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- An underdog lawyer takes on a fraudulent insurance company.
- During the Depression, a con-man promises rain to a desperate drought-ridden Kansas town and marriage to a local desperate spinster.
- Traveling rainmaker Starbuck arrives at the drought-ridden Curry place, promising rain for the farm and perhaps a romance for 'spinster sister' Lizzie.
- A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film The Rainmaker (1997), and director Francis Ford Coppola's creative methods of getting great performances from his cast.
- A documentary about an Aboriginal man living in Fitzroy Crossing in Western Australia that maps out his ancestors' spiritual connection to the land and his family's continuing custodianship of it.
- Small town family man Henry Latham decides to run for mayor on the issue of trash disposal. Incumbent Mayor Colton solved the problem so Henry develops a rain making device with disastrous results.
- TV SeriesBased on the 1995 novel by John Grisham, the series follows a young lawyer, who finds himself trapped by the dangerous firm he's been hired by.
- Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry spell and to save the community from an unscrupulous businessman who stands to profit from the drought.
- The story of a racetrack tout whose prayers could bring a dry or muddy racetrack, and how he learned to capitalize on those powers. Until the day he lost the power and bet the wrong way.
- Charlie wants to install a lawn sprinkler. He forgot to pay the water bill, and the hijinks ensue.
- When Little Audrey wishes for the rain to go away and causes a devastating drought, she must appeal to the Rainmaker to make him relent.
- A man who is in charge of seeding clouds to bring rain to a parched district becomes obsessed with a traditional singer.
- A yearly ceremony among the Songhai people of Niger to invoke the spirits of the sky and of rain.
- Real Estate Tycoon (Jimmy Capri) flees to Mexico after being framed and stripped of fortune only to find himself at the center of a deadly feud between the Mexican government and the cartel.
- During our hero's leave-taking from home, he misses his train going East but easily grabs another going West and lands in a town that is badly in need of moisture. They are expecting a professional rainmaker and Lloyd, having appropriated his high hat and the professor's daughter en route, is acclaimed their benefactor as he steps from the train. He sets off the sky-rocket that is to produce rain, but it hits a snow cloud and the bathing-suit-clad populace is snowed under. Lloyd makes his escape after several comical experiences in a Pullman car in which he gets mixed up with an old maid's curling iron dangling from an upper berth.
- Heckyl and Jeckyl get their wish when they wish for no more rain forever. Then when a drought sets in they have to attempt to put things straight again.
- A questionable police officer Noah Washington, must hunt down a local gang member David Ruiz after he escapes from prison; In the process he kills David's daughter Nina, and now must avenge the death of his own daughter after David seeks revenge.
- Two mischievous youngsters put the following sign over a hole in a board fence: 'Drop Nickel in Slot and See it Rain.' A farmer comes along, follows directions and is promptly showered by a hose in the hands of the youngsters.
- In a town suffering from a water crisis, an amateur dancer with social phobia becomes unconscious of dehydration and is forced to face her fears to survive.
- Rainmaking: superstition or supernatural skill? Tanzania has been suffering from persisting droughts, causing local people to question what's stopping the rain. Rainmakers, once renowned for their skills in bringing down rains, are no longer believed. Is there any link between these two realities and if so, which came first? Were the Rainmakers naives or con-men, or could they really possess a supernatural gift?
- 1954–195930m7.0 (15)TV Episode
- The officers arrest a rainmaker, only to discover that he was hired by the drought-ridden city. Wojo, Harris, and Dietrich each consider applying for a job opening in vice.
- Elmer convinces Corky that he can make it rain and end the drought, despite the previous failures of his many inventions.
- A charlatan traveling rainmaker gets hired during a long drought, sparking conflict between rival local governments.
- Henry does not want to play golf with his boss and hopes it will rain. He is even willing to pay for it. Dennis and Tommy perform rain dances to get it to rain despite the fact that it has been rainless for ten days.
- Through Jeannie's misguided attempts to help, Doctor Bellows thinks that Tony can make it rain at will.
- Lizzie Curry is on the verge of becoming a hopeless old maid. Her wit and intelligence and skills as a homemaker can't make up for the fact that she's just plain plain! Even the town sheriff, File, for whom she harbors a secret yen, won't take a chance --- until the town suffers a drought and into the lives of Lizzie and her brothers and father comes one Bill Starbuck ... profession: Rainmaker!
- When Rainmaker Charlie Hatfield contracts with the city of San Diego to fill the city's reservoir, he is a little too successful in doing so.
- A chance encounter between a disillusioned actor and a lawyer leads to changes in the attorney's life.
- The D.A. refuses to prosecute press tycoon Kale's son Jared's alleged 'n-th rape', hinting he has a closed juvenile record, which later proves minor. Skip and Coop take Susan Palavi's case. Kate seizes the opportunity to get her firm to represent the rich Kales. Her boss Marshall feels confident because Susan consented in sex with Jared a month earlier, enough evidence to sue her and Coop's firm. Dee convinces Skip to go on, against Coop's advice, although she's the only other, barely credible witness. Skip's kid brother, Tom, calls him to a remarkable party, the start of a crucial phone calls saga.
- A pilot with a cloud-seeding plane, an eccentric old inventor and a young Aborigine all make their own attempts to put an end to a dry spell that has hit the Waratah National Park.
- Lizzie Curry is on the verge of becoming a hopeless old maid. Her wit and intelligence and skills as a homemaker can't make up for the fact that she's just plain plain! Even the town sheriff, File, for whom she harbors a secret yen, won't take a chance --- until the town suffers a drought and into the lives of Lizzie and her brothers and father comes one Bill Starbuck ... profession: Rainmaker!
- An aging and nomadic Arapaho Indian Chief insists that he can repay the McCoys' kindnesses by doing an extended sequence of dances that will bring much-needed rain.
- The Rotten Rainmaker's weather-controlling device is raining out a planned rocket launch and he demands 1 million dollars to make it stop.
- With a lack of water Boss and Gronk think they must sacrifice Mac and Hector for it to rain.
- Jeannie causes problems when she tries to end a drought on the Native American reservation.