisfy.

Director: Ken Russell | Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Glenda Jackson, Max Adrian, Christopher Gable

Votes: 3,019 | Gross: $0.20M

18. Show Boat (1936)

Approved | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.

Director: James Whale | Stars: Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson

Votes: 3,690

19. Oviri (1986)

R | 90 min | Biography, Drama

This biographical film, based on the life of French artist Paul Gauguin (Donald Sutherland), follows the painter as he returns to Paris after a long stay in Tahiti and must confront his wife, his children, and his former lover.

Director: Henning Carlsen | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Max von Sydow, Jean Yanne, Sofie Gråbøl

Votes: 469 | Gross: $0.58M

20. Cripple Creek (1952)

Approved | 78 min | Western

Lawmen infiltrate bandit gang to catch mining crooks.

Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: George Montgomery, Karin Booth, Jerome Courtland, William Bishop

Votes: 428

21. The Judge and the Assassin (1976)

128 min | Crime, Drama, History

An unstable former French Sergeant commits many atrocities. A judge considers how this case could benefit or damage his career.

Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Michel Galabru, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Claude Brialy

Votes: 2,325

22. Tesla: Master of Lightning (2000 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 87 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Biography of electrical inventor and visionary genius Nikola Tesla.

Director: Robert Uth | Stars: Stacy Keach, Elisabeth Noone, Nikola Tesla, Leland I. Anderson

Votes: 1,062

23. You Can't Buy Everything (1934)

Passed | 82 min | Drama, Romance

Hannah is so tight with her money that she takes her son, Donnie, to the charity ward a week after he hurts his leg. But she has always hoarded her money since her late husband wasted most ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: May Robson, Jean Parker, Lewis Stone, Mary Forbes

Votes: 225

24. Target (1952)

Passed | 61 min | Drama, Western

To aid ranchers against a crooked land agent, Tim and Chito recruit a famed El Paso marshal...who turns out to be female.

Director: Stuart Gilmore | Stars: Tim Holt, Linda Douglas, Walter Reed, Harry Harvey

Votes: 165

25. EXPO: Magic of the White City (2005 Video)

PG | 116 min | Documentary, History

Narrated by Gene Wilder ("Young Frankenstein", "Blazing Saddles" and "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"), "EXPO - Magic of the White City" brings the Chicago World's Fair to life. ... See full summary »

Director: Mark Bussler | Stars: Claire Litton, Gene Wilder

Votes: 207

26. False Alarm (2021)

53 min | Documentary

The surreal, traumatic, and revelatory fallout from the morning when everyone on Hawai'i thought a nuclear missile strike was imminent.

Director: Nick Lyell

Votes: 12

27. Shangani Patrol (1970)

94 min | Action, Drama, War

The nerve-jangling true tale of a battalion of volunteer soldiers facing the might of King Lobengula's army in Rhodesia in 1893.

Director: David Millin | Stars: Brian O'Shaughnessy, Will Hutchins, Adrian Steed, James White

Votes: 45

28. La verbena de la Paloma (1935)

78 min | Musical

A little love drama between Julián, an honest typesetter, and 'chulapa' Susana, adapted from a famous Spanish 'zarzuela'.

Director: Benito Perojo | Stars: Miguel Ligero, Roberto Rey, Raquel Rodrigo, Sélica Pérez Carpio

Votes: 134

29. Little Egypt (1951)

Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Drama

A belly dancer causes a scandal with her "suggestive" and "immoral" dancing at a Worlds Fair exhibition at the turn of the 20th century.

Director: Frederick De Cordova | Stars: Mark Stevens, Rhonda Fleming, Nancy Guild, Charles Drake

Votes: 59

30. The World's Greatest Fair (2004)

116 min | History

A fascinating view of the largest World's Fair in history held in 1904. Hundreds of images, early film footage, and engaging interviews bring to life stories of dog-eating tribes on exhibit... See full summary »

Directors: Scott Huegerich, Bob Miano | Stars: John David, Francis Slay, Ozzie Smith

Votes: 66

31. Lobo: The Wolf That Changed America (2007 TV Movie)

Documentary, Biography

The story of Ernest Thompson Seton's fateful encounter with a clever, death-defying wolf named Lobo, and how it changed not only his perspective but the history of nature conservation in America.

Stars: F. Murray Abraham, David Attenborough

Votes: 29

32. The New Adventures of the Time Machine (2000 Video Game)

E | Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery

Author H.G. Wells travels 800 000 years into the future in his time machine and finds himself in a mystical desert city where tyrannical order of Khronos, the god of time, uses chronomancy (time magic) to control the immortal populace.

Stars: Allan Wenger, Kaline Carr, Christian Fischer, Christine Guia

33. The Seven Sages of Antiquity (2010 TV Movie)

52 min | Documentary, Biography, History

The Seven Wisest Men of Ancient Greece did not include Socrates, Plato or Aristotle. However, even the Seven Sages would choose only One as the Wisest of All.

Director: Giorgos Petritsis | Stars: Robert MacLean, Iren Theotokatou, Telis Zotos

Votes: 10

34. Horse Shoeing (1893)

1 min | Documentary, Short

One of the pictures to be seen in the machine, for example, was that of a blacksmith shop in which two men were working, one shoeing a horse, the other heating iron at the forge. One would ... See full summary »

Director: William K.L. Dickson | Star: William K.L. Dickson

Votes: 265

35. The Incredible Stranger (1942)

Unrated | 11 min | Short

In 1893, an odd stranger arrives in a small town and keeps a promise he made to his wife.

Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: John Nesbitt, Sam Ash, Walter Bacon, Walter Baldwin

Votes: 203

36. Mimikos and Mary (1958)

102 min | Drama, Romance

Petros has come from Germany to marry Mary, which he didn't knows.On the day of the engagement, Peter's friend Michalis, meet Mair and they falls in love. A love that will face several problems.

Director: Grigoris Grigoriou | Stars: Aliki Vougiouklaki, Andreas Barkoulis, Lykourgos Kallergis, Theano Ioannidou

Votes: 170

37. Kern: Show Boat (2015 Video)

Not Rated | 144 min | Music

A true classic of American musical theater, this tale of life on the Mississippi from the 1880s onward is both a poignant love story and a powerful reminder of the bitter legacy of racism. ... See full summary »

Stars: Heidi Stober, Michael Todd Simpson, Bill Irwin, Patricia Racette

Votes: 12

38. Rabbits (1893)

1 min | Documentary, Short

Rabbits jump, play and interact with each other in multiple different sequences.

Director: Étienne-Jules Marey

Votes: 150

39. Concerto Macabre: The Films of John Brahm (2007 Video)

15 min | Documentary, Short, Biography

A tribute to the life and films of the underrated expressionistic director John Brahm.

Director: Constantine Nasr | Stars: Mark Vieira, Steve Jones, Drew Casper, Christopher Wicking

Votes: 13

40. Major Wilson's Last Stand (1899)

Short, Drama, History

Short war film dramatizing the final engagement of the Shangani Patrol and the death of Major Allan Wilson and his men in Rhodesia in 1893.

Stars: 'Frank' Edward Fillis, Texas Jack Jr., Peter Lobengula

Votes: 13

41. The Seagull (1959 TV Movie)

90 min | Drama

This quintessential Chekhov drama--his first success--is both comic and tragic. A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental ... See full summary »

Director: Royston Morley | Stars: Thelma Scott, William Job, Roderick Walker, Delia Williams

42. Beneath the White City Lights (2012)

27 min | Documentary, Short, Biography

A documentary exploration of the critically acclaimed Chicago-based story ballet The White City: The Columbian Exposition of 1893.

Director: Chris Olsen | Stars: Ann Reinking, Melissa Thodos, Jeremy Blair, Mollie Mock

Votes: 11

43. BBC2 Play of the Week (1977–1979)
Episode: The Sinking of HMS Victoria (1977)

Crime, Drama, Mystery

Dramatization of events surrounding the loss of the turret ship HMS Victoria during fleet exercises off Tripoli on June 22, 1893.

Director: Leonard Lewis | Stars: John Standing, Terrence Hardiman, Frederick Treves, George Waring

44. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode: Time's Arrow (1992)

TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Captain Picard and his archaeological curiosity are called upon by scientists from Earth when they find evidence to support beliefs that aliens had visited Earth in the late 1800s.

Director: Les Landau | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

Votes: 3,668

45. Murder, Mystery and My Family (2018– )
Episode: Hewitt (2019)

44 min | Documentary, Crime, History

Sasha and Jeremy investigate whether the shooting of a gentleman farmer in rural Staffordshire in 1893 was really carried out by the 19-year-old rabbit poacher who was hanged for the crime or if it was actually his father who was guilty.

Directors: Gary John Senior, David McConnell | Stars: Tony Hirst, Sasha Wass, Jeremy Dein, David Radford

46. Yellowstone (2018– )
Episode: Half the Money (2021)

TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Western

The coordinated attack on the Duttons continues as everyone searches for answers on who is responsible; Rip delivers on a promise.

Director: Stephen Kay | Stars: Kevin Costner, Luke Grimes, Kelly Reilly, Wes Bentley

Votes: 4,392

47. Andrew Pidor (2017– )
Episode: Top 10: Most Beautiful, Elegant, and Expensive Different type of Pearls (2020)

18 min | Documentary

Pearls are produced by several types of mollusks including oysters, clams and rarely snails and abalone. The various mollusks produce pearls in wide variety of colors from white to fairly ... See full summary »

Star: Andrew Pidor

48. How the Earth Was Made (2009– )
Episode: New York (2009)

TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary, History

The geological history of New York City is as superlative as it's current economic impact including; a titanic mountain rage, massive volcanic eruptions, immense glaciers and an enormous flash flood.

Director: Stefanie Kern | Stars: Corey Johnson, Charles Merguerian, Paul Olsen, Matthew Gorring

Votes: 26

49. Loki (2021–2023)
Episode: 1893 (2023)

TV-14 | 54 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Loki and Mobius go on the hunt for everyone's favorite cartoon clock as they try to save the TVA.

Director: Kasra Farahani | Stars: Tom Hiddleston, Sophia Di Martino, Owen Wilson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Votes: 12,363

50. Warehouse 13 (2009–2014)
Episode: 3... 2... 1 (2011)

TV-14 | 43 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery

H. G. Wells is retrieved from stasis as a hologram to help the Warehouse team track down the ram's horn that brought down the walls of Jericho.

Director: Chris Fisher | Stars: Eddie McClintock, Joanne Kelly, Saul Rubinek, Allison Scagliotti

Votes: 542