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

1. Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)

Approved | 63 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

Scientists become trapped on a shrinking island with intelligent, murderous giant crabs.

Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Richard Garland, Pamela Duncan, Russell Johnson, Leslie Bradley

Votes: 3,808

2. And the Sea Will Tell (1991 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 179 min | Crime, Drama

Two couples--one wealthy and married, the other an ex-con and his hippie girlfriend-- separately set sail for a remote South Pacific island, each hoping to play "Adam and Eve" in paradise. ... See full summary »

Director: Tommy Lee Wallace | Stars: Richard Crenna, Rachel Ward, Hart Bochner, Deidre Hall

Votes: 538

3. Wake Island (1942)

Passed | 88 min | Action, Drama, War

December, 1941. With no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.

Director: John Farrow | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston, Macdonald Carey, William Bendix

Votes: 2,199

4. Vipers (2008 TV Movie)

R | 95 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

A set of vipers has been taken by the scientists, when the vipers escape into the woods, they do more than just bite.

Director: Bill Corcoran | Stars: Tara Reid, Jonathan Scarfe, Corbin Bernsen, Genevieve Buechner

Votes: 1,458

5. Utopia (1950)

82 min | Comedy

Stan inherits a yacht and a South Pacific island. Ollie and Stan sail there with 2 other men. They shipwreck on a new atoll and settle there. An ex-fiancee joins them. They declare an independent nation and problems arise.

Directors: Léo Joannon, John Berry, Alfred J. Goulding, Tim Whelan | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Suzy Delair, Max Elloy

Votes: 2,224

6. Return to Paradise (1953)

Approved | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

An American drifter comes to a remote Polynesian island controlled by a Puritanical missionary and turns the social life of the island upside-down.

Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Gary Cooper, Barry Jones, Roberta Haynes, Moira Walker

Votes: 836

7. The Girls of Pleasure Island (1953)

Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Romance

In the spring of 1945, World War II is coming to a close. Roger Halyard, a dignified, strait-laced Englishmen, lives on a South Sea atoll with his three daughters, Gloria, Hester and Violet... See full summary »

Directors: Alvin Ganzer, F. Hugh Herbert | Stars: Leo Genn, Don Taylor, Gene Barry, Elsa Lanchester

Votes: 169

8. The Coming War on China (2016)

TV-PG | 113 min | Documentary, History

From award winning journalist John Pilger, reveals what the news doesn't - that the world's greatest military power, the United States, and the world's second economic power, China, both nuclear-armed, may well be on the road to war.

Director: John Pilger | Stars: Franklin Blaisdell, James Bradley, Bruce Cumings, Dana Rohrabacher

Votes: 1,690

9. Northwest Hounded Police (1946)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

A wolf convict makes his escape, but is pursued by a diminutive Mountie who seems to be everywhere.

Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Bill Thompson, Tex Avery, Frank Graham, William Hanna

Votes: 1,314

10. White Shadows in the South Seas (1928)

Passed | 88 min | Drama, Romance

An alcoholic doctor on a Polynesian island, disgusted by white exploitation of the natives, finds himself marooned on a pristinely beautiful island.

Directors: W.S. Van Dyke, Robert J. Flaherty | Stars: Monte Blue, Raquel Torres, Robert Anderson, Renee Bush

Votes: 964

11. 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

12. Sea of Hope: America's Underwater Treasures (2017 TV Movie)

48 min | Documentary

Oceanographer Dr. Sylvia Earle, National Geographic photographer Brian Skerry, Author & Historian Maxwell Kennedy take a team of young environmentalists around America's Ocean hotspots to ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Nixon

Votes: 74

13. Family of the Wa'a (2011)

81 min | Documentary

This is the story of a journey, both of a canoe and the men and women who paddled it 1,750 miles across the Hawaiian archipelago. It began with the kuleana, or sacred promise, of a young ... See full summary »

Director: Alyssa Fedele

14. Coastal Science (2013)

6 min | Short

Summarizes the ongoing research of Asst Prof Adam Switzer and his EOS team in the coastlines of Southeast Asia and the South China Sea.

Director: Isaac Kerlow | Stars: Chris Gouramanis, Feng Ling, Aron Meltzner, Adam Switzer

15. Bikini, the Atom Island (1946)

Approved | 10 min | Documentary, Short

This shows the natives of Bikini Island as they were being evacuated and relocated (o.k., dispossessed) from their island prior to the atom bomb tests.

Star: Carey Wilson

Votes: 14

16. Midway Is for the Birds (2001)

19 min | Short, War

Midway Island is a sanctuary for more than 2 million birds.

Director: Fred Heiman | Stars: Peggy Heiman, Ken Neithammer

17. Operation Castle - Commander's Report (1954)

21 min | Documentary, Short

An official government (United States Air Force) film documenting "Operation Castle", a series of nuclear weapon tests on Bikini and Eniwetok Atolls in the Pacific, in the year 1954. The ... See full summary »

18. Polynésie, la perle du Pacifique (2007 TV Movie)

52 min | Documentary

French Polynesia: some names of islands and place: Papeete in the Society Islands, Moorea ,Bora-Bora, Raiatea and her neighbor island Taha'a, the Marquises islands and the archipelago of ... See full summary »

Director: Eric Bacos

19. The Simpsons (1989– )
Episode: Missionary: Impossible (2000)

TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Comedy

When Homer is wanted dead for reneging on a 10,000 dollar pledge to PBS, Reverend Lovejoy sets him up for missionary work in the South Pacific until the heat dies down.

Directors: Jim Reardon, Steven Dean Moore | Stars: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith

Votes: 2,057

20. The Living Planet (1984)
Episode: Worlds Apart (1984)

55 min | Documentary

How isolation on islands and atolls has lead to unique diversity and specialization amongst animal and plant life together with the devastating results of human intervention.

Star: David Attenborough

Votes: 140

21. Beautiful Excursions (2006– )
Episode: Polynésie: Un goût de paradis... (2017)

Documentary

Beginning of the journey in Bora-Bora: Tiga meets Teva Victor (the sculptor) and they have a boat tour to the islet where Teva shows her some stone statues: then they go snorkeling among ... See full summary »

Director: Vincent Chaffard | Star: Tiga

22. Under the Pole (2020– )
Episode: Deep Sea Corals of Polynesia (2020)

Documentary, Adventure

Join the U.T.P. team and head to the Polynesian Islands of the South Pacific as they lead an international scientific team to unveil one of the world's least-known ecosystems: the coral ... See full summary »

Director: Vincent Perazio | Stars: Ghislain Bardout, Robin Bardout, Tom Bardout, Laetitia Hedouin

23. Discovering the World (2019)
Episode: The Maldives - Kingdom of 2,000 Islands (2019)

51 min | Documentary

Travel from one picturesque atoll to another, and become familiar with aspects of the Maldives that sometimes differ from the prevailing picture postcard clichés. Though, in the end, you will agree, this is as close to perfect as it gets.

Director: Pierre Brouwers | Star: Pierre Brouwers

24. A Perfect Planet (2021)
Episode: Volcano (2021)

TV-PG | 51 min | Documentary

A look at how without volcanoes, there would be no life on Earth. Although destructive, magma from the planet's molten core builds land, and mineral-rich ash from eruptions fertilises the surface.

Director: Huw Cordey | Stars: David Attenborough, Matthew Aeberhard, Cong Liu, Darren Williams

Votes: 380

25. Ward Carroll (2020– )
Episode: The Purest, Most Badass Carrier Aviation Movie Ever (2021)

28 min | Documentary

Ward discusses a 1944 film entitled "The Fighting Lady." This academy award documentary was created for the home front to demonstrate the war fighting abilities of the US Navy in the ... See full summary »

Star: Ward Carroll

26. OBF (2020– )
Episode: Why France Hides Countries Outside Its Borders (2021)

13 min | Documentary

France still (2021) lays claim to hundreds of islands around the world with even more time zones than Russia making France a global empire. It also means that the Euorpean Union extends ... See full summary »

Star: Oliver Bahl

27. How the Earth Was Made (2009– )
Episode: Tsunami (2009)

TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary, History

A tsunami is a dramatic indicator of geological activity magnifying the impact into extensive coastal destruction. Scientists searching for evidence of past tsunamis to predict when they ... See full summary »

Director: Kathryn Johnson | Stars: Corey Johnson, Walter Mooney, Brian Atwater, Simon Boxall

Votes: 24

28. Man, Woman, Wild (2010– )
Episode: Aitutaki (2010)

TV-PG | 44 min | Adventure, Reality-TV

It takes some determination and a good bit of effort but Mykel and Ruth find some pretty good eating on a South Pacific Atoll. Water remains a precious commodity. Shelter is an absolute ... See full summary »

Star: Mykel Hawke

Votes: 12

29. Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (2023– )
Episode: Secrets and Lies (2023)

TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Shaw leads the team on a dangerous mission to Alaska in search of Hiroshi. Keiko, Lee, and Billy present their findings to General Puckett.

Director: Julian Holmes | Stars: Anna Sawai, Kiersey Clemons, Ren Watabe, Mari Yamamoto

Votes: 2,855

30. Ushuaïa, le magazine de l'extrême (1987–2012)
Episode: Le feu de la vie (2011)

Documentary

Polynesia comprises numerous island in the South Sea, some of which are of volcanic origin, as the infernos around some very active volcanoes in Hawai still testify. The Kiloweia is studied... See full summary »

31. Prehistoric Planet (2022–2023)
Episode: Oceans (2023)

TV-PG | 37 min | Documentary, Animation, History

Deep beneath the water's surface, the world's largest predator -- the Mosasaurus -- lies in wait to ambush unsuspecting prey.

Star: David Attenborough

Votes: 287

32. Beautiful Excursions (2006– )
Episode: Polynésie (2011)

Documentary

A nice journey from Papeete (the meeting with René Avaepii, the flower garland, the market, the noni fruit medicine, the protestant church and the Polynesian gospels, the training of the "... See full summary »

Director: Damien Pourageaux | Star: Jérôme Pitorin

33. Beautiful Excursions (2006– )
Episode: Maldives (2007)

Documentary

A nice journey of Sophie from Malé ( the fish market , the sea plane flight with Gérald Marco) to the Atoll of Ari (the meeting with Brandon Corcoran at the Dhoni Mighili resort and with ... See full summary »

Director: Christophe Pinguet | Star: Sophie Jovillard

34. BuzzFeed Unsolved: True Crime (2016–2021)
Episode: The Odd Vanishing of Amelia Earhart (2017)

TV-MA | 20 min | Documentary, Comedy, Crime

What truly happened to the Amelia Earhart? Ryan and Shane discuss on of the world's biggest unsolved disappearances.

Director: Ryan Bergara | Stars: Ryan Bergara, Shane Madej

Votes: 82

35. Rudy Maxa's World (2008–2018)
Episode: French Polynesia (2010)

TV-G | 25 min | Documentary, Adventure

Experience their rich sea life, crystal blue waters, and vibrant cultures. Tour the diverse reefs of the coral, sea turtle rehabilitation centers, and the many islands in the different ... See full summary »

Star: Rudy Maxa

36. Reef Break (2019)
Episode: Pilot (2019)

TV-PG | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Former thief, Cat Chambers, returns home and finds herself in the middle of a kidnapping when the daughter of one of the most prominent citizens goes missing.

Director: Alex Zakrzewski | Stars: Poppy Montgomery, Ray Stevenson, Desmond Chiam, Melissa Bonne

Votes: 182

37. The Twilight Zone (2019–2020)
Episode: Nightmare at 30,000 Feet (2019)

TV-MA | 37 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A journalist finds an MP3 player with a true crime podcast that details how the airplane he is currently on will disappear.

Director: Greg Yaitanes | Stars: Adam Scott, Chris Diamantopoulos, Dan Carlin, Katie Findlay

Votes: 5,000

38. Magnum P.I. (2018–2024)
Episode: Blood in the Water (2019)

TV-14 | 41 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Magnum and Higgins are stranded at sea after being "yacht-jacked," and must reach land before Higgins bleeds out and the culprits return to finish them off.

Director: Karen Gaviola | Stars: Jay Hernandez, Perdita Weeks, Zachary Knighton, Stephen Hill

Votes: 556