Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "dry-river-bed"

1. Chinatown (1974)

R | 130 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.

Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez

Votes: 350,909

2. Flashpoint (1984)

R | 93 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Two U.S. border patrolmen find a buried 20+ year old jeep in the desert with a skeleton, rifle and $800,000. They keep the money. Suddenly, the FBI shows a lot of interest in the car.

Director: William Tannen | Stars: Kris Kristofferson, Treat Williams, Rip Torn, Kevin Conway

Votes: 3,193 | Gross: $3.85M

3. The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving (1995 Video)

G | 71 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

When a sudden shortage of water threatens all life in the great valley, The gang of young dinosaur must cooperate with a group of bullies to make a risky journey outside the valley and find the cause.

Director: Roy Allen Smith | Stars: Scott McAfee, Candace Hutson, Heather Hogan, Jeff Bennett

Votes: 6,592

4. The Tillman Story (2010)

R | 94 min | Documentary, Biography, Mystery

Chronicles the life of the late Pat Tillman, who walked away from a multimillion-dollar contract with the NFL's Arizona Cardinals in 2002 to join the Army but died from friendly fire in Afghanistan.

Director: Amir Bar-Lev | Stars: Pat Tillman, Josh Brolin, Mary Tillman, Russell Baer

Votes: 5,437 | Gross: $0.80M

5. Skylark (1993 TV Movie)

G | 95 min | Drama

Jacob's farm is in trouble from a severe drought. Jacob and Sarah begin to wonder if Sarah can stay, and what will happen to Jacob if she and the children have to leave the farm.

Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, Lexi Randall, Christopher Bell

Votes: 1,104

6. Cattle Drive (1951)

Approved | 77 min | Western

A cowboy finds the spoiled son of a railroad magnate lost in the deserted hills and teaches him survival skills and hard work values.

Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Joel McCrea, Dean Stockwell, Chill Wills, Leon Ames

Votes: 773

7. Taxi, Trailer and Corrida (1958)

86 min | Comedy

A chaotic family go on holiday to Spain and get mixed up with a gang of diamond thieves

Director: André Hunebelle | Stars: Louis de Funès, Raymond Bussières, Annette Poivre, Guy Bertil

Votes: 785

8. Canyon Crossroads (1955)

Approved | 83 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

During the 1950s, a mining engineer is hired by an investor-scientist to prospect for uranium deposits in Utah but their effort is sabotaged by a murderous local mine-owner who wants to jump their claim.

Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Richard Basehart, Phyllis Kirk, Stephen Elliott, Russell Collins

Votes: 120

9. Amazing Earth (1998 TV Movie)

TV-G | 94 min | Documentary

Catastrophic events alter the planet's appearance.

Director: Brian Skilton | Star: Patrick Stewart

Votes: 70

10. Lost in Space (1965–1968)
Episode: The Oasis (1965)

Not Rated | 50 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

Smith eats some fruit that turns him into a paranoid giant.

Director: Sutton Roley | Stars: Guy Williams, June Lockhart, Mark Goddard, Marta Kristen

Votes: 267

11. Man vs. Wild (2006–2020)
Episode: African Savannah (2006)

TV-PG | 44 min | Adventure, Reality-TV

A parachute from hot air balloon brings team Bear to Masai country in northern Kenya, a savanna favorite with safari tourists. Bear shows how dangerous getting behind there can be, say as ... See full summary »

Director: Mark Westcott | Star: Bear Grylls

Votes: 114

12. Man vs. Wild (2006–2020)
Episode: Namibia (2008)

TV-PG | 44 min | Adventure, Reality-TV

Bear is dropped off the Skeleton Coast in Namibia. After a day and night on the beach he heads inland across 60 miles of desert in a search for water. Meeting up with a group of San Bushmen he hunts porcupine.

Director: Chris Richards | Star: Bear Grylls

Votes: 77

13. Man vs. Wild (2006–2020)
Episode: South Dakota (2008)

TV-PG | 44 min | Adventure, Reality-TV

Bear tackles not one but three nasty environments; the Black Hills, the Bad Lands and the Great Plains.

Star: Bear Grylls

Votes: 57

14. Man vs. Wild (2006–2020)
Episode: Baja Desert (2008)

TV-PG | 44 min | Adventure, Reality-TV

In Baja Bear tries his hand at snare hunting. But what will he do when he catches a skunk. The bees and rattlesnakes aren't too friendly either.

Director: David O'Neill | Star: Bear Grylls

Votes: 86

15. Man vs. Wild (2006–2020)
Episode: Dominican Republic (2009)

TV-PG | 44 min | Adventure, Reality-TV

Bear builds his most ambitions raft yet to ride across 5 miles of open ocean. Then he attempts some overly ambitious climbs and meets some not to friendly critters; a giant centipede and a tarantula.

Director: Carl Hindmarch | Star: Bear Grylls

Votes: 60

16. Voyage of the Continents (2012–2015)
Episode: Africa Today (2014)

TV-G | Documentary, History

When the super continent Gandwana began to break up into the modern day continents, Africa separated from Europe forming the Tethys Ocean. But Africa changed it's mind. It is now traveling ... See full summary »

Director: Alexis de Favitski | Stars: Jordane Corbeau, Francis Duranthon, Anna Flori-Lamour, Yann Klinger

Votes: 10

17. TopTenz (2010– )
Episode: Incredible Facts About the Sahara Desert (2021)

11 min | Documentary

Every 20,000 years the Sahara Desert cycles between wet periods when it sports the largest lake in the world and dry periods such as today. So one should expect some geological and ... See full summary »

Star: Simon Whistler

18. Man vs. Wild (2006–2020)
Episode: Turkey (2009)

TV-PG | 44 min | Adventure, Reality-TV

Bear Grylls heads for Turkey; from the freezing mountain tops to the lifeless Steppes, Bear battles white water rapids, takes on 100 foot climbs and confronts the locals; poisonous snakes and death stalker scorpions.

Star: Bear Grylls

Votes: 73

19. Man vs. Wild (2006–2020)
Episode: Urban Survivor (2010)

TV-PG | 44 min | Adventure, Reality-TV

In a simulated urban disaster, Bear navigates abandoned buildings, roof tops and sewers and finds it as hard to find clean drinking water as in the desert.

Director: Nicholas White | Star: Bear Grylls

Votes: 73

20. How the Earth Was Made (2009– )
Episode: The Alps (2009)

TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary, History

The Alps are known as the majestic mountain range of Europe. But their formation from a collision between Europe and Africa left an unstable structure that is now a classic study in erosion... See full summary »

Directors: David Hutt, Rachel Scarrott | Stars: Corey Johnson, Toni Bürgin, Mark Feldmann, Dirk Hellwig

Votes: 22

21. Man, Woman, Wild (2010– )
Episode: Mexico (2010)

TV-PG | 44 min | Adventure, Reality-TV

Mykel and Ruth find the hunt for water in the Chihuahuan Desert so tough that they have to turn to their medical team as Ruth experiences severe dehydration. But she gets back on her feet ... See full summary »

Star: Mykel Hawke

Votes: 13

22. World's Most Dangerous Roads (2011– )
Episode: Albania (2023)

TV-MA | 45 min | Documentary

Actor Will Mellor cajoles one of his best mates - comedian Keith Lemon - to join him on a high octane road trip in Albania.

Director: Daniel Edwards | Stars: Leigh Francis, Will Mellor

Votes: 19

23. Prehistoric Planet (2022–2023)
Episode: Swamps (2023)

TV-PG | 38 min | Documentary, Animation, History

In a drought-stricken basin where much has perished, an old Pachycephalosaurus bull defends his leadership against a young challenger.

Star: David Attenborough

Votes: 292

24. Penny Dreadful (2014–2016)
Episode: This World Is Our Hell (2016)

TV-MA | 54 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Hounded through the desert by Kaetenay and others, Ethan faces a reckoning. In London, Victor makes a dire modification to Jekyll's cure for madness.

Director: Paco Cabezas | Stars: Reeve Carney, Timothy Dalton, Eva Green, Rory Kinnear

Votes: 1,780

25. How the Universe Works (2010– )
Episode: The First Oceans (2015)

TV-PG | 43 min | Documentary

For years, scientists suspected that the oceans came from molecules delivered to Earth from distant stars by asteroids, but a new discovery suggests that their true origins may be more exotic.

Director: Mark Bridge | Stars: Richard Lintern, Mike Rowe, Moogega Cooper, Phil Plait

Votes: 81

26. America's National Parks (2015–2016)
Episode: Saguaro (2016)

TV-PG | 48 min | Documentary

Visit one of America's newest national parks - the Saguaro Desert in Arizona, where more species reside than any other desert in North America.

Directors: Henry M. Mix, Yann Sochaczewski | Star: C.T. Taylor

Votes: 34

27. A Cow, a Cat and the Ocean (2006)
Episode: Farces et Attrapes (2006)

11 min | Animation, Family

Nobody likes pranksters, so, imagine how the Cow and the Cat must have felt when they met a pair of beavers and mischievous practical jokers whose river has run dry. Can our brave explorers help them find the cause of the problem?

Director: Prakash Topsy | Stars: Laura Préjean, Donald Reignoux

28. The Outpost (2018–2021)
Episode: The Vex Rezicon (2018)

TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Talon, Garret and Janzo are ambushed and the Book of Names falls into enemy hands. The Prime Order settles into its new oppressive rule; at the Outpost; Gwynn is taken captive.

Director: Jason Faller | Stars: Jessica Green, Jake Stormoen, Imogen Waterhouse, Anand Desai-Barochia

Votes: 311