Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "war-surplus"

1. Batman: The Movie (1966)

PG | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

The Dynamic Duo faces four supervillains who plan to hold the world for ransom with the help of a secret invention that instantly dehydrates people.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson | Stars: Adam West, Burt Ward, Lee Meriwether, Cesar Romero

Votes: 35,780

2. He Walked by Night (1948)

Approved | 79 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller

This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.

Directors: Alfred L. Werker, Anthony Mann | Stars: Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Roy Roberts, Whit Bissell

Votes: 6,696

3. The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959)

Not Rated | 105 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

A disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to prove the vessel was deliberately scuttled and, as a result, vindicate his good name.

Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Gary Cooper, Charlton Heston, Michael Redgrave, Emlyn Williams

Votes: 2,937

4. The Bribe (1949)

Approved | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Federal agent Rigby, in Central America to trace stolen plane engines, falls for the gorgeous wife of the chief suspect.

Directors: Robert Z. Leonard, Vincente Minnelli | Stars: Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton, Vincent Price

Votes: 2,162

5. The Fuller Brush Man (1948)

Passed | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Striving to be a whiz-bang salesman and screwing up at every turn, Red Skelton turns in a genius comic performance inevitably getting into big trouble, impossible situations and a wild chase involving dastardly crooks.

Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Red Skelton, Janet Blair, Don McGuire, Hillary Brooke

Votes: 652

6. Lighter Than Hare (1960)

Approved | 7 min | Sci-Fi, Family, Animation

Outer space invader Yosemite Sam wants to capture typical earth creature Bugs.

Director: Friz Freleng | Star: Mel Blanc

Votes: 437

7. Just Plane Beep (1965)

Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short

Wile E. Coyote builds a World War I bi-plane to chase the Road Runner.

Director: Rudy Larriva | Star: Paul Julian

Votes: 256

8. Naked City (1958–1963)
Episode: The Face of the Enemy (1962)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Highly-decorated veteran, Cornelius 'Neil' Daggett (Jack Warden), has deteriorated from hero to alcoholic bum since the end of the war, having alienated his wife and family. He desperately ... See full summary »

Director: William A. Graham | Stars: Paul Burke, Horace McMahon, Harry Bellaver, Nancy Malone

Votes: 97

9. Drachinifel (2017– )
Episode: The USN Mothball Fleet - Storing up for a rainy day (2021)

44 min | Documentary, History

Countries have been maintaining reserve fleets for hundreds of years. But they present some challenges. Ships need to be carefully prepared for deactivation and maintained while in storage.... See full summary »

Star: Drachinifel

10. Pacific War Stories (2019– )
Episode: World War 2 Jeeps - 14 Fascinating Facts You Need to Know (2020)

8 min | Documentary

The ubiquitous Jeep was developed in a crash program in 1940. The prototype was designed by Karl Probst of American Bantam Car Corp. with Willys Overland Motor Company and Ford recruited to... See full summary »

Star: Gerald Anderson

11. The Pacific (2010)
Episode: Basilone (2010)

TV-MA | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Outmanned and with supplies low, Basilone and other marines on Guadacanal rally to repel superior Japanese forces.

Director: David Nutter | Stars: James Badge Dale, Joseph Mazzello, Jon Seda, Jon Bernthal

Votes: 2,791

12. Hitler's Bodyguard (2008– )
Episode: Early Attempts on Hitler's Life (2010)

TV-14 | 47 min | Documentary, History

Beer hall brawls, street fighting, and several brushes with death marked Hitler's rise to power in the stormy politics of interbellum Germany.

Directors: Jonathan Martin, Philip Nugus | Stars: Eva Braun, Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler, Emil Klein

Votes: 38