In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first love, Ann Rutledge, to pursue law. Following her tragic death, Lincoln establishes a law practice in Springfield, where he meets a young Mary Todd. Lincoln's law skills are put to the test when he takes on the difficult task of defending two brothers who have been accused of murder.

The Long Voyage Home

1940

English

6.9

♡ 11

100%

John Ford Director

Barry Fitzgerald as Cocky

J.M. Kerrigan as Crimp

Thomas Mitchell as Driscoll

Mildred Natwick as Freda

The crew of the merchant ship Glencairn hope to survive a transatlantic crossing during World War II. Adapted from four Eugene O'Neill one-act plays.

Fort Apache

1948

English

7.4

♡ 17

100%

John Ford Director

John Agar as 2nd Lt. Michael Shannon O'Rourke

Frank McGrath as Cpl. Derice Movita

Movita as Guadalupe

Ward Bond as Sgt. Maj. Michael O'Rourke

Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant, obsessed with military form and ultimately self-destructive, he attempts to destroy the Apache chief Cochise after luring him across the border from Mexico, against the advice of his subordinates.

The Long Gray Line

1955

English

7.2

♡ 6

90%

John Ford Director

Sean McClory as Dinny Maher

Maureen O'Hara as Mary O'Donnell

Ron Nyman as Recruit

Ken Curtis as Specialty

The life story of a salt-of-the-earth Irish immigrant, who becomes an Army Noncommissioned Officer and spends his 50 year career at the United States Military Academy at West Point. This includes his job-related experiences as well as his family life and the relationships he develops with young cadets with whom he befriends. Based on the life of a real person.

Mogambo

1953

English

6.6

♡ 11

75%

man between two women

Romance

safari

sexual tension

John Ford Director

Ava Gardner as Eloise Y. Kelly

Denis O'Dea as Father Josef

Grace Kelly as Linda Nordley

Bruce Seton as Wilson

On a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordley's cheating wife Linda.

Two Rode Together

1961

English

6.7

♡ 7

86%

John Ford Director

Ken Curtis as Greeley Clegg

Paul Birch as Judge Edward Purcell

John McIntire as Maj. Frazer

Chuck Hayward as Trooper

Two tough westerners bring home a group of settlers who have spent years as Comanche hostages.

3 Godfathers

1948

English

7.0

♡ 14

88%

John Ford Director

Hank Worden as Deputy Curly

Ward Bond as Perley 'Buck' Sweet

John Wayne as Robert Marmaduke Sangster Hightower

Mildred Natwick as The Mother

Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safety across the desert, even at the risk of their own lives.

The Quiet Man

1952

English

7.7

♡ 26

91%

John Ford Director

Maureen O'Hara as Mary Kate Danaher

Barry Fitzgerald as Michaleen Oge Flynn

Sean McClory as Owen Glynn

Mildred Natwick as The Widow Sarah Tillane

An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.

Tobacco Road

1941

English

6.4

♡ 3

37%

John Ford Director

Elizabeth Patterson as Ada Lester

George Chandler as Clerk

Ward Bond as Lov

Irving Bacon as Teller

Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming.

Mary of Scotland

1936

English

6.3

♡ 2

45%

John Ford Director

Fredric March as Earl of Bothwell

Florence Eldridge as Elizabeth Tudor

Donald Crisp as Huntly

Alan Mowbray as Throckmorton

The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.

The Informer

1935

English

7.3

♡ 7

89%

ira (irish republican army)

love

treason

John Ford Director

Ward Bond as Man

Frank Hagney as Policeman

Anne O'Neal as Singer

J.M. Kerrigan as Terry

Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and start over in America with his girlfriend. So when British authorities advertise a reward for information about his best friend, current IRA member Frankie, Gypo cooperates. Now Gypo can buy two tickets on a boat bound for the States, but can he escape the overwhelming guilt he feels for betraying his buddy?

The Whole Town's Talking

1935

English

7.3

♡ 13

100%

John Ford Director

Edward G. Robinson as Arthur Ferguson Jones / Killer Manion

Edwards Davis as Captain, S.S. Shanghai

Sam Flint as City Commissioner

Sidney D'Albrook as Waiter

Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is fired as an example, he's then mistaken for evil criminal killer Mannion and is arrested. The resemblance is so striking that the police give him a special pass to avoid a similar mistake. The real Mannion sees the opportunity to steal the pass and move around freely and chaos results.

Stagecoach

1939

English

7.8

♡ 39

100%

John Ford Director

Thomas Mitchell as Doc Josiah Boone

Chief John Big Tree as Indian Scout

Tim Holt as Lieutenant Blanchard

William Hopper as Sergeant

A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.

Straight Shooting

1917

English

6.3

♡ 3

43%

John Ford Director

Harry Carey as Cheyenne Harry

Molly Malone as Joan Sims

George Berrell as Sweet Water Sims

Ted Brooks as Ted Sims

Cattleman Flint cuts off farmer Sims' water supply. When Sims' son Ted goes for water, one of Flint's men kills him. Cheyenne is sent to finish off Sims, but finding the family at the newly dug grave, he changes sides.

Four Sons

1928

English

7.2

♡ 3

80%

John Ford Director

Francis X. Bushman Jr. as Franz - Her Son

John Wayne as Officer

Hans Fuerberg as Officer

Harry Cording as (uncredited)

A family saga in which three of a Bavarian widow's sons go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany's eventual opponent. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with L'Imaginne Ritrovato and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 1999.

The Searchers

1956

English

7.8

♡ 72

87%

John Ford Director

Ken Curtis as Charlie McCorry

Vera Miles as Laurie Jorgensen

Chuck Hayward as Man at Wedding

Olive Carey as Mrs. Jorgensen

Frank McGrath as Texas Ranger

As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.

The Lost Patrol

1934

English

6.8

♡ 4

100%

John Ford Director

Alan Hale as Cook

J.M. Kerrigan as Quincannon

Boris Karloff as Sanders

Victor McLaglen as The Sergeant

A World War I British Army patrol is crossing the Mesopotamian desert when their commanding officer, the only one who knows their destination, is killed by the bullet of unseen bandits. The patrol's sergeant keeps them heading north on the assumption that they will hit their brigade. They stop for the night at an oasis and awaken the next morning to find their horses stolen, their sentry dead, the oasis surrounded and survival difficult.

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

1962

English

8.1

♡ 45

95%

John Ford Director

Chuck Hayward as Henchman

Jack Williams as Henchman

Carleton Young as Maxwell Scott

Ron Nyman as Townsman

Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon saved Stoddard, then a lawyer, when he was roughed up by a crew of outlaws terrorizing the town, led by Liberty Valance. As the territory's safety hung in the balance, Doniphon and Stoddard, two of the only people standing up to him, proved to be very important, but different, foes to Valance.

Donovan's Reef

1963

English

6.7

♡ 13

67%

John Ford Director

Edgar Buchanan as Boston Attorney Francis X. O'Brien

Frank Hagney as Chief Petty Officer

Ron Nyman as Naval Officer

Lee Marvin as Thomas Aloysius 'Boats' Gilhooley

After her great aunt's death, a high-society woman arrives on a Hawaiian island in search of the heir - the father she has never met.

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

1949

English

7.2

♡ 25

92%

woman between two men

John Ford Director

Mildred Natwick as Abby Allshard

Frank McGrath as Bugler / Indian

Chief John Big Tree as Chief Pony That Walks

John Agar as Lt. Flint Cohill

On the eve of retirement, Captain Nathan Brittles takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperiled.

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Young Mr. Lincoln

The Long Voyage Home

Fort Apache

The Long Gray Line

Mogambo

Two Rode Together

3 Godfathers

The Quiet Man

Tobacco Road

Mary of Scotland

The Informer

The Whole Town's Talking

Stagecoach

Straight Shooting

Four Sons

The Searchers

The Lost Patrol

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Donovan's Reef

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon