Search results for "John Ford"
Four Sons

Four Sons

Four Sons
IMDb: 7.2
96

A family saga in which three of a Bavarian widow’s sons go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany’s eventual opponent. Preserved by the Academy Film…

Genre: Drama, War
Mary of Scotland

Mary of Scotland

Mary of Scotland
IMDb: 6.3
123

The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.

Judge Priest

Judge Priest

Judge Priest
IMDb: 6.2
80

Judge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, restores the justice in a small town in the Post-Bellum Kentucky using his common sense and his great sense of humanity.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
The World Moves On

The World Moves On

The World Moves On
IMDb: 5.9
104

Two families, cotton merchants in England and America, with branches in France and Prussia swear to stand by each other in a belief that a great business firmly established in…

Undercover: How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines

Undercover: How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines

Undercover: How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines
IMDb: 6.1
62

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

Genre: Documentary, 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 a very old-fashioned, traditional fellow…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Flesh

Flesh

Flesh
IMDb: 6.5
96

Gifted German wrestler Polokai falls in love with ex-con Laura, who persuades him to emigrate to America and gets him involved with crooked promoters.

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Black Watch

The Black Watch

The Black Watch
IMDb: 5.7
93

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…

Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Cheyenne Autumn

Cheyenne Autumn

Cheyenne Autumn
IMDb: 6.7
154

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

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
How the West Was Won

How the West Was Won

How the West Was Won
IMDb: 7
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
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
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…

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 Searchers

The Searchers

The Searchers
IMDb: 7.9
119

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

Genre: Western
The Long Gray Line

The Long Gray Line

The Long Gray Line
IMDb: 7.1
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 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
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
How Green Was My Valley

How Green Was My Valley

How Green Was My Valley
IMDb: 7.7
118

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.

Genre: Drama, Family, History
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
IMDb: 7.2
103

After Custer and the 7th Cavalry are wiped out by Indians, everyone expects the worst. Capt. Nathan Brittles is ordered out on patrol but he’s also required to take along…

Genre: Western
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, Indians, geography, and moral challenges on the journey.

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
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.

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…

Genre: Western
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
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,…

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
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
The Iron Horse

The Iron Horse

The Iron Horse
IMDb: 7.2
150

Brandon, a surveyor, dreams of building a railway to the west. He sets off with his son, Davy, to survey a route. They discover a new pass which will shave…

Genre: History, Western
December 7th

December 7th

December 7th
IMDb: 6.2
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: Action, History, War
Mogambo

Mogambo

Mogambo
IMDb: 6.6
115

Victor Marswell runs a big game trapping company in Kenya. Eloise Kelly is ditched there, and an immediate attraction happens between them. Then Mr. and Mrs. Nordley show up for…

3 Godfathers

3 Godfathers

3 Godfathers
IMDb: 7.1
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
When Willie Comes Marching Home

When Willie Comes Marching Home

When Willie Comes Marching Home
IMDb: 6.5
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
The Lost Patrol

The Lost Patrol

The Lost Patrol
IMDb: 6.8
N/A

Nev and his co-hosts — from Max to Kamie to celebrity guests — help people in dubious online relationships track down their baes IRL so they can sort out what’s…

Genre: Reality
Steamboat Round the Bend

Steamboat Round the Bend

Steamboat Round the Bend
IMDb: 6.9
81

A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to find a witness to free his nephew, about to be hanged for murder.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Informer

The Informer

The Informer
IMDb: 7.4
91

Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He’s desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and start over in America with…

Genre: Crime, Drama
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.

The Whole Town’s Talking

The Whole Town’s Talking

The Whole Town’s Talking
IMDb: 7.3
93

Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He’s never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is…

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
3 Bad Men

3 Bad Men

3 Bad Men
IMDb: 7.5
92

Three outlaws come to the aid of a young girl after her father is killed. A silent film directed by John Ford.

Genre: Romance, 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, Family, War