Search results for "Charlton Heston"
The Mysterious Origins of Man

The Mysterious Origins of Man

The Mysterious Origins of Man
IMDb: 6.7
47

The documentary challenges what we have been taught about human evolution and the rise of early civilization.

Genre: Documentary
Proud Men

Proud Men

Proud Men
IMDb: 6
100

A cattle rancher faces off with his estranged son. A right-wing cattle rancher wrangles with his recently returned son, a soldier who went AWOL in Vietnam. The proud men butt…

Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar
IMDb: 6.4
106

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they…

Genre: Drama, History
The Private War of Major Benson

The Private War of Major Benson

The Private War of Major Benson
IMDb: 6.5
105

A Major noted for advancing with his mouth before thinking is given a choice: to be drummed out of the Army, or take command of and shape up the ROTC…

The Savage

The Savage

The Savage
IMDb: 6.1
95

The only white survivor of a Crow Indian raid on a wagon train is a young boy. He is rescued by the Sioux, and the Sioux chief raises him as…

Genre: Action, Western
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
IMDb: 7.7
86

In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first time he clasped the…

Genre: Documentary
Number One

Number One

Number One
IMDb: 5.5
100

A former football hero cannot accept his career is over. He loses himself in alcohol and women.

Genre: Drama
The Hawaiians

The Hawaiians

The Hawaiians
IMDb: 6.2
134

A wanderer returns home only to find political turmoil, disease and romantic difficulties.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Bad for Each Other

Bad for Each Other

Bad for Each Other
IMDb: 5.8
83

A doctor returned from the Korean War must choose between joining a glamorous practice and helping the poor.

Genre: Drama
Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen

Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen

Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen
IMDb: 7.3
180

In many ways it was the perfect match: Ernest Hemingway whose heroes personified his definition of courage – “grace under pressure” – and Gary Cooper, the man who often portrayed…

Genre: Documentary
The Agony and the Ecstasy

The Agony and the Ecstasy

The Agony and the Ecstasy
IMDb: 7.2
138

Charlton Heston stars as Renaissance artist Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), who begrudgingly paints the Sistine Chapel for imperious Pope Julius II in…

Genre: Drama, History
Planet of the Apes

Planet of the Apes

Planet of the Apes
IMDb: 5.7
119

After a spectacular crash-landing on an uncharted planet, brash astronaut Leo Davidson finds himself trapped in a savage world where talking apes dominate the human race. Desperate to find a…

In the Mouth of Madness

In the Mouth of Madness

In the Mouth of Madness
IMDb: 7.2
95

An insurance investigator begins discovering that the impact a horror writer’s books have on his fans is more than inspirational.

Antony and Cleopatra

Antony and Cleopatra

Antony and Cleopatra
IMDb: 5.8
138

Adaptation of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, a historical drama that attempts to bring an epic visual style to the Bard’s original stage play. The story concerns Marc Antony’s attempts to…

Genre: Drama
The Mountain Men

The Mountain Men

The Mountain Men
IMDb: 6.4
102

The story concerns two grizzled mountain men — Bill Tyler and Henry Frapp — during the dying days of the fur-trapping era. The plot begins when Running Moon runs away…

Midway

Midway

Midway
IMDb: 6.8
132

This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became a turning point for Americans during World War II.

Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Gray Lady Down

Gray Lady Down

Gray Lady Down
IMDb: 6.2
111

The USS Neptune, a nuclear submarine, is sunk off the coast of Connecticut after a collision with a Norwegian cargo ship. The navy must attempt a potentially dangerous rescue in…

Soylent Green

Soylent Green

Soylent Green
IMDb: 7.1
97

In an overpopulated futuristic Earth, a New York police detective finds himself marked for murder by government agents when he gets too close to a bizarre state secret involving the…

Airport 1975

Airport 1975

Airport 1975
IMDb: 5.7
107

“Something hit us…the crew is dead…help us, please, please help us!” With these terrifying words, 22 of Hollywood’s greatest stars find themselves aboard a pilotless jumbo jet headed on a…

Earthquake

Earthquake

Earthquake
IMDb: 5.9
123

Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.

Planet of the Apes

Planet of the Apes

Planet of the Apes
IMDb: 8
112

An U.S. Spaceship lands on a desolate planet, stranding astronaut Taylor in a world dominated by apes, 2000 years into the future, who use a primitive race of humans for…

Major Dundee

Major Dundee

Major Dundee
IMDb: 6.7
123

During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy…

Genre: War, Western
Khartoum

Khartoum

Khartoum
IMDb: 6.8
134

English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people…

The War Lord

The War Lord

The War Lord
IMDb: 6.7
123

A knight in the service of a duke goes to a coastal village where an earlier attempt to build a defensive castle has failed. He begins to rebuild the duke’s…

Genre: History
55 Days at Peking

55 Days at Peking

55 Days at Peking
IMDb: 6.7
154

Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival…

Genre: History
El Cid

El Cid

El Cid
IMDb: 7.2
182

Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz (“El Cid” to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour, still succeeds in taking the initiative and driving…

Touch of Evil

Touch of Evil

Touch of Evil
IMDb: 8
111

When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement agent Miguel Vargas begins his investigation, along with American police captain Hank Quinlan. When…

Genre: Crime, Thriller
The Buccaneer

The Buccaneer

The Buccaneer
IMDb: 6.5
119

During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New Orleans when he learns that a British fleet will arrive with 60…

The Big Country

The Big Country

The Big Country
IMDb: 7.9
165

Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the vast expanse of the West to marry fiancée Pat Terrill. McKay is a man whose values and approach to life are…

The Far Horizons

The Far Horizons

The Far Horizons
IMDb: 6.1
108

Virginia, 1803. After the United States of America acquires the inmense Louisiana territory from France, a great expedition, led by William Lewis and Meriwether Clark, is sent to survey the…

Three Violent People

Three Violent People

Three Violent People
IMDb: 6.3
100

A rancher (Charlton Heston), his shady bride (Anne Baxter) and his one-armed brother (Tom Tryon) fight amid carpetbaggers in Texas.

Genre: Drama, Western
Pony Express

Pony Express

Pony Express
IMDb: 5.9
101

Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickok join forces to establish a mail route that can get mail from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, in ten days. Along the way…

Genre: Action, Western
Dark City

Dark City

Dark City
IMDb: 6.7
98

Gamblers who “took” an out-of-town sucker in a crooked poker game feel shadowy vengeance closing in on them.

The President’s Lady

The President’s Lady

The President’s Lady
IMDb: 6.8
96

The story of president Andrew Jackson from his early years, through his meeting with and subsequent marriage to Rachel Donelson Robards. The plot concentrates on the later scandal concerning the…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Almost an Angel

Almost an Angel

Almost an Angel
IMDb: 5.6
95

Terry Dean is an electronics wizard and thief. After he is released from jail, he is hit by a car while saving a little girl’s life. While in the hospital,…

Genre: Comedy
Ben-Hur

Ben-Hur

Ben-Hur
IMDb: 8.1
222

In 25 AD,Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is…

Genre: Action, Drama, History
The Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments
IMDb: 7.9
220

Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal quest to reclaim his…

Genre: Drama, History
The Wreck of the Mary Deare

The Wreck of the Mary Deare

The Wreck of the Mary Deare
IMDb: 6.8
105

A 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.

Alaska

Alaska

Alaska
IMDb: 5.8
109

Jake Barnes and his two kids, Sean and Jessie, have moved to Alaska after his wife died. He is a former airline pilot now delivering toilet paper across the mountains….

Genre: Adventure, Family
True Lies

True Lies

True Lies
IMDb: 7.2
141

A fearless, globe-trotting, terrorist-battling secret agent has his life turned upside down when he discovers his wife might be having an affair with a used car salesman while terrorists smuggle…

Genre: Action, Thriller