Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "the-star-spangled-banner"

1. Donnie Darko (2001)

R | 113 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a man in a large rabbit suit who manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.

Director: Richard Kelly | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Mary McDonnell, Holmes Osborne

Votes: 850,771 | Gross: $1.48M

2. The Blair Witch Project (1999)

R | 81 min | Horror, Mystery

Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.

Directors: Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez | Stars: Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams, Joshua Leonard, Bob Griffin

Votes: 285,929 | Gross: $140.54M

3. Poltergeist (1982)

PG | 114 min | Horror, Thriller

A family's home is haunted by a host of demonic ghosts.

Director: Tobe Hooper | Stars: JoBeth Williams, Heather O'Rourke, Craig T. Nelson, Beatrice Straight

Votes: 179,769 | Gross: $76.61M

4. My Girl (1991)

PG | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Vada is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. When Vada's father hires Shelly, a makeup expert, and begins to fall in love, Vada is outraged and does everything in her power to split them up.

Director: Howard Zieff | Stars: Anna Chlumsky, Macaulay Culkin, Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis

Votes: 89,005 | Gross: $59.85M

5. The Sum of All Fears (2002)

PG-13 | 124 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

CIA analyst Jack Ryan must stop the plans of a Neo-Nazi faction that threatens to induce a catastrophic conflict between the United States and Russia's President by detonating a nuclear weapon at a football game in Baltimore, Maryland.

Director: Phil Alden Robinson | Stars: Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, Ian Mongrain, Russell Bobbitt

Votes: 124,521 | Gross: $118.91M

6. Hoosiers (1986)

PG | 114 min | Drama, Sport

A coach with a checkered past and a local drunk train a small-town high school basketball team to become a top contender for the state championship in 1950s Indiana.

Director: David Anspaugh | Stars: Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper, Sheb Wooley

Votes: 51,129 | Gross: $28.61M

7. Eighth Grade (2018)

R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama

An introverted teenage girl tries to survive the last week of her disastrous eighth grade year before leaving to start high school.

Director: Bo Burnham | Stars: Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, Emily Robinson, Jake Ryan

Votes: 82,546 | Gross: $13.54M

8. The Majestic (2001)

PG | 152 min | Drama, Romance

In 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.

Director: Frank Darabont | Stars: Jim Carrey, Martin Landau, Bob Balaban, Jeffrey DeMunn

Votes: 57,698 | Gross: $27.81M

9. Drumline (2002)

PG-13 | 118 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

A band director recruits a Harlem street drummer to play at a Southern university.

Director: Charles Stone III | Stars: Nick Cannon, Zoe Saldana, Orlando Jones, Leonard Roberts

Votes: 36,064 | Gross: $56.40M

10. Heart and Souls (1993)

PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

An unhappy businessman finds a new sense of purpose after he's tasked with helping a quartet of ghosts fulfill their last wishes before moving on to the afterlife.

Director: Ron Underwood | Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Charles Grodin, Alfre Woodard, Kyra Sedgwick

Votes: 18,958 | Gross: $16.58M

11. The Dream Team (1989)

PG-13 | 113 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Four mental patients on a field trip in New York City must save their caring chaperon, who ends up being taken to a hospital in a coma after accidentally witnessing a murder, before the killers can find him and finish the job.

Director: Howard Zieff | Stars: Michael Keaton, Christopher Lloyd, Peter Boyle, Stephen Furst

Votes: 16,391 | Gross: $28.89M

12. Black Sunday (1977)

R | 143 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

When a Black September terrorist group begins a plot to carry out a massive terrorist attack in the United States, an Israeli commando works with the FBI to identify the target and conspirators, and prevent the plan from succeeding.

Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller, Fritz Weaver

Votes: 9,089 | Gross: $15.77M

13. Juwanna Mann (2002)

PG-13 | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A star basketball player decides to dress up as a woman and join the women's professional basketball league when his on-court antics get him suspended.

Director: Jesse Vaughan | Stars: Miguel A. Núñez Jr., Christopher Simmons, Vivica A. Fox, Kevin Pollak

Votes: 7,106 | Gross: $13.57M

14. Junior Bonner (1972)

PG | 100 min | Drama, Western

Ace Bonner returns to Arizona several years after he abandoned his family, Junior Bonner is a wild young man. Against the typical rodeo championship, family drama erupts.

Director: Sam Peckinpah | Stars: Steve McQueen, Robert Preston, Ida Lupino, Ben Johnson

Votes: 6,837 | Gross: $0.15M

15. Mother Night (1996)

R | 114 min | Drama, Romance, War

An American spy behind the lines during WWII serves as a Nazi propagandist, a role he cannot escape in his future life as he can never reveal his real role in the war.

Director: Keith Gordon | Stars: Nick Nolte, Sheryl Lee, Tony Robinow, Michael McGill

Votes: 5,596 | Gross: $0.39M

16. Bang the Drum Slowly (1973)

PG | 96 min | Drama, Sport

The story of the friendship between a worldly-wise star pitcher and a half-wit catcher as they cope with the catcher's terminal illness through a baseball season.

Director: John D. Hancock | Stars: Michael Moriarty, Robert De Niro, Vincent Gardenia, Phil Foster

Votes: 6,247 | Gross: $0.35M

17. Meet John Doe (1941)

Passed | 122 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A penniless drifter is recruited by an ambitious columnist to impersonate a non-existent person who said he'd be committing suicide as a protest, and a social movement begins.

Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan

Votes: 14,916

18. Apollo 11 (1996 TV Movie)

93 min | Biography, Drama, History

Fearful that the Russians would continue their lead in the space race and be the first to put a man on the moon, NASA felt an enormous pressure to push the Apollo Program forward as quickly... See full summary »

Director: Norberto Barba | Stars: Carmen Argenziano, Tuck Milligan, Dennis Lipscomb, William Mesnik

Votes: 458

19. Jimi Hendrix (1973)

R | 98 min | Documentary, Biography, Music

Made shortly after his death, this documentary explores the brief life and remarkable legacy of guitarist Jimi Hendrix.

Directors: Joe Boyd, John Head, Gary Weis | Stars: Arthur Allen, Albert Allen, Stella Benabon, Eric Barrett

Votes: 1,858 | Gross: $0.03M

20. Why We Fight (1942)

Not Rated | 52 min | Documentary, War

The official World War II US Government film statement defining the various enemies of the Allies and why they must be fought.

Directors: Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak | Stars: Walter Huston, Victor Bulwer-Lytton, Kai-Shek Chiang, Walter Darré

Votes: 2,410

21. Ah Wilderness! (1935)

Passed | 98 min | Comedy, Drama

Story of small-town life in turn-of-the-century America, and a young boy's problems facing adolescence.

Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore, Aline MacMahon, Eric Linden

Votes: 881

22. Let's Spend the Night Together (1982)

PG | 95 min | Documentary, Music

The Rolling Stones' shows in Tempe, Arizona and East Rutherford, New Jersey during their 1981 US tour.

Director: Hal Ashby | Stars: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman

Votes: 783 | Gross: $3.82M

23. Moxina (2012)

Unrated | 16 min | Short, Adventure, Fantasy

In the winter of 2008, two climbers encountered the Taiwanese legendary monster Moxina (a.k.a. Mô-sîn-á) at the evil mountain Wuzhishan. Ryota Nakanishi presents sixteen minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.

Director: Ryota Nakanishi | Stars: Mario Bava, Pengquang Chen, Shunji Chen, Sean S. Cunningham

Votes: 766

24. Down on Us (1984)

R | 117 min | Biography, Drama, Music

The story of Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, and Janis Joplin, and how their message for their generation made them targets of a US government plot.

Director: Larry Buchanan | Stars: Sandy Kenyon, Joe Camp, Toni Sawyer, Steven Tice

Votes: 127

25. Runt (2005)

Not Rated | Drama, Thriller

When Christopher confronts his own violent temper which threatens his wife and children, he flies home to Jamaica and engages in an exorcism of the spirit, from his memories of his abusive,... See full summary »

Director: Michael Phillip Edwards | Stars: Michael Phillip Edwards, Carl Bradshaw, Nadège August, Patrice Pitman Quinn

Votes: 85

26. Murder in the Fleet (1935)

Passed | 69 min | Mystery, Comedy, Drama

Taylor is cast as Lt. Tom Randolph, one of several naval officers confined to his ship when a murder occurs. The victim was in the process of delivering the components for a new electrical ... See full summary »

Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Robert Taylor, Jean Parker, Ted Healy, Una Merkel

Votes: 252

27. The Song of a Nation (1936)

Approved | 18 min | Short, Biography, Drama

This historical featurette dramatizes the events that led to Francis Scott Key writing the words to "The Star-Spangled Banner."

Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Donald Woods, Claire Dodd, Joseph Crehan, Addison Richards

Votes: 114

28. Marian Anderson: The Lincoln Memorial Concert (1939)

8 min | Documentary, Short, Music

Short film which documents Marian Anderson's singing performance at the Lincoln Memorial.

Stars: Marian Anderson, Harold L. Ickes, Kosti Vehanen

Votes: 200

29. March on, America! (1942)

Approved | 21 min | Short, History

The story of America from the Pilgrims in 1620 to the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. Americans always working for freedom.

Director: Richard Whorf | Stars: Carleton Young, Sidney Blackmer, Douglas Kennedy, John Litel

Votes: 118

30. The Blue and the Gray (1935)

11 min | Documentary, Short

This short, the seventh in the 'See America First' series, opens with a slightly corrupted version of the following quote from Walter Scott: "Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who ... See full summary »

Stars: John B. Kennedy, Victor Kilian

Votes: 49

31. The Stand (1994)
Episode: The Betrayal (1994)

Not Rated | 89 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Hundreds are now in Boulder, Colorado with Mother Abigail but Randall Flagg has sent Nadine Cross to infiltrate the group. Unable to seduce Larry, she then sets her sights on Harold. But ... See full summary »

Director: Mick Garris | Stars: Gary Sinise, Molly Ringwald, Jamey Sheridan, Laura San Giacomo

Votes: 740

32. Toon in with Me (2021– )
Episode: Mornin' (2021)

TV-PG | Animation, Comedy

"Toon In with Me" adopts a more traditional morning show format and is re-branded as "Mornin!" Featured cartoons are The Million Dollar Cat (1944), Doggone Tired (1949), Pinkadilly Circus (1968), Wackiki Wabbit (1943), and Kitty Kornered (1946).

Director: Mike Schmiedeler | Stars: Bill Leff, Kevin Fleming, Leila Gorstein

33. Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (2011– )
Episode: Episode #4.14 (2014)

59 min | Reality-TV

Christopher Timothy proves to be a worthy student and Patrick Robinson shows us who's boss.

Director: Craig Duncan | Stars: James Braxton, Margie Cooper, Patrick Robinson, Christopher Timothy