Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "land-theft"

1. Rango (2011)

PG | 107 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Rango is an ordinary chameleon who accidentally winds up in the town of Dirt, a lawless outpost in the Wild West in desperate need of a new sheriff.

Director: Gore Verbinski | Stars: Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Timothy Olyphant, Abigail Breslin

Votes: 293,569 | Gross: $123.48M

2. Devil's Doorway (1950)

Approved | 84 min | Western

After the Civil War, a highly decorated Shoshone Indian veteran plans to raise cattle in Wyoming but white farmers plan to grab fertile tribal lands by pitting the whites against the Indians.

Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Robert Taylor, Louis Calhern, Paula Raymond, Marshall Thompson

Votes: 1,859

3. Beans (2020)

92 min | Drama

Based on true events, Tracey Deer's debut feature chronicles the 78-day standoff between two Mohawk communities and government forces in 1990 Quebec.

Director: Tracey Deer | Stars: Kiawentiio, Rainbow Dickerson, Violah Beauvais, Paulina Alexis

Votes: 1,066

4. Khosla Ka Ghosla! (2006)

Not Rated | 135 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A Delhi-based retired middle-class man tries half-heartedly to get his land back from a swindling property dealer with the help of his sons and their friends.

Directors: Dibakar Banerjee, Pravin E. Birje | Stars: Anupam Kher, Boman Irani, Parvin Dabas, Tara Sharma

Votes: 25,038 | Gross: $0.03M

5. Occupation 101 (2006)

90 min | Documentary

A thought-provoking and powerful documentary film on the current and historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and U.S. political involvement.

Directors: Abdallah Omeish, Sufyan Omeish | Stars: James Akins, Arik Ascherman, Bishop Barltlett Jr., Phyllis Bennis

Votes: 1,909

6. Blue Box (2021)

82 min | Documentary

The JNF's Blue Boxes were part of a successful fund raising campaign to support the purchase of land in Palestine. Joseph Weitz was the man who orchestrated the acquisition and expropriation of Palestinian lands.

Director: Michal Weits | Stars: Ren Burttet, Dror Keren, R.H. Thomson, Michal Weits

Votes: 104

7. The Coming War on China (2016)

TV-PG | 113 min | Documentary, History

From award winning journalist John Pilger, reveals what the news doesn't - that the world's greatest military power, the United States, and the world's second economic power, China, both nuclear-armed, may well be on the road to war.

Director: John Pilger | Stars: Franklin Blaisdell, James Bradley, Bruce Cumings, Dana Rohrabacher

Votes: 1,691

8. The Paleface (1922)

Not Rated | 20 min | Short, Comedy, Western

Buster helps a Native American tribe save their land from greedy oil barons.

Director: Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts

Votes: 3,273

9. Utopia (II) (2013)

112 min | Documentary, History, News

Exploring offenses practiced by popular media, big business, police forces and Governments helping the Australian 225 year campaign of genocide continue against Aboriginal Australians.

Directors: Alan Lowery, John Pilger | Stars: John Pilger, Jon Altman, Pat Anderson, Mal Brough

Votes: 445

10. Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (1993)

119 min | Documentary

A film account about the military 1990 siege of a Native American reserve near Oka, Quebec, Canada and its causes.

Director: Alanis Obomsawin | Stars: Jack Burning, Herbie Barnes, Alanis Obomsawin, Ethel Blondin

Votes: 483

11. The Troubles (1981– )

Documentary

Six-part documentary series looking at Northern Ireland from the perspective of recent Irish history.

Votes: 10

12. Afrique 50 (1950)

17 min | Documentary, Short

Documentary about the living conditions in a small Ivorian village during French colonization.

Director: René Vautier | Star: René Vautier

Votes: 321

13. Stealing a Nation (2004 TV Movie)

56 min | Documentary, History

This tells a story literally 'hidden from history'. In the 1960s and 70s, British governments, conspiring with American officials, tricked into leaving, then expelled the entire population ... See full summary »

Directors: John Pilger, Sean Crotty | Star: John Pilger

Votes: 408

14. Heart o' the Hills (1919)

87 min | Drama, Romance

Family tensions in the Kentucky hills are inflamed by an outsider's dishonest scheme to exploit the area for its coal.

Directors: Joseph De Grasse, Sidney Franklin | Stars: Mary Pickford, Harold Goodwin, Allan Sears, Fred Huntley

Votes: 573

15. A Man from Nowhere (1920)

Passed | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Western

Clay Norton and Duke Fuller are partners in a mining venture and have several claims, none of which have proved particularly successfully but do have promise. They are both in love with ... See full summary »

Director: Francis Ford | Stars: Jack Hoxie, Frederick Moore, Pansy Porter, Francis Ford

Votes: 41

16. The Secret Country: The First Australians Fight Back (1986 TV Movie)

60 min | Documentary, History

John Pilger tells of their struggles of indigenous Australians as they were driven from their lands and he follows events throughout this century as they relate to Aboriginal rights.

Director: Alan Lowery | Stars: John Pilger, Vince Forrester, Mario Fredericks, Bob Hawke

Votes: 45

17. Laboratory Greece (2019)

165 min | Documentary

A journey through Greece and Europe's past and recent history: from the Second World War to the current crisis. It is a historical documentary, a look into many stories.

Director: Jacopo Brogi | Stars: Filippo Abbate, Konrad Adenauer, Salvador Allende, Rania Antonopoulos

Votes: 32

18. Sekal Has to Die (1998)

109 min | Drama

Baran, a protestant blacksmith arrives in the little village of Lakotice to kill Sekal, a cruel Nazi collaborator.

Director: Vladimír Michálek | Stars: Olaf Lubaszenko, Boguslaw Linda, Jirí Bartoska, Agnieszka Sitek

Votes: 1,032

19. Undermined - Tales from the Kimberley (2018)

90 min | Documentary

Australia's vast and unspoiled Kimberley region is under threat, with mining, pastoralism and irrigated agriculture driving an unprecedented land grab. What will be left of over 200 remote Aboriginal communities?

Director: Nicholas D. Wrathall | Stars: Albert Wiggan, Kevin Oscar, June Davis, Anne Poelina

Votes: 22

20. Black Gold (1936)

Approved | 57 min | Action, Drama, Romance

Dan O'Reilly, who has spent forty years working in oil fields, is about to strike oil when his land lease nears its end. J. C. Anderson of the Anderson Producing and Refining Corp. ... See full synopsis »

Director: Russell Hopton | Stars: Frankie Darro, LeRoy Mason, Gloria Shea, Berton Churchill

Votes: 98

21. Melody of the Plains (1937)

Passed | 55 min | Drama, Music, Romance

When Cass and his gang attack Steve Condon and his trail herders, it apears that Steve kills his own man Bud. Later when Steve and Fuzzy take jobs on Langley's ranch, they find that Bud was... See full summary »

Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Fred Scott, White King, Louise Small, Al St. John

Votes: 16

22. The Empire Files (2015– )
Episode: Gaza Fights for Freedom (2019)

84 min | Documentary, News, Talk-Show

Filmed during the height of the Great March Of Return protests, it features exclusive footage of demonstrations where 200 unarmed civilians have been killed by Israeli snipers since March 30, 2018.

Director: Abby Martin

Votes: 919

23. Can't Get You Out of My Head (2021)
Episode: Are We Pigeon? Or are We Dancer (2021)

120 min | Documentary, History

The final episode tells how the strange paralysis that grips us today was created. How all the different forces of our age - that started out as separate have come together to create what ... See full summary »

Star: Adam Curtis

Votes: 97

24. Panorama (1953– )
Episode: Putin's War in Ukraine (2022)

Documentary, News

What are the reasons behind Putin's invasion of Ukraine? Panorama investigates.

Star: Paul Kenyon

Votes: 15

25. Putin vs the West (2023–2024)
Episode: My Backyard (2023)

Documentary

Following the Euromaidan protests and fleeing of pro-Russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, Valdimir Putin invades the strategic region Crimea using separatist forces, and annexes ... See full summary »

Stars: Kim Darroch, José Manuel Durão Barroso, Evelyn Farkas, Dalia Grybauskaite

Votes: 60