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The Quiet Man (1952)

The Quiet Man (1952)

IMDb: 7.9
0

A retired American boxer returns to the village of his birth in 1920s Ireland, where he falls for a spirited redhead whose brother is contemptuous of their union

Hell Bent (1918)

Hell Bent (1918)

IMDb: 6.1
1918

A cowboy must save his girlfriend from captivity and then cross the desert on foot with a single waterhole on the way

Mister Roberts (1955

Mister Roberts (1955)

IMDb: 7.8
1955

In the waning days of World War II, the cargo officer of a Navy supply ship chafes at its role far from the action in the Pacifics backwater areas, his frustration rising when its captain denies the crew liberty over petty irrita

The Prisoner of Shar

The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)

IMDb: 7.3
1936

The story of Dr Samuel Mudd, who was imprisoned after innocently treating President Lincolns assassin in 1865

The Lost Patrol (193

The Lost Patrol (1934)

IMDb: 6.9
1934

A dozen British soldiers, lost in a Mesopotamian desert during World War I, are menaced by unseen Arab enemies

The Iron Horse (1924

The Iron Horse (1924)

IMDb: 7.3
1924

After witnessing the murder of his father by a renegade as a boy, the grown up Brandon helps to realize his fathers dream of a transcontinental railway

Tobacco Road (1941)

Tobacco Road (1941)

IMDb: 6.4
1941

Hillbilly family farm life in 1941 rural Georgia

Kentucky Pride (1925

Kentucky Pride (1925)

IMDb: 5.7
1925

The story of a Beaumont race horse, told through from the point of view of the horse via intertitles

Straight Shooting (1

Straight Shooting (1917)

IMDb: 6.3
1917

Cattleman Flint cuts off farmer Sims water supply When Sims son Ted goes for water, one of Flints men kills him Cheyenne is sent to finish off Sims, but finding the family at the newly dug grave, he changes sides

The Fugitive (1947)

The Fugitive (1947)

IMDb: 6.4
1947

Anti Catholic and anti cleric policies in the Mexican state of Tabasco lead the revolutionary government to persecute the states last remaining priest

Young Mr Lincoln (19

Young Mr Lincoln (1939)

IMDb: 7.6
1939

A fictionalized account of the early life of the American president as a young lawyer facing his greatest court case

How the West Was Won

How the West Was Won (1962)

IMDb: 7.0
1962

A family saga covering several decades of Westward expansion in the 19th century, including the Gold Rush, the Civil War, and the building of the railroads

The Man Who Shot Lib

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

IMDb: 8.1
1962

A senator returns to a Western town for the funeral of an old friend and tells the story of his origins

Young Cassidy (1965)

Young Cassidy (1965)

IMDb: 6.5
1965

The misadventures of a young idealist man in Dublin, Ireland in the early twentieth century

Pinky (1949)

Pinky (1949)

IMDb: 7.2
1949

A light skinned black woman falls in love with a white doctor, though he is unaware of her true race

Donovans Reef (1963)

Donovans Reef (1963)

IMDb: 6.9
1963

In an ideal society on a picturesque South Seas isle, diverse people live in harmony until an outsider disrupts the balance

Two Rode Together (1

Two Rode Together (1961)

IMDb: 6.8
1961

A corrupt marshal is pressured by his army friend into negotiating the release of white captives of the Comanches, but finds that their reintegration into society has its consequences

Fort Apache (1948)

Fort Apache (1948)

IMDb: 7.6
1948

At Fort Apache, an honorable and veteran war captain finds conflict when his regime is placed under the command of a young, glory hungry lieutenant colonel with no respect for the local Indian tribe

Rio Grande (1950)

Rio Grande (1950)

IMDb: 7.1
1950

A cavalry officer posted on the Rio Grande is confronted with murderous raiding Apaches, a son whos a risk taking recruit and his wife from whom he has been separated for many years

The Last Hurrah (195

The Last Hurrah (1958)

IMDb: 7.4
1958

Frank Skeffington is an old Irish American political boss, running for re election as mayor of a U S town for the last time

Mogambo (1953)

Mogambo (1953)

IMDb: 6.7
1953

On a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordleys cheating wife Linda

She Wore a Yellow Ri

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)

IMDb: 7.4
1949

Captain Nathan Brittles, on the eve of retirement, takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperiled

The Horse Soldiers (

The Horse Soldiers (1959)

IMDb: 7.2
1959

In 1863, a Union outfit is sent behind Confederate lines in Mississippi to destroy enemy railroads but a captive southern belle and the units doctor cause frictions within ranks

How to Operate Behin

How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines (1943)

IMDb: 6.0
1943

A training film for OSS agents who are to be dropped behind enemy lines, covering cover and concealment, ambush techniques, etc

3 Godfathers (1948)

3 Godfathers (1948)

IMDb: 7.2
1948

Three outlaws on the run risk their freedom and their lives to return a newborn to civilization

The Hurricane (1937)

The Hurricane (1937)

IMDb: 7.2
1937

A Polynesian sailor unjustly imprisoned after defending himself against a colonial bully is relentlessly persecuted by his islands martinet French governor

Seas Beneath (1931)

Seas Beneath (1931)

IMDb: 5.9
1931

At the end of WWI the US Navy camouflages a battleship as a harmless schooner and sails for the Canary Islands to confront a notoriously effective German U boat No one sees the US submarine secretly escorting the schooner

Stagecoach (1939)

Stagecoach (1939)

IMDb: 7.9
1939

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

The Black Watch (192

The Black Watch (1929)

IMDb: 5.6
1929

Captain Donald King of the British Army goes to India just as World War I breaks out, convincing his comrades that he is a coward In reality, he is on a secret mission to rescue British soldiers held prisoner there

The Sun Shines Brigh

The Sun Shines Bright (1953)

IMDb: 7.0
1953

William Pittman Priest has to use all his wiles to retain his position as judge in his Kentucky hometown, while continuing to be a voice for the towns underclass and for democratic values

Cheyenne Autumn (196

Cheyenne Autumn (1964)

IMDb: 6.8
1964

The Cheyenne, tired of broken U S government promises, head for their ancestral lands but a sympathetic cavalry officer is tasked to bring them back to their reservation

How Green Was My Val

How Green Was My Valley (1941)

IMDb: 7.8
1941

At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life

Drums Along the Moha

Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)

IMDb: 7.2
1939

Newlyweds Gil and Lana Martin try to establish a farm in the Mohawk Valley but are menaced by Indians and Tories as the Revolutionary War begins

The Long Voyage Home

The Long Voyage Home (1940)

IMDb: 7.0
1940

A merchant ships crew tries to survive the loneliness of the sea and the coming of war

My Darling Clementin

My Darling Clementine (1946)

IMDb: 7.8
1946

After their cattle are stolen and their brother murdered, the Earp brothers have a score to settle with the Clanton family

Four Sons (1928)

Four Sons (1928)

IMDb: 7.2
1928

A family saga in which three sons of a Bavarian widow go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germanys eventual opponent