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1. A Night to Remember (1958)

Not Rated | 123 min | Drama, History

On her maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.

Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Kenneth More, Ronald Allen, Robert Ayres, Honor Blackman

Votes: 17,256

2. Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)

Approved | 63 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

Scientists become trapped on a shrinking island with intelligent, murderous giant crabs.

Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Richard Garland, Pamela Duncan, Russell Johnson, Leslie Bradley

Votes: 3,856

3. Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls (1992 TV Movie)

PG | 188 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

King Edward asks Sherlock Holmes to perform one more task before his retirement: to safeguard the Star of Africa on a trip to Cape Town. Soon the fabled jewel is stolen and several people end up being murdered.

Director: Bill Corcoran | Stars: Christopher Lee, Patrick Macnee, Jenny Seagrove, Joss Ackland

Votes: 697

4. Dark Journey (1937)

Not Rated | 77 min | Adventure, Crime, Romance

During World War I, a German spy and a French spy meet and fall in love.

Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Conrad Veidt, Vivien Leigh, Joan Gardner, Anthony Bushell

Votes: 1,463

5. Ask a Policeman (1939)

Not Rated | 83 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

The mirthful adventures of Police Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and Jeremiah Harbottle, who stage a fabricated crime wave to save their jobs - then find themselves involved in the real thing.

Director: Marcel Varnel | Stars: Will Hay, Graham Moffatt, Moore Marriott, Glennis Lorimer

Votes: 1,032

6. U-Boat Prisoner (1944)

Approved | 66 min | Drama, War

An American sailor poses as a German spy in this implausible World War II action drama that is reportedly based on the actual experience of Archie Gibbs, a seaman detained aboard a German ... See full summary »

Directors: Lew Landers, Budd Boetticher | Stars: Bruce Bennett, Erik Rolf, John Abbott, John Wengraf

Votes: 38

7. Fit for a King (1937)

Approved | 73 min | Comedy, Romance

A newspaper reporter assigned to do a story on royalty and the antics begin. Some comic relief.

Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Joe E. Brown, Helen Mack, Paul Kelly, Harry Davenport

Votes: 135

8. The Last Signals (2012)

43 min | Short, Biography, Drama

Junior telegraphist Harold Bride boards the RMS Titanic expecting his career to be a breeze from here on, yet he never expects he and his Chief, John Phillips, to be at the center of saving... See full summary »

Director: Thomas Lynskey | Stars: Jake Swing, Thomas Lynskey, Robert Bagdon, Richard Myers

Votes: 59

9. Caught by Wireless (1908)

10 min | Short, Drama

In Ireland, Paddy is having troubles with his rent collector who has also made advances to Paddy's wife. The rent collector enlists the aid of the Black-and-Tans and Paddy has to flee to ... See full summary »

Director: Wallace McCutcheon | Stars: D.W. Griffith, Edward Dillon

Votes: 83

10. North Sea (1938)

Approved | 24 min | Drama, Documentary, Short

A dramatic reconstruction of the fishing trawler 'John Gillman' in trouble in a storm.

Director: Harry Watt | Star: Bill Blewitt

Votes: 161

11. Ritmos telegráficos (1970)

11 min | Documentary, Short, History

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Director: Antonio Mercero | Star: Ángel Losada

12. Flicker Flashbacks No. 6, Series 5 (1948)

Approved | 9 min | Comedy, Short

Excerpts from 'Caught by Wireless' (1908) and 'Eldora, the Fruit Girl' (1911) are ridiculed by a wisecracking narrator for the entertainment of 1948 audiences.

Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Knox Manning, Edward Dillon, D.W. Griffith, Mabel Trunnelle

13. The Littlest Expert on Great Inventions (1952)

Approved | 10 min | Short

A hodge-podge of archive footage, with a commentary-narration by a Little Mr. I. Q.-type kid, looking at inventions from the past. This one takes a look at the Wright Brothers and their ... See full summary »

Director: Justin Herman | Star: Ward Wilson

14. Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World (2019)
Episode: The Smartphone (2019)

TV-PG | 54 min | Documentary, History

The history leading to the smartphone is a journey through Roman fire signals, Morse code, Marconi's wireless, Bell's telephone, Lamarr's spread-spectrum signaling, to Apple's 2007 iPhone and forward to brainwave-controlled smartphones.

Directors: Sean Smith, Ben Harding | Stars: Jim Al-Khalili, Saul David, Nadya Mason, James Meigs

Votes: 33

15. 1899 (2022)
Episode: The Ship (2022)

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

Passengers on an immigrant ship traveling to the new continent get caught in a mysterious riddle when they find a second vessel adrift on the open sea.

Director: Baran bo Odar | Stars: Emily Beecham, Aneurin Barnard, Andreas Pietschmann, Miguel Bernardeau

Votes: 7,009

16. 1899 (2022)
Episode: The Calling (2022)

TV-MA | 48 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Maura has terrible flashbacks and makes a shocking move. A sound leads some passengers to jump overboard. Maura makes a discovery about her father.

Director: Baran bo Odar | Stars: Emily Beecham, Aneurin Barnard, Andreas Pietschmann, Miguel Bernardeau

Votes: 4,831

17. 1899 (2022)
Episode: The Boy (2022)

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

The captain experiences inexplicable glimpses of the past. A strange man follows Maura to her cabin where a boy is hiding. An insect leads to a tragedy on deck.

Director: Baran bo Odar | Stars: Emily Beecham, Aneurin Barnard, Andreas Pietschmann, Miguel Bernardeau

Votes: 5,287