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Mar 28, 2024 · Lists about real explorers and expeditions and fictional depictions of fast-paced, dangerous adventures in film, TV, anime, literature, and other media. Over 300 filmgoers have voted on the 20+ films on Best Archaeology Movies. Current Top 3: Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the ...
Apr 1, 2020 · Just like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video offers thousands of hours of TV and film at the touch of a button, including a wealth of documentaries for music lovers. Here we have listed the 10 best music docs on Amazon Prime US.
- 10 'National Treasure'
- 9 'The Mummy'
- 8 'The Goonies'
- 7 'The Lost City'
- 6 'Dora and The Lost City of Gold'
- 5 'Romancing The Stone'
- 4 'The Lost City of Z'
- 3 'The Dig'
- 2 'King Solomon's Mines'
- 1 'The Treasure of The Sierra madre'
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 46% When professional treasure hunter Benjamin Franklin Gates (Nicolas Cage) learns that his grandfather's story about a mythical treasure is true, he sets out to find it. Racing against a crew of criminals, Gates' journey reveals that the map to the treasure is hidden on the back of the Declaration of Independence. National ...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 60% When librarian Evelyn (Rachel Weisz) and adventurer Rick (Brendan Fraser) team up to discover the secrets of an ancient Egyptian city, they instead reawaken a powerful mummy. As the mummy wreaks havoc and takes many lives, the pair and their companions are forced to save the day while maybe falling in love along the way. ...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 77% One of the best movies of the '80s, The Goonies follows a group of kids as they discover a treasure map that seems to hint at hidden pirate gold. While the group of friends tries to make the discovery of a lifetime, they must also avoid a family of criminals that are hot on their trail. Produced by Stephen Spielberg, The ...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 79% Reclusive author Loretta Sage (Sandra Bullock) writes swashbuckling tales full of adventure and romance but spends her downtime lounging around the house. Forced to go on a publicity tour, she is soon kidnaped by billionaire Abigail Fairfax (Daniel Radcliffe), who seeks the true treasure that her books are based on. An ad...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 85% A live-action adaptation of the classic children's cartoon Dora and the Lost City of Gold, sees a teenage Dora (Isabela Merced) facing her strangest adventure yet: high school. When a class trip results in Dora and her new friends getting stranded in the jungle, they go off in search of a rumored city of gold. While most ...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 86% Another adventure starring a romance novelist, Romancing the Stone, stars Kathleen Turner as successful novelist Joan Wilder. After her sister is kidnaped, Joan is sent a treasure map and ordered to Colombia to find the treasure as her sister's ransom. She is soon joined by smuggler Jack Colton (Michael Douglas), and they...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 86% Based on real-life explorer Percival Fawcett, The Lost City of Z stars Charlie Hunnam as Fawcett as he sets out to discover a fabled lost city. Joined by his companion Henry Costin (Robert Pattinson), the pair experience many dangers in one of the best Amazon Prime Original movies. The Lost City of Z sets itself apart fro...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 88% Set in England in the 1930s, The Dig stars Carey Mulligan as Edith Pretty, a wealthy landowner who becomes intrigued by the mounds that rest on her property. Hiring self-taught archeologist Basil Brown (Ralph Fiennes) to investigate the burial site, he discovers a ship from the Dark Ages hidden in the earth. A re-imaging ...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 92% Based on the classic novel, King Solomon's Mines follows a party of explorers as they venture into Africa to find a missing man. The man disappeared while searching for King Solomon's lost mine, which is said to contain unimaginable riches, and the rescuers encounter it in their own travels. There have been many adaptatio...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 100% Set in the Old West, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre revolves around three men as they set off in search of gold in Mexico. As the prospect of money becomes more realistic, the men grow distrustful of each other as their suspicions threaten to rip them apart and destroy their lives. One of the best Westerns of all time,...
Jul 15, 2022 · Sound City (2013) Directed by Dave Grohl, Sound City chronicles the studio of the same name. At various times home to Neil Young, Nirvana, Rage Against The Machine, Johnny Cash, Tom Petty, The Grateful Dead, Fleetwood Mac, Slipknot, Queens of the Stone Age, Metallica, Arctic Monkeys ... [continues ad infinitum] ...
Jul 24, 2022 · Here are the ten best music documentaries now streaming on Prime Video. 1. Long Strange Trip
Dec 21, 2021 · Some movie fans returned to theaters in 2021 while others opted to keep streaming films from home. We talk with a critic about the year’s best movies and changes in the industry. We’re also joined by the author of a book looking at history’s most important archaeological finds.
Oct 15, 2021 · Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser (1988) Produced by Clint Eastwood, director Charlotte Zwerin’s film is an intimate, revealing portrait of a jazz genius. Monk, who suffered from manic depression, was complex, moody, and often unpredictable, but his brilliance as a pianist and stylist was unassailable, influencing a score of musicians.
