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- DirectorJan TroellStarsMax von SydowLiv UllmannEddie AxbergSmåland, Sweden, mid-19th century. A farming family struggle with their rocky, 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. - DirectorAndrey KonchalovskiyStarsAleksey 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 BlackborowA retelling of Sir Ernest Shackleton 's ill-fated expedition to Antarctica in 1914-1916, featuring new footage of the actual locations and interviews with surviving relatives of key expedition members, plus archived audio interviews with expedition members, and a generous helping of the footage and still photos shot on the expedition.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 Rated7.0 (239)TV EpisodeDirectorPeter 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 MasonStarsStanley 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.
- DirectorRolf 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. - StarsDarren McGavinDick WesselJack LambertGrey Holden wins a river boat in a poker game, which he then pilots, along with his crew, in various adventures along the Mississippi River. This action series is set in the nineteenth century.Mississippi River boat, 19th century.
- DirectorNils MalmrosStarsAnneke von der LippeHelene EgelundTrond HøvikYoung vicar Mr. Paul arrives at the Faroe Islands to take up a benefice, and meets the young Barbara, twice married to vicars, and with both husbands laid cold in the grave. Despite the warnings of the surrounding community and his own religious scruples, he falls victim to Barbara's at once innocent and sinful charm. The appearance of the charming and gallant Andreas Heide in Thorshavn puts their love to the severest of tests.
- DirectorHubert CornfieldStarsMarshall ThompsonWillard ParkerJoan VohsSimon Lute ekes out a modest living chartering his skiff to tourists and guiding them through the labyrinthine bayou. When a mysterious stranger asks him to take them deep into the swamp, Simon is curious, particularly when the man requests to make part of the journey alone. After the man's corpse is discovered the following day, Simon learns that the stranger had robbed a bank and that hiding the loot in the inhospitable bayou was the man's objective. But what should Simon do with this newfound knowledge?Skiff
The bayou, Florida - StarsNarelle StevensPatrick StevensPatrick and Narelle Stevens celebrate a 25 year dedication to a classic yacht called Barinia. They will take viewers on a voyage of culture, food and friendship along the alluring coastlines of Italy, Greece, Turkey and France.
- DirectorYung ChangStarsJerry Bo Yu ChenCampbell Ping HeCindy Shui YuAt the edge of the Yangtze River, not far from the Three Gorges Dam, young men and women take up employment on a cruise ship, where they confront rising waters and a radically changing China.Luxury cruise boats on the Yangtze river.
- DirectorLars von TrierStarsUdo KierKirsten OlesenHenning JensenMedea is in Corinth with Jason and their two young sons. King Kreon wants to reward Jason for his exploits: he gives the hand of his daughter, Glauce, to Jason as well as the promise of the throne. In exchange, Medea and the boys are to be banished. Jason explains that his actions ensure a rich future for Medea and her sons. She asks that she be allowed to stay; Kreon refuses. She asks for one more day, and begs Jason to seek the king's permission to allow their sons to stay in Corinth. Jason agrees and Medea prepares a gift for her sons to give to Glauce. Will Medea leave peacefully?Sailing ship
Corinth, Greece - DirectorAlfred AmesHoward KahnStarsTim SampleA short film which documents the logging industry in Maine in 1930.Logging camp ship hauls lumber.
Men riding the logs in the river. - DirectorDavid MackenzieStarsEwan McGregorTilda SwintonPeter MullanA young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river than he admits.Cargo carrying coal barge.
Riverboat
River barge
Rowboat
1950s.
Edinburgh to Glasgow canals.
A few filming locations - Scotland -
Forth and Clyde Canal, River Clyde, Union Canal. - DirectorBilly WilderStarsMarilyn MonroeTony CurtisJack LemmonAfter two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.Motorboat
Yatch
1920s, Florida beach.
Filmed at Coronado, California. - DirectorCharles ReisnerBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonTom McGuireErnest TorrenceThe effete son of a cantankerous riverboat captain comes to join his father's crew.Paddle wheel steamer.
1920s
Mississippi - DirectorRobert ParrishStarsRita HayworthRobert MitchumJack LemmonThe friendship between two tramp boat owners is threatened by the arrival of a beautiful and seductive passenger.Tramp boat.
Sailing the Caribean waters in a tramp boat.
Tobago, Trinidad - DirectorDenison CliftStarsBela LugosiShirley GreyArthur MargetsonDuring a horrific storm at sea, the crew realizes that there is a murderer among them who is killing them off one by one.British-American merchant ship, sailing the Atlantic to Genoa with a cargo of alcohol.
1800s. - DirectorGillo PontecorvoMaleno MalenottiStarsYves MontandAlida ValliFrancisco RabalSquarciò, a fisherman, lives with his family on a small island off the Dalmatian coast of Italy. Like his fellow villagers, Squarciò struggles against harsh living conditions, a scarcity of fish in nearby waters and exploitation by the local wholesaler. But while the other fishermen continue to use nets, he goes out to the open sea to fish illegally with bombs. But Squarciò borrows money, loses his boat, and in a moment of supreme desperation, has to bomb directly off-shore, causing the hatred and rejection of his fellow fishermen. Trying to save his family, Squarciò and his young sons sail their new boat out beyond the local waters and bomb-fish again. But this time, the sea exacts a terrible toll...Italian fishing boats. Dalmatian coast, Italy, small island.
Mediterranean, 1950s. - DirectorPreston SturgesStarsBarbara StanwyckHenry FondaCharles CoburnA trio of classy card sharks targets a socially awkward brewery heir, until one of them falls in love with him.Ocean liner, cruise ship.
1940s. - DirectorBill JusticeStarsJerome CourtlandJeanne BrunsJames MacDonaldNoah gets the word: build an ark in seven days. His sons cut the necessary trees in three days, and much furious sawing and hammering follows. But there's no rest, as they need to round up all the animals. Noah boards the animals, then his sons, their wives, and his wife (who packed a ferocious picnic). The rains and flood begin. The animals soon develop cabin fever and get restless, but Mrs. Noah has the answer: "Music has charms to soothe the savage beast." His sons find instruments and begin playing; everyone dances. But Harry the hippo dances with everyone but his wife; Noah goes to her, and while she tells him not to mention Harry's name, Noah convinces her that Harry is thinking only of her. The rains end; Noah sends a dove out who brings back an olive branch. They land on Mount Ararat and disembark.Ark
Building an ark in 7 days, then corralling the passengers on board. Storm tension on board lessened by song. - DirectorJoseph L. MankiewiczStarsJeanne CrainLinda DarnellAnn SothernA letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is running away with one of their husbands - but she does not say which one.A ferry on a lake, transporting children to a picnic. Three women chaperone.
Westchester county, New York. Cold Spring, Lake Mahopac, Hook Mountain. - DirectorAndrew MorganStarsJohn WoodvineColin BakerAndrew BurtJoe, Bill and Pete are members of the "Coot Club", spending most of their time on the river in their little boat, the "Death and Glory." Trouble starts when they are blamed for setting boats free from their moorings. Tom Dudgeon, the doctor's son, and Dick and Dot, children who are staying with Mrs. Barrable, all become detectives and search for clues to lead them to the real culprit.Boating Norfolk, England waterways. 1930s.
- DirectorKen AnnakinStarsLaurence HarveyJimmy EdwardsDavid TomlinsonThree London gentlemen take a vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misadventures along the way.Boating the Thames, with an overnight campout.
1920s.
Henley Regatta. - DirectorJames WhaleStarsIrene DunneAllan JonesCharles WinningerDespite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.Showboat
Paddle wheel
Riverboat.
Mississippi River, 1887. - DirectorWerner HerzogStarsKlaus KinskiRuy GuerraHelena RojoIn the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado.Canoe, raft
1560s. Amazon River - DirectorMichael CurtizStarsEdward G. RobinsonIda LupinoJohn GarfieldAfter being fished out of the sea by a sailer, three fugitives find themselves prisoners of the ship's brutal skipper who refuses to put them ashore and they hatch an escape plan during a crew mutiny.Schooner
Ship
Sealer
Boat.
1900, San Francisco harbor. - DirectorStanley KramerStarsVivien LeighSimone SignoretJosé FerrerA varied group of passengers boarding a ship bound for pre-WWII Germany represents a microcosm of early 1930s society.German ocean liner .
1933.
Atlantic voyage from Veracruz, Mexico to Bremerhaven, Germany. Stops at Cuba and Tenerife. - DirectorCarroll BallardStarsKelly RenoMickey RooneyTeri GarrAfter being shipwrecked with a magnificent horse off the coast of Africa in the 1940s, a boy bonds with the stallion, and trains him to race after their rescue.Steamship.
1940s.
Ocean storm, Ship fire, sinking of ship.
Mediterranean, off the coast of North Africa. Deserted island in the Arabian sea. - DirectorAnthony KimminsStarsAlec GuinnessPeter BullCharles GoldnerThe captain of a ferry boat between the restricted British colony in Gibraltar and Spanish Morocco has a woman of differing appeal and temperament in each port.Steamer ferryboat.
Ferry between the British colony in Gibraltar and the Spanish Moroccan coast, north Africa.
1950s.
Filmed around Gibraltar. - DirectorMichael PowellStarsJames MasonHelen MirrenJack MacGowranA grizzled Australian painter decides to jolt his stale creativity by moving to a remote island on the Great Barrier Reef, where he takes on an alluring, uninhibited young woman as his muse.Motorboat used to get to island on the Great Barrier Reef.
Australian island, filmed at Dunk Island, Queensland, Australia. - DirectorWerner HerzogStarsKlaus KinskiIsabelle AdjaniBruno GanzCount Dracula moves from Transylvania to Wismar, spreading the Black Plague across the land. Only a woman pure of heart can bring an end to his reign of horror.Sailing ship
Ghost ship
19th century.
Baltic sea, Black sea.
Filmed in the Netherlands. - DirectorGillian ArmstrongStarsRalph FiennesCate BlanchettCiarán HindsIn mid-1800s England, Oscar is a young Anglican priest, a misfit and an outcast, but with the soul of an angel. As a boy, even though from a strict Pentecostal family, he felt God told him through a sign to leave his father and his faith and join the Church of England. Lucinda is a teen-aged Australian heiress who has an almost desperate desire to liberate her sex from the confines of the male-dominated culture of the Australia of that time. She buys a glass factory and has a dream of building a church made almost entirely of glass, and then transporting it to Bellingen, a remote settlement on the north coast. Oscar and Lucinda meet on a ship going to Australia; once there, they are for different reasons ostracized from society, and as a result "join forces" together. Oscar and Lucinda are both passionate gamblers, and Lucinda bets Oscar her entire inheritance that he cannot transport the glass church to the Outback safely. Oscar accepts her wager, and this leads to the events that will change both their lives forever.Ocean liner, voyage from England to Australia.
Glass church floating on Australian river.
1850s, England and Australia.
Filmed in Cornwall, England, and New South Wales, Australia. - DirectorJohn SaylesStarsJeni CourtneyEileen ColganMick LallyYoung Fiona lives with her grandparents in a small fishing village where she takes an active role to unravel the mysterious secrets.Currach
Cradle boat
1946, west coast of Ireland, Filmed at County Donegal, Ireland.
Boating from the village to the island of Roan Inish. - DirectorAlexander MackendrickStarsBasil RadfordJoan GreenwoodCatherine LaceyScottish islanders try to plunder 50,000 cases of whisky from a stranded ship.Ferry, rowboat.
Cargo ship carrying whiskey, wrecked on a reef. Remote island in Hebrides.
Western Isles: Eoligarry, Eriskay, Castlebay, Vatersay, Allasdale, Barra. North Uist. Scotland. 1943. - DirectorMark LewisStarsJustin LucasChristine OrielLiev SchreiberThe story of Australia's founding mothers and their bawdy journey to a new land as convicts on a floating brothel. Female convicts set up a brothel for sailors on a ship sailing from London to Australia in 1789.ship
18th century Voyage from Europe to Australia, with women onboard. - DirectorBenh ZeitlinStarsQuvenzhané WallisDwight HenryLevy EasterlyFaced with both her hot-tempered father's fading health and melting ice-caps that flood her ramshackle bayou community and unleash ancient aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy must learn the ways of courage and love.Motorboat
Raft, handmade with a truck bed and oil drums.
Louisiana delta, on the other side of the levee, offshore from New Orleans.
Louisiana - DirectorTian-Ming WuStarsXu ZhuRenying ZhouZhigang ZhaoIn a remote area of China, in the 1930s, a street performer named Wang practices the change-mask opera art of bian lian. Seeking to pass his art, Wang buys what he believes to be an orphan boy, but quickly learns his new disciple's secret.houseboat
1930s China. Yagtze river. Living on river and working along the river, performing face opera. - DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsLeonor SilveiraFilipa de AlmeidaJohn MalkovichLisbon, Marseilles, Naples, Athens, Istanbul, Cairo, Aden and Bombay. Along with a university teacher and her little daughter, we embark on a long journey, experiencing different cultures and civilizations.cruise ship
lifeboat
oil tanker
Depart Lisbon for Mediterranean ports and the Indian ocean. Red Sea, Suez Canal . - DirectorSilvio SoldiniStarsLicia MagliettaBruno GanzGiuseppe BattistonAfter being forgotten in a highway café during a bus trip, a housewife decides to start a new life by herself in Venice.Boats on Venice waterways.
- DirectorMichael SchorrStarsHorst KrauseHarald WarmbrunnKarl-Fred MüllerSchultze is an accordion player and newly without work. When the local music club celebrates its 50th anniversary, his taste of music changes unexpectedly.houseboat
tugboat
motorboat
ship
Gulf of Mexico.
Boating the Bayou country, Texas and Louisiana - DirectorMichael PowellEmeric PressburgerStarsWendy HillerRoger LiveseyPamela BrownA young Englishwoman goes to the Hebrides to marry her older, wealthier fiancé. When the weather keeps them separated on different islands, she begins to have second thoughts.Motorboat
Argyll and Bute, Scotland. - DirectorPaul L. SteinStarsConstance BennettKenneth MacKennaBasil RathboneA plain secretary works for a womanizing divorce lawyer who only dates married women. To avoid having to deal with the matrimonial pursuits of any of his potential romances, he offers her financial support if she marries him in name only.Ocean liner.
Cruise from New York to Paris. - StarsRobert CarlyleRalph RiachBrian PettiferHamish Macbeth is a police constable in the small Scottish town of Lochdubh, who occasionally bends the rules when it suits him or when it can help some of his fellow eccentric townsfolk.Boats
Small town on the bay.
Highland, Scotland - DirectorRichard LinklaterStarsEthan HawkeJulie DelpyVernon DobtcheffNine years after Jesse and Celine first met, they encounter each other again on the French leg of Jesse's book tour.Sightseeing boat
Bateau Mouche -open excursion boat.
Compagnie des Bateaux Moches -oldest company operating boat tours.
Seine river, Quai de la Tournelle, Quai Heri-IV, Paris.
Pont Neuf, bridge. - DirectorHenry KingStarsTyrone PowerMaureen O'HaraLaird CregarAn ex-pirate contends with rowdy buccaneers and a love/hate relationship with an aristocratic woman who's tougher than she seems.Sailing ship.
Warship.
1600s
Pirates
Carbbean - DirectorFederico FelliniStarsFreddie JonesBarbara JeffordVictor PolettiIn 1914, a luxury ship leaves Italy in order to scatter the ashes of a famous opera singer. A lovable bumbling journalist chronicles the voyage and meets the singer's many eccentric friends and admirers.Luxury liner
Austro-Hungarian coal powered battleship.
Cruise from Naples, Italy, to the remote island of Erimo.
1914 - DirectorAng LeeStarsSuraj SharmaIrrfan KhanAdil HussainA young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger.Japanese cargo ship
Lifeboat raft.
Ship leaving the southern India coast, bound for Canada. - DirectorSylvain ChometStarsMichèle CaucheteuxJean-Claude DondaMichel RobinWhen her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno team up with the Belleville Sisters--an aged song-and-dance team from the days of Fred Astaire--to rescue him.Pedal boat
Ocean liner
Steamship
Transatlantic voyage, 1960s. - DirectorFrank LloydStarsCharles LaughtonClark GableFranchot ToneFirst mate Fletcher Christian leads a revolt against his sadistic commander, Captain Bligh, in this classic seafaring adventure, based on the real-life 1789 mutiny.Man-O'-War
Lifeboat
British Navy
Journey from Portsmouth to Tahiti, 1780s.
South Seas, south Pacific.
A few filming locations : French Polynesia, Monterey Bay, Tahiti, California -San Miguel Islands, Channel Islands, San Francisco. South Pacific. - DirectorEdward A. BlattStarsJohn GarfieldPaul HenreidSydney GreenstreetPassengers on an ocean liner can't recall how they got on board or where they are going yet, oddly enough, it soon becomes apparent that they all have something in common.Steamship
Ocean liner.
Transatlantic voyage.
1940s - DirectorJoshua LoganStarsLeslie CaronMaurice ChevalierCharles BoyerYoung Marius dreams of leaving his dull provincial life and seeing the world. When the beautiful Fanny declares her adoration for him, Marius must choose between an adventurous life at sea and the grandest adventure of all: love.Sailing ship
Research vessel
Leaving Marseilles on a 5 year scientific research voyage.
Action in Marseilles. - DirectorAndrew GrieveStarsIoan GruffuddRobert LindsayDavid WarnerHornblower and the other officers of the Renown must return to Jamaica to face a court-martial and possible execution for their actions in relieving their unstable captain.British Navy.
Jamaica
Spanish fortress at Santo Domingo.
Napoleonic wars. - DirectorPantelis VoulgarisStarsDamian LewisVictoria HaralabidouAndréa FerréolSet in 1922, is the story of a mail order bride, one of 700, aboard the SS KING ALEXANDER, who falls in love with an American photographer. She is bound for her new husband, in New York; he is on his way home to a failed marriage.Ship
Leaving Turkey with brides from Europe , on a transatlantic voyage to America.
Filmed in Greece - Andros, Athens, Crete, Kastoria.
1920s - DirectorRichard CurtisStarsPhilip Seymour HoffmanBill NighyNick FrostA band of rogue DJs that captivated Britain, playing the music that defined a generation and standing up to a government that wanted classical music, and nothing else, on the airwaves.Floating radio station with rogue DJs.
Merchant ship
Oil tanker
Fishing boat.
Middle of North Sea.
1960s.
Filming locations - Dorset and East Sussex. - DirectorJ.C. ChandorStarsRobert RedfordAfter a collision with a shipping container at sea, a resourceful sailor finds himself, despite all efforts to the contrary, staring his mortality in the face.Yatch
Cargo ship
Raft
Sailboat
Collision between a yatch and a shipping contaner, Indian Ocean.
Filmed in the Bahamas and Baja California, Mexico, and California. - DirectorRichard C. SarafianStarsRichard HarrisJohn HustonHenry WilcoxonLeft for dead after a bear attack, a fur-trapper recuperates and pursues his former companions through dangerous Indian territory.Boat on a journey to the Missouri river.
1823.
Filmed at : Cococino National Forest, Arizona. Covaleda, Spain. Durango and Chihuahua Mexico. - DirectorCharles LaughtonStarsRobert MitchumShelley WintersLillian GishA self-proclaimed preacher marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real dad hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.Rowboat
Steamboat
Paddle wheel
1930s Bible Belt
Filmed : Moundsville, West Virginia. Rowland V. Lee Ranch, California. - DirectorJohn GuillerminStarsPeter UstinovMia FarrowSimon MacCorkindaleAs Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board. Can Poirot identify the killer before the ship reaches the end of its journey?River paddleboat
Steamship
1930s
Nile River, Egypt.
Jack Cardiff. Cinematography. - DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsBajram SeverdzanSrdjan 'Zika' TodorovicBranka KaticMatko and his son Zare live on the banks of the Danube river and get by through hustling and basically doing anything to make a living. In order to pay off a business debt Matko agrees to marry off Zare to the sister of a local gangster.Riverboat
Gypsies living along the Danube River, Serbia. - DirectorAnthony MannStarsJames StewartRock HudsonArthur KennedyWhen a town boss confiscates homesteaders' supplies after gold is discovered nearby, a tough cowboy risks his life to try and get it to them.Steamboat
Riverboat
Supply boat
1847.
Leaving the Missouri River for the Columbia River and Portland.
Filming locations : Oregon - Columbia River, Sandy River, Mount Hood, Timberline. - StarsSigrid ThorntonJohn WatersDarius PerkinsOrphaned after a shipwreck off the Victorian coast of Australia, the beautiful and spirited Philadelphia Gordon finds both love and adventure aboard a paddle-steamer on the Murray River.Paddle steamer
River boat
Murray River. Port of Echuca. Southern ocean. Victoria, Australia.
Australia - DirectorRudolph MatéStarsTyrone PowerPiper LaurieJulie AdamsIn 1854 Mississippi, honest riverboat card gambler Mark Fallon wins young Laurent Dureau's diamond necklace, a family heirloom which, in the end, will bring him happiness and tragedy alike.River boat
Mississippi River.
1854 - DirectorA. Edward SutherlandWesley RugglesStarsBing CrosbyW.C. FieldsJoan BennettCrosby plays a Philadelpia Quaker engaged to a Southern belle. He becomes a social outcast when he refuses to fight a duel. Fields then hires him to perform on his riverboat, promoting him as "Colonel Steel...the notorious Colonel Steel...the singing killer." The plot then follows a predictable course, but there are plenty of scenes featuring W.C. Fields.Show boat.
Mississippi River.
W.C. Fields. - DirectorSpencer Gordon BennetWallace GrissellStarsAllan LaneLinda StirlingDuncan RenaldoGreedy oil speculators led by Morgan are trying to force Tiger Woman and her band of warriors from their jungle home. Allen Saunders of Inter-Ocean Oil wants to develop the oil too, but fights with Tiger Woman to stop the bad guys.
- DirectorRichard L. BareStarsClint WalkerArthur HunnicuttPatricia TiernanDuring a fur trapping trip Cheyenne joins with old Hoot Hollister who plans to return to St. Louis to marry his girlfriend. While on a riverboat to St. Louis, he and Cheyenne get mixed up with a teacher and crooked gamblers.
- DirectorRichard L. BareStarsJames GarnerJack KellyLaurie CarrollBret and Bart look to sail on a riverboat's maiden cruise but get caught up in a kidnapping of the boat's owner's daughter. Bret is taken hostage, and Bart must outwit the kidnappers and the police to rescue his brother and the girl.
- DirectorPeter H. HuntStarsRobert LansingDavid KnellJames KeaneMost mid-19th-century Mississippi River boys dreamed of occupying that pinnacle of power and glamour, the pilot house of a riverboat. In a riot of local color, this film tells how, unlike many, Sam's dream comes true. A callow teenager, he talks the tough but consummate Horace Bixby into making him his apprentice on the "Paul Jones," eventually following him to the much finer "Aleck Scott." Meanwhile, he is already spinning fantastic yarns to everyone from awe-struck lads ashore, to fellow "cub pilots", to young lady passengers who catch his eye. Things temporarily take a turn for the worse when Bixby must attend a meeting and leave Sam to work under Brown, a dour tyrant with a grudge against him.
- DirectorEdward F. ClineBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonEdward F. ClineSybil SeelyBuster and his family go on a voyage on his homemade boat that proves to be one disaster after another.Boat builder builds a boat for his family.
Lifeboat. - DirectorJohn CromwellStarsBarbara StanwyckJoel McCreaWalter BrennanBelieving he has killed a guest, a groom flees on his wedding night.Shanty boats
Houseboat, moored on a sandbar in the middle of the Mississippi River. - DirectorPaul WilliamsStarsDebby CummingBrian HannanFrank ThringRiverboat Bill, a young boy named Dave, and a fire-breathing Bunyip have adventures up and down the Murray River aboard their salvaged steamboat in early 20th century Australia, facing outlaws and unsympathetic lawmen along the way.Sailing a river England.
Australian animation. - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsTallulah BankheadJohn HodiakWalter SlezakSeveral survivors of a torpedoed merchant ship in World War II find themselves in the same lifeboat with one of the crew members of the U-boat that sank their ship.German supply ship
Luxury steamer
Lifeboat
U-boat
Atlantic ocean, WWII. - DirectorLewis R. FosterStarsJohn PayneRhonda FlemingForrest TuckerAdventurer tries to recover gold from sunken plane.Boating New Guinea coast, looking for treasure.
Filmed in Florida. - DirectorCatherine CollisStarsSiân PhillipsThe story of a cat named Mowzer and her man Tom who saved the village of Mousehole.A cat on an ocean fishing trip.
Cornwall, England - DirectorPhilip HuntStarsJim BroadbentA magical tale of friendship and loneliness, which tells the story of a little boy who one day finds a penguin on his doorstep. Although at first he is unsure what to do, the boy becomes determined to help the penguin find his way back home... Even if that means rowing all the way to the South Pole!Rowboat.
A boy takes a penquin home.
Sea voyage. - DirectorVáclav BedrichStarsTim SampleBurt catches himself a lot more than a fish when he and his trusty boat, the Tidely-Idely, put out to sea. A whale of a tale!Burt and his fishing boat, the Tidely Idley get caught in a storm. A whale provides refuge.
- DirectorDonald CrispBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonKathryn McGuireFrederick VroomTwo spoiled rich people find themselves trapped on an empty passenger ship.Ocean liner in Pacific.
US Coast Guard.
1920s - DirectorDon McDougallStarsJohnny WeissmullerMartin HustonDean FredericksSkipper and his tutor are captured when they accidentally discover a cache of ivory which a crook was preparing for shipment.River boat
Flying boat - DirectorRichard SaleStarsJock MahoneyKevin HagenX BrandsYancy is forced to reimburse four gamblers when their high-stakes poker game on his riverboat is robbed by a pair of beautiful thieves. Derringer traces the blonde crooks to an old mansion where he learns that the pair were targeting pickpockets, crooked gamblers and thieves to pay for a half-dozen orphans that Elsie Tulliver had adopted. Yancy arranges for photographer Mathew Brady and pickpocket Jody Barker to help him with a scheme to raise money for Elsie's children.River boat
- 2011–201244mTV-148.1 (41)TV EpisodeDirectorDavid KonschnikStarsBrian UngerTravis WallbaumSeth SteinThe history of transportation hidden in the lines of the map. From canals to trains and cars, how getting around helped draw the American map. Why Chicago could have been in Wisconsin; why states out West or so big and boxy; and why we almost had a state called Forgottonia.River boat
- DirectorMontgomery PittmanStarsJames GarnerEdgar BuchananErin O'BrienBret is held hostage by a group who think he's a government agent after them.Dinghy
Mississippi River boat
Lifeboat