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1. Stagecoach (1939)
Passed | 96 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process.
Director: John Ford | Stars: John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Andy Devine, John Carradine
Votes: 54,051
2. The Wild Bunch (1969)
R | 135 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.
Director: Sam Peckinpah | Stars: William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien
Votes: 90,644 | Gross: $12.06M
3. Hobson's Choice (1954)
Not Rated | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Widower Henry Hobson refuses to let his three daughters get married because he doesn't want to pay settlements, so they'll just have to outsmart him.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Charles Laughton, John Mills, Brenda de Banzie, Daphne Anderson
Votes: 8,852
4. The Hallelujah Trail (1965)
Approved | 165 min | Comedy, Western
On its way to Denver, a cargo of whiskey destined for the miners, is sought after by the Temperance League, the U.S. Cavalry, the local Indians and the miners themselves.
Director: John Sturges | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Jim Hutton, Pamela Tiffin
Votes: 4,453 | Gross: $8.72M
5. The Corn Is Green (1945)
Approved | 115 min | Drama
A schoolteacher becomes the mentor of a talented young miner and seeks to get him into a university.
Director: Irving Rapper | Stars: Bette Davis, John Dall, Nigel Bruce, Rhys Williams
Votes: 3,227
6. Prohibition (2011)
60 min | Documentary, History
The story of the American activist struggle against the influence of alcohol, climaxing in the failed early 20th century nationwide era when it was banned.
Stars: Peter Coyote, Pete Hamill, Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Michael Lerner
Votes: 3,439
7. Wisconsin Death Trip (1999)
Not Rated | 76 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A series of grisly events that took place in the state of Wisconsin between 1890 and 1900 is dramatized as reported in the Black River Falls newspaper.
Director: James Marsh | Stars: Ian Holm, Jeffrey Golden, Jo Vukelich, Marcus Monroe
Votes: 1,614
8. They Came by Night (1940)
Approved | 73 min | Crime, Drama
Jeweler James Fothergill helps Scotland Yard recover a valuable ruby by worming his way into the gang which stole it and setting them up for the police.
Director: Harry Lachman | Stars: Will Fyffe, Phyllis Calvert, Anthony Hulme, George Merritt
Votes: 39
9. Paramount-Bray Pictographs, No. 81 (1917)
Documentary, Short
Subjects include: "A Day at Coney Island", a look at Simon Lake's invention of a "land and water submarine", an overview of the tea industry in China and Ceylon, and the cartoon Colonel Heeza Liar's Temperance Lecture (1917).
Director: P.D. Hugon | Star: Simon Lake
10. Colonel Heeza Liar's Temperance Lecture (1917)
Animation, Comedy, Short
Director: John Randolph Bray
11. Real to Reel: South Australians Turning the Camera on Themselves (2005)
55 min | Documentary, History
Director: Martin Manning | Star: Jane Doyle
12. YouTube to Crack Down on Perverts After Spending a Year on 'Offensive' Stuff (2017 Video)
12 min | Short, News
Star: Styxhexenhammer666
13.
Emil i Lönneberga (1974–1976)
Episode:
Griseknoens märkliga bravader
(1974)
24 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Emil's pig goes crazy after eating fermented cherries.
Director: Olle Hellbom | Stars: Jan Ohlsson, Lena Wisborg, Allan Edwall, Emy Storm
Votes: 55
14.
Hec Ramsey (1972–1974)
Episode:
Mystery of the Yellow Rose
(1973)
75 min | Drama, Mystery, Western
Hec pursues a check forger to Santa Rita, New Mexico, where he meets and rekindles an old flame. Hec plays attorney to free a friend being framed for murder, which puts him afoul of Henry T. Madden, a tyrant who holds the town in fear.
Directors: Douglas Benton, Charles Ziarko | Stars: Richard Boone, Rick Lenz, Diana Muldaur, Claude Akins
Votes: 38
15.
The Tall Man (1960–1962)
Episode:
Ladies of the Town
(1961)
30 min | Western
Jack rides into Silver Creek, a boomtown in Lincoln County, to investigate reports of lawlessness and finds Jason Creary has set himself up as the town boss who owns everything but Sal's ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Bartlett | Stars: Barry Sullivan, Clu Gulager, Wesley Lau, Claire Carleton
Votes: 9
16.
Bordertown (1989–1991)
Episode:
Demon Rum
(1990)
TV-14 | 24 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
When one of Joanna Radway's cowboys becomes deathly ill after visiting Zack's saloon, the ranch woman blames the bartender and destroys his saloon with an ax. Marie suspects that Zack may ... See full summary »
Director: Stuart Gillard | Stars: John H. Brennan, Richard Comar, Sophie Barjac, Donna White
17.
Blackfly (2001–2002)
Episode:
Short Temperance
(2001)
Adventure, Comedy, History
Director: Michael Kennedy | Stars: Ron James, Shauna Black, Richard Donat, James Kee
18.
A House Through Time (2018– )
Episode:
Episode #3.3
(2020)
59 min | Documentary, Biography, History
We follow the house's fortunes from the 1880s through to the end of the First World War as it slides down the social scale and moves into multiple occupancy discovering stories of epidemic disease, a quack doctor and a World War I tragedy.
Director: Eleanor Scoones | Star: David Olusoga
Votes: 10
19.
Boardwalk Empire (2010–2014)
Episode:
Boardwalk Empire
(2010)
TV-MA | 72 min | Crime, Drama
In 1920 Atlantic City, politician Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson makes arrangements to operate a liquor smuggling business during the early days of Prohibition. His driver, Jimmy Darmody, wishes to prove his usefulness.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt, Kelly Macdonald, Michael Shannon
Votes: 4,917
20.
Murdoch Mysteries (2008– )
Episode:
Mild Mild West
(2009)
TV-PG | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Buffalo Bill Cody pulls into town with his roadshow. Murder happens during the show and it's up to Murdoch and the team to solve it.
Director: Paul Fox | Stars: Yannick Bisson, Helene Joy, Thomas Craig, Jonny Harris
Votes: 396
21.
Murdoch Mysteries (2008– )
Episode:
Murdoch.com
(2009)
TV-PG | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A mysterious on-line predator romances other telegraphers, bilks them out of money, and ultimately murders one of his dalliances.
Director: Eleanore Lindo | Stars: Yannick Bisson, Helene Joy, Thomas Craig, Jonny Harris
Votes: 351
22.
Murdoch Mysteries (2008– )
Episode:
The Green Muse
(2009)
TV-PG | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When a very popular prostitute specializing in kinky sex is found garroted and and the bordello survives an arson attempt, Murdoch looks on her clients for a suspect.
Director: Don McBrearty | Stars: Yannick Bisson, Helene Joy, Thomas Craig, Jonny Harris
Votes: 368
23.
Mob Stories (2002– )
Episode:
King of the Bootleggers
(2003)
Documentary, Drama
Director: Mitchell Gabourie | Stars: Nick Mancuso, Robert Celli, Eloisa Weber, Crystal Joy Hall
24.
How the States Got Their Shapes (2011–2012)
Episode:
Church and States
(2011)
TV-14 | 43 min | Documentary, Adventure, History
Ever since the Pilgrims boarded the Mayflower, what we believe and how we believe has shaped the American map. Could Utah have been bigger than Texas? How did religion shatter New England ... See full summary »
Director: David Konschnik | Stars: Brian Unger, Mark Stein, Kerry Altenbernd, Chuck Magerl
Votes: 31
25.
Prohibition (2011)
Episode:
A Nation of Drunkards
(2011)
TV-PG | 95 min | Documentary, History
The 19th century was a period of growth both for alcoholic beverages and the temperance movement. Washingtonian societies - made up of men who had taken a pledge to forgo all alcoholic ... See full summary »
Directors: Ken Burns, Lynn Novick | Stars: Peter Coyote, Michael Lerner, Daniel Okrent, Pete Hamill
Votes: 224
26.
Gangster Empire: Rise of the Mob (2013– )
Episode:
Tea Parties, Revolution and Anarchy
(2013)
TV-14 | 47 min | Documentary, Action, Crime
The origin of the gangs that dominated crime and invented their own codes of conduct. A look at the roots of organized crime starting with the American Revolution to the prohibition of alcohol.
Director: Kevin R. Hershberger | Stars: Coby Batty, Matt K. Baker, Todd Barsness, James Christopher Cooke
Votes: 5
27.
Murdoch Mysteries (2008– )
Episode:
Crabtree Mania
(2015)
TV-PG | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
George Crabtree investigates a suspicious death in the world of entertainment wrestling.
Director: Peter Mitchell | Stars: Yannick Bisson, Thomas Craig, Helene Joy, Jonny Harris
Votes: 286
28.
Murdoch Mysteries (2008– )
Episode:
The Local Option
(2015)
TV-PG | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
As the local temperance movement's crusade for local prohibition gains momentum, an opposing politician is found dead after an incident at a drinking establishment.
Director: Laurie Lynd | Stars: Yannick Bisson, Thomas Craig, Helene Joy, Jonny Harris
Votes: 273