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51. Descent Into Darkness (2002)
R | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Deep in the Mariana Sea Basin, several miners have died under mysterious circumstances. Officer Will Murdock of the Deep Submersible Division is brought down to investigate. Will anyone reach the surface alive?
Director: Daniel Knauf | Stars: Dean Cain, Scott Wiper, Biliana Petrinska, Maxim Genchev
Votes: 467
52. The Road (III) (2011)
R | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A 12 year old cold case is reopened when three teens are missing in an old abandoned road where a gruesome murder is left undiscovered for three decades.
Director: Yam Laranas | Stars: Carmina Villaroel, Rhian Ramos, TJ Trinidad, Barbie Forteza
Votes: 1,828 | Gross: $0.12M
53. Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (1962)
Not Rated | 152 min | Drama, Musical
A lowly servant, Bhootnath gets close to the wife of his employer and narrates her story through his eyes and perspective.
Director: Abrar Alvi | Stars: Meena Kumari, Guru Dutt, Rehman Khan, Waheeda Rehman
Votes: 1,858
54. Scalps (1983)
R | 82 min | Horror
A group of archeological students venture on Indian land for a dig. Unfortunately, they release an evil spirit who possesses one of them and starts killing the others.
Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Jo-Ann Robinson, Richard Hench, Roger Maycock, Frank McDonald
Votes: 1,564
55. The Hunt for the Hidden Relic (2002 TV Movie)
R | 182 min | Action, Thriller, Mystery
A German archaeological excavation in Israel finds a 2,000-year-old skeleton holding instructions for a video camera - results of an apparent time traveler who recorded footage of Jesus Christ.
Director: Sebastian Niemann | Stars: Matthias Koeberlin, Naike Rivelli, Manou Lubowski, Hans Diehl
Votes: 2,221
56. Egypt (2005)
Not Rated | 351 min | Documentary, Drama, History
Dramatization of the great discoveries of ancient Egypt, from the exploration of tombs in the early 1800s, to the unraveling of the Rosetta Stone to translate the ancient language on the tombs, to the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb.
Stars: Andrew Sachs, Neji Nejah, Elliot Cowan, Stuart Graham
Votes: 838
57. The Crater Lake Monster (1977)
PG | 85 min | Adventure, Crime, Fantasy
A meteor that crashed into Oregon's Crater Lake unearths a dinosaur egg. The heat from the meteor causes the egg to hatch, and the emerging dinosaur takes to snacking on the locals.
Director: William R. Stromberg | Stars: Richard Cardella, Glen Roberts, Mark Siegel, Bob Hyman
Votes: 1,697
58. Richard III: The King in the Car Park (2013 TV Movie)
74 min | Documentary
This documentary looks at the search for the remains of King Richard III of England (1452-1485). After being killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field (August 22, 1485), his remains were taken... See full summary »
Directors: Louise Osmond, Pete Woods | Stars: Simon Farnaby, Leon Hunt, John Ashdown-Hill, Richard Buckley
Votes: 268
59. Suryavanshi (1992)
161 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
An archaeologist unearths an underground palace at Sangramgarh. The locals are afraid of what will happen if they start digging and would like to leave the past alone. It turns out their fears we confounded.
Director: Rakesh Kumar | Stars: Salman Khan, Amrita Singh, Sheeba Agarwal, Saeed Jaffrey
Votes: 1,239
60. Arahan (2004)
Not Rated | 114 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
As a dorky cop falls in with five Tao masters who admire his c'hi, an ancient foe comes looking for them all.
Director: Ryoo Seung-wan | Stars: Ryu Seung-beom, Yoon So-yi, Ahn Sung-ki, Doo-hong Jung
Votes: 4,014
61. Storm (1999 Video)
PG-13 | 104 min | Thriller
A meteorologist sets out to derail the top secret weather-manipulating program he mistakenly became a part of.
Director: Harris Done | Stars: Luke Perry, Martin Sheen, Robert Knott, David Moses
Votes: 854
62. Citizen (2001)
Not Rated | 172 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
Antony assumes several identities and kidnaps three government officials in order to succeed in his secret mission. However, a CBI officer sets out to find the real identity of the kidnapper.
Director: Saravana Subaiya | Stars: Vasundhara Das, Devan, Cochin Hanifa, Ajith Kumar
Votes: 3,558
63. The Fallen Ones (2005 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 89 min | Horror
An archaeologist finds the mummified remains of a giant--the offspring of a Fallen Angel and a human woman. Now he has to stop the terror he has unleashed.
Director: Kevin VanHook | Stars: Casper Van Dien, Kristen Miller, Geoffrey Lewis, Navid Negahban
Votes: 948
64. Basilisk: The Serpent King (2006 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Archaeologist Harrison McColl digs up a stone basilisk during his expedition. After transporting it to a museum in Colorado, the basilisk comes to life during a solar eclipse.
Director: Stephen Furst | Stars: Jeremy London, Wendy Carter, Cleavant Derricks, Griff Furst
Votes: 1,129
65. Valley of the Kings (1954)
Approved | 86 min | Adventure, Drama
In 1900, in Egypt, archaeologist Mark Brandon is asked by Ann Mercedes to find the tomb of Ra-Hotep but their quest is marred by intrigue, betrayal, murder and danger.
Director: Robert Pirosh | Stars: Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, Carlos Thompson, Kurt Kasznar
Votes: 1,638
66. Sweet Talker (1991)
PG | 86 min | Comedy
A sweet-talking con man starts to turn his life around when he falls in love in this family oriented comedy.
Director: Michael Jenkins | Stars: Bryan Brown, Karen Allen, Justin Rosniak, Chris Haywood
Votes: 329 | Gross: $0.38M
67. Atari: Game Over (2014)
TV-14 | 66 min | Documentary
A crew search for all of the old Atari 2600 game cartridges of "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" that were tossed into a landfill in the 1980s.
Director: Zak Penn | Stars: Zak Penn, Joe Lewandowski, Robert Rentschler, Paul Sanchez
Votes: 6,103
68. Ground Zero (1987)
PG-13 | 109 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
A second generation cameraman in Australia finds evidence that his father had filmed a nuclear test that allowed aboriginies to be exposed to and killed by radiation. He begins a search for... See full summary »
Directors: Bruce Myles, Michael Pattinson | Stars: Colin Friels, Jack Thompson, Donald Pleasence, Natalie Bate
Votes: 554 | Gross: $0.20M
69. Final Fantasy XIII-2 (2011 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Drama
Lightning has disappeared, and her sister Serah travels through time and alternate realities with the help of a moogle and a mysterious boy named Noell who claims that Lightning needs her help to defeat a powerful, immortal foe.
Director: Motomu Toriyama | Stars: Laura Bailey, Jason Marsden, Ariel Winter, Vincent Martella
Votes: 1,080
70. Dinosaur 13 (2014)
PG | 95 min | Documentary
A documentary about the discovery of the largest Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil ever found.
Director: Todd Douglas Miller | Stars: Stan Adelstein, Lanice Archer, Robert Bakker, Philip Currie
Votes: 3,985
71. Dugo ng birhen: El kapitan (1999)
111 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
Director: Rico Maria Ilarde | Stars: Monsour Del Rosario, Klaudia Koronel, Mark Gil, Caloy Alde
Votes: 41
72. The Missing Children (2021 TV Movie)
88 min | Documentary, Crime, History
A documentary about the Tuam mother and baby home in Galway, Ireland which closed in 1961.
Director: Tanya Stephan
Votes: 68
73. Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016)
120 min | Documentary, History
The history of Dawson City, the gold rush town that had a historical treasure of forgotten silent films buried in permafrost for decades until 1978.
Director: Bill Morrison | Stars: Michael Gates, Kathy Jones-Gates, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Frank Barrett
Votes: 2,157 | Gross: $0.13M
74. The Great British Dig (2020– )
Documentary, History
Hugh Dennis and a team of expert archaeologists excavate back gardens around Britain, in an attempt to uncover the lost history buried beneath our lawns and flower beds.
Stars: Hugh Dennis, Chloë Duckworth, Natasha Billson, Richard Taylor
Votes: 15
75. Merry Andrew (1958)
Passed | 103 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Downtrodden but creative English school-teacher (Danny Kaye) on archeological trip discovers joys of love and circus life with acrobat (Pier Angeli).
Director: Michael Kidd | Stars: Danny Kaye, Pier Angeli, Salvatore Baccaloni, Noel Purcell
Votes: 934
76. Hanuman (1998)
84 min | Adventure, Family, Romance
Hanuman is the most lovable baby monkey one can imagine. He meets Tom who comes to visit the temple in the Valley of Monkeys and tries to protect it from the robbers. A warm relationship develops between the two.
Director: Fred Fougea | Stars: Robert Cavanah, Tabu, Nathalie Auffret, Khalid Tyabji
Votes: 343
77. Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation (1939)
Approved | 65 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Disguised as an Austrian archaeologist, Moto helps unearth the priceless crown of the legendary Queen of Sheba and sans disguise defends it from a variety of thugs and criminals.
Director: Norman Foster | Stars: Peter Lorre, Joseph Schildkraut, Lionel Atwill, Virginia Field
Votes: 745
78. The Day the Dinosaurs Died (2017 TV Movie)
TV-G | 60 min | Documentary
Investigates the greatest vanishing act in the history of our planet - the sudden disappearance of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.
Directors: Nick Green, Ben Lawrie, Toby Macdonald | Stars: Alice Roberts, Ben Garrod, Joanna Morgan, Mark Boslough
Votes: 198
79. Sentinels of Silence (1971)
G | 18 min | Documentary, Short
An 18-minute helicopter-based aerial visit across the archaeological ruins in Mexico.
Director: Robert Amram | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Orson Welles
Votes: 183
80. Missing Brendan (2003)
100 min | Drama, Romance, War
George takes a trip to Vietnam to find his missing son. George's son Bob and Bob's son Patrick accompany George on the trip. George's son, Brendan, has been Missing in Action since the ... See full summary »
Director: Eugene Brady | Stars: Robin Thomas, Illeana Douglas, Richard Cox, Adam Brody
Votes: 145
81. India: Matri Bhumi (1959)
90 min | Documentary, Drama
Several stories depicting the landscapes and fauna of India are mixed with documentary footage.
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Votes: 733
82. King of the Royal Mounted (1940)
Approved | 211 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
Canadian Tom Merritt has discovered a substance, Compound X, that will cure infantile paralysis, which he extracts from a mine at Caribou, Canada. A country at war with Canada (unnamed ... See full summary »
Directors: John English, William Witney | Stars: Allan Lane, Robert Strange, Robert Kellard, Lita Conway
Votes: 115
83. Chasing Mummies (2010– )
60 min | Documentary, Adventure, History
A documentary filmmaker, his film crew, and a group of archaeological fellows follow renowned Egyptologist Dr. Zahi Hawass on his daily adventures and discoveries.
Stars: Allan Morton, David Cheetham, Derek Lincoln, Zahi Hawass
Votes: 162
84. Peiru Kokun (2005)
23 min | Animation, Short, Drama
In the far future when the continuity of the history has been lost, humans live in an ever more deteriorating completely artificial and enclosed world. The sea and the sky have disappeared,... See full summary »
Director: Yasuhiro Yoshiura | Stars: Minako Kawashima, Nakao Michiosu, Hiroka Oyama, Yasuhiro Yoshiura
Votes: 1,160
85. Dinosaurs Alive (2007)
Not Rated | 40 min | Documentary, Short
This program presents some of the more recent ideas about dinosaurs that are gaining acceptance while following paleontologists searching for fossils over the decades in the Gobi Desert and New Mexico.
Directors: David Clark, Bayley Silleck | Stars: Michael Douglas, Sterling Nesbitt, Alan H. Turner
Votes: 398 | Gross: $43.97M
86. Los condenados (2009)
94 min | Drama, Thriller
An exiled Argentinean returns home after living in Spain for more than 30 years to help find the remains of a political activist who disappeared during the Junta dictatorship.
Director: Isaki Lacuesta | Stars: Bárbara Lennie, Daniel Fanego, Leonor Manso, Nazareno Casero
Votes: 146
87. Homeless Hare (1950)
7 min | Family, Animation, Short
A construction worker destroys Bugs' home with a steam shovel and refuses to repair the damage.
Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Mel Blanc, John T. Smith
Votes: 940
88. The Beaumont Children: What Really Happened (2018 TV Movie)
70 min | Documentary, Crime, History
Stars: Michael Usher, Roger Cardwell, Bill Hayes, Greg Hutchins
Votes: 9
89. Breaking the Maya Code (2008)
TV-G | 116 min | Documentary, Mystery
The complex and beautiful hieroglyphic script of the ancient Maya was until recently one of the last great untranslated writing systems. Based on the best-selling book by Michael Coe, ... See full summary »
Director: David Lebrun | Stars: Michael D. Coe, Ian Graham, Nikolai Grube, Peter Mathews
Votes: 333
90. What Killed the Mega Beasts? (2002 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 92 min | Documentary, Animation
Paleontologists seek evidence to determine which of the three competing theories - kill, chill or ill - best account for the disappearance of all the large animals at the end of the last ice age.
Director: Chris Lent | Stars: Luis Alberto Borerro, David Burney, Sarah Cleaveland, Tim Flannery
Votes: 44
91. Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten (2021)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary, History
Deadly assault on the 100th anniversary of the crime in the context of other racial massacres and police killings.
Director: Jonathan Silvers | Stars: Michel Martin, Robert R.A. Turner, DeNeen L. Brown, Betsy Warner
Votes: 84
92. Land of the Mammoth (2001– )
Animation, Documentary
As archaeological research shows, Siberia was previously a territory with a mild climate. Various types of prehistoric animals lived here, the largest of which was a mammoth. Climate change... See full summary »
Stars: Avery Brooks, Bernard Buigues, Dick Mol, Larry Agenbroad
Votes: 47
93. Xinghua san yue tian (1993)
R | 90 min | Drama, Romance
In Northern China, Xinghua lives with her husband, who makes money by selling stones from the Great Wall. But she is unable to give him a son to inherit this wealth. When her husband ... See full summary »
Director: Li Yin | Stars: Wenli Jiang, Xingli Niu, Shaojun Tian, Guoli Zhang
Votes: 61
95. China's Ghost Army (2010 TV Movie)
50 min | Documentary
They are one of the greatest archaeological finds of all time, but can modern technology explain the mysteries of China's Terracotta Warriors?
Star: Andrew Laing
Votes: 13
96. Richard III: The Unseen Story (2013 TV Movie)
47 min | Documentary
In this special follow-up programme, the only television team with access to the dig and the scientific tests on the skeleton uses unseen footage and conducts two days of additional ... See full summary »
Directors: Dick Bower, Pete Woods | Stars: Simon Farnaby, Philippa Langley, Matthew Morris, Richard Buckley
Votes: 40
97. The Valley of the T-Rex (2001 TV Movie)
50 min | Documentary
Paleontologist Jack Horner questions the assumption that Tyrannosaurus Rex was a predator. He thinks there is a reasonable chance it was a scavenger that had little ability to hunt or even ... See full summary »
Directors: Reuben Aaronson, James McQuillan, Pierre de Lespinois | Stars: Jack Horner, Stephen Kemble, Jimmie Wood
Votes: 87
98. Itan oloi tous... koroida! (1964)
84 min | Comedy, Romance
The former president of a rural village must first find a suitable husband for his lonely sibling, unaware that his seven nieces have already planned a private romantic rendezvous with their secret beloveds. Will things go as planned?
Director: Hristos Apostolou | Stars: Vasilis Avlonitis, Georgia Vasileiadou, Nikos Rizos, Giannis Fermis
Votes: 40
99. The Mine with the Iron Door (1936)
Approved | 64 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Having acquired the controlling interest in the Eureka Discovery Corporation for $500 and selling half of it to a detective for $200, Bob Harvey (Richard Arlen) sets off with his new ... See full summary »
Director: David Howard | Stars: Richard Arlen, Cecilia Parker, Henry B. Walthall, Stanley Fields
Votes: 33
100. Meet the Ancestors (1998–2004)
30 min | Documentary
Series which uses archaeology to shed light on history.
Stars: Julian Richards, Richard Neave, Charlotte A. Roberts, Nicholas Rowe
Votes: 30