Movies: Gold

Two best friends, Clint and Lenny, set out to pan for gold during the California Gold Rush. They have a stroke of luck and find a significant amount of gold in their pans. As they continue to pan, Clint becomes increasingly fixated on finding more an...

For thousands of years, gold has been the most treasured and coveted of all metals. But extraction sites are dwindling and what little gold that remains is harder and harder to mine. However, there is a place where you can still find vast quantities ...

In August, 1991, Estonia reclaims its independence from the USSR and brings to its national bank nearly $1 billion in gold bullion hidden in Paris for 50 years. Russian mobsters have a bold plan to hijack the gold after shutting down the capital's po...

After the fall of Saigon, a stranded group of US soldiers tries to make it through Cambodia to safety in Thailand. While taking refuge in an ancient abandoned temple, the men find a gold statue worth millions of dollars....

Uptight killjoy square cop Captain Harold Jinks doesn't approve of the local hippies in an Old West-style rural community romping about naked, so he zealously enforces various strict laws to ban public nudity. It's up to loopy long-haired rebel Hawk ...

After a terrifying youth encounter with a strange half man/half frog monster living in a lake that killed his father, a young man returns to search for the monster's hidden treasure, and to see if the legendary creature really was killed....

A marshal searches for stagecoach robbers....

Marionette puppet version of the tale about a little man who grants a miller's daughter the gift of spinning straw into gold....

A description and enactment of the discovery of gold by James Marshall, and the role played by John Sutter. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive....

The Crazy Gang join the 1898 gold rush. Unfortunately it's now 1939 and they're a bit late....

Featuring Paul Robeson, this is the first documentary film to take a serious look at social conditions and race relations in South Africa....

Two Aboriginal brothers are put in a hard situation by a miner who kills a man for gold. Based on real events....

Les Dalton is on parole after nine years in prison for armed robbery, and now everyone wants to know what happened to the missing gold. He claims it never existed, but no-one believes him, including the retired detective who headed the original manhu...

A plane transporting gold is hijacked in Thailand during the Viet Nam war. A team of Thai mercenaries is hired by the C.I.A. to bring it back....

This short film looks at the history of gold, and how the less expensive gold filled process is used to bring glitter to the masses....

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The increasing price of avocados leads to a study on the socioeconomic impact of monocultures and the monopolization of water in Chile....

The exploitation of the country’s mineral wealth is projected as the most reasonable solution to deal with the economic crisis that plagues Greece. The Greek state has ceded its mining rights over 31.700 ha of land in northern Halkidiki, a region ric...

Unconventional portrayal of mining in the Swedish Lapland ore fields, a powerful image and sound symphony that can be experienced both as a documentary and symbolic work....

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