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1. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
PG | 115 min | Action, Adventure
In 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis can obtain its awesome powers.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, John Rhys-Davies
Votes: 1,038,107 | Gross: $248.16M
2. The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)
R | 118 min | Fantasy, Horror
A crew sailing from Varna (Bulgaria) by the Black Sea to England find that they are carrying very dangerous cargo.
Director: André Øvredal | Stars: Corey Hawkins, Aisling Franciosi, Liam Cunningham, David Dastmalchian
Votes: 49,867
3. King Kong (1976)
PG | 134 min | Adventure, Horror
A petroleum exploration expedition comes to an isolated island and encounters a colossal giant gorilla.
Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Charles Grodin, Jessica Lange, John Randolph
Votes: 35,601 | Gross: $52.61M
4. The Bounty (1984)
PG | 132 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Fed up with their Captain's harsh discipline, a sailing ship's crew decides to take action.
Director: Roger Donaldson | Stars: Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox
Votes: 30,537 | Gross: $8.60M
5. The Phantom (1996)
PG | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The Phantom, descendent of a line of African superheroes, travels to New York City to thwart a wealthy criminal genius from obtaining three magic skulls which would give him the secret to ultimate power.
Director: Simon Wincer | Stars: Billy Zane, Kristy Swanson, Treat Williams, Catherine Zeta-Jones
Votes: 35,844 | Gross: $17.30M
6. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002 Video Game)
M | Action, Crime, Drama
After being released from jail, Tommy Vercetti leaves Liberty City for Vice City, a city overrun by the mob. Now, Tommy is out to make Vice City his home.
Stars: Ray Liotta, William Fichtner, Tom Sizemore, Dennis Hopper
Votes: 29,563
7. Robinson Crusoe (1997)
PG-13 | 105 min | Adventure, Drama
1703: Robinson Crusoe has to leave Scotland for a year, but after months sailing, a storm wrecks his ship. He ends up as only survivor on a desolate island.
Directors: Rod Hardy, George Miller | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, William Takaku, Polly Walker, Ian Hart
Votes: 13,234
8. Billy Budd (1962)
Approved | 123 min | Adventure, Drama, War
When a kind-hearted sailor is made to join an English vessel at war in 1797, he finds himself caught between devotion to his crewmates and obedience to their hated, cruel master-at-arms.
Director: Peter Ustinov | Stars: Robert Ryan, Peter Ustinov, Melvyn Douglas, Paul Rogers
Votes: 4,918
9. Voyage of the Damned (1976)
PG | 155 min | Drama, War
The tragic 1939 voyage of SS St. Louis carrying hundreds of German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany that seemingly no nation is willing to save from certain doom.
Director: Stuart Rosenberg | Stars: Faye Dunaway, Oskar Werner, Lee Grant, Sam Wanamaker
Votes: 3,410
10. Jamaica Inn (1939)
Passed | 98 min | Adventure, Crime
In Cornwall, 1819, a young woman discovers she's living near a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecks for profit.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Maureen O'Hara, Robert Newton, Charles Laughton, Horace Hodges
Votes: 11,201
11. S.O.S. Titanic (1979 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 194 min | Drama, History
On her maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable R.M.S. Titanic strikes an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.
Director: William Hale | Stars: David Janssen, Cloris Leachman, Harry Andrews, David Battley
Votes: 1,507
12. The Count of Monte Cristo (1934)
Passed | 113 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
After greedy men have Edmond Dantes unjustly imprisoned for 20 years for innocently delivering a letter entrusted to him, he escapes to get his revenge on them.
Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Robert Donat, Elissa Landi, Louis Calhern, Sidney Blackmer
Votes: 3,246
13. Morituri (1965)
Approved | 123 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A war pacifist is blackmailed to pose as an SS officer and to disable the scuttling explosives on a freighter carrying rubber cargo to be captured by the Allies.
Director: Bernhard Wicki | Stars: Marlon Brando, Yul Brynner, Janet Margolin, Trevor Howard
Votes: 4,504
14. Tiger Bay (1959)
Not Rated | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A twelve-year-old tomboy witnesses the murder of a woman by her Polish merchant marine boyfriend, but bonds with him and thwarts the police in their investigation.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Hayley Mills, Horst Buchholz, John Mills, Yvonne Mitchell
Votes: 3,168
15. Little England (2013)
Not Rated | 132 min | Drama, Romance
An epic tale of lost love and a beautiful story of the love between sisters, set in the Greek island of Andros at the beginning of the 20th century.
Director: Pantelis Voulgaris | Stars: Penelope Tsilika, Sofia Kokkali, Aneza Papadopoulou, Andreas Konstantinou
Votes: 7,762
16. 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: 3,035
17. The Burglars (1971)
PG | 120 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
In 1970s Athens a group of professional burglars plans an emerald heist from the home of a gem collector, but corrupt Greek police inspector Abel Zacharia is on their trail.
Director: Henri Verneuil | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Omar Sharif, Dyan Cannon, Robert Hossein
Votes: 2,996
18. The Hook (1963)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, War
In the final days of the Korean War, an enemy airman is captured by three American soldiers who cannot bring themselves to follow the order to execute their prisoner.
Director: George Seaton | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Robert Walker Jr., Nick Adams, Pancho Magalona
Votes: 782
19. The Sisters (1938)
Approved | 99 min | Drama
Three daughters of a small town pharmacist undergo trials and tribulations in their problematic marriages between 1904 and 1908.
Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Errol Flynn, Bette Davis, Anita Louise, Ian Hunter
Votes: 2,132
20. The Ghost Ship (1943)
Passed | 69 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Third Officer Tom Merriam accuses Captain Will Stone of being a homicidal maniac, but no one believes him.
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Richard Dix, Russell Wade, Edith Barrett, Ben Bard
Votes: 3,792
21. Haunting of the Mary Celeste (2020)
74 min | Horror
Rachel, a concerned researcher, and her team have set out to sea to prove that the disappearance of a family and crew from a merchant ship was for reasons having to do with the supernatural... See full summary »
Director: Shana Betz | Stars: Emily Swallow, Richard Roundtree, Alice Hunter, Dominic DeVore
Votes: 749
22. Two Years Before the Mast (1946)
Approved | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The playboy son of a wealthy shipping magnate discovers at first hand the desperate privations suffered by the crew of one of his father's ships after he is unwillingly press-ganged aboard.
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Alan Ladd, Brian Donlevy, William Bendix, Barry Fitzgerald
Votes: 565
23. The Flame of New Orleans (1941)
Passed | 79 min | Adventure, Comedy, Music
In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Bruce Cabot, Roland Young, Mischa Auer
Votes: 1,302
24. The King's Pirate (1967)
Approved | 100 min | Adventure
A Royal Navy officer, posing as a deserter, joins a crew of pirates in an effort to infiltrate and destroy from within the notorious pirate stronghold of Diego Suarez.
Director: Don Weis | Stars: Doug McClure, Jill St. John, Guy Stockwell, Mary Ann Mobley
Votes: 218
25. The Sea Hornet (1951)
Passed | 84 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery
"The Sea Hornet" was a merchant ship sunk, supposedly by a torpedo, less than a mile off the California Coast during World War Two. Six years later when his buddy is killed, attempting to ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Rod Cameron, Adele Mara, Lorna Gray, Chill Wills
Votes: 79
26. Passport to Destiny (1944)
Passed | 65 min | Comedy, War
A British cleaning woman believes a glass eye has magical powers that will protect her from harm. She travels from London to Berlin and manages to obtain a job as a cleaning woman at Hitler's headquarters. However, her assassination plan is foiled. But, she and other secret agents manage to escape to London during RAF bombing raid of the Reich Chancery.
Director: Ray McCarey | Stars: Elsa Lanchester, Gordon Oliver, Lenore Aubert, Lionel Royce
Votes: 364
27. Walking, Walking (1983)
171 min | Drama, History
The assuming of responsibility by individuals, the use of science for man and not against him, the duty of truth to increase the stature of people, all together: these are the important ... See full summary »
Director: Ermanno Olmi | Stars: Alberto Fumagalli, Antonio Cucciarrè, Eligio Martellucci, Renzo Samminiatesi
Votes: 159
28. Broadside (2009 TV Movie)
111 min | History
The newly restored English monarch, Charles II, leads his country into the fiercest trade war in the age of sail as well as concentrating on the inner workings of the king's court including... See full summary »
Directors: David Hickman, Bruce Twickler | Stars: Milan Alexander, Thomas Arnold, Martin Bishop, Robert Cambrinus
Votes: 35
29. Trapped in a Submarine (1932)
63 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A British submarine on patrol is accidentally rammed by a merchant ship, that tears a big hole in in sub. It sinks and the trapped men are doomed, unless a diving-lung, recently added to ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Summers | Stars: John Batten, Sydney Seaward, James Enstone, Syd Crossley
Votes: 28
30. Kalle Aaltosen morsian (1948)
91 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Director: Ossi Elstelä | Stars: Helge Ranin, Hillevi Lagerstam, Laila Rihte, Ossi Elstelä
Votes: 49
31. La Paloma (1989 TV Movie)
178 min | Documentary
Director: Eberhard Fechner | Stars: Heinrich Bick, Leonhard Daubenmerkel, Paul Frackowiak, Arnold Fürst
32. The Ultimate Guide: Submarines (2000 TV Movie)
TV-G | 47 min | Documentary
This program provides an overview of many aspect of submarine technology including; the various types of submarines, their missions, design considerations, history, operations, training, rescue methods and new design concepts.
Director: Martin Vaughn Cook | Star: Will Lyman
33. The Wreck of the Admella (2009 Video)
54 min | Documentary, Drama, History
This docudrama tells the true story of one of Australia's worst maritime disasters in history which saw more than a hundred people marooned on a shallow reef off the coast of South East ... See full summary »
Director: Brenton Manser | Stars: Paul Barry, Emily Abbott, Lachlan Abbott, Peter Abbott
34. Tunarama (1963)
14 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Geoffrey Scoresby Shepherd | Stars: Eldon Crouch, Sue Connell
35. Yorke Peninsula Country (1963)
13 min | Documentary, Short, Adventure
Director: Geoffrey Scoresby Shepherd | Star: Gordon McDougall
36. Quest of the H.M.S. Buffalo (1986 Video)
43 min | Documentary, Short, History
Director: Brian Grant | Stars: Brenton Whittle, John Bannon, Barry Eshman, Alan Hale
37. Steel Goes to Sea (1941)
16 min | Documentary, Short
British Council short film about building ships from steel and the different trades involved. The story is told through the eyes of young David, the son of a journeyman steel fabricator. ... See full summary »
Director: John E. Lewis
Votes: 12
38. The Last Voyage of Henry Hudson (1964)
28 min | Short
Director: Richard Gilbert | Stars: Powys Thomas, Peter Donat, Drew Thompson, Hugh Webster
Votes: 10
39. The Big Appetite (1950)
Approved | 9 min | Documentary, Short
This RKO-Pathe Screenliner (production number 14-203)follows the travel course of a big city's food supply from its sources throughout the world to its destination on the dining tables of a... See full summary »
Director: Larry O'Reilly | Star: Bob Hite
40.
The Outer Limits (1995–2002)
Episode:
Dark Matters
(1995)
TV-PG | 44 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A cargo ship is forced from hyperspace into a strange region of "dark matter" where some of the normal laws of physics seem not to apply - even the dead linger, unable to find their reward.... See full summary »
Director: Paul Lynch | Stars: Annette O'Toole, Michael Dolan, Allison Hossack, David Cubitt
Votes: 470
41.
The World at War (1973–1974)
Episode:
Wolf Pack: U-Boats in the Atlantic - 1939-1944
(1974)
TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, History, War
The submarine war emphasizing the North Atlantic. Tracks the development of the convoy system and German submarine strategy.
Director: Ted Childs | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Karl Dönitz, Otto Kretschmer, Robert Sherwood
Votes: 406
42.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
The Battle for the Mediterranean
(2002)
Documentary, History, War
We tell the story of the crucial battles for control of the Mediterranean, North Africa, and the irreplaceable oil fields in World War 2 and the story of the war in Greece.
Stars: Jonathan Booth, Harold Alexander, Claude Auchinleck, Winston Churchill
Votes: 6
43.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
The War Against the U-Boats
(2002)
Documentary, History, War
An in depth look at the World War II Battle of the Atlantic, the people who commanded the fighting, the national leaders, and the equipment used.
Stars: Jonathan Booth, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Martin Dunbar-Nasmith
Votes: 7
44.
Who Do You Think You Are? (2004– )
Episode:
Ruth Jones
(2020)
Documentary, Biography, History
Actress and screenwriter Ruth Jones returns to her Welsh seaside hometown to explore the fascinating family line of her great great great grandfather on her mother's side, a hardworking ... See full summary »
Director: Ben Southwell | Stars: Ruth Jones, Phil Davis
Votes: 54
45.
Expedition Week (2011– )
Episode:
Return of the Ghost Ship
(2011)
Drama, History
A team of ocean surveyors strives to identify a century's old shipwreck. Since it's 400 feet down in the frigid Baltic Sea all the exploration will need to be performed robotically.
Director: Malcolm Dixelius | Star: Michael Izquierdo
Votes: 8
46.
Dark Seas (2021– )
Episode:
The Wolfpack that Obliterated a Japanese Fleet in Less than 30 Minutes
(2022)
11 min | Documentary
Frustrated after missing opportunities in the Luzon Strait Commander Lewis Parks leads his wolf pack of three submarines in sinking the most Japanese merchant ships in any single engagement of World War Two.
47.
Niko Kivelä ja nurkkakunnat (2015)
Episode:
Uusikaupunki
(2015)
30 min | Documentary, Reality-TV
Director: Jani Pyylampi | Star: Niko Kivelä
48.
Niko Kivelä ja nurkkakunnat (2015)
Episode:
Loviisa
(2015)
30 min | Documentary, Reality-TV
Director: Jani Pyylampi | Star: Niko Kivelä
49.
The History of Africa (2017–2020)
Episode:
The Kingdom of Kush
(2017)
Documentary
Zeinab Badawi travels to northern Sudan where she sheds light on this little-known aspect of ancient African history.
Votes: 8