Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "panama-canal"

1. Team America: World Police (2004)

R | 98 min | Action, Comedy

Popular Broadway actor Gary Johnston is recruited by the elite counter-terrorism organization Team America: World Police. As the world begins to crumble around him, he must battle with terrorists, celebrities and falling in love.

Director: Trey Parker | Stars: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Elle Russ, Kristen Miller

Votes: 178,742 | Gross: $32.79M

2. The Tailor of Panama (2001)

R | 109 min | Drama, Thriller

A tailor living in Panama reluctantly becomes a spy for a British Agent.

Director: John Boorman | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush, Jamie Lee Curtis, Leonor Varela

Votes: 31,175 | Gross: $13.73M

3. Basic (2003)

R | 98 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A D.E.A. Agent investigates the disappearance of a legendary Army Ranger Drill Sergeant and several of his cadets during a training exercise gone severely awry.

Director: John McTiernan | Stars: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Connie Nielsen, Tim Daly

Votes: 66,609 | Gross: $26.54M

4. The Lady from Shanghai (1947)

Not Rated | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Fascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O'Hara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot.

Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders

Votes: 33,395 | Gross: $0.01M

5. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)

PG | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

When the Earth is threatened by a burning Van Allen Radiation Belt, U.S. Navy Admiral Harriman Nelson plans to shoot a nuclear missile at the Belt, using his experimental atomic submarine, the Seaview.

Director: Irwin Allen | Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Joan Fontaine, Barbara Eden, Peter Lorre

Votes: 6,673

6. Herbie Goes Bananas (1980)

G | 100 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

The adorable little VW helps its owners break up a counterfeiting ring in Mexico.

Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Charles Martin Smith, Stephen W. Burns, Cloris Leachman, John Vernon

Votes: 6,265 | Gross: $18.00M

7. Passage to Marseille (1944)

Passed | 109 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Five patriotic convicts are helped to escape imprisonment in Devil's Island so they can fight for occupied Free French forces against the Nazis.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Michèle Morgan, Philip Dorn

Votes: 5,045

8. Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus (2010 Video)

R | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A megalodon battles with a crocosaurus causing massive destruction. The US Army has to try and destroy the havoc creating monsters.

Director: Christopher Ray | Stars: Gary Stretch, Jaleel White, Sarah Lieving, Robert Picardo

Votes: 5,624

9. Across the Pacific (1942)

Passed | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In December 1941, ex-army captain Rick Leland boards a Japanese ship heading to Asia via the Panama Canal where his Japanese hosts show interest in the American defense plans for the canal zone.

Directors: John Huston, Vincent Sherman | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet, Charles Halton

Votes: 5,449

10. The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (2014)

TV-14 | 114 min | Documentary, Biography, History

A documentary that weaves together the stories of Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of one of the most prominent and influential families in American politics.

Stars: Peter Coyote, George F. Will, Geoffrey C. Ward, Doris Kearns Goodwin

Votes: 2,653

11. The Dove (1974)

PG | 105 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

The true story of a 16 year old (Robin Lee Graham, played by Joseph Bottoms) who sailed alone around the world in a 23 foot sloop named "The Dove". On his journey he meets and falls in love... See full summary »

Director: Charles Jarrott | Stars: Joseph Bottoms, Deborah Raffin, John McLiam, Dabney Coleman

Votes: 463 | Gross: $0.33M

12. Swing High, Swing Low (1937)

Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

A hair-dresser stranded in Panama moves in with an ex-soldier and his hypochondriac roommate; she and the former fall in love, but their romance is threatened by success and the arrival of his old flame.

Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Charles Butterworth, Jean Dixon

Votes: 904

13. The Secret Land (1948)

Passed | 71 min | Documentary

The 1946-1947 U.S. military expedition to explore and map Antarctica, led by Admiral Richard E. Byrd, is presented from its planning stages through its successful completion.

Stars: Robert Montgomery, Robert Taylor, Van Heflin, James Forrestal

Votes: 430

14. The Fighting Lady (1944)

Passed | 61 min | Documentary, History, War

An in-depth look at aircraft carrier combat operations during World War II. Real combat footage. Very strong and compelling.

Directors: Edward Steichen, William Wyler | Stars: Robert Taylor, Charles Boyer, Joseph J. Clark, Dixie Kiefer

Votes: 617

15. Charlie Chan in Panama (1940)

Approved | 67 min | Adventure, Mystery

Inspector Chan investigates a group of travelers, one of whom is a saboteur.

Director: Norman Foster | Stars: Sidney Toler, Jean Rogers, Lionel Atwill, Mary Nash

Votes: 1,522

16. Carterland (2021)

122 min | Documentary, Biography

In the mid 1970's, a visionary leader decades ahead of his time is locked in a struggle for the future of America. His name is Jimmy Carter.

Directors: Jim Pattiz, Will Pattiz | Stars: Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, Andrew Young, Jonathan Alter

Votes: 28

17. Colonel Effingham's Raid (1946)

Passed | 72 min | Comedy

In 1940, Colonel Will Seaborn Effingham (Charles Coburn), a retired Army officer, returns to his home town of Fredericksville, Georgia, and is disturbed at the lack of civic pride. He ... See full summary »

Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Charles Coburn, Joan Bennett, William Eythe, Allyn Joslyn

Votes: 448

18. My Sin (1931)

Passed | 80 min | Drama

Acquitted of murder charges, Carlotta moves to New York to start a new life.

Director: George Abbott | Stars: Tallulah Bankhead, Fredric March, Harry Davenport, Scott Kolk

Votes: 211

19. Captain Scarface (1953)

Approved | 72 min | Action, Drama, Romance

A man desperate to leave South America books passage on a freighter, and learns that the captain has made plans to force a scientist to participate in a mission of destruction.

Director: Paul Guilfoyle | Stars: Barton MacLane, Virginia Grey, Leif Erickson, Peter Coe

Votes: 265

20. Across the Pacific (2020)

History

This is a 3 part series from PBS, following WW1, airline executive Juan Trippe, pilot Charles Lindbergh

Stars: Christopher Cassarino, Brad Koed, Brian Muller, Sergey Nagorny

Votes: 70

21. 8 Ball Bunny (1950)

7 min | Family, Animation, Short

Bugs helps a penguin go home via New Orleans, Martinique, the Panama Canal and finally the South Pole. But the penguin's home is in New Jersey.

Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Mel Blanc, Dave Barry, Norman Nesbitt, John T. Smith

Votes: 1,482

22. Panama Lady (1939)

Passed | 65 min | Drama, Romance

A weary dance-hall girl in a Panama saloon hooks up with a rough-and-tumble oil driller, who takes her to his oil-field in the jungle to show her what "real" life is like.

Director: Jack Hively | Stars: Lucille Ball, Allan Lane, Steffi Duna, Evelyn Brent

Votes: 330

23. The Panama Deception (1992)

91 min | Documentary, History, War

A film about the true reasons for the 1989 US invasion of Panama and big media complicity in these activities.

Director: Barbara Trent | Stars: Elizabeth Montgomery, Carlos Cantú, Diviana Ingravallo, Abraham Alvarez

Votes: 1,167 | Gross: $0.31M

24. Yellow Jack (1938)

Passed | 83 min | Drama, History, Mystery

In the fever-stricken areas of Cuba, a brave band of scientists, doctors, and U.S. Marines fight a losing battle against the deadly plague of 'Yellow Jack' until the great heroic risk taken by an Irish sergeant brings victory.

Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Virginia Bruce, Lewis Stone, Andy Devine

Votes: 292

25. Melody Cruise (1933)

Passed | 76 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A popular playboy goes on a cruise from New York in winter to California. He brings a friend to keep him from getting too serious with any of the many eligible women on the cruise.

Director: Mark Sandrich | Stars: Charles Ruggles, Phil Harris, Helen Mack, Greta Nissen

Votes: 389

26. Sensation Hunters (1933)

73 min | Drama

Dale Jordan is accepted by first-cabin passengers on a south-bound Panama-Pacific liner until they discover she is a cabaret girls led by Trixie Snell en route for the Bull Ring Cabaret in Panama City.

Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Arline Judge, Preston Foster, Marion Burns, Kenneth MacKenna

Votes: 211

27. Phantom Raiders (1940)

Passed | 70 min | Mystery

An insurance company tasks with Carter and Beeswax to go to Panama where cargo ships are mysteriously exploding and sending their valuable cargoes to the bottom with all hands.

Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Donald Meek, Joseph Schildkraut, Florence Rice

Votes: 487

28. Submarine D-1 (1937)

Passed | 100 min | Action, Drama

Navy officers fall for Ann. She has her own plans. USS Pensacola is struck during a last dive drill, there is an attempt to rescue. The USS Dolphin (D-1) and her crew depart from ... See full summary »

Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Pat O'Brien, George Brent, Wayne Morris, Frank McHugh

Votes: 319

29. Antarctica: Ice and Sky (2015)

Not Rated | 89 min | Documentary, Adventure, Biography

A documentary about global warming.

Director: Luc Jacquet | Stars: Claude Lorius, Michel Papineschi, Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Votes: 591

30. When the World Came to San Francisco (2015)

79 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama

A drama about a young woman's visit to the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. The film tells the story of the exposition, as imagined through the eyes of a visitor.

Director: R. Christian Anderson | Stars: Beverly Washburn, Gerry O'Brien, Grover James Taylor, Linda Joy

Votes: 11

31. Canal Zone (1942)

Passed | 79 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A conceited, reckless society playboy, Harley Ames, arrives at Ginger Bar, a former banana-shipping depot on the edge of the Panama Canal, that has been converted to a training-and-relay ... See full summary »

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Chester Morris, Harriet Nelson, John Hubbard, Larry Parks

Votes: 58

32. Bruce Gentry (1949)

Approved | 246 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Famed aviator Bruce Gentry is working with scientist Andrew Benson, setting out to uncover the origin of a deadly secret weapon---an electronically controlled flying disc which can be ... See full summary »

Directors: Spencer Gordon Bennet, Thomas Carr | Stars: Tom Neal, Judy Clark, Ralph Hodges, Forrest Taylor

Votes: 66

33. The Cuban Love Song (1931)

Passed | 86 min | Musical, Romance

A guilt-ridden U.S. Marine returns to Cuba to try to find his illegitimate child.

Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Lawrence Tibbett, Lupe Velez, Ernest Torrence, Jimmy Durante

Votes: 228

34. Rebel Rabbit (1949)

TV-PG | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

The signs indicate current bounty prices: $50 for a fox, $75 for a bear, only 2 cents for a rabbit. Bugs is insulted.

Director: Robert McKimson | Star: Mel Blanc

Votes: 755

35. Oasis (II) (2017)

71 min | Drama

Two friends embark on a tropical expedition to bury their past.

Director: Jorge Ameer | Stars: Cesar DeFuentes, Matthew Lynn, Katia Semacaritt, Jorge Ameer

Votes: 667

36. El último soldado (2010)

52 min | Documentary

A view on the last days of the American administration of the Panama Canal and the social relationships developed through almost a century.

Director: Luis Romero | Stars: Luis Romero, Francisco 'Bush' Buckley, Norma Cano, Rómulo Castro

37. Cruise of the Zaca (1952)

17 min | Documentary, Short

Actor Errol Flynn takes a group of scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography on an expedition to the South Seas aboard his schooner, The Zaca.

Director: Errol Flynn | Stars: Errol Flynn, Carl L. Hubbs, Laura Hubbs, Theodore Flynn

Votes: 312

38. South of Panama (1941)

Approved | 68 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Jan Martin, sister of government chemist Paul Martin, realizes she is being followed by enemy agents after her brother. She ignores him at the Panama airport and embraces a stranger, Mike ... See full summary »

Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Roger Pryor, Virginia Vale, Lionel Royce, Duncan Renaldo

Votes: 106

39. Panama Patrol (1939)

Approved | 67 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

The head of the cipher bureau, Phillip Waring, is about to marry his secretary, Helen Lane, when he is informed that the state department has discovered a message that must be decoded. With... See full summary »

Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Leon Ames, Charlotte Wynters, Adrienne Ames, Weldon Heyburn

Votes: 98

40. The Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt (1983)

93 min | Documentary, Drama

Theodore Roosevelt was one of the most extraordinary Americans who lived, a larger-than-life legend whose story has to be seen to be believed. Ingeniously weaving extremely rare archive ... See full summary »

Director: Harrison Engle | Stars: Bob Boyd, John Gable, Thomas Batty, Lisette Clemens

Votes: 73

41. Betrayal from the East (1945)

Approved | 82 min | Action, Drama

Before World War II, Japanese spies seek secrets of the Panama Canal.

Director: William Berke | Stars: Lee Tracy, Nancy Kelly, Richard Loo, Regis Toomey

Votes: 265

42. The Silent Command (1923)

80 min | Drama

Benedict Hisston is a foreign agent, part of a conspiracy to destroy the Panama Canal and the US Navy's Atlantic Fleet. He attempts to acquire information about mine placement in the Canal ... See full summary »

Director: J. Gordon Edwards | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Bela Lugosi, Carl Harbaugh, Martin Faust

Votes: 103

43. Gallagher: Overboard (1987 TV Special)

Not Rated | 54 min | Documentary, Comedy

A live performance by "Sledge-O-Matic" stand-up comedian Gallagher.

Director: Wayne Orr | Stars: Gallagher, Jensen Daggett, Constance Gallagher

Votes: 98

44. Lady Be Careful (1936)

Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance

Comedy and Romance amongst American sailors in a pre-WWII tale of antics during shore leave chasing high society ladies. It's a common tale where a confident sailor bets he can get the girl but inevitably falls in love with her.

Director: Theodore Reed | Stars: Lew Ayres, Mary Carlisle, Benny Baker, Buster Crabbe

Votes: 39

45. White Legion (1936)

Approved | 81 min | Drama

In the early 1900s, as the Panama Canal is being built, a group of doctors try to discover a cure for yellow fever, a disease that is decimating the workers constructing the canal.

Director: Karl Brown | Stars: Ian Keith, Tala Birell, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Suzanne Kaaren

Votes: 31

46. Bond meets Bond: James Bond meets Lieutenant Commander Frances Bond (2021 Video)

2 min | Short, Talk-Show, War

The name's Bond...Frances Bond. She may not be a 007 agent, but Lieutenant Commander Frances Bond knows how to interrogate her targets. Watch her speaking to 'No Time To Die' stars Daniel Craig and Léa Seydoux.

Stars: Frances Bond, Daniel Craig, Léa Seydoux

47. Diggers (1986 TV Movie)

90 min | Documentary

Documentary film about the black men who came from the West Indies (primarily Barbados and Jamaica) to work on the construction of the Panama Canal from 1881 to 1914.

Director: Roman J. Foster | Stars: Brock Peters, John Woodcliff Bowen, Benjamin Jordan, Egbert Cleveland Leslie

48. Prophet Without Honor (1939)

Approved | 11 min | Short, Biography, Drama

This is the story of Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806-1873), an American Naval officer, who developed the first maps that charted the oceans' winds and currents.

Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Carey Wilson, Tom Neal

Votes: 169

49. TR: An American Lion (2003 TV Movie)

Documentary

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Director: David de Vries | Stars: Frank D. Bradford, Chris Brick, Alan M. Crane, Richard Dreyfuss

Votes: 51

50. The Ne'er Do Well (1915)

Passed | 100 min | Adventure

Former college football hero Kirk Anthony, to the disappointment of his father, a railroad magnate, refuses to enter the business world. Kirk prefers to coach the university team and ... See full summary »

Director: Colin Campbell | Stars: Wheeler Oakman, Kathlyn Williams, Harry Lonsdale, Frank Clark

Votes: 25