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

1. Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)

Not Rated | 117 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

During the Napoleonic wars, a British Navy Captain has adventures in Central American waters.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty, Moultrie Kelsall

Votes: 7,524

2. Damn the Defiant! (1962)

Approved | 101 min | Action, Drama, History

On the H.M.S. Defiant, during the French Revolutionary War, fair Captain Crawford is locked in a battle of wills against his cruel second-in-command Lieutenant Scott-Padget, whose heavy-handed command style pushes the crew to mutiny.

Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Maurice Denham, Nigel Stock

Votes: 3,037

3. Heavy Metal: The Evolution of the Naval Warship (2009 TV Movie)

90 min | Documentary, History, War

This two-hour series covers the evolution of the design and armament of ocean-going warships. From wooden hulls and sails to nuclear powered floating naval bases, Heavy Metal has it all. ... See full summary »

Votes: 13

4. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999)
Episode: A Time to Stand (1997)

TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Borrowing a captured Jem'Hadar attack ship, Sisko and crew embark on a mission to destroy the hidden base where all of the ketracel-white is stored for the entire Alpha Quadrant.

Director: Allan Kroeker | Stars: Avery Brooks, Rene Auberjonois, Michael Dorn, Terry Farrell

Votes: 2,174

5. Telephone Time (1956–1958)
Episode: Boarders Away (1956)

30 min | Drama

A dramatization of the capture of German submarine U-505, the only German sub ever captured in World War II.

Director: Eugène Lourié | Stars: John Nesbitt, Arthur Space, James Dobson, Scotty Beckett

Votes: 9

6. Shogun (1980)
Episode: Episode #1.1 (1980)

TV-14 | 90 min | Adventure, Drama, History

Set in early 17th-century Japan, shipwrecked English navigator John Blackthorne finds intrigue and culture shock in a feudal society that puts a premium on honor. A rival Lord sentences Blackthorne to death.

Director: Jerry London | Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Shimada, Furankî Sakai

Votes: 316

7. Drachinifel (2017– )
Episode: The Barbary States - The Final Yarrs (2021)

39 min | Documentary, History

The Barabary Pirates were privateers financed by Noth African states. Europe dealt with them by paying tribute. With the signing of the 1983 treaty of Paris The United States was no longer ... See full summary »

Star: Drachinifel

8. The Great War (2010–2012)
Episode: Kiev 1941 (2011)

44 min | Documentary, Drama, History

After the swift success at Smolensk, Hitler has diverted the bulk of Heinz Guderian's panzers down to the South, so as to capture the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, considered more important than ... See full summary »

Director: Anna Grazhdan | Stars: Anatoliy Bogush, Adolf Hitler, Mikhail Kirponos, Olga Radchuk

Votes: 11

9. The Bullwinkle Show (1959–1963)
Episode: The Space Rat or Of Mice and Menace/The Shot Heard Round the World or First National Bang (1960)

TV-G | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Rocky and Bullwinkle - "Metal Eating Mice" Part 9, Aesop and Son - "The Vain Crow", Peabody's Improbable History - "Stephen Decatur", Rocky and Bullwinkle - "Metal Eating Mice" Part 10.

Directors: Gerard Baldwin, Pete Burness, William T. Hurtz, Ted Parmelee, Gerald Ray, Dun Roman, George Singer, Ernest Terrazas | Stars: Edward Everett Horton, June Foray, Paul Frees, William Conrad

Votes: 31