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1. Midway (2019)

PG-13 | 138 min | Action, Drama, History

The story of the Battle of Midway, told by the leaders and the sailors who fought it.

Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Ed Skrein, Patrick Wilson, Woody Harrelson, Luke Evans

Votes: 94,652 | Gross: $56.85M

2. Midway (1976)

PG | 132 min | Action, Drama, History

A dramatization of the battle that was widely heralded as a turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II.

Director: Jack Smight | Stars: Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford

Votes: 21,516

3. Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

G | 144 min | Action, Drama, History

The story of the 1941 Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor, and the series of preceding American blunders that aggravated its effectiveness.

Directors: Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masuda, Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Martin Balsam, Sô Yamamura, Jason Robards, Joseph Cotten

Votes: 37,281 | Gross: $29.55M

4. 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: 7,519

5. The Great War of Archimedes (2019)

130 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

In 1933, a young naval officer and math prodigy uncovers a conspiracy regarding the construction of Japanese warships for the ongoing World War 2.

Director: Takashi Yamazaki | Stars: Minami Hamabe, Masaki Suda, Jun Kunimura, Min Tanaka

Votes: 1,208

6. Hit the Deck (1955)

Passed | 112 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Three sailors come ashore and take the city by storm, but can they win the hearts of three women by song?

Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Jane Powell, Tony Martin, Debbie Reynolds, Walter Pidgeon

Votes: 963

7. John Paul Jones (1959)

126 min | Action, Biography, History

The career of Revolutionary War naval hero from his youth in Scotland through his service to Catherine the Great of Russia.

Director: John Farrow | Stars: Robert Stack, Marisa Pavan, Charles Coburn, Erin O'Brien

Votes: 1,442

8. The Eternal Sea (1955)

Passed | 103 min | Biography, Drama, War

Rear Adm. John M. Hoskins (Sterling Hayden) fights to stay on after losing a leg on an aircraft carrier in World War II.

Director: John H. Auer | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Alexis Smith, Ben Cooper, Dean Jagger

Votes: 359

9. Courting Trouble (1932)

19 min | Short, Comedy

A man is sentence to 30 days' house arrest while dressed as a woman and performing his wife's household chores.

Director: Leslie Pearce | Stars: Charles Murray, Aggie Herring, Arthur Stone, Alice Ward

Votes: 12

10. McHale's Navy (1962–1966)
Episode: A Medal for Parker (1964)

TV-G | 26 min | Comedy, War

Major complications develop when the guys send a chapter of Parker's war novel - Including a highly fictionalized account of his sinking of the biggest battleship in the Japanese fleet - To... See full summary »

Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Ernest Borgnine, Joe Flynn, Tim Conway, Carl Ballantine

Votes: 48

11. Playhouse 90 (1956–1961)
Episode: Forbidden Area (1956)

90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Why are so many B-99 bombers from Hibiscus Air Base crashing or simply disappearing? Colonel Price comes up with a terrifying explanation, but will anyone believe him?

Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Charlton Heston, Tab Hunter, Diana Lynn, Vincent Price

Votes: 112

12. Cocaine Trade Exposed (The Invisibles) (2020)
Episode: Breaking Borders

Documentary, Crime, History

With cocaine demand at an all-time high, the new generation of Narcos stop at nothing to make sales. This is a look at their cutting-edge operations.

Stars: Daniel Dyer, Hernando Mattos Dagar, Alejandro Santos, Peter Vincent

13. Longines Chronoscope (1951–1955)
Episode: Episode dated 8 December 1954 (1954)

News, Talk-Show

Crawford and Lesueur interview polar explorer Richard E. Byrd. Topics include exploration around the North Pole and Antarctic regions.

Stars: Richard E. Byrd, Kenneth Crawford, Larry LeSueur