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1. Avatar (2009)
PG-13 | 162 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez
Votes: 1,386,992 | Gross: $760.51M
2. The Beach (I) (2000)
R | 119 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
On vacation in Thailand, Richard sets out for an island rumored to be a solitary beach paradise.
Director: Danny Boyle | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Daniel York, Patcharawan Patarakijjanon
Votes: 253,846 | Gross: $39.79M
3. The Searchers (1956)
Passed | 119 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
An American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm.
Director: John Ford | Stars: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond
Votes: 96,342
4. The Nanny Diaries (2007)
PG-13 | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A college graduate goes to work as a nanny for a rich New York family. Ensconced in their home, she has to juggle their dysfunction, a new romance, and the spoiled brat in her charge.
Directors: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini | Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Laura Linney, Paul Giamatti, Donna Murphy
Votes: 64,100 | Gross: $25.93M
5. Soldier Blue (1970)
R | 112 min | Drama, War, Western
After a cavalry patrol is ambushed by the Cheyenne, the two survivors, a soldier and a woman, must reach the safety of the nearest fort.
Director: Ralph Nelson | Stars: Candice Bergen, Peter Strauss, Donald Pleasence, John Anderson
Votes: 6,279 | Gross: $0.51M
6. Little Big Man (1970)
PG-13 | 139 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Native Americans and fighting with General Custer.
Director: Arthur Penn | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Chief Dan George, Martin Balsam
Votes: 37,910 | Gross: $31.56M
7. Into the West (2005)
TV-14 | 92 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Tales from the American West in the 19th century, told from the perspective of two families, one of white settlers and one of Native Americans.
Stars: Joseph M. Marshall, Irene Bedard, Gil Birmingham, John Terry
Votes: 7,557
8. Two Rode Together (1961)
Passed | 109 min | Drama, Western
A corrupt marshal is pressured by his army friend into negotiating the release of white captives of the Comanches, but finds that their reintegration into society has its consequences.
Director: John Ford | Stars: James Stewart, Richard Widmark, Shirley Jones, Linda Cristal
Votes: 6,955
9. Medicine Man (1992)
PG-13 | 106 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In the beautiful and dangerous Amazon rainforest, dissimilar people must make their choices between business, science, and love.
Director: John McTiernan | Stars: Sean Connery, Lorraine Bracco, José Wilker, Rodolfo De Alejandre
Votes: 24,797 | Gross: $45.50M
10. Black Fox (1995 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 92 min | Romance, Western
A former slave affects peace between Native American tribes and homesteaders in 1860s around western Texas.
Director: Steven Hilliard Stern | Stars: Christopher Reeve, Raoul Max Trujillo, Tony Todd, Janet Bailey
Votes: 482
11. The Emerald Forest (1985)
R | 114 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
After the son of engineer Bill Markham is abducted by an aboriginal tribe on the edge of the rain forest, the engineer spends the next 10 years searching for him.
Director: John Boorman | Stars: Powers Boothe, Meg Foster, Yara Vaneau, William Rodriguez
Votes: 11,006 | Gross: $24.47M
12. The Unforgiven (1960)
Approved | 125 min | Drama, Romance, Western
The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their adopted daughter was stolen from the local Kiowa tribe.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn, Audie Murphy, John Saxon
Votes: 9,741
13. Desperate Living (1977)
X | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
A neurotic society woman murders her husband with her maid's help; on the lam, they escape to Mortville, a homeless community ruled by a fascist queen.
Director: John Waters | Stars: Liz Renay, Mink Stole, Susan Lowe, Edith Massey
Votes: 5,901
14. The Ant Bully (2006)
PG | 88 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
After Lucas Nickle floods an ant colony with his water gun, he's magically shrunken down to insect size and sentenced to hard labor in the ruins.
Director: John A. Davis | Stars: Paul Giamatti, Nicolas Cage, Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep
Votes: 41,866 | Gross: $28.14M
15. Black Fox: The Price of Peace (1995 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 96 min | Western
In 1860s Texas, a man whose abused wife fell in love with a Kiowa organizes a hunting party to recapture her.
Director: Steven Hilliard Stern | Stars: Christopher Reeve, Raoul Max Trujillo, Tony Todd, Janet Bailey
Votes: 227
16. Against a Crooked Sky (1975)
G | 89 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
When Charlotte Sutter is kidnapped by Apaches, her brother Sam, aided by an old drunk prospector, goes searching for her.
Director: Earl Bellamy | Stars: Richard Boone, Stewart Petersen, Henry Wilcoxon, Clint Ritchie
Votes: 752
17. Northwest Passage (1940)
Passed | 126 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Langdon Towne and Hunk Marriner join Major Rogers' Rangers as they wipe out an Indian village. They set out for Fort Wentworth, but when they arrive they find no soldiers and none of the supplies they expected.
Directors: King Vidor, Jack Conway, W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, Ruth Hussey
Votes: 3,907
18. The Stalking Moon (1968)
G | 109 min | Drama, Western
U.S. Army soldiers round up a group of Apache, mostly women and children. Surprisingly, they find among them a white woman and her half-Apache son.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Gregory Peck, Eva Marie Saint, Robert Forster, Noland Clay
Votes: 3,180
19. Stolen Women, Captured Hearts (1997 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 87 min | Drama, Romance, Western
In 1868 Kansas, a Lakota Sioux warrior stubbornly refuses to free the 2 white women he kidnapped, triggering a war between his tribe and General Custer's rescuing troops.
Director: Jerry London | Stars: Janine Turner, Jean Louisa Kelly, Patrick Bergin, William Shockley
Votes: 1,094
20. Alone Yet Not Alone (2013)
PG-13 | 103 min | Action, Drama, History
Alone yet Not Alone is based on the inspirational, true story of Barbara and Regina Leininger, two immigrant sisters forced to embark on a journey of faith that will lead them through the darkness of war into the light of freedom.
Directors: Ray Bengston, George D. Escobar | Stars: Kelly Greyson, Natalie Racoosin, Clay Walker, Jenn Gotzon
Votes: 976 | Gross: $0.67M
21. Bird of Paradise (1951)
Approved | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
An island Princess falls for a visiting Frenchman, but her people are against it.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Debra Paget, Louis Jourdan, Jeff Chandler, Everett Sloane
Votes: 523
22. Trooper Hook (1957)
Approved | 81 min | Drama, Western
When Apache chief Nanchez is captured by the cavalry, his white squaw and infant son are returned to civilization by Sergeant Hook, but Nanchez escapes custody and attempts to re-claim his son.
Director: Charles Marquis Warren | Stars: Joel McCrea, Barbara Stanwyck, Earl Holliman, Edward Andrews
Votes: 1,005
23. Triumphs of a Man Called Horse (1983)
PG | 86 min | Drama, Western
When gold is found on Sioux lands, crooked men attempt to provoke the Sioux into a war with the army and the prospectors.
Director: John Hough | Stars: Richard Harris, Michael Beck, Ana De Sade, Vaughn Armstrong
Votes: 707
24. The Light in the Forest (1958)
Approved | 83 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A young white man who spent his whole life raised by Native Americans is sent to live with his birth family and must learn to fit in with people he was taught to hate.
Director: Herschel Daugherty | Stars: Fess Parker, Wendell Corey, Joanne Dru, James MacArthur
Votes: 703
25. Bianco Apache (1987)
100 min | Drama, Horror, Western
Outlaws attack a band of settlers and kill everyone except a pregnant woman who's rescued by a band of Indians. The woman dies giving birth but Chief White Bear adopts her male baby, naming... See full summary »
Directors: Claudio Fragasso, Bruno Mattei | Stars: Sebastian Harrison, Lola Forner, Alberto Farnese, Charly Bravo
Votes: 239
26. Isabelle Eberhardt (1991)
Not Rated | 113 min | Biography, Drama, History
Eberhardt converted to Islam in her teens. After her father's death, the wife of a Marquis summons her to Paris; her husband has gone missing in North Africa.
Director: Ian Pringle | Stars: Mathilda May, Tchéky Karyo, Peter O'Toole, Richard Moir
Votes: 128
27. Islamophobia (2022)
130 min | Action, Drama
Showcasing the traumatic effects of prejudice and discrimination against Muslim, Christianity, and Judaism its Islamophobia is a story of Peace , Love, Unity, Respect, Compassionate, and ... See full summary »
Director: Omer Sarikaya | Stars: Chris Mulkey, Fahim Fazli, Wilma Elles, Essam Ferris
Votes: 19
28. Amazon Forever (2004)
90 min | Drama
Director: Jean-Pierre Dutilleux | Stars: Aurélien Wiik, Chief Ayupu, Murilo Elbas, Tapi Iawalapiti
Votes: 67
29. Dear America: Standing in the Light (1999 TV Movie)
TV-Y7 | 29 min | Drama, Family, History
A teenage Quaker farm girl is abducted by Indians in 1750s Pennsylvania.
Director: Stacey Stewart Curtis | Stars: Madeleine Bergeron, C. David Johnson, Jane Johanson, Jennifer Podemski
Votes: 86
30. Johnny Moccasin (1956 TV Movie)
26 min | Western
Johnny Moccasin is a white teenage boy who has been raised by an Indian tribe after his parents were killed in a wagon train massacre.
Director: Laslo Benedek | Stars: Jody McCrea, Sara Shane, Raymond Bailey, John Larch
Votes: 18
31.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
Erin
(1969)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Hoss is rescued from a band of hungry Paiutes rustling Ponderosa cattle after a hard winter by Erin O'Donnell, an Irish woman who was raised by the Sioux and revered by the tribes as a medicine woman and mystic.
Director: Don Richardson | Stars: Lorne Greene, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Mary Fickett
Votes: 107
32.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
Love Me Not
(1964)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Ben's Pygmalion-like efforts to 'civilize' a young, white woman, raised by a neighboring Paiute Indian tribe, have an unintended result when, instead of choosing a husband from among the ... See full summary »
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 118
33.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Beginning
(1962)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
The Cartwrights find Billy Horn, a young man who was taken captive and raised by the Shoshone. He comes to live with them and befriends them, as they try to re-accustom him to the white ... See full summary »
Director: Christian Nyby | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 106
34.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Savage
(1960)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
Adam rides up on some Indians wanting to harm a white woman they believed was a mountain spirit. He kills them but not before they wound him. The woman nurses him back to health but the rest of the tribe is still out there looking for her.
Director: James Neilson | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 154
35.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Survivors
(1968)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
A white woman, abducted by the Paiutes and thought to be dead, is brought back to Virginia City and reunited with her husband. When it is found she has an Indian baby with a Paiute chief, ... See full summary »
Director: Leon Benson | Stars: Lorne Greene, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Mariette Hartley
Votes: 90
36.
Branded (1965–1966)
Episode:
The Wolfers
(1966)
22 min | Western
Jason comes upon a woman, a white Indian, tied up and rescues her. She tells him three wolfer brothers had kidnapped her and done unspeakable things to her. Jason attempts to take her back ... See full summary »
Director: Larry Peerce | Stars: Chuck Connors, Bruce Dern, Zeme North, Morgan Woodward
Votes: 30
37.
Cheyenne (1955–1963)
Episode:
West of the River
(1956)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
Cheyenne is asked to lead a group of guardhouse prisoners on a mission to rescue two girls taken captive by the Kiowa. He questions the odds or whether the girls will want to return. The mission starts okay but his fears may be true.
Director: Richard L. Bare | Stars: Clint Walker, Lois Collier, Trevor Bardette, Stephanie Griffin
Votes: 135
38.
Cimarron Strip (1967–1968)
Episode:
Heller
(1968)
TV-PG | 74 min | Western
Marshal Crown is shot while pursuing a murderous gang of outlaws who prey on isolated Indian villages. He is found, hidden and nursed back to health by Heller, a young woman who was raised ... See full summary »
Director: Gunnar Hellström | Stars: Stuart Whitman, Percy Herbert, Randy Boone, Jill Townsend
Votes: 52
39.
Daniel Boone (1964–1970)
Episode:
Hannah Comes Home
(1969)
TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Western
A woman long thought dead is discovered by Daniel living with the Chickasaw. Daniel tells her her husband is still alive and that she should come back. She does, but her husband has trouble accepting her Indian son.
Director: Fess Parker | Stars: Fess Parker, Patricia Blair, Darby Hinton, Dal McKennon
Votes: 35
40.
Daniel Boone (1964–1970)
Episode:
Tekawitha McLeod
(1964)
TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Western
A dance at Fort Boonesborough is interrupted by Flathead Joseph, a halfbreed slave trader. He has a young Indian girl with him whom he claims is a Cherokee Princess...and a white girl. Her ... See full summary »
Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Fess Parker, Albert Salmi, Ed Ames, Patricia Blair
Votes: 60
41.
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993–1998)
Episode:
Another Woman
(1994)
TV-G | 47 min | Drama, Family, Western
A woman who has been living with Native Americans for over ten years is found and brought to Colorado Springs. Tensions rise between Sully and Mike when the girl becomes unusually attached to Sully.
Director: Chuck Bowman | Stars: Jane Seymour, Joe Lando, Chad Allen, Erika Flores
Votes: 138
42.
F Troop (1965–1967)
Episode:
Yellow Bird
(1966)
Not Rated | 30 min | Comedy, Western
A white woman raised by Indians starts to take after the Captain.
Director: David Alexander | Stars: Forrest Tucker, Larry Storch, Ken Berry, Melody Patterson
Votes: 58
43.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
Indian Ford
(1961)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Matt escorts a captain and his troops to an Indian village, to make an exchange for a white woman captured over a year ago.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: James Arness, Dennis Weaver, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake
Votes: 208
44.
Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans (1957)
Episode:
The Search
(1957)
Approved | Adventure, Drama, Western
Hawkeye and Chingachkook rescue an elderly woman from two Indians who have kidnapped her and were about to take her back to their tribe. She asks the two for help in finding her son, who ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: John Hart, Lon Chaney Jr., Larry Solway, Marjorie Purvey
Votes: 28
45.
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995–1999)
Episode:
Prodigal Sister
(1997)
Not Rated | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Thirteen years after a raid by a group of renegade Amazons blinded Ruun, killed his parents, and kidnapped his sister, he still wants to rescue her and kill all Amazons -- but she may have become one.
Director: Gary Jones | Stars: Kevin Sorbo, Dean O'Gorman, Katrina Browne, Tina Cleary
Votes: 345
46.
The High Chaparral (1967–1971)
Episode:
Feather of an Eagle
(1969)
PG | 60 min | Western
After spotting a blonde white woman with a group of Apaches, Blue cannot resist the urge to free her against the advice of Buck and Manolito. He frees her but is captured and her Apache husband wants her returned in return for Blue.
Director: Harry Harris | Stars: Leif Erickson, Cameron Mitchell, Mark Slade, Henry Darrow
Votes: 76
47.
The High Chaparral (1967–1971)
Episode:
Ride the Savage Land
(1968)
PG | 60 min | Western
Buck and Manolito come upon two white girls being chased by Apaches. They are able to save the older girl but her sister is retaken by the Apaches. Buck promises they will attempt to save her sister but everyone knows it is not feasible.
Director: Richard Benedict | Stars: Leif Erickson, Cameron Mitchell, Mark Slade, Henry Darrow
Votes: 88
48.
Highlander (1992–1998)
Episode:
Line of Fire
(1994)
TV-14 | 48 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
An old girlfriend of Richie's reappears, claiming he is the father of her son. Meanwhile, evil Immortal biker Kern, who killed Duncan's Native American family centuries ago, arrives into town to challenge Duncan.
Director: Clay Borris | Stars: Adrian Paul, Stan Kirsch, Philip Akin, Jim Byrnes
Votes: 181
49.
Hudson's Bay (1959– )
Episode:
Blue-Eyed Squaw
26 min | Adventure, Family, Western
Jonathan Banner and Pierre Falcon are sent on a special assignment from Fort Gannon to meet with Standing Bear. When the arrive, they meet Standing Bear's "adopted" daughter, blonde-haired ... See full summary »
Director: Sidney J. Furie | Stars: Barry Nelson, George Tobias, Carol Starkman, Ron Taylor
50.
The Lazarus Man (1996)
Episode:
The Rescue
(1996)
Mystery, Western
Lazarus helps a group of men "rescue" a woman who was captured by Comanches years ago when she was 6. But the woman would rather stay with her Comanche family.
Stars: Robert Urich, Tym Thurston, Carmen Thomas, Heather Ehlers
Votes: 6