Search results for "John Ford"
Undercover: How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines

Undercover: How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines

Undercover: How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines
IMDb: 6.1
61

A training film for OSS agents who are to be dropped behind enemy lines.

Genre: Documentary, War
7 Women

7 Women

7 Women
IMDb: 6.7
87

In a mission in China in 1935, a group of women are preyed on by Mongolian bandits, led by Warlord chief Tunga Khan.

Genre: Drama, History
Young Cassidy

Young Cassidy

Young Cassidy
IMDb: 6.5
110

In Dublin circa 1911, John Cassidy (Rod Taylor), an impoverished idealist, whose ambitions are restricted by the demands of looking after his family, journeys through the social injustices of Dublin…

Genre: Drama
Cheyenne Autumn

Cheyenne Autumn

Cheyenne Autumn
IMDb: 6.7
154

A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyenne.

Genre: Western
Donovan’s Reef

Donovan’s Reef

Donovan’s Reef
IMDb: 6.7
109

After her great aunt’s death, a high-society woman arrives on a Hawaiian island in search of the heir – the father she has never met.

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
IMDb: 8.1
123

A senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed.

Genre: Western
How the West Was Won

How the West Was Won

How the West Was Won
IMDb: 7.1
162

The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one…

Genre: Western
Two Rode Together

Two Rode Together

Two Rode Together
IMDb: 6.7
109

Two tough westerners bring home a group of settlers who have spent years as Comanche hostages.

Genre: Western
Sergeant Rutledge

Sergeant Rutledge

Sergeant Rutledge
IMDb: 7.4
111

Respected black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white woman and murdering her father, his superior officer.

Genre: Western
The Horse Soldiers

The Horse Soldiers

The Horse Soldiers
IMDb: 7.1
115

A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail supply center. Along with them is sent a doctor who causes instant antipathy between him…

Genre: War, Western
The Last Hurrah

The Last Hurrah

The Last Hurrah
IMDb: 7.3
117

In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician,…

Genre: Drama
Gideon’s Day

Gideon’s Day

Gideon’s Day
IMDb: 6.6
91

Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From there, his ‘typical day” consists…

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
The Wings of Eagles

The Wings of Eagles

The Wings of Eagles
IMDb: 6.6
110

The story of Frank W. “Spig” Wead – a Navy-flyer turned screenwriter.

Genre: Drama, War
The Rising of the Moon

The Rising of the Moon

The Rising of the Moon
IMDb: 6.6
81

Three vignettes of old Irish country life, based on a series of short stories. In “The Majesty of the Law,” a police officer must arrest an old-fashioned, traditional fellow for…

Genre: Comedy
The Searchers

The Searchers

The Searchers
IMDb: 7.8
119

As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.

Genre: Western
Mister Roberts

Mister Roberts

Mister Roberts
IMDb: 7.6
123

Mr. Roberts is as an officer who’s yearning for battle but is stuck in the backwaters of World War II on a non-commissioned Navy ship run by the bullying Captain…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
The Long Gray Line

The Long Gray Line

The Long Gray Line
IMDb: 7.2
138

The life story of a salt-of-the-earth Irish immigrant, who becomes an Army Noncommissioned Officer and spends his 50 year career at the United States Military Academy at West Point. This…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Sun Shines Bright

The Sun Shines Bright

The Sun Shines Bright
IMDb: 6.9
102

With the election approaching, a judge in a Southern town at the turn of the 20th century is involved variously in revealing the real identity of a young woman, reliving…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Mogambo

Mogambo

Mogambo
IMDb: 6.6
116

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

What Price Glory

What Price Glory

What Price Glory
IMDb: 6.1
110

Two military men, Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt, who are rivals to begin with, grow more at odds with each other when Quirt is made Flagg’s top sergeant. And when…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
The Quiet Man

The Quiet Man

The Quiet Man
IMDb: 7.7
129

An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
When Willie Comes Marching Home

When Willie Comes Marching Home

When Willie Comes Marching Home
IMDb: 6.4
82

When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frustrated when his posting ends up to be in…

Genre: Comedy, War
Wagon Master

Wagon Master

Wagon Master
IMDb: 7.1
86

Two young drifters guide a Mormon wagon train to the San Juan Valley and encounter cutthroats, Navajo, geography, and moral challenges on the journey.

Rio Grande

Rio Grande

Rio Grande
IMDb: 7
105

Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke is posted on the Texas frontier to defend settlers against depredations of marauding Apaches. Col. Yorke is under considerable stress by a serious shortage of troops…

Genre: Western
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
IMDb: 7.2
104

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

Genre: Western
Fort Apache

Fort Apache

Fort Apache
IMDb: 7.4
125

Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant, obsessed with military form…

Genre: Western
3 Godfathers

3 Godfathers

3 Godfathers
IMDb: 7
106

Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safety across the desert, even at the risk of their own…

Genre: Western
The Fugitive

The Fugitive

The Fugitive
IMDb: 6.3
100

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

Genre: Drama
My Darling Clementine

My Darling Clementine

My Darling Clementine
IMDb: 7.7
97

Wyatt Earp and his brothers Morgan and Virgil ride into Tombstone and leave brother James in charge of their cattle herd. On their return they find their cattle stolen and…

They Were Expendable

They Were Expendable

They Were Expendable
IMDb: 7.2
135

Shortly after Pearl Harbor, a squadron of PT-boat crews in the Philippines must battle the Navy brass between skirmishes with the Japanese. The title says it all about the Navy’s…

Genre: Drama, War
December 7th

December 7th

December 7th
IMDb: 6.1
32

“Docudrama” about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering of the ships, the improving of defense in Hawaii and the US efforts to…

Genre: History, War
Tobacco Road

Tobacco Road

Tobacco Road
IMDb: 6.4
84

Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank’s plans to take…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
How Green Was My Valley

How Green Was My Valley

How Green Was My Valley
IMDb: 7.7
118

A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn of the 20th century.

Genre: Drama
The Long Voyage Home

The Long Voyage Home

The Long Voyage Home
IMDb: 6.9
105

The crew of the merchant ship Glencairn hope to survive a transatlantic crossing during World War II. Adapted from four Eugene O’Neill one-act plays.

Genre: Drama, War
The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath
IMDb: 8.1
129

Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s…

Genre: Drama
Young Mr. Lincoln

Young Mr. Lincoln

Young Mr. Lincoln
IMDb: 7.5
100

In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first love, Ann Rutledge,…

Genre: Drama, History
Stagecoach

Stagecoach

Stagecoach
IMDb: 7.8
96

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.

Drums Along the Mohawk

Drums Along the Mohawk

Drums Along the Mohawk
IMDb: 7
100

Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing prosperity and happiness are…

Genre: Drama, History, War
Four Men and a Prayer

Four Men and a Prayer

Four Men and a Prayer
IMDb: 6.1
85

The sons of a disgraced British officer try to clear his name.

Wee Willie Winkie

Wee Willie Winkie

Wee Willie Winkie
IMDb: 6.9
100

In 1897, little Priscilla Williams, along with her widowed mother, goes to live with her army colonel paternal grandfather on the British outpost he commands in northern India.

Genre: Adventure, Family