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- DirectorJan TroellStarsMax von SydowLiv UllmannEddie AxbergAn 1840s Swedish farming family struggle with their unyielding land and decide to embark on the arduous journey to new hope in America.Paddle wheel steamer
Sailing ship
1850s, Swedish immigrants cross the Atlantic below decks. - DirectorBruce NeibaurStarsKelly BoulwareSonny SurowiecAlex RiceThis documentary chronicles the Lewis and Clark expedition and breathtaking landscape they crossed while searching for the northwest passage. (Source: Netflix)
- DirectorAndrey ZvyagintsevStarsVladimir GarinIvan DobronravovKonstantin LavronenkoIn the Russian wilderness, two brothers face a range of new, conflicting emotions when their father - a man they know only through a single photograph - resurfaces.Rowboat
Ship
A remote island on a lake in northern Russia. - DirectorLuchino ViscontiStarsLuchino ViscontiAntonio PietrangeliAntonio ArcidiaconoIn rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently.Italian rowboat, sailboat, fishing boat.
Sicilian fishing village, south Italy, Amalfi coast.
1940s. - DirectorWill PriceStarsJohn PayneMaureen O'HaraHoward Da SilvaIn 1805, the United States battles the pirates of Tripoli as the Marines fight to raise the American flag1805 U.S. Navy warship off the coast of north Africa.
- DirectorCharles FrendStarsAlec GuinnessHarry LockeFrederick PiperA seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition.Cruise ship -on land.
Filmed at Hunstanton, Norfolk, England. - DirectorRobb MossFrom peyote to prozac, a sensitive portrait of five former hippies now approaching middle age.White water rafting.
Rowboat
Raft
Kayak
1978
Rafting tours of the Colorado River - DirectorCharles CrichtonStarsJenny LairdBill BlewittMay HallattDrama following the lives of two families living on the colourfully painted canal boats of Britain.Canal barges, one with a motor and one drawn by horse.
Families manage barges to carry goods on the canals.
1944.
River Thames at Limehouse, London.
Grand Union Canal, between Midlands and London. - DirectorAndrei KonchalovskyStarsAleksey TryapitsynIrina ErmolovaTimur BondarenkoThe film represents life in a godforsaken Russian village. The only way to reach the mainland is to cross the lake by boat and a postman became the only connection with the outside world. A reserved community has been set up here. Despite the modern technologies and a spaceport nearby the people of the village live the way they would in the Neolithic Era. There is neither government nor social services or jobs. The postman's beloved woman escapes the village life and moves to the city. Postman's outboard engine gets stolen and he can no longer deliver mail. His normal pattern of life is disrupted. The postman makes a decision to leave for the city too but returns before long with no certain reason. The script is based on real characters' stories. People from the village play their own parts in the film. The search for the protagonist lasted for over a year.Motorboat
Lake Kenozero, Arckhangelsk, Oblast. Northern Russia.
The Postman's White Nights. - DirectorBrigitte RoüanStarsNicole GarciaMarianne BaslerBrigitte RoüanIn French Algeria, after WWII, three daughters of wealthy settlers begin their adult lives. Zon marries an often absent sailor. Malene's husband, Gildas, refuses to work in the farm, so she has to take care of everything. Gritte, the youngest, does not want to marry and is a nurse for the natives. We will follow their three different destinies.French Algeria, 1950s.
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsJohn PayneArlene DahlCedric HardwickeFrancis Barclay, a former member of the British Admiralty, who was captured in the early 1700s and sold into slavery by Andrew MacAllister, and forced into piracy, enlists the aid of Dick Lindsay, to help him invade MacAllister's fortified island. The latter falls in love with MacAllister's daughter Christine. Complications arise as the man thought to be a nephew of one man may not be, and the daughter of one man may be the other man's daughter.Ship. 1720s.
Atlantic ocean, Carribean, West Indies. - DirectorJohn CurranStarsNaomi WattsEdward NortonLiev SchreiberDr Walter gets married to the beautiful Kitty but soon finds out that she is cheating on him. Battling his way through problems, he heads to China to fight a dreaded disease spread in a small village.Raft
Rowboat
1920s China.
Filmed in China - Yizhou. - DirectorGiuseppe TornatoreStarsTim RothPruitt Taylor VinceMélanie ThierryA baby boy discovered on an ocean liner in 1900 grows into a musical prodigy, never setting foot on land.A transatlantic luxury liner. Early 1900s.
- DirectorGeorge ButlerStarsLiam NeesonJulian AyerJohn BlackborowIn December, 1914, the Endurance encountered ice packs before reaching 60º South - 400 miles north of Antarctica; an omen. The plan was to land at Vahsel Bay, which had never been done.Ship
Lifeboat
1914-1916 - DirectorWerner HerzogStarsKlaus KinskiClaudia CardinaleJosé LewgoyThe story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.River boat
canoe
steamship
1900s
Brazil
Amazon - DirectorJean VigoStarsDita ParloJean DastéGilles MargaritisNewly married couple Juliette and a ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L'atalante along with the captain's first mate Le père Jules and a cabin boy.Barge
Riverboat
1930s
Paris to Le Havre, following the canals. - DirectorMichael AndersonStarsGary CooperCharlton HestonMichael RedgraveA disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to prove the vessel was deliberately scuttled and, as a result, vindicate his good name.Freighter
Tugboat
Salvage vessel
Cargo ship
English Channel
Wrecking freighter on a coral reef. - DirectorAnna ReevesStarsAlex O'LoughlinJim NortonDiana GlennA love story about a young man who runs away up an isolated Australian river and gets a job with eighth generation oyster famers.Motorboat
Hawkesbury River.
Oyster farming.
Australia - 1980–19944hNot RatedTV Episode7.0 (244)DirectorPeter H. HuntStarsPatrick DayJim DaleFrederic ForrestHuckleberry Finn, a rambuctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River. In HD.Raft
Mississippi - DirectorBernhard WickiStarsMarlon BrandoYul BrynnerJanet MargolinA war pacifist is blackmailed to pose as an SS officer and to disable the scuttling explosives on a freighter carrying rubber cargo to be captured by the Allies.Cargo ship
Destroyer
Freighter
British Convoy
Japan to Bordeaux
1942 - DirectorBill MasonStarStanley JacksonThis film recounts the adventures of a toy Native American canoe as it makes its way from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.Native American Canoe.
Travels from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic. - DirectorAlexander MackendrickStarsPaul DouglasAlex MackenzieJames CopelandAn American businessman in Scotland is conned into shipping a valuable load of cargo to a Scottish island via a coal powered boat.A coal powered puffer in the Scottish island waters. Early 1950s era.
- DirectorsRolf de HeerPeter DjigirrStarsCrusoe KurddalJamie GulpililRichard BirrinbirrinIn Australia's Northern Territory, a man tells us a story of his people and his land. It's about an older man, Minygululu, who has three wives and realizes that his younger brother Dayindi may try to steal away the youngest wife.Aboriginal canoes, being built of bark, made for hunting.
Australia waterways, many generations ago. - DirectorEmanuele CrialeseStarsCharlotte GainsbourgVincenzo AmatoVincent SchiavelliA Sicilian peasant begins the journey to the promised land and meets a beautiful Englishwoman. But neither is prepared for the harsh realities of Ellis Island. Can they make it through the golden door to the America of their dreams?Ship
Transatlantic voyage, Sicily to New York, 1900 - DirectorJohn FordStarsWill RogersAnne ShirleyIrvin S. CobbA 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.Steamboats race on the Mississippi River.
1890s.
Filming - San Joaquin - Sacramento river delta.