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51. Swimming Upstream (2003)
PG-13 | 114 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
The inspirational life story of Australian swimmer Tony Fingleton.
Director: Russell Mulcahy | Stars: Geoffrey Rush, Judy Davis, Jesse Spencer, Tim Draxl
Votes: 3,487 | Gross: $0.05M
52. Mystery Street (1950)
Passed | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A small-town policeman is assisted by a Harvard professor after the discovery of a human skeleton on a Massachusetts beach.
Director: John Sturges | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Bruce Bennett, Elsa Lanchester
Votes: 3,460
53. Ruthless (1948)
Passed | 104 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
A poor boy who saved a rich girl from drowning is adopted by her family, but he grows into a money-hungry ruthless businessman who would step on others to get to the top of the social ladder.
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: Zachary Scott, Louis Hayward, Diana Lynn, Sydney Greenstreet
Votes: 1,417
54. Brown of Harvard (1926)
Passed | 85 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not only in football and rowing crew, but also for the affections of Mary Abbott, a professor's daughter.
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: William Haines, Jack Pickford, Mary Brian, Francis X. Bushman Jr.
Votes: 1,532
55. Home Before Dark (1958)
Not Rated | 136 min | Drama
Simmons is magnetic as Charlotte, her lovely, delicate face reflecting the inner turmoil of a woman battling for sanity after she walks out of a mental institution.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Jean Simmons, Dan O'Herlihy, Rhonda Fleming, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Votes: 1,272
56. Pigskin Parade (1936)
Passed | 93 min | Comedy, Musical, Sport
Married coaches Slug and Bessie find hillbilly football tosser Amos and the team gets invited to the Yale Bowl.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Stuart Erwin, Patsy Kelly, Jack Haley, The Yacht Club Boys
Votes: 794
57. The First Olympics: Athens 1896 (1984)
237 min | Drama, History, Sport
This movie describes the founding of the modern Olympics and concentrates on the creation of the American team and their trials in getting to the Olympics in Athens.
Stars: David Ogden Stiers, Hunt Block, David Caruso, Alex Hyde-White
Votes: 434
58. Death in Small Doses (1995 TV Movie)
88 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
One night, Nancy Lyon awakes in pain and dies shortly after--poisoned with arsenic. Her family immediately suspects her husband Richard, who left her temporarily the year before because of ... See full summary »
Director: Sondra Locke | Stars: Richard Thomas, Shawn Elliott, Tess Harper, Glynnis O'Connor
Votes: 409
59. H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941)
Passed | 120 min | Drama, Romance
A man who lived his life as he was advised to do, not how he would have chosen to, is brought out of his shell by a beautiful young woman.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Hedy Lamarr, Robert Young, Ruth Hussey, Charles Coburn
Votes: 1,448
60. Joe Gould's Secret (2000)
R | 104 min | Drama
Around 1940, The New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character, who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of twenty thousand conversations he's overheard.
Director: Stanley Tucci | Stars: Ian Holm, Stanley Tucci, Hope Davis, Sarah Hyland
Votes: 1,648 | Gross: $0.64M
61. To Race the Wind (1980 TV Movie)
97 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
The story of Harold Krents, who became totally blind at nine years old, but graduated Harvard and Oxford and became a lawyer.
Director: Walter Grauman | Stars: Steve Guttenberg, Randy Quaid, Mark L. Taylor, Lisa Eilbacher
Votes: 98
62. Monumental: In Search of America's National Treasure (2012)
PG | 84 min | Documentary, History
Follow Kirk Cameron across Europe and the U.S. as he seeks to discover the people, places and principles that made America the freest, most prosperous and generous nation the world has ever known.
Director: Duane Barnhart | Stars: Kirk Cameron, Todd Akin, Sue Allan, David Barton
Votes: 859 | Gross: $0.18M
63. The Devil's Hour (2016)
119 min | Horror
A pastor and a teacher, two pillars of the small community of Triune, share a dark and unspeakable secret: the common enemy of an ancient demonic terror deigns to destroy one through the other during the Devil's hour.
Director: Joshua Bruening | Stars: Bill Cooper, H.T. Altman, KariAnn Christensen, Gary David Keast
Votes: 81
64. First Affair (1983 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama, Romance
A young girl attending Harvard on a scholarship finds herself falling for the husband of her English professor.
Director: Gus Trikonis | Stars: Loretta Swit, Melissa Sue Anderson, Joel Higgins, Kim Delaney
Votes: 74
65. Happy (2012)
Not Rated | 76 min | Documentary, Drama, Family
Happy takes us on a journey from the swamps of Louisiana to the slums of Kolkata in search of what really makes people happy.
Director: Roko Belic | Stars: Marci Shimoff, Ed Diener, Richard Davidson, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Votes: 3,384
66. Jimmy Carter Man from Plains (2007)
PG | 125 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A chronicle of the former president's tour recent for his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid."
Director: Jonathan Demme | Stars: Jimmy Carter, Rosalynn Carter, Lillian Carter, Elizabeth Hayes
Votes: 958 | Gross: $0.11M
67. Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary (2014)
95 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Dying to Know is an intimate portrait celebrating two very complex controversial characters in an epic friendship that shaped a generation. In the early 1960s Harvard psychology professors ... See full summary »
Director: Gay Dillingham | Stars: John Perry Barlow, Dean Chamberlain, Ram Dass, Peggy Mellon Hitchcock
Votes: 491
68. Tickling Giants (2016)
TV-14 | 111 min | Documentary
While the Egyptian revolution of 2011 is underway, surgeon turned comedian Bassem Youssef airs a television show that makes him popular to his countrymen but disliked by the government.
Director: Sara Taksler | Stars: Bassem Youssef, Jon Stewart, Shadi Alfons, Injy Abou El So'oud
Votes: 1,688 | Gross: $0.04M
69. Theodore Roosevelt: A Cowboy's Ride to the White House (2010 Video)
76 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Theodore Roosevelt: A Cowboy's Ride to the White House is the exciting story of a physically challenged young man from Harvard who came to the western frontier in 1883. Theodore Roosevelt ... See full summary »
Stars: Henry William Brands, Douglas Brinkley, Darrell Dorgan, Clay Jenkinson
Votes: 19
70. Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 (2008)
PG | 105 min | Documentary, Biography, Sport
Critically acclaimed documentary about the 1968 football game played by two undefeated teams from Harvard and Yale.
Director: Kevin Rafferty | Stars: Don Gillis, Bruce Freeman, Ted Skowronski, Ted Livingston
Votes: 699 | Gross: $0.27M
71. Flight (1929)
Passed | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
A Marine flyer and his flight school mentor fall for the same beautiful nurse.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Jack Holt, Lila Lee, Ralph Graves, Alan Roscoe
Votes: 364
72. A Small Act (2010)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary
A young Kenyan's life changes drastically when his education is sponsored by a Swedish stranger. Years later, he founds his own scholarship program to replicate the kindness he once received.
Director: Jennifer Arnold | Stars: Hilde Back, Patrick Kimani, Chris Mburu
Votes: 366
73. Broken Dreams (1933)
Passed | 68 min | Drama
Medical intern Robert is distraught after his wife dies in childbirth. He's resentful of his new son and wants nothing to do with him. He leaves the child with his aunt and uncle and heads off to Europe to pursue medicine.
Director: Robert G. Vignola | Stars: Randolph Scott, Martha Sleeper, Beryl Mercer, Joseph Cawthorn
Votes: 112
74. The Autumn Heart (1999)
PG-13 | 110 min | Drama
When a school bus driving woman (Tyne Daly) has a heart attack, she makes one request of her three daughters (Ally Sheedy, Marla Sucharetza, Marceline Hugo) - she wants them to find their ... See full summary »
Director: Steven Maler | Stars: Tyne Daly, Marla Sucharetza, Marceline Hugot, Ally Sheedy
Votes: 234 | Gross: $0.01M
75. The Young Rajah (1922)
Passed | 54 min | Romance, Drama
A young man raised in the American South discovers he is an Indian prince whose throne was taken by usurpers.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Rudolph Valentino, Wanda Hawley, Pat Moore, Charles Ogle
Votes: 423 | Gross: $0.24M
76. Admissions (2004)
PG | 84 min | Drama
The Brighton has a traumatic drama in the breast of their family: the twenty-year-old Emily Brighton is intellectually disabled due to a fall when she was one, and her overprotective mother... See full summary »
Director: Melissa Painter | Stars: Lauren Ambrose, Amy Madigan, Christopher Lloyd, Fran Kranz
Votes: 339
77. JFK: The Making of a President (2017 TV Movie)
Unrated | 43 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Explore how John F. Kennedy's worldview was influenced by his younger years, when he endured poor health, family tragedy and a demanding father.
Director: Edward Cotterill | Stars: Emily Charnock, Nigel Hamilton, Jonathan Kydd, Nicholas O'Shaughnessy
Votes: 177
78. Huddle (1932)
Passed | 103 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale college. Over the four years of his ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Ramon Novarro, Madge Evans, Una Merkel, Ralph Graves
Votes: 250
79. The Supreme Sacrifice (1916)
50 min | Drama
David Aldrich aspires to be an author. The publishers reject most of his manuscripts because they seem to lack realism. David struggles on, however, determined to succeed and kept happy by ... See full summary »
Directors: Lionel Belmore, Harley Knoles | Stars: Robert Warwick, Vernon Steele, Anna Q. Nilsson, Christine Mayo
80. Orgullo de Quisqueya (2023)
Documentary
Stories of outstanding Dominican personalities in the USA, Canada, Spain, Colombia and Egypt.
Director: Tito Rodríguez | Stars: Hillary Clinton, Zahi Hawass, Francisca Lachapel, Juan Luis Guerra
81. Boston Terrier (1963 TV Movie)
30 min | Adventure
Blake Edward's second try at creating a pilot for a proposed adventure series about a private detective who graduated from Harvard.
Director: Walter Grauman | Stars: Stanley Adams, Paul Comi, John Hoyt, Frank Killmond
Votes: 15
82. Shakespeare's Sonnets (2005)
7 min | Short, Drama
A Harvard dandy circa 1946 lures his best friend away from the privileges of conformity
Director: Samuel Park | Stars: Vincent Kartheiser, Jordan Brower, Corin Norton, Garth Alexander Oldershaw
Votes: 135
83. No Look Pass (2011)
Not Rated | 87 min | Documentary, Biography, Family
NO LOOK PASS is the coming-of-age American Dream story of Emily 'Etay' Tay, a first generation Burmese immigrant and basketball superstar living a double life at Harvard who strives to play... See full summary »
Director: Melissa Johnson
Votes: 55
84. Lady Barnacle (1917)
50 min | Comedy
Krishna Dhwaj, the son of the Maharajah of Rhamput, is in love with Lakshima, the daughter of the Maharajah of Bhartari, but their fathers will not allow them to marry. Krishna is then sent... See full summary »
Director: John H. Collins | Stars: Viola Dana, Robert Walker, Augustus Phillips, William B. Davidson
85. Change at 125th Street (1974 TV Movie)
30 min | Comedy
An African-American Harvard grad works at an otherwise all-white Wall Street brokerage while living with his mother, sister and uncle in Harlem.
Directors: Bob LaHendro, Michael Schultz | Stars: Ron Glass, Roxie Roker, Chip Fields, Vernon Washington
86. Dissecting a Degenerate: Sarah Jeong (2018 Video)
50 min | News
Stars: ShortFatOtaku, Sarah Jeong, Candace Owens
87. A Great Education
Drama, Romance | Announced
Charlie is accepted to Harvard University on scholarship and his good fortune continues when he's invited to join an elite a-cappella group. But the illusion of perfection unravels as he discovered secrets underneath the glossy exterior.
Director: Christopher Keyser
88. From Brooklyn to Oxford (2021)
86 min | Documentary
Larry Sanders is the elder brother of Senator Bernie Sanders, the Chair of the Senate Budget Committee, and the Spokesperson for the UK Green Party on the National Health Service and Social Care.
Director: Keith Hoult
89. The Carnivalesque of Frida Kahlo (2012)
10 min | Short, Biography
The grotesque has been used throughout history to convey many messages. Would Frida be "Frida" without her use of the 'grotesque' in her paintings? Discover the art and life of Frida Kahlo ... See full summary »
Director: Melanie Carlile
90. Two of a Kind (1940)
Approved | 10 min | Documentary, Short, Sport
This short features famous brothers and sister pairs, as well as twins, who are stars in the world of sports: baseball players Joe and Dominic DiMaggio; archery experts Ken and Walt Wilhelm... See full summary »
Director: Jack Eaton | Stars: Ted Husing, Joe DiMaggio, Dominic DiMaggio, Ken Wilheim
91. The Nuer (1971)
73 min | Documentary
Presents the most important relationships and events in the lives of the Nuer, Nilotic people in Sudan and on the Ethiopian border.
Directors: George Breidenbach, Hilary Harris
Votes: 14
92. Live at Harvard: Dave Rubin, Bret Weinstein, Steve Simpson on Free Speech in America (2017 Video)
94 min | Talk-Show
In this live broadcast from Harvard, Dave Rubin discusses free speech with biology professor Bret Weinstein (formerly of the notorious Evergreen College) and Steve Simpson, the director of Legal Studies at the Ayn Rand Institute.
Stars: Dave Rubin, Bret Weinstein, Steve Simpson
93. The End of Affirmative Action (2017 Video)
Short, News
Is Harvard discriminating against Asian-Americans?
Star: Stefan Molyneux
94.
The Twilight Zone (1985–1989)
Episode:
Profile in Silver/Button, Button
(1986)
TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
"Profile in Silver": After preventing the assassination of President Kennedy, a historian from the future faces the consequences of his act. "Button, Button": A couple receives a box with a button -- and an unusual offer.
Directors: John D. Hancock, Peter Medak | Stars: Lane Smith, Andrew Robinson, Louis Giambalvo, Barbara Baxley
Votes: 561
95.
Coffee with Scott Adams (2018– )
College Admissions Scandal, 'Fine People' Hoax, Baby Killing Hoax, More
(2019 Podcast Episode)
News
Star: Scott Adams
97.
Radio Free America (2017– )
Episode:
Multicultural Musings
(2019)
News
Stars: Halsey English, Dustin Gold
98.
Why Didn't They Laugh? (2018– )
Finding Logos with E. Michael Jones
(2019 Podcast Episode)
Comedy, News
Stars: Owen Benjamin, E. Michael Jones
100.
Part of the Problem (2018– )
The Return of the Great Gene Epstein
(2019 Podcast Episode)
News, Talk-Show
Stars: Dave Smith, Gene Epstein