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

1. Black Panther (2018)

PG-13 | 134 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

T'Challa, heir to the hidden but advanced kingdom of Wakanda, must step forward to lead his people into a new future and must confront a challenger from his country's past.

Director: Ryan Coogler | Stars: Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o, Danai Gurira

Votes: 838,531 | Gross: $700.06M

2. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)

PG-13 | 161 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The people of Wakanda fight to protect their home from intervening world powers as they mourn the death of King T'Challa.

Director: Ryan Coogler | Stars: Letitia Wright, Lupita Nyong'o, Danai Gurira, Winston Duke

Votes: 306,300 | Gross: $453.72M

3. Sweet Home (2020– )

TV-MA | 52 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Hyun, a loner high school student who lost his entire family in a terrible accident, is forced to leave his home and has to face a new reality where monsters are trying to wipe out all of humanity. Now he must fight against all odds to try and race against the clock to save what is left of the human race before it's too late.

Stars: Song Kang, Lee Jin-wook, Lee Si-young, Park Gyuyoung

Votes: 32,163

4. The Good Shepherd (2006)

R | 167 min | Drama, History, Thriller

The tumultuous early history of the Central Intelligence Agency is viewed through the prism of one man's life.

Director: Robert De Niro | Stars: Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, Robert De Niro, Alec Baldwin

Votes: 108,641 | Gross: $59.95M

5. The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)

Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Fantasy

In 1940, after watching and being traumatized by the movie Frankenstein (1931), a sensitive seven year-old girl living in a small Spanish village drifts into her own fantasy world.

Director: Víctor Erice | Stars: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Teresa Gimpera, Ana Torrent, Isabel Tellería

Votes: 20,711

6. Brexit (2019 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 98 min | Biography, Drama, History

Political strategist Dominic Cummings leads a popular but controversial campaign to convince British voters to leave the European Union from 2015 up until the present day.

Director: Toby Haynes | Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Sarah Belcher, Malcolm Freeman, Lucy Russell

Votes: 17,753

7. C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2004)

PG-13 | 89 min | Comedy, Drama, War

Through the eyes of a British "documentary", this film takes a satirically humorous, and sometimes frightening, look at the history of an America where the South won the Civil War.

Director: Kevin Willmott | Stars: Greg Kirsch, Renee Patrick, Molly Graham, William Willmott

Votes: 5,162 | Gross: $0.67M

8. Carol for Another Christmas (1964 TV Movie)

84 min | Drama, Fantasy

Daniel Grudge, a wealthy industrialist and fierce isolationist long embittered by the loss of his son in World War II, is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve who lead him to reconsider his attitude toward his fellow man.

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Percy Rodrigues, Sterling Hayden, Ben Gazzara, Barbara Ann Teer

Votes: 1,458

9. Sherman's March (1985)

Not Rated | 157 min | Documentary, Biography, Comedy

Documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee sets out to make a movie about Union General Sherman's March to the Sea towards the end of the American Civil War, but keeps getting sidetracked by his own love life.

Director: Ross McElwee | Stars: Ross McElwee, Dede McElwee, Ross McElwee Jr., Patricia Rendleman

Votes: 2,709

10. Tarzan Triumphs (1943)

Passed | 76 min | Action, Adventure, War

As World War II rages, a formation of German paratroopers land in the hidden city of Palandria to exploit its wealth and they start taking hostages. Can Tarzan, the king of the jungle, and his animal companions Cheeta and Buli save them?

Director: Wilhelm Thiele | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Frances Gifford, Johnny Sheffield, Stanley Ridges

Votes: 2,388 | Gross: $3.27M

11. Mission to Moscow (1943)

Approved | 124 min | Drama, History, War

Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Walter Huston, Ann Harding, Oscar Homolka, George Tobias

Votes: 1,023

12. 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

13. Adventure for Two (1943)

Not Rated | 114 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Ivan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the war working on a new propeller for ice-breaking ships. Naive about British people, and ... See full summary »

Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Penelope Dudley-Ward, Marjorie Fielding, Margaret Rutherford

Votes: 538

14. Yae no sakura (2013)

Drama, History

This historical biopic follows the life of Japanese heroine Yae Niijima. As Yae dedicates her life to helping others, she becomes a role model for modern women everywhere.

Stars: Haruka Ayase, Mitsuko Kusabue, Jun Fubuki, Hidetoshi Nishijima

Votes: 238

15. Power of the Press (1943)

Approved | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's policy and support the US war effort. His friend, a small town patriotic editor, is brought in to find the culprits.

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Guy Kibbee, Lee Tracy, Gloria Dickson, Otto Kruger

Votes: 479

16. Tora Tora Tora: The Real Story of Pearl Harbor (2000 TV Movie)

Documentary, History, War

An examination of the 1941 air raid on the US naval base.

Director: Laura Verklan | Stars: Yoshio Shiga, John Finn, Donald Stratton, Richard Fiske

Votes: 55

17. Spy Ship (1942)

62 min | Drama

A radio reporter begins to suspect that a commentator at his station may be using her position to broadcast shipping information to enemy spies. With the help of the girl's sister, he sets out to expose the spy and her Nazi gang.

Director: B. Reeves Eason | Stars: Craig Stevens, Irene Manning, Maris Wrixon, Tod Andrews

Votes: 108

18. The Kennedys: The Curse of Power (2000 TV Movie)

93 min | Documentary, Biography, History

The triumphs and tragedies of America's preeminent political family.

Stars: Joseph P. Kennedy, Hugh Sidey, Kerry McCarthy, Laurence Leamer

Votes: 33

19. FDR: A Presidency Revealed (2005 TV Movie)

TV-PG | Documentary

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Stars: Edward Herrmann, Marian Anderson, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill

Votes: 63

20. Peaceful Neighbors (1939)

Approved | 9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Two rival families of hens (and roosters)are arming in preparation for a battle in a property-line dispute over the division line between their two barnyard coops. After much fighting, ... See full summary »

Director: Sid Marcus | Stars: Leone Le Doux, Celeste Rush, Allan Watson

Votes: 17

21. Is America in Retreat (2017)

56 min | Documentary

When the U.S. assumed the PAX, it assumed responsibility for global order, but for how long? Just how deeply entangled should America be in the world's affairs? What alternatives are there ... See full summary »

Directors: Elan Bentov, Kip Perry | Stars: Uzi Arad, Shmuel Bar, Antonio Carpio, Bonnie Glaser

Votes: 12

22. Green Grass (2020)

9 min | Animation, Short, Drama

Two hopeful migrants must make the long, arduous journey across a desolate landscape toward the promise of a better life only to discover their destination may no longer be the place they believed it was.

Director: Michael Greco

Votes: 12

23. Reclaimer (2020)

15 min | Short, Drama

Lily and Evy steal a boat and leave their island community to escape the clutches of the megalomanical community leader, Adam. Adam pursues nonetheless, and the two young women must stick to together to stay one step ahead

Director: Laurie Waplington | Stars: Imogen Davis, Edie Deffebach, David Houston, Howard Perret

24. Conspiracy? (2004– )
Episode: FDR and Pearl Harbor (2004)

Documentary

Several theories surrounding the Roosevelt Administration's foreknowledge of Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor are explored; that they did not have prior intelligence, that they bungled the ... See full summary »

Director: Laura Verklan | Stars: Ashton Smith, Stephen Budiansky, Robert Goldberg, Matthew S. Harrison

Votes: 12

25. Victory at Sea (1952–1953)
Episode: Design for War (1952)

Documentary, Action, War

Design for War: Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1941. World War II begins and the Germans succeed in invading Poland and France. But it is restrained by the British thanks to the vital convoys... See full summary »

Director: M. Clay Adams | Stars: Leonard Graves, Winston Churchill, Karl Dönitz, Hermann Göring

Votes: 77

26. Centurions (1986)
Episode: Sungrazer (1986)

TV-Y7-FV | 30 min | Animation, Action, Family

Crystal and the Centurions are on their way to intercept a comet and the scientists who leave inside it. They are searching for Dr. Owl who created a virus that is now unleashed on Earth by Dr. Terror.

Stars: Pat Fraley, Neil Ross, Vince Edwards, Ron Feinberg

Votes: 15

27. The World at War (1973–1974)
Episode: On Our Way: U.S.A. 1939-1942 (1973)

TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, History, War

The opposition to the United States' entry into the war, Lend Lease, U-boat attacks on Atlantic convoys and American responses, mobilization of America after Pearl Harbor, loss of the Philippines, Doolittle Raid, Midway and Guadalcanal.

Stars: Laurence Olivier, Averell Harriman, George Ball, Norman Corwin

Votes: 440

28. Apocalypse: Hitler Takes on the West (2021– )
Episode: Ultimes Combats (2021)

Documentary, History, War

France is in chaos. The French people take to the roads, trying to escape. The government signs an armistice as Germans take over half the country.

Directors: Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle | Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Stephen Rashbrook, Nathan Rippy, William C. Bullitt

Votes: 40

29. The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022)
Episode: Yearning to Breathe Free (1938-1942) (2022)

TV-14 | 138 min | Documentary, History

As WWII begins, Americans are divided over whether to intervene against Germany. Some individuals and organizations work tirelessly to help refugees escape. Germany invades the USSR and secretly begins the mass murder of European Jews.

Directors: Sarah Botstein, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick | Stars: Peter Coyote, Daniel Mendelsohn, Guy Stern, Peter Hayes

Votes: 157

30. Never Have I Ever (2020–2023)
Episode: ...had my dream stolen (2023)

TV-14 | 33 min | Comedy, Drama

With early college admissions rolling in, Devi's in for more than one surprise. Kamala warns a smitten Pati about Len. Ben overhears a hurtful comment.

Director: Kabir Akhtar | Stars: Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Richa Moorjani, Jaren Lewison, Darren Barnet

Votes: 504

31. The Ben Shapiro Show (2015– )
Texas CRACKS DOWN on Illegal Immigration (2024 Podcast Episode)

42 min | News, Talk-Show

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Star: Ben Shapiro

32. The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (2014)
Episode: The Common Cause (1939-1944) (2014)

TV-14 | 113 min | Documentary, Biography, History

WWII starts in Europe. FDR prepares the country for war and aids Churchill. Isolationists fight him at every step - until Pearl Harbor. FDR's unprecedented third term. Eleanor tackles racism and poverty. New jobs bring more diversity.

Director: Ken Burns | Stars: Peter Coyote, Geoffrey C. Ward, Jon Meacham, Doris Kearns Goodwin

Votes: 147

33. The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (2014)
Episode: The Rising Road (1933-1939) (2014)

TV-PG | 115 min | Documentary, Biography, History

FDR's pre-WWII presidency. The New Deal renews America. FDR's unprecedented popularity, the conservative opposition and Huey Long's populism. FDR warns isolationists of Hitler. Eleanor's platonic friendship with Lorena Hickok.

Director: Ken Burns | Stars: Peter Coyote, William Leuchtenburg, George F. Will, Doris Kearns Goodwin

Votes: 154

34. Five Came Back (2017)
Episode: The Mission Begins (2017)

TV-14 | 59 min | Documentary, Biography, History

When World War II breaks out, five of Hollywood's top directors leave their homes and careers to join the army and film the war effort.

Director: Laurent Bouzereau | Stars: Frank Capra, Francis Ford Coppola, Guillermo del Toro, John Ford

Votes: 361

35. The Andrew Klavan Show (2015– )
Trump Goes Left (2017 Podcast Episode)

Talk-Show

Bernie Sanders writes a children's book. Donald Trump shifts leftward. Victor Davis Hanson talks Trump. Klavan catches up on recent movies. Shelley's "Ozymandias" earns his admiration.

Stars: Andrew Klavan, Victor Davis Hanson, Donald Trump, Chuck Schumer

36. The Ben Shapiro Show (2015– )
Trump's Big Tax Day (2017 Podcast Episode)

53 min | News, Talk-Show

Trump's tax bill is about to pass, and the media is outraged. Ben details the good and bad things Trump has done his first year. #MeToo sees a backlash.

Stars: Ben Shapiro, Mika Brzezinski, Susan Collins, Bernie Sanders

37. The Ben Shapiro Show (2015– )
Can the Trump Train Turn Hillary Into Roadkill? (2016 Podcast Episode)

52 min | News, Talk-Show

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Star: Ben Shapiro

38. The Michael Knowles Show (2017– )
The Kids Are All Right (2018 Podcast Episode)

42 min | Talk-Show

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Star: Michael J. Knowles

39. The Presidents (2005)
Episode: Washington to Monroe (1789-1825) (2005)

Documentary, Biography, History

About US Presidents 1) George Washington (1789-1797), 2) John Adams (1797-1801), 3) Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809), 4) James Madison (1809-1817) and 5) James Monroe (1817-1825).

Stars: Edward Herrmann, Carol Berkin, Richard Brookhiser, George W. Bush

Votes: 8

40. The Presidents (2005)
Episode: Wilson to F. Roosevelt (1913-1945) (2005)

Documentary, Biography, History

About US Presidents 28) Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921), 29) Warren G. Harding (1921-1923), 30) Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929), 31) Herbert Hoover (1929-1933) and 32) Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945).

Stars: Edward Herrmann, H.W. Brands, Alan Brinkley, Douglas Brinkley

Votes: 5

41. Avengers Assemble (2012–2019)
Episode: The Last Avenger (2018)

TV-Y7 | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

All on his own, Black Panther must safeguard a dangerous weapon from all who might try to stop him.

Directors: Jeff Allen, Kalvin Lee | Stars: James Mathis III, Daisy Lightfoot, Laura Bailey, Troy Baker

Votes: 93