steamboat
19 movies and shows
Maverick
Fri, 20 May 1994
Bret Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional $3k in order to enter a winner-takes-all poker game beginning in a few days. He joins forces with a woman with a marvelous Southern accent, and the two try and enter the game.
Little Old New York
Fri, 09 Feb 1940
Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.
Fitzcarraldo
Tue, 02 Mar 1982
Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.
Across the Pacific
Fri, 04 Sep 1942
Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-martialed out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for the Orient in late 1941. But has Leland really been booted out, or is there some other motive for his getting close to fellow passenger Doctor Lorenz? Any motive for getting close to attractive traveler Alberta Marlow would however seem pretty obvious.
The Adventures of Mark Twain
Thu, 20 Jul 1944
A dramatised life of Samuel Langhorn Clemens, or Mark Twain.
Kaunis Veera eli ballaadi Saimaalta
Fri, 22 Sep 1950
Tar Steam Princess Armada travels along Lake Saimaa to St. Petersburg and back during the years of Russian rule over Finland. The ship's crew gets tired of their sophisticated coffee maker and replaces her with Roma girl Veera, who has escaped from an arranged marriage. On the way back, mysterious passengers appear on the ship.
The Vanishing of S.S. Willie
Mon, 01 Jan 2024
The short is presented as a long-lost documentary from 1928, one that details the disappearance of a commercial steamship, The S.S. Willie.
Titanic
Fri, 24 Sep 1943
In 1912, the Titanic embarks on its inevitable collision course with history. In the wake of the over-spending required to build the largest luxury ship in the world, White Star Line executive Sir Bruce Ismay schemes to reverse the direction of his company's plummeting stock value. Onboard the Titanic, brave German 1st Officer Petersen struggles to convince his self-important British superiors not to overexert the ship's engines.
Steamboat Willie
Tue, 15 May 1928
Mickey Mouse, piloting a steamboat, delights his passenger, Minnie Mouse, by making musical instruments out of the menagerie on deck.
Blood Alley
Sat, 01 Oct 1955
An American Merchant Marine captain, rescued from a Chinese Communist jail by local villagers, is "shanghaied" into transporting the entire village to Hong Kong on an ancient paddle steamer.
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
Wed, 09 May 1928
The just-out-of-college, effete son of a no-nonsense steamboat captain comes to visit his father whom he's not seen since he was a child.
Well, Just You Wait! 7
Sat, 12 May 1973
Volk desperately tries to get onto a cruise ship to get Zayats.
Copy
Fri, 11 Oct 1929
On a slow news day, the wisecracking staff of a newspaper write articles about the serious safety issues of a local excursion steamboat line.
Remember the Sultana
Fri, 27 Apr 2018
Over 2000 Union soldiers, passengers and crew were crammed aboard the steamboat Sultana, licensed to carry 376. Graft, greed, overcrowding, a poorly maintained boat, and the Mississippi River was swollen with spring snowmelt conspired together to create a disaster. On April 27, 1865, the boat’s boilers exploded, causing the worst maritime disaster in US history.
Hittin' the Trail for Hallelujah Land
Sat, 28 Nov 1931
Piggy and Fluffy, which is the ripoff of Mickey and Minnie, have adventures on a riverboat and Uncle Tom is chased by skeletons promising to take him to Hallelujah Land. One of the "Censored Eleven" banned from TV syndication by United Artists in 1968 for racist stereotyping.
Ånga om sommaren
Sun, 17 Jun 2018
A trip on the Swedish lake Mälaren by a 115-year-old steamboat. The journey between Stockholm and Mariefred takes 3,5 hours. The steamboat Mariefred was manufactured over a hundred years ago and is one of the last steam-powered vessels on the lake. The steam whistle sounds when Maja, as she is called in Mariefred, steers into the bay towards the small town. A fanfare for the summer!
Banjoes, Fiddles & Riverboats: John Hartford and the General Jackson
Tue, 01 Jan 1991
Steamboatin' stories from those who lived them, river history, authentic footage and stills, along with music and narration by John Hartford.
_DARK_MICKEY
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A sailor mouse finds himself in a spectral ocean of overflowing pixels. Glitch and destruction haunt this little mouse. Aboard the steamboat, a corrupt dance begins.