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1. Doubt (I) (2008)

PG-13 | 104 min | Drama, Mystery

A Catholic school principal questions a priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled young student.

Director: John Patrick Shanley | Stars: Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Viola Davis

Votes: 136,199 | Gross: $33.42M

2. Lone Star (1996)

R | 135 min | Drama, Mystery, Western

When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.

Director: John Sayles | Stars: Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Peña, Stephen Mendillo, Stephen J. Lang

Votes: 32,423 | Gross: $13.27M

3. Cheyenne Autumn (1964)

PG | 154 min | Drama, History, Western

The Cheyenne, tired of broken U.S. government promises, head for their ancestral lands but a sympathetic cavalry officer is tasked to bring them back to their reservation.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, Karl Malden, Sal Mineo

Votes: 6,462

4. The Cruel Sea (1953)

Approved | 126 min | Drama, War

The World War II adventures of a British convoy escort ship and its officers.

Director: Charles Frend | Stars: Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, John Stratton, Denholm Elliott

Votes: 5,420

5. Five Graves to Cairo (1943)

Passed | 96 min | Thriller, War

In the North African campaign a British straggler manages to pass himself off as a waiter at the hotel commandeered as Rommel's headquarters. He has thoughts of assassinating Rommel but his cover may have an even better use.

Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, Fortunio Bonanova

Votes: 6,851

6. The Hurricane (1937)

Approved | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A Polynesian sailor unjustly imprisoned after defending himself against a colonial bully is relentlessly persecuted by his island's martinet French governor.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, Mary Astor, C. Aubrey Smith

Votes: 3,046

7. Hornblower: Mutiny (2001 TV Movie)

98 min | Adventure, Drama, History

Hornblower and his comrades come under the command of a revered but obviously mentally unstable captain and eventually must mutiny.

Director: Andrew Grieve | Stars: Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, David Warner, Nicholas Jones

Votes: 4,476

8. Damn the Defiant! (1962)

Approved | 101 min | Action, Drama, History

On the H.M.S. Defiant, during the French Revolutionary War, fair Captain Crawford is locked in a battle of wills against his cruel second-in-command Lieutenant Scott-Padget, whose heavy-handed command style pushes the crew to mutiny.

Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Maurice Denham, Nigel Stock

Votes: 3,036

9. Les Miserables (1952)

Approved | 105 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

A parole violator in early 19th Century France is relentlessly pursued and persecuted by an obsessive policeman.

Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Michael Rennie, Robert Newton, Debra Paget, Edmund Gwenn

Votes: 1,130 | Gross: $2.40M

10. Yankee Buccaneer (1952)

Approved | 86 min | Adventure, History, Romance

Captain David Porter of the fledgling American Navy receives orders to masquerade as a privateer in order to corral some Caribbean pirates.

Director: Frederick De Cordova | Stars: Jeff Chandler, Scott Brady, Suzan Ball, Joseph Calleia

Votes: 366

11. The Truth About Alex (1986 TV Movie)

50 min | Drama, Romance

Alex admits to his best friend Brad that he is gay.

Director: Paul Shapiro | Stars: Scott Baio, Peter Spence, Jessica Steen, Jeremy Ratchford

Votes: 165

12. Combat Killers (1968)

80 min | Action, War

Late in World War II, an inexperienced U.S. officer, determined to win glory for himself, loses half his platoon in a bloody battle with Japanese soldiers. While trying to extract his men ... See full summary »

Director: Ken Loring | Stars: Paul Edwards Jr., Marlene Dauden, Claude Wilson, Ken Metcalfe

Votes: 48

13. A Bell for Adano (1967 TV Movie)

90 min | Drama

A U.S. army officer, the military governor of an Italian town during World War II, tries to reintroduce democracy, but his efforts are hindered by his commanding general. Placing his career... See full summary »

Director: Mel Ferber | Stars: John Forsythe, Brian Avery, Dick Balduzzi, Harry Bellaver

Votes: 17

14. Bill Cracks Down (1937)

Passed | 61 min | Action, Drama, Romance

When William Reardon, a steel magnate, dies and leaves a strange will. When his spineless and dandified heir and son returns home from living in Paris, he finds "Tons' Walker, a strong and ... See full summary »

Director: William Nigh | Stars: Grant Withers, Beatrice Roberts, Ranny Weeks, Judith Allen

Votes: 108

15. Shock (1934)

70 min | Drama, Romance, War

Captain Bob Hayworth, his brother Lieutenant Gilroy Hayworth and Captain Derek Marbury are in a World-War 1 trench on the front-lines in France. Bob Hayworth resents Marbury greatly as the ... See full summary »

Director: Roy Pomeroy | Stars: Ralph Forbes, Gwenllian Gill, Monroe Owsley, Reginald Sharland

Votes: 45

16. Boy of Mine (1923)

70 min | Family, Drama

A wealthy banker is a strict disciplinarian with his nine-year-old son Bill. Finally the day comes when neither Bill nor his mother can put up any more with the father's relentlessness and ... See full summary »

Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Ben Alexander, Rockliffe Fellowes, Henry B. Walthall, Irene Rich

17. The River Wolves (1934)

Passed | 56 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

In a drama of treachery, intrigue, and love beside the dark waters of the Thames, two men come together in the sinister shadows of Dockland. The paths of the international criminal and a ... See full summary »

Director: George Pearson | Stars: Helga Moray, Michael Hogan, John Mills, Ben Welden

18. The War Is Over (1978)

28 min | Short, Drama

A group of soldiers has difficulties adjusting to the end of the fighting after World War I.

Director: René Bonnière | Stars: Richard McKenna, Robin Gammell, Duncan Regehr, François Pratte

Votes: 7

19. Lonewolf (2016)

17 min | Short, Fantasy

Living in secret are The Dark Sovereign who, led by their master, The Martinet, suck the very souls of the human race out of existence. But that's where he comes in, the balance, a silent warrior of the night, Lonewolf.

Director: Ben Lettieri | Stars: Ben Lettieri, Joe Sandz, Keith Chanter, Samantha Keller

20. Bearcats! (1971)
Episode: Dos Gringos (1971)

60 min | Action, Adventure, War

A Mexican revolutionary is in the US raising funds for his efforts to overthrow the Mexican government. The Mexican army sends an officer to the US to kill him.

Director: Herb Wallerstein | Stars: Rod Taylor, Dennis Cole, Eric Braeden, Catherine Ferrar

Votes: 14

21. Foyle's War (2002–2015)
Episode: Enemy Fire (2004)

TV-14 | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

February 1941: When a manor house is commandeered as a special burn unit for treating injured RAF pilots, Foyle is called in to investigate a series of accidents.

Director: Jeremy Silberston | Stars: John Wood, Sandra Voe, Bill Paterson, Jonathan Slinger

Votes: 682

22. Hondo (1967)
Episode: Hondo and the Savage (1967)

60 min | Western

Hondo befriends an Apache prince just as Fort Lowell is visited by a martinet Cavalry general whose by-the-book and show-them-no-mercy approach to the Indians threatens to upend the fragile friendship and peace forged by Hondo.

Director: Michael D. Moore | Stars: Ralph Taeger, Kathie Browne, Noah Beery Jr., Gary Clarke

Votes: 25

23. Hondo (1967)
Episode: Hondo and the War Hawks (1967)

60 min | Western

When the calvary decides to confiscate the guns of the Apache, Chief Vittoro vows to resist. Hondo becomes involved when he encounters unscrupulous weapon dealers.

Director: Michael D. Moore | Stars: Ralph Taeger, Kathie Browne, Noah Beery Jr., Gary Clarke

Votes: 20

24. Hudson's Bay (1959– )
Episode: Martinet

30 min | Adventure, Family, Western

Jonathan Banner and Pierre Falcon are sent on a mission with the British military, led by Captain Malton, who immediately suspects Banner of mutiny. Malton sends the Native American guides ... See full summary »

Director: Alvin Rakoff | Stars: Barry Nelson, George Tobias, Jeffrey Alexander, Leslie Yeo

25. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964–1968)
Episode: The Survival School Affair (1967)

TV-G | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Kuryakin is sent to UNCLE's secret training school on a remote island. He has to find out which trainee among of a soon-to-graduate group is really a mole for Thrush. Helping him is another... See full summary »

Director: Charles R. Rondeau | Stars: Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Leo G. Carroll, Chris Robinson

Votes: 77

26. Riverboat (1959–1961)
Episode: Fort Epitaph (1960)

48 min | Adventure, Western

In the absence of Captain Holden, Captain Brad Turner takes a cargo of military supplies to an outpost on the Little Missouri River - in the middle of Sioux country and must use the cannon ... See full summary »

Director: John Brahm | Stars: Dan Duryea, Jack Lambert, Bart Patton, Michael McGreevey

Votes: 14

27. Schlitz Playhouse (1951–1959)
Episode: The General's Boots (1954)

30 min | Comedy, Drama

A martinet of a general, one of his former officers, and a middle aged plane passenger find themselves in a liferaft with only one canteen of water.

Director: Roy Kellino | Stars: Basil Rathbone, John Dehner, Melville Cooper, Robin Hughes

Votes: 16

28. Joe 90 (1968–1969)
Episode: Colonel McClaine (1968)

TV-PG | 26 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Army supply runs ferrying U114 liquid explosive to the North African Kachunga tunnel construction project have been plagued by sabotage. WIN brings in a boy colonel to do a man's job.

Director: Ken Turner | Stars: Keith Alexander, Sylvia Anderson, Rupert Davies, Gary Files

Votes: 28

29. Jungle Jim (1955–1956)
Episode: The Deadly Idol (1955)

30 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Jungle Jim agrees to guide Commissioner Morrison's new assistant to a meeting with the Maku tribe.

Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Martin Huston, Dean Fredericks, John Dodsworth

Votes: 30

30. Hudson's Bay (1959– )
Episode: Retribution

26 min | Adventure, Family, Western

While the fort's commander is away, a young martinet sentences a Shoshone Indian to death based upon perjured testimony. Banner tries to delay the execution of the sentence until he can ... See full summary »

Director: Sidney J. Furie | Stars: Barry Nelson, George Tobias, Tom Harvey, Teresa Celli

31. Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode: Duty and Honour: Part 1 (2008)

TV-MA | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A mummified hand is discovered in the woods and linked to a military academy in the area that trains mercenaries to fight in Iraq.

Director: Robert Bierman | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Tara Fitzgerald, Wil Johnson

Votes: 126

32. Tom Corbett, Space Cadet (1950–1955)
Episode: The Iron Major (1954)

Action, Adventure, Family

A martinet refuses to grant the space cadets liberty when their ship lands after a long voyage.

Stars: Frankie Thomas, Jan Merlin, Al Markim, Ed Bryce

33. Hollywood (1980)
Episode: Autocrats (1980)

Documentary, Biography, History

Autocratic directors like the martinet Cecil B. DeMille and the idiosyncratic Eric Von Stroheim are highlighted in this episode.

Directors: Kevin Brownlow, David Gill | Stars: James Mason, Karl Brown, Agnes de Mille, Valerie Germonprez

Votes: 70