Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "lake-ontario"

1. Fly Away Home (1996)

PG | 107 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

A father and daughter decide to attempt to lead a flock of orphaned Canada Geese south by air.

Director: Carroll Ballard | Stars: Jeff Daniels, Anna Paquin, Dana Delany, Terry Kinney

Votes: 27,097 | Gross: $24.51M

2. Traitor (2008)

PG-13 | 114 min | Action, Crime, Drama

When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations officer, Samir Horn.

Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff | Stars: Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Archie Panjabi, Saïd Taghmaoui

Votes: 59,085 | Gross: $23.53M

3. The Pathfinder (1996 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 94 min | Adventure

This adventure follows a mid-18th-century British scout through the wilderness on a mission to sneak into a French fortress.

Director: Donald Shebib | Stars: Sid Bobb, John Bourgeois, Corinne Conley, Denis De Laviolette

Votes: 271

4. Skating to New York (2013)

PG-13 | 93 min | Drama, Sport

The coming-of-age journey of 5 teenage boys who leave their small, Canadian town behind and risk skating across Lake Ontario to New York on the coldest day of the year.

Director: Charles Minsky | Stars: Connor Jessup, Wesley Morgan, Gage Munroe, Matthew Knight

Votes: 508

5. Heart: The Marilyn Bell Story (2001 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 90 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

This made-for-TV bio-pic is about Marilyn Bell, a Canadian teenager who, in 1954, was the first person to swim across Lake Ontario. She won the Toronto Canadian National Exhibition prize ... See full summary »

Director: Manon Briand | Stars: Caroline Dhavernas, Amy Sloan, Graeme Somerville, Vlasta Vrana

Votes: 155

6. Drain the Great Lakes (2011 TV Movie)

TV-G | 47 min | Documentary

Scientists and film makers take us to the bottom of the Great Lakes and show us what the bottoms are like and go back in history when they formed.

Directors: Wayne Abbott, Crispin Sadler | Stars: Cham Giobbi, Nigel Wattrus, Steve Blasco, John O'Shea

Votes: 104

7. Innocent (2005)

80 min | Drama, Romance

17-year-old Eric follows his parents to immigrate to Canada and is thus forced to confront different emotional and cultural problems. He must not only adjust to the new environment, but ... See full summary »

Director: Simon Chung | Stars: Po Chan, Timothy Lee, Jovita Adrineda, Wing Wong Wilson Kam

Votes: 359

8. Mysteries of the Great Lakes (2008)

45 min | Documentary

Through several interlocking stories, including the story of maritime commerce and the ships that move cargo through the inland waterway, Mysteries of the Great Lakes will take you on a ... See full summary »

Director: David Lickley | Star: Gordon Pinsent

Votes: 51

9. Waterlife (2009)

109 min | Documentary

A look at the natural beauty and environmental crisis surrounding the Great Lakes.

Director: Kevin McMahon | Stars: Bruce Baur, Ernest Benedict, John K. Bruce, Robert Budds

Votes: 94

10. Our Marilyn (1987)

27 min | Short, Documentary

Dramatized short about Canadian Marilyn Bell's attempt to be the first person to swim across Lake Ontario and what it must have felt like, narrated by an unnamed Canadian girl who speaks of... See full summary »

Director: Brenda Longfellow

Votes: 22

11. Mighty Niagara (1943)

9 min | Documentary, Short, History

This Traveltalks entry visits places along the Niagara River and gives the viewer spectacular images of Niagara Falls.

Star: James A. FitzPatrick

Votes: 100

12. Roaming Through Michigan (1950)

Approved | 9 min | Documentary, Short

This Traveltalks entry roams through the northern end of Michigan's Lower Peninsula and makes a short visit to the Upper Peninsula. We start with a ride in a dune buggy on the Sleeping Bear... See full summary »

Stars: James A. FitzPatrick, Spikehorn Meyer

Votes: 80

13. How the Earth Was Made (2009– )
Episode: Great Lakes (2009)

TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary, History

The Great Lakes region provided geologists with much of the evidence for the frequent ice ages that visited North America. But the lakes may be a rather transient feature of the continent ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Beckham | Stars: Corey Johnson, Timothy McCue, John Zawiskie, Marcus Bursik

Votes: 34

14. The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022)
Episode: The Homeless, The Tempest-Tossed (1942-) (2022)

TV-14 | 131 min | Documentary, History

A group of government officials supports and finances rescue operations. Allied soldiers begin to liberate concentration camps and find mass graves. The public sees the sheer scale of the Holocaust.

Directors: Sarah Botstein, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick | Stars: Peter Coyote, Daniel Mendelsohn, Deborah Lipstadt, Eva Geiringer

Votes: 144

15. Profspop (2010–2017)
Episode: Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania (2012)

4 min | Documentary, History

Pine Creek Gorge is a large canyon in north central Pensylvania carved out by glaciers. It was clear cut for wood but replanted and is now a nature reserve.

Stars: Alan Shrimp, Ed Shrimp

16. GeologyHub (2017– )
Episode: The Great Lakes of Canada; Why they Occur Along a Straight Line (2023)

4 min | Documentary, News

Canada has four large lakes, comparable in size to the widely know Great Lakes, that lie along the Canadian Shield craton.

Star: Timothy C. Catron

17. Murdoch Mysteries (2008– )
Episode: Loch Ness Murdoch (2013)

TV-PG | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Detective Murdoch investigates the death of Katie Buchanan who is found dead at the beach, on a hot summer's day, by her friend Elaine Lawson. Both were entrants in a beauty pageant known ... See full summary »

Director: Cal Coons | Stars: Yannick Bisson, Thomas Craig, Helene Joy, Jonny Harris

Votes: 353