Movies and TvShows featuring "solomon-islands" theme.

During World War II, Marine Willard Russell finds a skinned and crucified soldier and ends his agony. After the war, Willard marries Charlotte and they have a child named Arvin. In 1950, Helen marries the eccentric preacher Roy Laferty, who stabs and kills her. Roy is picked up by serial killers Carl and Sandy, who murder him. In 1957, Charlotte dies of cancer and Willard commits suicide. Arvin goes to live with his grandmother and meets Lenora. In 1965, Arvin kills Reverend Preston for raping Lenora and later kills Carl and Sandy when they try to harm him. He confronts Sheriff Lee Bodecker and leaves evidence of the murders with his corpse. Arvin then contemplates his future.

Yukari Morita’s journey to find her missing father takes her to the far off Solomon Islands, where she is offered a deal by the Solomon Space Associations’ director. They will help her search, but in exchange, she must become an astronaut.

PT 109 is a war drama movie that tells the gripping true story of Lieutenant John F. Kennedy and his crew as they navigate through the treacherous waters of the South Pacific during World War II. When their PT boat is rammed by a Japanese destroyer, Kennedy must lead his men to safety, facing enemy fire, harsh conditions, and his own injured state. With limited supplies and no communication, they must rely on each other's courage and resilience to survive. This film showcases Kennedy's leadership and determination, foreshadowing his future role as the President of the United States.

Explorer follows Bob Ballard and veterans from both America and Japan as they search for ships that were sunk during the Battle of Guadalcanal.

Harvard grad Bruce McVeagh has fled San Francisco for the South Seas, where he rules as a king on a remote island. With his half-crazed first-mate 'Pearly' Gates, he keeps the natives subjugated with gin. Any who dare disobey him find brutal punishment on his dreaded torture rack. But his kingdom threatens to crash down around him when his lost love, Nancy Darrell, is shipwrecked on the island, just as the aroused natives rise up against their tormentor in an armed rebellion.

A Marine major (Pat O'Brien) looks out for his captain (Robert Ryan) on Guadalcanal and in Australia.

During World War II, a group of soldiers engage in a brutal battle while stationed on the Island of Guadalcanal. The film explores the psychological and emotional toll of war on the soldiers.

As if they were showing their film to a few friends in their home, the Johnsons describe their trip across the world, which begins in the South Pacific islands of Hawaii, Samoa, Australia, the Solomons (where they seek and find cannibals), and New Hebrides. Thence on to Africa via the Indian Ocean, Suez Canal, North Africa, and the Nile River to lion country in Tanganyika. (They are briefly joined in Khartum by George Eastman and Dr. Al Kayser.) Taking a safari in the Congo, the Johnsons see animals and pygmies, and travel back to Uganda, British East Africa, and Kenya.

Directed by nine Indigenous Solomon Island filmmakers, this is both a love letter and lament for the eponymous traditional lands.

A documentary about the traditional music of the 'Are'are people of the Solomon Islands.

In a country facing the devastating effects of climate change, the Solomon Islands futsal team battles against the odds to reach the FIFA Futsal World Cup, with the goal of securing a future for their sport and their nation.

In the jungles of the Solomon Islands, a remote archipelago in the South Pacific, a biologist is attempting to do something Charles Darwin and Ernst Mayr never accomplished: catch evolution in the act of creating new species. Albert Uy is on the verge of an amazing discovery in the Solomon Islands, but there's a threat looming on the horizon. The islands' resources are being exploited, putting all local wildlife at risk. It's a race against time to gather the evidence necessary to prove the existence of a new species before it's lost forever.

A golden object mystifies a young man living in a traditional Solomon Islands village. He dreams of going to the city and wakes up in a nightmare that changes his life forever.

On the 3rd of April 2014 flash floods hit Honiara, capital of the Solomon Islands. My 30 minutes long documentary looks at the aftermath of the flood and shows what happens in a poor South Pacific nation when 10'000 people, most of them illegal settlers, are left homeless and conflicts arise.

Tracking the efforts of father-son activists to put an end to dolphin slaughtering in Japan and the Solomon Islands. The series is a follow-up to the 2009 Academy Award-winning documentary, "The Cove."

Documentary of an expedition by Martin E. Johnson and his wife into the native habitats of the Solomon and New Hebrides Islands in the South Pacific. The Johnsons travelled 18,000 miles by schooner, whaleboat, and native canoe to shoot footage of tribes previously unseen outside their native lands.