The Long Voyage Home (1940)
A merchant ships crew tries to survive the loneliness of the sea and the coming of war
The Searchers (1956)
An American Civil War veteran embarks on a journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches
The Quiet Man (1952)
A retired American boxer returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he falls for a spirited redhead whose brother is contemptuous of their union
Rio Grande (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 Grapes of Wrath (1940)
A poor Midwest family is forced off their land They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
A senator returns to a western town for the funeral of an old friend and tells the story of his origins
Fort Apache (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
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (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
Cheyenne Autumn (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
The Horse Soldiers (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
Wagon Master (1950)
Two young drifters guide a Mormon wagon train to the San Juan Valley and encounter cutthroats, Indians, geography, and moral challenges on the journey
Stagecoach (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
They Were Expendable (1945)
A Navy commander fights to prove the battle worthiness of the PT boat at the start of World War II
Mister Roberts (1955)
In the waning days of World War II, the United States Navy cargo ship Reluctant and her crew are stationed in the backwater areas of the Pacific Ocean Trouble ensues when the crew members are granted liberty
3 Godfathers (1948)
Three outlaws on the run risk their freedom and their lives to return a newborn to civilization
My Darling Clementine (1946)
After their cattle are stolen and their brother murdered, the Earp brothers have a score to settle with the Clanton family
Two Rode Together (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
Mogambo (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
Donovans Reef (1963)
In an ideal society on a picturesque South Sea island, there are people of several races and backgrounds living together in harmony John Wayne is a WWII hero, who worked hard to own a shipping company and finds his true love She is
The Fugitive (1947)
Anti Catholic and anti cleric policies in the Mexican state of Tabasco lead the revolutionary government to persecute the states last remaining priest
Pinky (1949)
A light skinned black woman falls in love with a white doctor, though he is unaware of her true race
Drums Along the Mohawk (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 Wings of Eagles (1957)
A biography of Navy flier turned screenwriter Frank W Spig Wead
The Long Gray Line (1955)
In 1898, Irish immigrant Martin Maher is hired as a civilian employee at West Point where, during a 50 year career, he rises to the rank of NCO and instructor
Up the River (1930)
When paroled trustee Steve and former inmate Judy who try to put their criminal lives behind them are blackmailed, two career criminals come to their rescue
Hell Bent (1918)
A cowboy must save his girlfriend from captivity and then cross the desert on foot with a single waterhole on the way
How Green Was My Valley (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
The Hurricane (1937)
A Polynesian sailor unjustly imprisoned after defending himself against a colonial bully is relentlessly persecuted by his islands martinet French governor
Tobacco Road (1941)
Hillbilly family farm life in 1941 rural Georgia
Seas Beneath (1931)
In the waning days of WWI, a U S Mystery Ship, sets sail for the coast of Spain towing a submarine Their mission is to find and sink a U boat that has been especially effective in attacking Allied shipping Posing as a harmless s
The Lost Patrol (1934)
A dozen British soldiers, lost in a Mesopotamian desert during World War I, are menaced by unseen Arab enemies
The Last Hurrah (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
Wee Willie Winkie (1937)
Priscilla Williams, a young girl living with her widowed mother and paternal grandfather at the post he commands in northern India, becomes enamored of military life and embroiled in brewing rebellion against the crown in the early 1
The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)
The story of Dr Samuel Mudd, who was imprisoned after innocently treating President Lincolns assassin in 1865
The Sun Shines Bright (1953)
John Ford weaves three Judge Priest stories together to form a good natured exploration of honour and small town politics in the South around the turn of the century Judge William Priest is involved variously in revealing the rea
The Whole Towns Talking (1935)
A meek milquetoast of a clerks mistaken for public enemy N 1, and the notorious killer takes advantage of the situation
How the West Was Won (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
Gideon of Scotland Yard (1958)
A typical day for Scotland Yard Chief Inspector George Gideon consists of working on several cases at the same time
The World Moves On (1934)
Richard Girard is part of a New Orleans family working closely with the English Warburtons When Richard meets Mary Warburton she is engaged to Erik von Gerardt He does wed Mary but their time in America is financially difficult
Young Mr Lincoln (1939)
A fictionalized account of the early life of the American president as a young lawyer facing his greatest court case
The Iron Horse (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
How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines (1943)
A training film for OSS agents who are to be dropped behind enemy lines, covering cover and concealment, ambush techniques, etc
Straight Shooting (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
Pilgrimage (1933)
A possessive mother pushes her son into World War I service rather than see him get married
Kentucky Pride (1925)
The story of a Beaumont race horse, told through from the point of view of the horse via intertitles
The Informer (1935)
In 1922, an Irish rebel informs on his friend, then feels doom closing in
Young Cassidy (1965)
The misadventures of a young idealist man in Dublin, Ireland in the early twentieth century
Four Sons (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