WARFARE / MILITARY CONFLICT  - CAMPAIGNS & BATTLES  - MILITARY

CRIME / SCANDALS  - CRIMINALS / GANGSTERS

John Barrymore and Nita Naldi in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)

SHIPS / BOATS / YACHTS / VESSELS / SUBMARINES / U-BOATS 

Dustin Hoffman, Susan Sarandon, and Jake Gyllenhaal in Moonlight Mile (2002)

Any older serial inspired adventire romps, Indy Jobes knock offs, old school spy flicks or practical effects driven blockbuster films/shows.

Top 500 Indiana Jones/Treasure of the Sierra Madre Type Movies & Shows

Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, and Keira Knightley in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

Sean Connery and Michael Caine in The Man Who Would Be King (1975)

Seekers of ancient truths or obtainers of rare antiquities. A list of films and TV shows featuring treasure hunters, adventurers and scholars.

See also: Mummy movies (http://www.imdb.com/list/XnsMieNzNuo/), which often feature archaeologists, although they are often unfortunate victims. I also have an occult detective list (http://www.imdb.com/list/N1elE6aMxSs/), which has some crossover with this list, as well as being another well-known archetype.

Further reading: * Adventurer Archaeologist: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AdventurerArchaeologist

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Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, Wolf Kahler, Ronald Lacey, and Terry Richards in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Morgan Freeman and Keanu Reeves in Chain Reaction (1996)

Liv Tyler, Sean Astin, Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, and Andy Serkis in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

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