Movies and TvShows featuring "island-native" theme.
Follow the adventures of Hawaii Five-O, a special state police force tasked with solving crimes and maintaining order in the beautiful island paradise of Hawaii. Led by the charismatic Detective Steve McGarrett, the team uses their unique skills, teamwork, and dedication to bring criminals to justice and protect the people of Hawaii.
The Banana Splits Adventure Hour is a cult TV show from the 1960s that follows a redheaded woman and her three nephews as they embark on various adventures on an island. With the help of the anthropomorphic animal band, the Banana Splits, they encounter pirates, sword fights, and a dash of surrealism.
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep is a movie about a giant monster that attacks a tropical island, causing destruction and chaos. A group of people must come together to stop the monster and save the island.
In Men of War (1994), a group of mercenaries is hired to retrieve a hidden treasure on an island. However, they soon realize that they have been set up and must fight their way out. With action-packed battles, hand-to-hand combat, and intense jungle warfare, the mercenaries face numerous obstacles as they try to complete their mission.
Tanna is a romantic drama film based on a true story that takes place in a remote tribal community in the South Pacific. The film revolves around a forbidden love story between a young tribal woman and a warrior from a rival tribe. The community is faced with conflicts and struggles, including an active volcano eruption and forced marriages. The film beautifully portrays the traditions and customs of the indigenous people of Vanuatu.
Micro Ventures is an educational animated series created by Hanna-Barbera Productions which originally aired as a 4-minute segment on The Banana Splits Adventure Hour. It ran for only four episodes from November 9, 1968 to December 21, 1968 on NBC.
After being stranded on an island, a young girl must learn to survive on her own. She befriends a wild dog and together they face challenges and dangers while trying to find a way back home.
When a group of people are shipwrecked on a remote island, they stumble upon a secret laboratory where a mad scientist is conducting medical experiments on aquatic humanoids. As they try to survive and escape, they uncover the dark secrets of the island and its inhabitants.
The Navigator is a silent film comedy that follows the misadventures of a millionaire and his girl as they find themselves on an abandoned ship, running aground on an island, encountering a cannibal tribe, and ultimately trying to find each other. With slapstick comedy and hijinks, the film is a classic example of the genre.
A military expedition led by a US air force officer crash-lands on an uncharted island in the Pacific Ocean. They encounter live dinosaurs and must find a way to survive and escape.
Exploring some of the world's most isolated and iconic tropical islands.
Wallaby Jim and his men have just found a valuable source of pearls in the South Pacific. But Jim's associate Norman has put the whole operation in jeopardy because of his gambling problem. Jim's unscrupulous rival Richter decides to exploit the situation by jumping Jim's claim and trying to take over for himself.
A look at the everyday life of Tahitian natives.
The Great Maestro gets to conduct more than he can compose himself to. A Puppetoon animated short film.
After opening scenes showing volcanoes of Java, an underground river, waterfalls, cloud effects, a coral island, the Ghost Rocks of Buru, and a tiger hunt in Siam, documentary footage of the cannibal tribes of New Guinea is framed by a fictional narrative in which the scientific expedition is shipwrecked along the southern New Guinea coast in the land of the Kia Kia headhunters, thus affording the crew the opportunity to film the tribal customs of these cannibals.
Brick Bradford, soldier-of-fortune and time-machine traveler, is hired to protect the Interceptor Ray, an anti-guided missile weapon. His task takes him to the Moon, where he is captured by subjects of Queen Khana, but is spared because Queen Khana kinda likes him. Back on earth, Brick, Sandy and June get into The Time To (Brick's spinning time-machine) and spin back to the 18th Century where they have to fight off pirates and island natives.
Chandu consults his crystal ball and sees that Nadji, Princess of Egypt, is in danger. She is about to be sacrificed by the black magic cult of Ubasti. Headed for the magic island of Lemuria, he is shipwrecked , washed ashore and captured. He becomes invisible, escapes and after numerous detours is able to rescue the princess.
Mondo-style documentary in which a movie crew travels to newly independent Papua New Guinea to capture the customs and culture of the cannibal natives. Prepare yourself for death rituals, war costumery, crude tattoos, animal killings, and cannibalism.
Animated cinema advertisement produced for Horlick's by George Pal.
Medical researchers Jerry Evans and Walt Hedges are assigned by a pharmaceutical company to work at a secret laboratory on a remote South Pacific Island in order to produce penicillium, the mold from which the magic drug penicillin is derived.