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1. Gold Rush (2010– )
TV-14 | 45 min | Reality-TV
A reality TV show that follows crews mining the gold placer deposits of the Yukon Territory.
Stars: Paul Christie, Parker Schnabel, Tony Beets, Chris Doumitt
Votes: 5,476
2. Paint Your Wagon (1969)
PG-13 | 164 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Two unlikely prospector partners share the same wife in a California gold rush mining town.
Director: Joshua Logan | Stars: Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg, Harve Presnell
Votes: 14,881 | Gross: $31.68M
3. Bering Sea Gold (2012– )
TV-14 | 43 min | Reality-TV
Each season of the show follows a different group of dredgers, those who search for gold in shallow waters, at the bottom of the sea or even ocean. They often collect paydirt, ground from the seabed that contains some precious ore.
Stars: Shawn Pomrenke, Mike Rowe, Emily Riedel, Kris Kelly
Votes: 1,770
4. Greed (1924)
Not Rated | 140 min | Drama, Thriller, Western
The sudden fortune won from a lottery fans such destructive greed that it ruins the lives of the three people involved.
Director: Erich von Stroheim | Stars: Gibson Gowland, Zasu Pitts, Jean Hersholt, Dale Fuller
Votes: 10,766 | Gross: $0.16M
5. Gold (1974)
PG | 120 min | Adventure, Thriller
A South African gold mine foreman is unwittingly manipulated by an unscrupulous gang of financiers who want to flood the mine to raise the price of gold on the world market.
Director: Peter R. Hunt | Stars: Roger Moore, Susannah York, Ray Milland, Bradford Dillman
Votes: 2,510 | Gross: $0.96M
6. Yukon Gold (2013– )
60 min | Reality-TV
Yukon Gold follows four gold mining crews who have only four short months in Canada's wild Yukon to earn one BIG payday. With the price of gold hovering at record-breaking levels, a modern ... See full summary »
Stars: Bill Courage, Guillaume Brodeur, Ken Foy, Karl Knutson
Votes: 671
7. Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016)
120 min | Documentary, History
The history of Dawson City, the gold rush town that had a historical treasure of forgotten silent films buried in permafrost for decades until 1978.
Director: Bill Morrison | Stars: Michael Gates, Kathy Jones-Gates, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Frank Barrett
Votes: 2,153 | Gross: $0.13M
8. The Return of Ringo (1965)
Not Rated | 95 min | Romance, Western
A returning Union Officer discovers that his home has been overrun by Mexican bandits, and infiltrates the gang to restore order and determine if his wife has been faithful to him.
Director: Duccio Tessari | Stars: Giuliano Gemma, Fernando Sancho, Lorella De Luca, Nieves Navarro
Votes: 2,038
9. The Ballad of Lucy Whipple (2001 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 96 min | Drama, Family, Mystery
The adventures of a family who head west to the California gold fields in the 1850s.
Director: Jeremy Kagan | Stars: Glenn Close, Jena Malone, Bruce McGill, Meat Loaf
Votes: 597
10. Amazon (1990)
R | 96 min | Adventure, Drama
Widowed and broke Finnish businessman Kari takes his two teenage daughters with him to Brazil. A bush pilot introduces him to the idea of gold mining in the jungle, but a beautiful and ... See full summary »
Director: Mika Kaurismäki | Stars: Kari Väänänen, Robert Davi, Rae Dawn Chong, Minna Sovio
Votes: 561
11. The Trail of '98 (1928)
Passed | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Fortune hunters from all over the country rush to the Klondike in 1897 to seek their fortunes in the gold are tested by hardships of the journey.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Dolores Del Río, Ralph Forbes, Karl Dane, Harry Carey
Votes: 446
12. Eureka Stockade (1949)
Approved | 103 min | Drama, History, Western
In 1854, Australian gold rush miners struggle for their rights against an oppressive government.
Director: Harry Watt | Stars: Chips Rafferty, Jane Barrett, Jack Lambert, Peter Illing
Votes: 210
13. Silver Dollar (1932)
TV-G | 83 min | Biography, Drama
Yates and Sarah Martin are barely getting by in a Colorado boom town grocery store. Sudden wealth leads to greater prosperity and political power. In Denver Yates buys a mansion and builds ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Bebe Daniels, Aline MacMahon, DeWitt Jennings
Votes: 469
14. The Grub Stake (1923)
99 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A young woman is lured to the Yukon by a gambler with promises of marriage and a grubstake for a gold mine. She takes her ailing father with her, only to discover when she gets there that ... See full summary »
Directors: Nell Shipman, Bert Van Tuyle | Stars: Nell Shipman, Hugh Thompson, Alfred Allen, Lillian Leighton
Votes: 81
15. Golden Cornucopia (2023)
65 min | Documentary, History
"Golden Cornucopia" is a poignant documentary that explores the legacy of a once-thriving mining community in Oregon.
Director: Jared Brandon-Flande | Stars: Cody Jones, Trevor Dunn, Damon Rose, Jay Billings
16. Rovaniemen markkinoilla (1951)
86 min | Comedy, Musical
Director: Jorma Nortimo | Stars: Esa Pakarinen, Reino Helismaa, Jorma Ikävalko, Jorma Nortimo
Votes: 268
17. Juan Tanga, super naman, at ang kambal na tiyanak (1990)
Action, Comedy, Fantasy
The hillbilly Juan will be blessed with a power to become a superhero who will save their town from evil strangers.
Director: Mike Relon Makiling | Stars: Joey Marquez, Ramon Christopher, Billy Crawford, Lotlot De Leon
Votes: 14
18. Fart (2005)
97 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Petr, a recently discharged officer, arrives in a tiny mining town in the remote Siberian taiga to hunt for gold. When he finds it, the other prospectors cannot forgive his luck.
Director: Roman Khrushch | Stars: Evgeniy Tsyganov, Yana Esipovich, Sergey Tsepov, Sergey Stupnikov
Votes: 99
19. The Spoilers (1923)
80 min | Drama, Western
In this lost adaptation of the 1903 novel, Roy Glennister and Cherry Malotte fight against crooked politicians to keep a gold mine.
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Milton Sills, Anna Q. Nilsson, Barbara Bedford, Robert Edeson
Votes: 14 | Gross: $0.31M
20. We're Going to Be Rich (1938)
78 min | Comedy, Drama, History
A drifter Dobbie and his wife Kit leave Australia in the 1880s for South African gold fields. She discovers happiness is where her husband is.
Director: Monty Banks | Stars: Gracie Fields, Victor McLaglen, Brian Donlevy, Coral Browne
Votes: 35
21. Thariode: The Lost City
Adventure, Drama, History | Pre-production
Australian geologist Mr Smith arrives at Thariode, British India for gold mining. Based on the 2019 documentary film "Thariode" by Nirmal Baby Varghese.
Director: Nirmal Baby Varghese | Stars: Roger Ward, Amelie Leroy, Bill Hutchens, Luing Andrews
22. Apartheid Did Not Die (1998 TV Movie)
Documentary
Director: Alan Lowery | Star: John Pilger
Votes: 44
23. River of Gold (2016)
63 min | Documentary
Narrated by Academy Award winners Sissy Spacek and Herbie Hancock, River of Gold is the disturbing account of a clandestine journey bearing witness to the apocalyptic destruction of the ... See full summary »
Directors: Reuben Aaronson, Sarah DuPont | Stars: Antonio Brack Egg, Herbie Hancock, Ron Haviv, Thomas E. Lovejoy
Votes: 14
24. Colorado (1921)
50 min | Western
While in an army camp waiting to be discharged, Lt. Frank Hayden sees a fellow officer, Capt. Kincaid, attacking a girl. He stops Kincaid, thrashing him soundly in the process. However, to ... See full summary »
Director: B. Reeves Eason | Stars: Frank Mayo, Charles Newton, Gloria Hope, Lillian West
25. The Plunderer (1924)
60 min | Western
Richard Townsend goes west with his friend Bill Matthews, after graduating from mining school to develop his father's abandoned gold mine. Bill discovers from The Lily, owner of the mining ... See full summary »
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Frank Mayo, Evelyn Brent, Tom Santschi, Jim Mason
26. The Spell of the Yukon (1916)
50 min | Drama
Having forced Jim Carson to leave town in order to avoid a trumped-up embezzling charge, now Albert Temple is rid of his only serious rival for Helen, whom he soon marries. Jim goes to ... See full summary »
Director: Burton L. King | Stars: Edmund Breese, Arthur Hoops, Christine Mayo, William Sherwood
27. Adventures in Gold Rush (2023– )
Documentary
A man, his dog and friends hunt the world for Gold.
Stars: Rick L. Winters, Diodoublegee vom Rhöner Erlen Bach, Björn Maass, Benjamin Kümpel
28. The Love Mask (1916)
50 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
During the California gold rush, four unsuccessful miners assume that a woman prospector will give in without a fight, so they jump the claim of Kate Kenner and take her gold away from her.... See full summary »
Director: Frank Reicher | Stars: Cleo Ridgely, Wallace Reid, Earle Foxe, Bob Fleming
29. Alluring Alaska (1941)
Approved | 9 min | Documentary, Short
This entry in the Traveltalks series looks at Alaska. Fairbanks and Skagway are seen, as well as Mount McKinley (now known as Denali).
Star: James A. FitzPatrick
Votes: 69
30. Earth's Golden Playground (2013)
Not Rated | 106 min | Documentary, News
Since the first Gold Rush in the late 1890s the Yukon and its legendary Klondike gold fields has been a remote land shrouded in mystery. In times of economic instability the high price of ... See full summary »
Director: Andreas Horvath
Votes: 22
31. Thariode (2021)
40 min | Documentary, Short
History, problems and prospects of gold mining in Thariode, Wayanad.
Director: Nirmal Baby Varghese | Stars: Aliyar, Historian K.K.N. Kurup, Journalist O.K. Johnny, Historian Mundakkayam Gopi
Votes: 166
32. Nancy Drew: The Shattered Medallion (2014 Video Game)
E | Adventure, Mystery
Teen detective Nancy Drew travels to New Zealand to compete in a reality TV competition and ends up investigating the strange mishaps that are causing the show to spiral out of control.
Director: Tim Burke | Stars: Lani Minella, Jennifer Pratt, Sofia Rybin, Shiromi Arserio
Votes: 41
33. The Sunset Trail (1924)
70 min | Comedy, Western
On a passenger train passing through the desert, Louise offers to pay the fares of Happy Hobo and Collie. The boy Collie accepts, but Happy continues on foot and finds on a dying man a map ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: William Desmond, Gareth Hughes, Lucille Hutton, S.E. Jennings
34. Barkerville Town Tour (2012 Video)
Adventure, Biography, Comedy
The live town tour in Barkerville is put on to screen.
Stars: Attila, Dylan Coulter, Amanda Pelz, Jesse Setka
35. Bring me the Head of Rafaello Carboni! (2013)
27 min | Short, Sci-Fi
Victoria, Australia, 1854. Prof. Jason Crest III is dispatched to the new colony to covertly field test his experimental invention for producing kinetic pictograms (ie moving pictures). On ... See full summary »
Director: Simon Strong | Stars: Sönke Rickertsen, Jason Crest
36. The Loyal Rebel (1915)
60 min | Action, Adventure
The story of the Eureka Stockade, where 12,000 gold miners rose up against the government.
Director: Alfred Rolfe | Stars: Reynolds Denniston, Maisie Carte, Charles Villiers, Percy Walshe
Votes: 19
38. Faith and Fortune (1915)
Short, Drama
Director: Frank McGlynn Sr. | Stars: Grace Williams, Curtis Cooksey, Yale Benner, Rolinda Bainbridge
39. Frozen Gold of the Klondike (1981)
17 min | Documentary, Short, History
A lively historical look at gold mining in the Klondike from gold-rush days to the present using archival stills and footage.
Director: Christina L. McCaughey
40. Munda Nyuringu: A Film of the Fringe Dwellers of the Goldfields (1984) (1984)
50 min | Documentary, History
Aboriginal people on the Goldfields of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia (Australia) recount their history, speaking amidst living conditions of grinding poverty next to the gold and nickel mines and uranium development.
Directors: Robert Bropho, Jan Roberts | Star: Maureen Watson
41. Yukon Gold (1996 Video)
28 min | Documentary, Short, History
1 - Gold mining techniques at Klondike from gold rush days to the 1970s using archival stills and footage. 2 - Filmed at Yukon Consolidated Gold Corporation, it examines the techniques of gold dredging, hydraulic mining and hand sorting.
Directors: Colin Low, Christina L. McCaughey
42. Heart of Sky, Heart of Earth (2011)
98 min | Documentary
Heart of Sky, Heart of Earth
Clouds pass before the sun and away again while a gentle voice speaking in the splendid tones of the Mayan language explains how the Earth came to be. There were... See full synopsis »
Directors: Eric Black, Frauke Sandig | Stars: Josefa 'Chepita' Hernández Pérez, Floridalma Pérez Gonzalez, Carlos Chan Chanuk, Kajkan Felipe Mejía Sepet
Votes: 49
43.
The Flintstones (1960–1966)
Episode:
The Treasure of Sierra Madrock
(1966)
Not Rated | 30 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Traveling through the desert on their way to Rock Vegas, Fred and Barney fall prey to con men who have seeded the river with phony gold. When it turns out that the river contains real gold ... See full summary »
Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Alan Reed, Jean Vander Pyl, Mel Blanc, Henry Corden
Votes: 160
44.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
Goldtown
(1969)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Merry Florene is back, along with her remaining half-brother Elbert Moses and cousin Smiley. Merry pesters Newly while the boys scam Dodge City with a salted gold mine.
Director: Gunnar Hellström | Stars: Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Ken Curtis, James Arness
Votes: 136
45.
The Worst Jobs in History (2004– )
Episode:
Dark Ages
(2004)
Documentary
Some of the worst jobs of the Dark Ages in Britain were mining gold for the Romans, plowing fields with a wooden plow and other difficult and disgusting jobs of the period.
Director: Brendan Hughes | Stars: Tony Robinson, Mick Baker, Damian Brooke
Votes: 29
46.
New Looney Tunes (2015–2020)
Episode:
Sam the Roughrider/Fool's Gold
(2019)
TV-Y7 | Animation, Short, Adventure
Glory-seeking roughrider Yosemite Sam tries taking over Bugs Bunny's hill. / Daffy Duck joins insane prospector Red Omaha in his search for gold.
Director: Sean Petrilak | Stars: Dee Bradley Baker, Jeff Bergman, Matthew Craig, Fred Tatasciore
Votes: 8
47.
Gulag: The History (2019– )
Episode:
Origines : 1917-1933
(2020)
54 min | Documentary, History
From experimentation to setting up the forced labour system (1918-1936).
Director: Patrick Rotman | Stars: Louisa Gummer, Florence Pernel, Andrei Roschin, Dmitriy Likhachyov
Votes: 37
48.
The Wonderful World of Gold (2021)
Episode:
Episode #1.3
(2021)
45 min | Documentary
The series concludes by uncovering the secrets of the multi-billion-pound industry of luxury gold watches and delves into the rich history of British gold mining.
Directors: Bill Bailey, Sam Budd | Star: Robert Glenister
49.
The Mentalist (2008–2015)
Episode:
Red Gold
(2011)
TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Patrick works with special agent Hightower to figure out who killed a struggling gold prospector.
Director: Tom Verica | Stars: Simon Baker, Robin Tunney, Tim Kang, Owain Yeoman
Votes: 1,249
50.
Trail of History (2016– )
Episode:
North Carolina Gold
(2020)
27 min | History
The discovery of gold in North Carolina redefined the region and brought industry and wealth to the Charlotte area. Although mining operations ceased to be profitable by the early 20th ... See full summary »
Stars: Jason Terzis, Arielle Trent, Levi Trent, Andy Bobyarchick