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1. I Became a Criminal (1947)

Approved | 78 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

After WW2, former RAF airman Clem Morgan joins a gang of black-market smugglers-thieves but when a robbery goes wrong, Clem is caught , framed for a policeman's murder, and is sent to prison where he plots his escape and revenge.

Director: Alberto Cavalcanti | Stars: Sally Gray, Trevor Howard, Griffith Jones, Rene Ray

Votes: 1,944

2. Shock Corridor (1963)

Approved | 101 min | Drama, Mystery

Bent on winning a Pulitzer Prize, a journalist commits himself to a mental institution to solve a strange and unclear murder.

Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans, James Best

Votes: 13,117

3. The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper (1981)

PG | 100 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

D.B. Cooper parachutes with his stolen money and proceeds to contact his wife. Meanwhile, his former army sergeant, who now works as an insurance investigator, manages to identify him and decides to track him down.

Directors: Roger Spottiswoode, Buzz Kulik | Stars: Robert Duvall, Treat Williams, Kathryn Harrold, Ed Flanders

Votes: 1,427 | Gross: $3.70M

4. Blood Oath (1990)

R | 108 min | Drama, War

The island of Ambon in Indonesia, 1945. During the War, the number of Australian POWs on the island had dropped from 1100 to less than 300 due to abuses by their Japanese captors. Capt. ... See full summary »

Director: Stephen Wallace | Stars: Bryan Brown, George Takei, Terry O'Quinn, John Bach

Votes: 963

5. El Alamein - The Line of Fire (2002)

117 min | Drama, War

War seen through the eyes of Serra, a university student from Palermo who volunteers in 1942 to fight in Africa. He is assigned to the Pavia Division on the southern line in Egypt. Rommel ... See full summary »

Director: Enzo Monteleone | Stars: Paolo Briguglia, Pierfrancesco Favino, Luciano Scarpa, Emilio Solfrizzi

Votes: 2,020

6. 26 Men (1957–1959)
Episode: My Brother's Keeper (1958)

26 min | Western

When two of his sons return from Cuban POW camps after the Spanish-American War, a rancher decides it's time to reopen a feud between his kin and a rancher who purchased most of his land when he failed to pay his real estate taxes.

Director: Reg Browne | Stars: Tristram Coffin, Kelo Henderson, I. Stanford Jolley, Gary Gray

7. Death Valley Days (1952–1970)
Episode: Paid in Full (1965)

TV-PG | 25 min | Western

Colonel Hunter, a former Confederate officer returns to Texas to call on Kathy McLennan, the wife of a dead soldier who had been killed while serving under him during the Civil War. He ... See full summary »

Director: Lee Sholem | Stars: Keith Andes, Michael Constantine, Aneta Corsaut, Joseph Sirola

Votes: 24

8. Mr. & Mrs. North (1952–1954)
Episode: Target (1954)

TV-PG | 26 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Pam and Jerry plan to have a nice quiet picnic at the beach, but a sniper quickly changes those plans.

Director: Paul Landres | Stars: Richard Denning, Barbara Britton, Francis De Sales, Robert Osterloh

Votes: 30

9. The Outer Limits (1995–2002)
Episode: The Light Brigade (1996)

TV-PG | 45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Former POW John Skokes, a chief weapons officer and a glory seeking cadet obsessed with the poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" try to drop a doomsday weapon on the aliens' homeworld and win the war.

Director: Michael Keusch | Stars: Robert Patrick, Graham Greene, Wil Wheaton, Adrian G. Griffiths

Votes: 511

10. Bold Venture (1959– )
Episode: Look Back, Inge Anger (1959)

30 min | Adventure

An ex-soldier who blames Slate for his being captured during the war arrives, bent on revenge.

Director: Anton Leader | Stars: Dane Clark, Joan Marshall, Bernie Gozier, Robert Strauss

Votes: 6