Search results
- The Gold Rush (1925) Director: Charles Chaplin. The prospect of finding gold in the uncharted territories beyond the frontier swept like wildfire through the popular imagination of 19th-century America.
- The Wind (1928) Director: Victor Sjöström. While inclement weather is a staple of many a frontier yarn, few come as elementally charged as this silent masterwork from the great Swedish filmmaker Victor Sjöström.
- The Big Trail (1930) Director: Raoul Walsh. The vast, wide-open spaces of the frontier lent themselves to cinematic visions of escalating grandeur. By the late 1920s, Hollywood had begun to embrace the idea of widescreen presentations.
- Wagon Master (1950) Director: John Ford. Much like The Big Trail, Wagon Master follows a caravan west, this time to the virgin lands of San Juan river country, where a Mormon family intends to establish a settlement.
Drums Along the Mohawk. 1939 1h 44m Approved. 7.0 (6.9K) Rate. 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. Director John Ford Stars Claudette Colbert Henry Fonda Edna May Oliver. 3. Jeremiah Johnson. 1972 1h 48m GP.
- (3.7K)
- TV-PG
2. There Will Be Blood. A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business. 3. Jeremiah Johnson. A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by the Crow tribe and proves to be a match for their warriors in ...
- (2.3K)
- 16+
Dec 25, 2015 · September 15, 1941. Up-and-coming Universal leading man Robert Stack made his western-movie debut in Badlands of Dakota. Set in the Dakotas during the days of the Great Gold Boom, the story finds brothers Jim and Bob Holliday (Stack and Broderick Crawford) dukeing it out over the affections of pretty Anne Grayson (Ann Rutherford).
2. Cold Mountain. 2003 2h 34m R. 7.2 (158K) Rate. 73 Metascore. In the waning days of the American Civil War, a wounded soldier embarks on a perilous journey back home to Cold Mountain, North Carolina to reunite with his sweetheart. Director Anthony Minghella Stars Jude Law Nicole Kidman Renée Zellweger. 3.
One of the most iconic movies about early American settlers is “The New World” (2005), directed by Terrence Malick. The film tells the story of the Jamestown settlement in Virginia and the relationship between English settler John Smith and Native American princess Pocahontas. The movie captures the clash of cultures and the struggles faced ...
Apr 8, 2011 · Arizona. December 25, 1940. Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie. But Peter won't be distracted from his journey and Phoebe is left alone and plenty busy with villains Jefferson Carteret and Lazarus Ward plotting at every turn to destroy ...
Prime Members Get Instant Access to the Latest Movies, TV Shows and Amazon Originals. Thousands of Popular Movies & TV Shows, Discover the Newest Releases and Classics on Prime
