This is a List of river films and television series. The list includes films, TV series, and documentaries that take place on a river or are about rivers and river explorers.
Media | Title | Released | Country | Director | Notable cast | Notes |
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Feature | Jungle Cruise (film) | 2021 | Jaume Collet-Serra | Dwayne Johnson,Emily Blunt | Amazon River fantasy adventure | |
TV series | The River (American TV series) | 2012 | United States | Jaume Collet-Serra | Bruce Greenwald,Joe Anderson,Leslie Hope | Amazon River horror adventure supernatural |
Independent film | Big River Man | 2009 | John Maringouin | Martin Strel, Borut Strel, Matthew Mohlke | Amazon River documentary | |
Independent film | The African Queen (film) | 1951 | United States | John Huston | Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley | Adventure film |
TV series | Nile (TV series) | 2004 | UK | Mike Gunton | Catherine Schell, Kenneth Haigh, Michael Gough | Documentary film |
Film | The Bridge on the River Kwai | 1957 | UK/USA | David Lean | Alec Guinness, William Holden, Jack Hawkins | Based on a novel by Pierre Boulle; won seven Academy Awards |
Film | Apocalypse Now | 1979 | USA | Francis Ford Coppola | Marlon Brando,Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen | Loosely based on the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, with the setting changed from late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War. |
Film | Aguirre, the Wrath of God | 1972 | West Germany, Mexico, Peru | Werner Herzog | Klaus Kinski, Helena Rojo, Del Negro | After reading a half-page devoted to Lope de Aguirre, the filmmaker became inspired and immediately devised the story. |
Film | Fitzcarraldo | 1982 | West Germany, Peru | Werner Herzog | Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, José Lewgoy | inspired by Peruvian rubber baron Carlos Fitzcarrald, who once transported a disassembled steamboat over the Isthmus of Fitzcarrald |
Film | Deliverance | 1972 | USA | John Boorman | Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty | adapted by James Dickey from his 1970 novel of the same name. |
Film | Mystic River | 2003 | United States | Clint Eastwood | Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon | Based on a novel by Dennis Lehane; won two Academy Awards |
Film | The River [1] | 1984 | USA | Mark Rydell | Mel Gibson, Sissy Spacek, Shane Bailey | |
Film | A River Runs Through It | 1992 | United States | Robert Redford | Brad Pitt, Craig Sheffer, Tom Skerritt | Based on a novella by Norman Maclean; won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography |
TV series | River | 2015 | UK | Abi Morgan | Stellan Skarsgård, Nicola Walker | A police procedural about a detective who is haunted by murder victims |
Film | Wind River | 2017 | United States | Taylor Sheridan | Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen | A thriller about a murder investigation on an Indian reservation |
Documentary | FLOW: For the Love Of Water | 2008 | USA/France/Canada | Irena Salina | Maude Barlow, Vandana Shiva, Erik D. Olson | An investigation into the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh water supply |
Documentary | River [2] | 2022 | Australia/UK/France/Germany/USA | Jennifer Peedom | Willem Dafoe, Robert Macfarlane | A cinematic journey through the world's great waterways and their cultural and ecological significance |
Documentary | The Colorado River: Running Near Empty [3] | 2010 | USA | Peter McBride [4] | Peter McBride | A photographic and film journey down the Colorado River from source to sea |
Documentary TV series | Der Rhein von oben [5] | 2013 | Germany | ? | ? | A documentary series about the river Rhine |
Documentary | Rivers of Life (TV series) [6] | 2019 | UK/USA | Mark Flowers, Simon Blakeney | Michael J Hayes | Series exploring the natural history and cultural importance of the Nile, the Amazon, and the Yukon |
(The category country refers to country of film or show production facilities)
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