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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: 182,637 | Gross: $61.43M
2. American Made (2017)
R | 115 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
The story of Barry Seal, an American pilot who became a drug-runner for the CIA in the 1980s in a clandestine operation that would be exposed as the Iran-Contra Affair.
Director: Doug Liman | Stars: Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson, Sarah Wright, Jesse Plemons
Votes: 208,392 | Gross: $51.34M
3. The Witches (2020)
PG | 106 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
A young boy and his grandmother have a run-in with a coven of witches and their leader.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci, Chris Rock
Votes: 46,614 | Gross: $0.20M
4. Jackass Number Two (2006)
R | 92 min | Documentary, Action, Comedy
Chris Pontius, Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Bam Margera, and the whole crew return to the screen to raise the stakes higher than ever before.
Director: Jeff Tremaine | Stars: Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Bam Margera
Votes: 80,209 | Gross: $72.78M
5. The Runner (I) (2015)
R | 90 min | Drama
In the aftermath of the 2010 BP oil spill, an idealistic but flawed politician is forced to confront his dysfunctional life after his career is destroyed in a sex scandal.
Director: Austin Stark | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Sarah Paulson, Peter Fonda, Connie Nielsen
Votes: 5,882
6. Atlantic Rim (2013 Video)
Not Rated | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
When giant monsters crawl out of the Atlantic Ocean and attack the Eastern Seaboard the US Government is forced to trust a trio of mischievous soldiers, specialized in piloting gigantic robots, to defend America.
Director: Jared Cohn | Stars: Graham Greene, Anthony 'Treach' Criss, David Chokachi, Jackie Moore
Votes: 4,257
7. Kings of the Sun (1963)
Approved | 108 min | Adventure, Drama, History
On the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, the Native American tribe of chief Black Eagle clashes with the Mayan tribe of king Balam.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Yul Brynner, George Chakiris, Shirley Anne Field, Richard Basehart
Votes: 2,186
8. Winged Migration (2001)
G | 89 min | Documentary
Documentary on the migratory patterns of birds, shot over the course of three years on all seven continents.
Directors: Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats | Stars: Jacques Perrin, Philippe Labro
Votes: 12,371 | Gross: $10.76M
9. The Black Minutes (2021)
96 min | Crime, Thriller
In the late 1970s, a group of young cops lead by ex-musician turned detective Vicente Rangel will face the darkest minutes of their lives while attempting to catch a serial killer of young girls in a corrupt oil town in the Gulf of Mexico.
Director: Mario Muñoz | Stars: Leonardo Ortizgris, Kristyan Ferrer, Enrique Arreola, Carlos Aragón
Votes: 152
10. Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953)
Approved | 102 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Fierce competition among sponge fishermen forces a Greek-American family to fish in the dangerous 12-mile reef area off the western coast of Florida.
Director: Robert D. Webb | Stars: Robert Wagner, Terry Moore, Gilbert Roland, J. Carrol Naish
Votes: 1,612
11. The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)
Approved | 96 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Dr. Samuel Mudd, who was imprisoned after innocently treating President Lincoln's assassin in 1865.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Warner Baxter, Gloria Stuart, Claude Gillingwater, Arthur Byron
Votes: 2,575
12. Thunder Bay (1953)
Approved | 103 min | Adventure, Drama
Shrimpers and oilmen clash after an ambitious wildcatter begins constructing an off-shore oil rig.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: James Stewart, Joanne Dru, Gilbert Roland, Dan Duryea
Votes: 2,171
13. Mission Blue (2014)
95 min | Documentary, Drama
Feature documentary about legendary oceanographer, marine biologist, environmentalist, and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Sylvia Earle and her campaign to create a global network of protected marine sanctuaries.
Directors: Robert Nixon, Fisher Stevens | Stars: Barbara Block, James Cameron, Michael deGruy, Sylvia Earle
Votes: 2,147
14. Dark Waters (2003 Video)
R | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
Moneyless, ocean-exploring gigolo and his worldly lady-friend are forced to take part in looking into the possibility that aggression - utilizing marine life - is being planned.
Director: Phillip J. Roth | Stars: Lorenzo Lamas, Simmone Mackinnon, Jeffrey Gorman, Ross Manarchy
Votes: 854
15. Cabeza de Vaca (1991)
R | 111 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
A handful of survivors from a disastrous 1528 Spanish expedition to Florida journey across the coast until they reach Mexico.
Director: Nicolás Echevarría | Stars: Juan Diego, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Roberto Sosa, Carlos Castañón
Votes: 1,201 | Gross: $0.79M
16. Step Into Liquid (2003)
PG | 88 min | Documentary, Sport
Surfers and secret spots from around the world are profiled in this documentary.
Director: Dana Brown | Stars: Laird Hamilton, Layne Beachley, Dan Malloy, Robert August
Votes: 2,785 | Gross: $3.67M
17. Windjammer: The Voyage of the Christian Radich (1958)
Approved | 142 min | Documentary, Romance
Windjammer, the first presentation in CINEMIRACLE, is the record of a training cruise of the full-rigged S/S Christian Radich from Oslo across the Atlantic, through the Caribbean, to New York and back home again.
Directors: Bill Colleran, Louis De Rochemont III | Stars: Bjørn Amvik, Arne Andersen, Per Antonsen, Niels Arntsen
Votes: 299
18. Last Day of the Dinosaurs (2010 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 66 min | Documentary, Animation, History
Proposes a minute-by-minute chronology of the Chicxulub impact and its effect on the dinosaurs and other animals around the world.
Directors: Richard Dale, Tim Goodchild, Mark Hedgecoe | Star: Bill Mondy
Votes: 554
19. My Sweet Charlie (1970 TV Movie)
G | 97 min | Drama
A pregnant white Southern girl and a black New York lawyer, both on the run in rural Texas, meet up in a boarded-up, abandoned house and realize they both need each other in order to survive.
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Patty Duke, Al Freeman Jr., Ford Rainey, William Hardy
Votes: 275
20. Schultze Gets the Blues (2003)
PG | 114 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Schultze is an accordion player and newly without work. When the local music club celebrates its 50th anniversary, his taste of music changes unexpectedly.
Director: Michael Schorr | Stars: Horst Krause, Harald Warmbrunn, Karl-Fred Müller, Ursula Schucht
Votes: 3,770 | Gross: $0.59M
21. 8 Ball Bunny (1950)
7 min | Family, Animation, Short
Bugs helps a penguin go home via New Orleans, Martinique, the Panama Canal and finally the South Pole. But the penguin's home is in New Jersey.
Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Mel Blanc, Dave Barry, Norman Nesbitt, John T. Smith
Votes: 1,480
22. Dangerous Passage (1944)
Passed | 60 min | Drama, Film-Noir
Joe Beck leaves Central America so that he can return to Texas and collect a large inheritance, but he picks a dangerous ship on which to travel.
Director: William Berke | Stars: Robert Lowery, Phyllis Brooks, Charles Arnt, Jack La Rue
Votes: 388
23. Central Airport (1933)
Unrated | 72 min | Drama
Aviator Jim Blaine and his brother Neil are rivals not only as daredevil flyers, but also for the love of parachutist Jill Collins.
Directors: William A. Wellman, Alfred E. Green | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Sally Eilers, Tom Brown, Grant Mitchell
Votes: 475
24. Outside Ozona (1998)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A drama revolving around a group of strangers brought together by a common occurrence as well as listening to the same radio station.
Director: J.S. Cardone | Stars: Robert Forster, Kevin Pollak, Sherilyn Fenn, David Paymer
Votes: 987 | Gross: $0.01M
25. Last of the Buccaneers (1950)
Passed | 79 min | Action, Adventure, History
Swashbuckler about the adventures of pirate Jean Lafitte after he helped save New Orleans from a British invasion during the War of 1812.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Paul Henreid, Jack Oakie, Karin Booth, Mary Anderson
Votes: 166
26. Avalon: Beyond the Abyss (1999 TV Movie)
92 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi
An island blows up, and from its remains a black poison fills the ocean. A team of underwater specialists with high-tech gear have to stop the poison before it contaminates the earth, but ... See full summary »
Director: Philip Sgriccia | Stars: Parker Stevenson, Mehgan Heaney-Grier, Billy Rieck, Shelli Lether
Votes: 375
27. Killers of the Sea (1937)
Approved | 49 min | Documentary
A film about Captain Wallace Caswell Jr. who does all in his power to protect game fish from illegal fishing and natural predators such as sharks, octopi and whales.
Director: Raymond Friedgen | Stars: Lowell Thomas, Wallace Caswell Jr., 'Evolution' Henderson, 'Spot' Hayes
Votes: 42
28. Country Blue (1973)
R | 98 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
An ex-convict stock-car driver turns to crime to fund his escape from local bigots in rural Georgia.
Director: Jack Conrad | Stars: Dub Taylor, Jack Conrad, Rita George, Mildred Brown
Votes: 217
29. The River (1938)
Unrated | 31 min | Documentary, Short, History
This documentary short film looks at the devastating and costly problems, including seasonal flooding and erosion of precious topsoil, associated with the Mississippi River system and promotes more Federal projects to remedy the situation.
Director: Pare Lorentz | Star: Thomas Chalmers
Votes: 669
30. King of the Texas Rangers (1941)
Approved | 215 min | Drama, Western
When Captain King of the Texas Rangers is murdered by saboteurs, his son, Tom ("Slingin' Sammy Baugh"), a famous football star, leaves college and joins the Texas Rangers himself. Shortly ... See full summary »
Directors: John English, William Witney | Stars: Sammy Baugh, Neil Hamilton, Pauline Moore, Duncan Renaldo
Votes: 88
31. 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
32. Ride a Violent Mile (1957)
Approved | 80 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Cowhand Jeff Donner meets Susan Crowley, a spy for the Union in the Civil War, and gets dragged into her espionage ring that is out to foil the South's attempts to break the blockade ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Marquis Warren | Stars: John Agar, Penny Edwards, John Pickard, Bing Russell
Votes: 42
33. Border G-Man (1938)
Passed | 60 min | Drama, Western
Government agent Jim Galloway is sent undercover to investigate shifty businessman Louis Rankin for violations of the Neutrality Act, a law forbidding the exporting of troops and war ... See full summary »
Director: David Howard | Stars: George O'Brien, Laraine Day, Ray Whitley, John Miljan
Votes: 150
34. Big Shrimpin' (2011– )
Reality-TV
This series follows the adventures, trials and tribulations of Dominic "The Dom", owner of a fleet of six shrimp boats in the Gulf of Mexico, and his crew of shrimpers from Alabama. They ... See full summary »
Stars: Redbone, Jeremy Schjott, Roy Wilkerson
Votes: 39
35. Vanishing Pearls: The Oystermen of Pointe a la Hache (2014)
80 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The Oystermen of Pointe a la Hache, Louisiana. This town of nearly 300 is struggling to survive following the BP Oil Spill that left their crop dead, finances in ruin and culture facing ... See full summary »
Director: Nailah Jefferson | Stars: Ed Cake, Byron Encalade, Stanley Encalade, Ken Feinberg
Votes: 48
36. New Orleans After Dark (1958)
Approved | 69 min | Crime, Drama
In this crime drama, two detectives travel around the bad side of New Orleans pursuing various cases, including a murderer. They also find clues which lead to the capture of a dope ring after they go undercover as sailors.
Director: John Sledge | Stars: Stacy Harris, Louis Sirgo, Ellen Moore, Tommy Pelle
Votes: 46
37. Hidden Life (2018)
19 min | Documentary, Short
An exploration of the controversy behind the "Rigs to Reefs" program, which allows decommissioned oil platforms to stay in the marine environment to act as artificial reefs.
Directors: Brianna Brently, Aaron Kohn, Hannah Mattner, Kaitlyn Satter, Ethan Stupp | Stars: Keith Acker, Emily Callahan, Amber Jackson, Linda Krop
38. Harbor of Missing Men (1950)
Passed | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
In the Gulf of Mexico, small-time jewelry smuggler Jim Gannon is forced by gangster H. G. Danziger to use his boat to smuggle weapons into Cuba but on the return trip Jim is robbed by a strange couple of the cash owed to Danziger.
Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Richard Denning, Barbra Fuller, Steven Geray, Aline Towne
Votes: 82
39. State of Denial
Documentary | Filming
An examination of the devastating effects of multifocal pollution on sea life and human health in surrounding communities of the East Coast and Gulf Coast regions of Florida.
Director: Clay Edmund Kraski | Stars: Erin Brockovich-Ellis, Tracy Fanara, Clay Edmund Kraski, Jill Richardson
40. 101 Things Removed from the Human Body (2005 TV Movie)
Taking the form of a countdown from 101 to 1, the series features tales of foreign objects which have been removed from human bodies, such as javelins, a boat anchor, a bicycle pump, a bag of nails, an ice pick, and even a human body.
Directors: Eric Schotz, Steven Feld, Bill Katz, Mac Kenny, Suzanne Stevens | Star: Mitch Lewis
Votes: 28
41. The Marines Come Thru (1938)
65 min | Action, War
Marine Lieutenant Steve Landers has perfected a new bomb-release for airplanes which he is testing with the aid of his mechanics,'Singapore' Stebbins and Jack Murray. Dick Weber, one of a ... See full summary »
Director: Louis J. Gasnier | Stars: Wallace Ford, Toby Wing, Grant Withers, Sheila Lynch
Votes: 43
43. Dispatches from the Gulf 3: Ten Years After Deepwater Horizon (2019 TV Movie)
53 min | Documentary
Has the Gulf of Mexico recovered from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill? An international team of scientists has spent nearly that long studying its environmental impact on humans, wildlife, and the ecosystem.
Director: Hal Weiner | Star: Matt Damon
44. Thumbs Up, Texas! (1941)
Approved | 18 min | Short, News
The March of Time arches into Texas and discovers oil wells, cattle ranchers, mountains, prairies, forests, lakes, beaches, universities, and no small amount of financial wheeler-dealers in... See full summary »
Director: Jack Glenn | Stars: Cal Tinney, Amon C. Carter, Karl Hoblitzelle
45. Oil & Water (II) (2014)
75 min | Documentary, History, News
An oil documentary like no other, Oil & Water explores the complex relationship between coastal Cajuns in Louisiana and the oil and gas industry, following a family and their seafood ... See full summary »
Director: Alan Robert Davis | Star: Steve Freedman
47. Popular Science (I) (1943)
Approved | 10 min | Documentary, Short, Sport
Marvels of technology: a mobile police command post; gymnasium with retractable floor; U.S. military landing barges and PT boats.
Stars: Gayne Whitman, Leonardo Keeler, Russell E. Oakes
Votes: 12
48. Fisherman's Handbook Gulf of Mexico: Today & Tomorrow (2010– )
30 min | Sport
As part of the on going issues in the Gulf of Mexico related to the Deep Horizon oil spill, The Fisherman's Handbook provided expanded television coverage in the months of July, August and ... See full summary »
Star: Wade Middleton
49. Columbia Musical Travelark: Wonders of New Orleans (1957)
Approved | 19 min | Documentary, Short, Music
A deluxe musical sight-seeing tour of the famed city, vividly capturing the cosmopolitan mood and spirit of the Queen of the Mississippi, culminating in the breathtaking pageantry and multi-colored beauty of the Mardi Gras.
Director: Harry Foster | Stars: George Jessel, Bill Hayes, Rose Marie Jun, Jim Peterson Singers
50. The Mississippi Traveler (1955)
17 min | Documentary, Short
Scenic tour of the river region.
Director: Richard Goldstone | Star: John Nesbitt