Movies and TvShows featuring "gold-prospecting" theme.
In the 1980s, a gold prospector in Southeast Asia discovers a massive gold mine. He forms a partnership with a geologist and together they venture into the jungle to establish a mining operation. However, they face financial difficulties, fraud, and the threat of the Wall Street establishment. Based on a true story, 'Gold' explores the greed and ambition that drive people to risk everything for wealth.
In 1851, the Sisters brothers, two hitmen, are hired by the Commodore to track down and kill a chemist and gold prospector in Oregon. Along the way, they face treacherous obstacles, including a spider bite, amputated arm, and their own personal demons.
Groups of desperate travelers journey together throughout the Southwest and soon find trouble when they all get gold fever. The action and drama are heightened when they discover gold…on an Indian burial ground!
The Last Movie is a contemporary western film set in a remote village in Peru. It revolves around the production of a Hollywood movie and explores themes such as spousal abuse and the clash between traditional and modern cultures.
Based on the Helen Hunt Jackson novel of 1884 about a young woman of partial Native American descent, who experiences love and loss in 1800s California.
Woman in the Moon follows a professor who is determined to lead an expedition to the moon. He faces obstacles such as espionage, a love triangle, and finding enough money for the trip. Will he be successful in his mission?
In the 19th century Klondike Gold Rush, a cattle drive turns into a fight for survival as a ruthless town boss tries to control the miners and the gold. A man and a woman find love amidst the chaos, but their lives are endangered by greed, shootouts, and death.
Bad bank robber falls in love with granddaughter of miner he and his men planned to rob of gold, has change of heart.
Dawson City: Frozen Time is a documentary film that tells the story of the history and cultural significance of Dawson City, a town in Yukon, Canada. The film explores the discovery of a collection of silent films that have been preserved in the permafrost for decades, as well as the Klondike Gold Rush and other key moments in the city's past.
In the 1980s, an American man recovering from a broken leg travels to the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. He forms a partnership with a native tribe and goes on a road trip to find gold. Along the way, he faces various challenges and obstacles, including a fistfight, car journey, and running out of fuel. He also deals with personal issues, like being a single father to his teenage daughter and making difficult decisions, such as mercy killing.
In 1854, Australian gold rush miners struggle for their rights against an oppressive government.
This documentary film explores the varied and often surprising ways in which gold and the societies it is part of have transformed over time. Join Idris Elba on a global journey that traces the human story of gold—and discover why the element’s contributions remain crucial to our evolution.
Present-day Portland suburbs kids Dylan and Nicole go on the camping trip with their family, and when they enter a mysterious cave in the mountains, they're transported back in time to 1870, where they meet mountain man Jeremiah.
Iola, the little Indian girl, is held captive by a gang of cutthroats but is soon rescued by Jack Harper, a prospector. She is truly grateful to Jack, and regards him as something different from other white people. Jack's sweetheart and her father are travellers in a wagon-train headed for this place, and, not having much luck so far, he is somewhat gloomy. Iola learns the reason, and promises to help him find gold. "Will you?" he says, "Yes." "Cross your heart?" This cross-your-heart action mystifies Iola. She thinks it is a sort of tribe insignia and tells her people that "Crossheart" people are all right. Iola surely pays her debt of gratitude, not only in finding gold, but in giving her life to protect Jack's sweetheart from her own people.
During the Alaska gold rush, a miner hits the motherlode, but a corrupt sheriff jumps his claim, leading to a tremendous fight.
The near-sighted Mr. Magoo somehow or another is a nugget-happy prospector out west. In addition to mistaking a gold rock for a rain cloud, he meets an old prospector and accuses him of claim-jumping. Together, they actually discover gold.
A western set in the "Wild North".
Eastern capitalists hire a stranger to head out to Arizona to investigate property near the Bar C Ranch, which contains gold. The Bar C is run by Buck Moran, and he and his cowboys are a lawless bunch. They don't know about the gold, but Dave Moore does, and so does his daughter Bobbie, whom he dresses up like a boy. Her true gender is eventually sussed out by the stranger.
All kinds of crimes are being committed in a frontier settlement; if you blame it on the Chiricahuas afterwards, you can get away with anything. One Chiricahua hooks up with a white guy and a black woman who have been victimized by the status quo, and the three of them whoop some righteous-vengeance butt.