COLONIAL HEROES (1845-1914)
by Maximilliann | created - 07 Sep 2014 | updated - 22 Jun 2020 | PublicMovies and TV series exploring the era of colonial empires. A controversial time when civilizations gave the best and worst of themselves.
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1. Khartoum (1966)
Approved | 128 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In the Sudan, in 1884 to 1885, Egyptian forces led by British General Charles "Chinese" Gordon (Charlton Heston) defend Khartoum against an invading Muslim Army led by a religious fanatic, Mohammed Ahmed el Mahdi (Sir Laurence Olivier).
Directors: Basil Dearden, Eliot Elisofon | Stars: Charlton Heston, Laurence Olivier, Richard Johnson, Ralph Richardson
Votes: 8,268 | Gross: $6.54M
2. East of Sudan (1964)
Approved | 85 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
During the Mahdist insurrection in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, veteran colonial Private Baker teams up with freshly arrived gentleman Murchison, trying to evacuate from southern Barash the ... See full summary »
Director: Nathan Juran | Stars: Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms, Derek Fowlds, Jenny Agutter
Votes: 275
3. The Four Feathers (1929)
81 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
When British officer Harry resigns from his regiment, he is labeled a coward by his family and friends. Harry receives four white feathers as a mark of a coward. In order to redeem himself ... See full summary »
Directors: Merian C. Cooper, Lothar Mendes, Ernest B. Schoedsack | Stars: Richard Arlen, Fay Wray, Clive Brook, William Powell
Votes: 342
4. The Four Feathers (1939)
Passed | 129 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A British Army officer resigns, burning his last-day summons to war in the Sudan. Accusing him of cowardice, his girlfriend and three friends give him white feathers. To gain redemption, he shadows his friends to save their lives.
Director: Zoltan Korda | Stars: John Clements, Ralph Richardson, C. Aubrey Smith, June Duprez
Votes: 6,589
5. Storm Over the Nile (1955)
Approved | 107 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A CinemaScope remake of The Four Feathers (1939).
Directors: Zoltan Korda, Terence Young | Stars: Anthony Steel, Laurence Harvey, James Robertson Justice, Mary Ure
Votes: 619
6. The Four Feathers (1978 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, History
When British Lieutenant Faversham resigns his commission rather than fight in the 1882 Sudan war, his army pals present him with the four white feathers of cowardice.
Director: Don Sharp | Stars: Beau Bridges, Robert Powell, Simon Ward, Jane Seymour
Votes: 713
7. The Four Feathers (2002)
PG-13 | 132 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A young British officer resigns his commission just before his regiment is sent to battle and soon receives four white feathers from his friends and fiancee as symbols of what they view as his cowardice.
Director: Shekhar Kapur | Stars: Heath Ledger, Wes Bentley, Kate Hudson, Mohamed Bouich
Votes: 35,493 | Gross: $18.31M
8. Beau Geste (1926)
101 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Michael "Beau" Geste leaves England in disgrace and joins the infamous French Foreign Legion. He is reunited with his two brothers in North Africa, where they face greater danger from their... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Brenon | Stars: Ronald Colman, Neil Hamilton, Ralph Forbes, Alice Joyce
Votes: 470 | Gross: $1.71M
9. Beau Sabreur (1928)
70 min | Adventure, Romance
A desert-bound member of the French Foreign Legion exposes a betrayer to the Legion. He is then sent on a mission among the Arabs to conclude the signing of a crucial peace treaty.
Director: John Waters | Stars: Gary Cooper, Evelyn Brent, Noah Beery, William Powell
Votes: 66
10. Beau Ideal (1931)
Passed | 79 min | Adventure, Romance, War
An American joins the French Foreign Legion in order to rescue a boyhood friend.
Director: Herbert Brenon | Stars: Frank McCormick, Ralph Forbes, Lester Vail, Otto Matieson
Votes: 247
11. Beau Geste (1939)
Passed | 112 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Three adopted English brothers join the French Foreign Legion in North Africa after one of them steals their adoptive family's famous heirloom sapphire.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston, Brian Donlevy
Votes: 6,520
12. Beau Geste (1966)
Approved | 103 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In 1906, two American brothers join the French Foreign Legion and, led by a sadistic Sergeant-Major, they defend a fort against Berber and Tuareg attack.
Director: Douglas Heyes | Stars: Guy Stockwell, Doug McClure, Leslie Nielsen, Telly Savalas
Votes: 748
13. The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977)
PG | 85 min | Adventure, Comedy, War
An aging Sir Hector Geste (Trevor Howard) takes a young greedy wife who's after his famed Blue Water sapphire, but his sons hide the gem and join the French Foreign Legion in North Africa.
Director: Marty Feldman | Stars: Marty Feldman, Ann-Margret, Michael York, Peter Ustinov
Votes: 2,624
14. Beau Geste (1982)
204 min | War, Action, Adventure
Three brothers of a well-to-do English family join the French Foreign Legion.
Stars: Benedict Taylor, Jonathon Morris, Anthony Calf, John Forgeham
Votes: 128
15. Under Two Flags (1922)
Passed | 80 min | Adventure, Drama
An English nobleman, known only as Victor, arrives in Algiers and joins the French Foreign Legion as a private without revealing his true identity. He attracts and is loved by Cigarette, a ... See full summary »
Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Priscilla Dean, James Kirkwood, John Davidson, Stuart Holmes
Votes: 35 | Gross: $0.12M
16. Under Two Flags (1936)
Passed | 112 min | Adventure
Sergeant Victor comes to the French Foreign Legion after taking the blame for his brother's crime. Cigarette falls in love with him though Major Doyle is in love with her. Doyle sends ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Ronald Colman, Claudette Colbert, Victor McLaglen, Rosalind Russell
Votes: 506
17. Morocco (1930)
Passed | 92 min | Drama, Romance
A cabaret singer and a Legionnaire fall in love, but their relationship is complicated by the results of his womanizing and the appearance of a rich man who wants her for himself.
Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou, Ullrich Haupt
Votes: 7,479
18. The Three Musketeers (1933)
Passed | 210 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Tom Wayne rescues Clancy, Renard and Schmidt in the Arabian desert and they join him in going after El Shaitan, a bad guy who is never seen as he tries to wipe out the Foreign Legion.
Directors: Colbert Clark, Armand Schaefer | Stars: Jack Mulhall, Raymond Hatton, Francis X. Bushman Jr., John Wayne
Votes: 500
19. The Legion of Missing Men (1937)
Approved | 62 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
Bob Carter, a member of the Foreign Legion, is glad to see his brother, Don, for the first time in ten years but is sorry that Don has joined the Legion. Bob, Don and Bob's buddies, Muggsy ... See full summary »
Director: Hamilton MacFadden | Stars: Ralph Forbes, Ben Alexander, Hala Linda, Paul Hurst
Votes: 111
20. Outpost in Morocco (1949)
Approved | 92 min | Adventure
After escorting an Emir's daughter to her father's stronghold, French Foreign Legion Captain Gerard's unit joins an isolated Moroccan outpost facing imminent attack by rebel Bedouin tribes.
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: George Raft, Marie Windsor, Akim Tamiroff, John Litel
Votes: 502
21. Another Sky (1954)
86 min | Drama
After a puritan youth, a young English woman discovers her sensuality in North-Africa.
Director: Gavin Lambert | Stars: Catherine Lacey, Ahmed Ben Mohammed, Lee Montague, Victoria Grayson
Votes: 114
22. Guns at Batasi (1964)
Approved | 103 min | Drama, History, War
Anachronistic strict Regimental Sergeant Major Lauderdale (Sir Richard Attenborough), on a remote colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat, must use his experience to defend those in his care.
Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Richard Attenborough, Jack Hawkins, Flora Robson, John Leyton
Votes: 1,958
23. The Wind and the Lion (1975)
PG | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A Berber chieftain triggers an international incident, drawing the involvement of Theodore Roosevelt, when he kidnaps an American widow and her children in 1900s Morocco.
Director: John Milius | Stars: Sean Connery, Candice Bergen, Brian Keith, John Huston
Votes: 10,149 | Gross: $0.75M
24. March or Die (1977)
PG | 107 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
During the 1920s, French Foreign Legion Major William Foster's (Gene Hackman's) unit is protecting an archaeological dig, but the discovery of an Arab sacred burial site prompts the angry Arab tribes to attack Foster's small garrison.
Director: Dick Richards | Stars: Gene Hackman, Terence Hill, Catherine Deneuve, Max von Sydow
Votes: 3,975 | Gross: $1.00M
25. Fort Saganne (1984)
180 min | Drama, History, War
Young army officer of peasant origin becomes a war hero battling in the Sahara while seducing a young woman from the aristocratic class.
Director: Alain Corneau | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Philippe Noiret, Catherine Deneuve, Sophie Marceau
Votes: 1,107
26. La batalla de los Tres Reyes (1990)
245 min | Action, Drama, History
Various battles including that of Lepanto.
Directors: Souheil Ben-Barka, Uchkun Nazarov | Stars: Massimo Ghini, Claudia Cardinale, Ugo Tognazzi, Fernando Rey
Votes: 109
27. Legionnaire (1998)
R | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Alain is a boxer in 1925 Marseille, France. When he doesn't take the dive paid to take by a mob boss, he has to split. He joins the Foreign Legion and is sent to Morocco. He makes 3 friends and they watch each other's backs.
Director: Peter MacDonald | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Steven Berkoff, Nicholas Farrell
Votes: 25,751
28. Zulu (1964)
Not Rated | 138 min | Drama, History, War
Outnumbered British soldiers do battle with Zulu warriors at Rorke's Drift.
Director: Cy Endfield | Stars: Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth
Votes: 42,745
29. Zulu Dawn (1979)
PG | 98 min | Adventure, Drama, History
A dramatization of the Battle of Isandlwana, where the British Army met its match against the Zulu nation.
Director: Douglas Hickox | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Peter O'Toole, Simon Ward, Denholm Elliott
Votes: 7,595
30. Shaka Zulu (1986)
TV-MA | 55 min | Action, Biography, Drama
A historical account on the life of the Zulu King Shaka.
Stars: Edward Fox, Robert Powell, Trevor Howard, Fiona Fullerton
Votes: 3,390
31. Shaka Zulu: The Citadel (2001 TV Movie)
R | 179 min | Drama
Shaka Zulu: The Last Great Warrior is the true story of the legendary African warrior and his struggle to unite his people against the largest empire in the world.
Director: Joshua Sinclair | Stars: David Hasselhoff, Karen Allen, Henry Cele, James Fox
Votes: 390
32. Rhodes (1936)
Approved | 90 min | Biography
This rousing adventure film tells the true story of Cecil Rhodes, a diamond miner who helped found the South African colonies.
Directors: Berthold Viertel, Geoffrey Barkas | Stars: Walter Huston, Oscar Homolka, Basil Sydney, Frank Cellier
Votes: 223
33. Rhodes (1996)
Drama
The story of the British 19th-century businessman who became the wealthiest man in the Western world and founded the nation Rhodesia.
Stars: Martin Shaw, Frances Barber, Neil Pearson, Frantz Dobrowsky
Votes: 166
34. Shangani Patrol (1970)
94 min | Action, Drama, War
The nerve-jangling true tale of a battalion of volunteer soldiers facing the might of King Lobengula's army in Rhodesia in 1893.
Director: David Millin | Stars: Brian O'Shaughnessy, Will Hutchins, Adrian Steed, James White
Votes: 45
35. Breaker Morant (1980)
PG | 107 min | Drama, History, War
Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters, Bryan Brown
Votes: 14,431 | Gross: $7.14M
36. Torn Allegiance (1984)
92 min | Drama, Family, History
Piet du Bois is a miner who wants to buy a farm. He meets a Bushman and his wife buying their land and expelling after. The Bushman exposes a legend about a fabulous hidden treasure.
Director: Alan Nathanson | Stars: Shelagh Holliday, Jonathon Morris, Marius Weyers, Ron Smerczak
Votes: 38
37. That Englishwoman: An Account of the Life of Emily Hobhouse (1990)
99 min | Drama, History, War
ONE WOMAN DARED TO DEFY THE MIGHT OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, HER NAME WAS EMILY HOBHOUSE.
Director: Dirk de Villiers | Stars: Veronica Lang, Terence Alexander, Jenny Runacre, Harvey Ashby
Votes: 28
38. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
Not Rated | 163 min | Drama, Romance, War
From the Boer War through World War II, a soldier rises through the ranks in the British military.
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook, James McKechnie
Votes: 16,348
39. The Flame Trees of Thika (1981– )
Not Rated | 50 min | Biography, Drama
Elspeth (Holly Aird) and her unconventional parents decide to settle down in Kenya and begin a coffee plantation. This is a time of discovery for Elspeth, as she encounters the incredible ... See full summary »
Stars: Hayley Mills, David Robb, Holly Aird, Mick Chege
Votes: 454
40. Out of Africa (1985)
PG | 161 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.
Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Michael Kitchen
Votes: 86,346 | Gross: $87.10M
41. White Mischief (1987)
R | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In 1940s Kenya, a married couple join other affluent British expatriates in a lifestyle of recklessness and excess, but soon find themselves in a troubling situation.
Director: Michael Radford | Stars: Sarah Miles, Joss Ackland, John Hurt, Greta Scacchi
Votes: 3,214 | Gross: $3.11M
42. Nowhere in Africa (2001)
R | 141 min | Biography, Drama, History
Due to Hitler's threat, Walter Redlich, a Jewish lawyer, immigrates to Kenya with his wife Jettel and daughter Regina. Things take a turn when the family is ordered to move by the British officers.
Director: Caroline Link | Stars: Juliane Köhler, Merab Ninidze, Matthias Habich, Sidede Onyulo
Votes: 13,962 | Gross: $6.17M
43. Something of Value (1957)
Approved | 113 min | Drama, War
In British Colonial Kenya during the Mau Mau uprising, Peter and Kimani, who grew up together, find themselves on the opposite sides.
Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Rock Hudson, Dana Wynter, Wendy Hiller, Juano Hernandez
Votes: 1,307
44. The Kitchen Toto (1987)
PG-13 | 96 min | Drama
The son of a priest slain by the Mau Mau moves in with a police officer and his wife in 1950 Kenya.
Director: Harry Hook | Stars: Bob Peck, Edwin Mahinda, Phyllis Logan, Nicholas Charles
Votes: 274 | Gross: $0.10M
45. Simba (1955)
Not Rated | 99 min | Adventure, Drama
A European family in East Africa finds itself caught up in an uprising by local black Africans against their white colonial masters. Based on the Mau-Mau rebellion in Kenya in the early 1950s.
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Virginia McKenna, Basil Sydney, Donald Sinden
Votes: 469
46. The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
Approved | 114 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilamanjaro.
Directors: Henry King, Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner, Hildegard Knef
Votes: 5,901 | Gross: $18.05M
47. Hemingway, the Hunter of Death (2001)
Adventure, Drama
During the Kenyan struggle for independence from the British in the late 1950s, a scientific safari led by Ernest Hemingway undertakes the ascent of Mount Kenya. Hemingway has been warned ... See full summary »
Director: Sergio Dow | Stars: Albert Finney, Paul Guilfoyle, Fele Martínez
Votes: 20
48. Stanley and Livingstone (1939)
Approved | 101 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Tasked by his editor, American reporter Henry M. Stanley travels to a dangerous and uncharted region of East Africa to find the missing Scottish pioneer missionary Dr. David Livingstone.
Directors: Henry King, Otto Brower | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Nancy Kelly, Richard Greene, Walter Brennan
Votes: 1,544
49. Mountains of the Moon (1990)
R | 136 min | Adventure, Drama, History
The legendary true-story of Capt. Richard Francis Burton and Lt. John Hanning Speke's tumultuous expedition to find the source of the Nile river.
Director: Bob Rafelson | Stars: Patrick Bergin, Iain Glen, Richard E. Grant, Fiona Shaw
Votes: 4,253 | Gross: $4.01M
50. Forbidden Territory: Stanley's Search for Livingstone (1997 TV Movie)
96 min | Adventure, Drama, History
One mans quest for a lost missionary in the African jungle becomes a journey of his own self discovery
Director: Simon Langton | Stars: Aidan Quinn, Nigel Hawthorne, Kabir Bedi, Edward Fox
Votes: 271
51. Albert Schweitzer: Called to Africa (2006 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 48 min | Biography
This inspiring docu-drama brings to life the story of Dr. Albert Schweitzer, one of the great humanitarians of the 20th century and recipient of the Nobel Prize for his work in healing the sick and injured in Africa.
Director: Martin Doblmeier | Stars: Michaël Balerdi, Jeff McCarthy
Votes: 14
52. Albert Schweitzer (2009)
Not Rated | 114 min | Biography, Drama, History
For generations the name Albert Schweitzer has been synonymous with hands-on compassion and the power of Christ-like sacrifice. Now director Gavin Miller presents a landmark drama about the... See full summary »
Director: Gavin Millar | Stars: Jeroen Krabbé, Barbara Hershey, Judith Godrèche, Samuel West
Votes: 413
53. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Approved | 218 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins
Votes: 314,325 | Gross: $44.82M
54. The Lighthorsemen (1987)
PG | 131 min | Drama, History, War
In 1917 when the British forces are bogged down in front of the Turkish and German lines in Palestine they rely on the Australian light horse regiment to break the deadlock.
Director: Simon Wincer | Stars: Peter Phelps, Nick Waters, John Larking, Jack Heywood
Votes: 2,022
55. Young Winston (1972)
PG | 124 min | Biography, Drama, War
Complex family relationships, as well as a combat experience, form the personality of the future world-known politician.
Director: Richard Attenborough | Stars: Simon Ward, Robert Shaw, Peter Cellier, Ronald Hines
Votes: 2,976 | Gross: $4.69M
56. Gandhi (1982)
PG | 191 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.
Director: Richard Attenborough | Stars: Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud, Rohini Hattangadi, Roshan Seth
Votes: 240,189 | Gross: $52.77M
57. Gandhi, My Father (2007)
Not Rated | 136 min | Biography, Drama, History
The account of troubled relationship between Mahatma Gandhi and his eldest son.
Director: Feroz Abbas Khan | Stars: Akshaye Khanna, Darshan Jariwala, Shefali Shah, Bhoomika Chawla
Votes: 1,731 | Gross: $0.24M
58. The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
Approved | 115 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
A major countermands orders and attacks to avenge a previous massacre of men, women, and children.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Patric Knowles, Henry Stephenson
Votes: 5,480
59. Charge of the Lancers (1954)
Approved | 73 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The downward spiral of the quality of films Paulette Goddard appeared in in the 1950's would cause a gravitational blackout to anyone viewing them in a single day, but with some of the ... See full summary »
Director: William Castle | Stars: Paulette Goddard, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Richard Stapley, Karin Booth
Votes: 145
60. The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
PG-13 | 139 min | Drama, History, War
In 1854, during the Crimean War, poor planning leads to the British Light Brigade openly charging a Russian artillery position with tragic consequences.
Director: Tony Richardson | Stars: Trevor Howard, Vanessa Redgrave, John Gielgud, Harry Andrews
Votes: 3,879
61. The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
Passed | 109 min | Adventure, Drama, War
Three British soldiers on the Northwest Frontier of India struggle against the enemy - and themselves.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Richard Cromwell, Guy Standing
Votes: 3,237
62. Three Sergeants of Bengal (1964)
97 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
This action-packed adventure/jungle film starts out when three British soldiers stationed in Malaysia are sent to Fort Madras to help the commandant fight off an elusive bandit who is terrorizing the countryside.
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Richard Harrison, Wandisa Guida, Ugo Sasso, Nazzareno Zamperla
Votes: 87
63. Clive of India (1935)
Approved | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
In the mid-1700's the East India Company has power over commerce on the sub-continent, with the blessings of the British government. A clerk in the company, Robert Clive, is frustrated by ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Boleslawski | Stars: Ronald Colman, Loretta Young, Colin Clive, Francis Lister
Votes: 457
64. Storm Over Bengal (1938)
Passed | 65 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
In British India a local rajah, a British ally, is dying and his subordinates plan to drive out the British once he's gone. A newly married British officer is dispatched to ensure that doesn't happen.
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Patric Knowles, Richard Cromwell, Rochelle Hudson, Douglass Dumbrille
Votes: 113
65. The Drum (1938)
Not Rated | 104 min | Adventure, War
During the British Raj, Captain Carruthers works under cover to track smuggled shipments of arms on the restless Northwest Frontier of India. He fears a full-scale rebellion is brewing. To ... See full summary »
Director: Zoltan Korda | Stars: Sabu, Raymond Massey, Roger Livesey, Valerie Hobson
Votes: 937
66. The Real Glory (1939)
Approved | 96 min | Action, History, Romance
A small American contingent tries to train rural tribesmen to defend themselves against fanatical Muslim radicals in 1906 Philippines.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Gary Cooper, David Niven, Andrea Leeds, Reginald Owen
Votes: 1,218
67. Los últimos de Filipinas (1945)
99 min | Drama, History, Romance
During the time of the Spanish-American War, the commandant of a Spanish detachment in Baler, in the Philippines, realizes that the native people of his district are planning an ... See full summary »
Director: Antonio Román | Stars: Armando Calvo, José Nieto, Guillermo Marín, Fernando Rey
Votes: 200
68. Gunga Din (1939)
Approved | 117 min | Adventure, Comedy, War
In 19th century India, three British soldiers and a native waterbearer must stop a secret mass revival of the murderous Thuggee cult before it can rampage across the land.
Director: George Stevens | Stars: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Votes: 12,796
69. Soldiers Three (1951)
Approved | 92 min | Adventure, Comedy, War
Retired British general Brunswick reminisces about the days when he was a colonel in charge of a British Army battalion fighting against native rebels in colonial India during the late 1800s.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Stewart Granger, Walter Pidgeon, David Niven, Robert Newton
Votes: 506
70. The Rains Came (1939)
Approved | 103 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In India, a married British aristocrat is reunited with an old flame, but she truly has her sights set on a handsome surgeon.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Myrna Loy, Tyrone Power, George Brent, Brenda Joyce
Votes: 2,293
71. The Rains of Ranchipur (1955)
Approved | 104 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Despite marital problems, English Lord Albert Esketh and his rich American socialite wife Lady Edwina Esketh travel to India to buy a prize horse from the ruler of Ranchipur.
Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Lana Turner, Richard Burton, Fred MacMurray, Joan Caulfield
Votes: 1,153
72. King of the Khyber Rifles (1953)
Approved | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, History
A half-caste British officer in 19th-century India battles the prejudices of both his Army colleagues and the local populace while trying to help put down a rebellion led by a greedy local ruler.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Tyrone Power, Terry Moore, Michael Rennie, John Justin
Votes: 902
73. Bengal Brigade (1954)
Approved | 87 min | Adventure, History, War
Set during British India 1857, Captain Clayboune (Rock Hudson) is faced with restoring his reputation after being harshly disciplined for disobeying orders.
Director: Laslo Benedek | Stars: Rock Hudson, Arlene Dahl, Ursula Thiess, Torin Thatcher
Votes: 541
74. Bhowani Junction (1956)
Approved | 110 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Anglo-Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity amid the chaos of the British withdrawal from India.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger, Bill Travers, Abraham Sofaer
Votes: 2,083
75. North West Frontier (1959)
Not Rated | 129 min | Adventure, Drama
Set on the North West Frontier of colonial India in 1905. A British Army Officer, Captain Scott is sent to rescue a five year old Indian Prince and his American governess, Catherine Wyatt from certain death at the hands of rebel tribesman.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Kenneth More, Lauren Bacall, Herbert Lom, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Votes: 3,049
76. The Brigand of Kandahar (1965)
Not Rated | 81 min | Adventure, History
The British army fights off rampaging locals in 1850s India.
Director: John Gilling | Stars: Ronald Lewis, Oliver Reed, Duncan Lamont, Yvonne Romain
Votes: 647
77. The Long Duel (1967)
Approved | 115 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
To protest against British oppression and tyranny a tribal leader becomes a bandit.
Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Yul Brynner, Trevor Howard, Harry Andrews, Andrew Keir
Votes: 704
78. Sunghursh (1968)
175 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The Prasads live in Banaras circa 19th Century, and consist of Bhawani - a thug, who poses as a holy man, luring devotees and robbing them; his wife - who will have nothing to do with his ... See full summary »
Director: Harnam Singh Rawail | Stars: Dilip Kumar, Vyjayanthimala, Balraj Sahni, Sanjeev Kumar
Votes: 136
79. The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
PG | 129 min | Adventure, Drama, War
In 1880s India, two former British soldiers decide to set themselves up as Kings in Kafiristan, a land where no white man has set foot since Alexander the Great.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer, Saeed Jaffrey
Votes: 52,028
80. The Chess Players (1977)
Not Rated | 129 min | Comedy, Drama, History
In 1856, two obsessed noblemen ignore everything while playing chess and fail to notice British rule extending into their Indian province.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Sanjeev Kumar, Saeed Jaffrey, Shabana Azmi, Farida Jalal
Votes: 4,064
81. A Passage to India (1984)
PG | 164 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox
Votes: 20,850 | Gross: $27.19M
82. The Jewel in the Crown (1984)
TV-14 | 56 min | Drama, History, Romance
The sweeping drama about the ruling and ruled classes of WWII India, trying amidst the turmoil to come to terms with the drastic changes taking place around them, knowing that their lives will never be the same again.
Stars: Tim Pigott-Smith, Geraldine James, Wendy Morgan, Judy Parfitt
Votes: 2,418
83. The Far Pavilions (1984)
315 min | Drama, History, Romance
Story of forbidden love in 1800s India set against the revolution for India's freedom from England.
Stars: Ben Cross, Amy Irving, Christopher Lee, Robert Hardy
Votes: 877
84. The Deceivers (1988)
PG-13 | 102 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Fact-based account of a secret society of murderers, and of the man who exposed them in British India 1825.
Director: Nicholas Meyer | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Saeed Jaffrey, Shashi Kapoor, Helena Michell
Votes: 1,270 | Gross: $0.35M
85. Cotton Mary (1999)
R | 124 min | Drama
A British family is trapped between culture, tradition, and the colonial sins of the past.
Directors: Ismail Merchant, Madhur Jaffrey | Stars: Greta Scacchi, Madhur Jaffrey, James Wilby, Sarah Badel
Votes: 541 | Gross: $0.30M
86. Mangal Pandey (2005)
Not Rated | 150 min | Biography, Drama, History
This is a film about the leader of the 1857 mutiny and his fight against the British rule.
Director: Ketan Mehta | Stars: Aamir Khan, Rani Mukerji, Toby Stephens, Coral Beed
Votes: 10,503 | Gross: $0.87M
87. Veer (2010)
Not Rated | 169 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Prithvi seeks revenge on Gyanendra Singh and the British. He sends his son Veer to Britain to study their plans. Veer kills Gyanendra's son but ends up falling in love with his daughter.
Director: Anil Sharma | Stars: Salman Khan, Jackie Shroff, Mithun Chakraborty, Neena Gupta
Votes: 8,778 | Gross: $0.50M
88. The Lady with a Lamp (1951)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, History, War
Florence Nightingale struggled to gain access to battlefield hospitals during the Crimean War for her nursing staff. But by succeeding, she improved sanitary medical conditions for wounded soldiers, changing the course of medical history.
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Gladys Young, Felix Aylmer
Votes: 229
89. The White Angel (1936)
Passed | 92 min | Biography, Drama
A look at the life of Florence Nightingale.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Kay Francis, Ian Hunter, Donald Woods, Nigel Bruce
Votes: 421
90.
Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951–1978)
Episode:
Florence Nightingale
(1952)
Comedy, Drama
Biography of Florence Nightingale: her determination to build hospitals and train nurses for the sick and disabled during the Crimean War, her correspondence with the Minister of War, and ... See full summary »
Director: William Corrigan | Stars: Sarah Churchill, Mary Barclay, Alexander Clark, Robin Craven
91. Florence Nightingale (1985 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 140 min | Biography, Drama, Family
The fact-based story of the pioneer of nursing, known as "the Lady with the Lamp".
Director: Daryl Duke | Stars: Jaclyn Smith, Claire Bloom, Timothy Dalton, Timothy West
Votes: 366
92. Florence Nightingale (2008 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 60 min | Drama
Starring Laura Fraser, this film brings to life the story of Florence Nightingale's spiritual and emotional breakdown after the Crimean War: a moment of crisis, doubt, and failure that ... See full summary »
Director: Norman Stone | Stars: Laura Fraser, Michael Pennington, Andrew Harrison, Barbara Marten
Votes: 157
93. Hawaii (1966)
Approved | 189 min | Drama
An American missionary and his wife travel to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii, intent on converting the natives. But the clash between the two cultures is too great and instead of understanding there comes tragedy.
Directors: George Roy Hill, Arthur Hiller | Stars: Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow, Richard Harris, Gene Hackman
Votes: 3,552 | Gross: $34.56M
94. The Hawaiians (1970)
R | 134 min | Adventure, Drama
Captain Whip returns to Hawaii. He's inherited "worthless" land. He starts a plantation, staffed with a Chinese couple from his ship. Drilling thru lava for water and stealing/smuggling pineapple from French Guyana, things look brighter.
Director: Tom Gries | Stars: Charlton Heston, Tina Chen, Geraldine Chaplin, Mako
Votes: 1,435 | Gross: $0.28M
95. 55 Days at Peking (1963)
Unrated | 154 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
During the 1900 Boxer Rebellion, U.S. marine, Maj. Matt Lewis, along with British consul, Sir Arthur Robertson, develop a plan to keep the rebels at bay until an international military relief force can arrive.
Directors: Nicholas Ray, Guy Green, Andrew Marton | Stars: Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven, Flora Robson
Votes: 7,419
96. Shogun (1980 TV Movie)
159 min | Adventure, Drama, History
An English navigator becomes both pawn and player in the deadly political games in feudal Japan.
Director: Jerry London | Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Shimada, Furankî Sakai
Votes: 5,057
97. Shogun (1980)
TV-MA | 109 min | Adventure, Drama, History
An English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in the complex political games in feudal Japan.
Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Shimada, Furankî Sakai
Votes: 15,606
98. Tai-Pan (1986)
R | 127 min | Adventure
Historical fiction set against the backdrop of Hong Kong in its early years of British rule.
Director: Daryl Duke | Stars: Bryan Brown, Joan Chen, John Stanton, Tim Guinee
Votes: 1,895 | Gross: $4.01M
99. The Opium War (1997)
153 min | Drama, History, War
Qing official Lin Zexu burns the opium of British traders in a bid to end the opium trade. Incensed by his actions, the British traders appeal to their government, leading to the First Opium War and the eventual cessation of Hong Kong.
Director: Jin Xie | Stars: Guoan Bao, Liankun Lin, Sihung Lung, Debra Beaumont
Votes: 599
100. Red River Valley (1997)
115 min | Drama, History, Romance
At the turn of the century, a young Chinese girl escapes from a religious sacrifice, and is rescued by an honorable Tibetan herdsman. The two fall in love, but problems arise when she is ... See full summary »
Director: Xiaoning Feng | Stars: Jing Ning, Bing Shao, Zhen Ying, Paul Kersey
Votes: 379
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