Movies and TvShows featuring "panning-for-gold" theme.

An anthology of six tales set in the Old West featuring a singing gunslinger, a bank robber, a traveling impresario, an elderly prospector, a wagon train, and bounty hunters. Each story explores life and violence in different ways, showcasing the diverse characters and events of the American frontier.

Into the West follows the epic journey of a settler family as they encounter various challenges and conflicts in the Wild West during the 19th century. The miniseries explores themes of interracial relationships, Native American history, and the impact of the gold rush.

In a western town in the 1870s, a doctor finds himself in a moral dilemma when he tries to protect a criminal from a hanging. As he navigates the lawless frontier, he forms unexpected alliances and faces dangerous obstacles while searching for a lost woman. Along the way, he must confront his own demons and make difficult choices that will ultimately determine the fate of those involved.

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 the midst of the California gold rush, a group of prospectors encounter various comedic mishaps while searching for wealth.

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.

The Sacketts is a dramatic TV mini-series set in the post-American Civil War era. It revolves around three brothers who face various challenges such as imperialism, panning for gold, and a cattle drive. The story is based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and also involves elements of gambling and card playing.

Sword of the Beast follows the story of a ronin who becomes a fugitive after discovering a hidden stash of gold. As he tries to escape his pursuers, he finds himself drawn into a dangerous power struggle and must decide where his loyalties lie.

In the midst of the California gold rush, a group of pioneers face various challenges as they struggle to find their fortune and establish their lives in the wild west. With evil landowners, paning for gold, and the fight for statehood, they must navigate a treacherous landscape where self-sacrifice and marriage of convenience become necessary for survival.

During the California Gold Rush, two down-on-their-luck vaudevillians attempt to become wealthy by bringing a girlie show to an all-male western mining town.

Chasing Waterfalls is a romantic drama that follows the story of a photographer and a park guide who cross paths and fall in love while exploring the beauty of waterfalls. As they embark on a camping trip and engage in various outdoor activities such as rock climbing and rowboating, they discover a deep connection. However, their romance becomes complicated when the photographer's ex-girlfriend re-enters the picture, creating a romantic triangle. Amidst betrayal, the protagonists navigate through challenges and learn to seize the moment. Will they find their happy ending?

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 John Wesley Powell expedition of 1869 explores the dangerous Colorado River, withstands internal dissension, and finally discovers the Grand Canyon.

Italian costume drama about convicted women in France being sent to the penal colony on Devil's Island where they must wade through alligator-infested waters and find gold. Life on the island is tough for these buxom, beautifully-swept coiffed maidens - virtually none who look like they had even the slightest knowledge of crimes worthy of such a punishment. Here, if the girls want to get a day of rest they must work the night with the guards and/or warden of the island, but some changes come when Guy Madison arrives as the new warden out to change the horrible lives led by these playmate-wannabes.

A psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned mine. The psychiatrist, unable to talk her out of it, decides to follow her out there.

In '14 Carrot Rabbit', Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam team up in a crazy race to find a gold nugget. With plenty of slapstick humor and surreal moments, they navigate through Alaska, encountering military police, a chase on a cruise ship, and even a falling-from-height scene. It's a hilarious adventure filled with greed, chaos, and laughter.

Director William A. Wellman adds another to his long line of salutes-to-aviation films in this bio of an aviation pioneer, John Montgomery (Glenn Ford.) In 1883 he built a practical glider despite the opposition of his friends, who thought he was crazy, and of his family, who were afraid that his dreams of flying would hurt his father's political ambitions. He pursues his education at Santa Clara University where the Jesuits lend a helping and understanding hand. An earthquake destroys what appears to be a working model for an airplane, but a gold-sorting machine Montgomery invented, and then neglected, promises to provide for his financial needs to keep working on his aircraft until he gets involved in costly lawsuits defending his invention.

Darby Clyde Fenster and Jerry Martin are a pair of penniless nincompoop-drifters who hop a freight train on their way to Florida. Our intrepid heroes find themselves facing one comic situation after another in this gloriously loopy Southern fried comedy-with-music.

In the midst of the California Gold Rush, an orphaned girl assumes the identity of her deceased uncle and encounters various adventures while trying to go straight. She finds herself in romantic rivalry, dealing with outlaws, and panning for gold in the redwood forest.

The orphan Dora is courted by two different gold miners.