Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "archaeological-expedition"

1. Death Curse of Tartu (1966)

Unrated | 88 min | Horror

A group of student archaeologists venture into the Florida Everglades to look for fossils, but come across an area cursed by a Native American witch doctor.

Director: William Grefé | Stars: Fred Pinero, Babette Sherrill, Bill Marcus, Mayra Gómez Kemp

Votes: 842

2. The Mummy (1932)

Approved | 73 min | Fantasy, Horror

A resurrected Egyptian mummy searches Cairo for the girl he believes to be his long-lost princess.

Director: Karl Freund | Stars: Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners, Arthur Byron

Votes: 30,257

3. Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972)

PG | 89 min | Comedy, Horror

The vengeful doctor rises again, seeking the Scrolls of Life in an attempt to resurrect his deceased wife.

Director: Robert Fuest | Stars: Vincent Price, Robert Quarry, Valli Kemp, Peter Cushing

Votes: 7,153

4. Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971)

PG | 94 min | Horror

An archaeological expedition brings back to London the coffin of an Egyptian queen known for her magical powers. Her spirit returns in the form of a young girl and strange things start to happen.

Directors: Seth Holt, Michael Carreras | Stars: Andrew Keir, Valerie Leon, James Villiers, Hugh Burden

Votes: 3,821

5. Secret of the Incas (1954)

Approved | 100 min | Action, Adventure

An adventurer searchers for hidden treasure in the Peruvian jungles.

Director: Jerry Hopper | Stars: Charlton Heston, Robert Young, Nicole Maurey, Thomas Mitchell

Votes: 1,984 | Gross: $1.40M

6. The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)

G | 68 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi

Englishmen race to find the tomb of Genghis Khan before the sinister Fu Manchu does.

Directors: Charles Brabin, Charles Vidor | Stars: Boris Karloff, Lewis Stone, Karen Morley, Charles Starrett

Votes: 3,740 | Gross: $0.82M

7. The Mummy's Hand (1940)

Approved | 67 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror

Archaeologists defile the tomb of mummified Kharis, who was buried alive for falling in love with an Egyptian princess.

Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Dick Foran, Peggy Moran, Wallace Ford, Eduardo Ciannelli

Votes: 4,721

8. The Mummy's Tomb (1942)

Passed | 61 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

The ancient Egypt Mummy, Kharis, is transported from his homeland with the high priest Mehemet to wreak vengeance on the family who has defiled the sacred tomb of his beloved Princess Ananka.

Director: Harold Young | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Dick Foran, John Hubbard, Elyse Knox

Votes: 3,874

9. The Mummy's Shroud (1967)

Approved | 90 min | Horror

In 1920 an archaeological expedition discovers the tomb of an ancient Egyptian child prince. Returning home with their discovery, the expedition members soon find themselves being killed ... See full summary »

Director: John Gilling | Stars: André Morell, John Phillips, David Buck, Elizabeth Sellars

Votes: 2,373

10. The Dead Are Alive! (1972)

R | 106 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

A photographer on an archaeological expedition digging up Etruscan ruins in Italy begins to suspect that not all the Etruscans buried there are actually dead.

Director: Armando Crispino | Stars: Alex Cord, Samantha Eggar, John Marley, Nadja Tiller

Votes: 1,070 | Gross: $0.11M

11. Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941)

Passed | 216 min | Action, Adventure, Family

To protect a magic talisman from being used for evil, a teenage boy named Billy Batson is given the power to become an adult superhero, Captain Marvel, with a single magic word: "Shazam!"

Directors: John English, William Witney | Stars: Tom Tyler, Frank Coghlan Jr., William 'Billy' Benedict, Louise Currie

Votes: 1,523

12. Phantom of Chinatown (1940)

Approved | 62 min | Mystery

Detective James Lee Wong is on the scene as archaeologist Dr. John Benton, recently returned from an expedition in China where a valuable ancient scroll was recovered, is murdered while giving a lecture on the expedition.

Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Keye Luke, Lotus Long, Grant Withers, Charles Miller

Votes: 841

13. Hell's Belle (2019)

87 min | Horror

While on an archaeological expedition on a remote mountain, a group of young people stumble across a piece of jewelry that belonged to Belle Starr. One of them steals the piece and incites the wrath of Belle's ghost.

Director: Terry Spears | Stars: David Lee Anderson, Mikayel Ashley, Pamela Bell, Dylan Cox

Votes: 86

14. Patterns of Evidence: Exodus (2014)

Unrated | 115 min | Documentary, History

An investigation into the validity of the Exodus.

Director: Timothy P. Mahoney | Stars: Kevin Sorbo, Benjamin Netanyahu, David Rohl, Shimon Peres

Votes: 1,203

15. Elective Affinities (1996)

98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The novel (1809) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The marriage of Edward and Charlotte gets worse with the arrival at the castle Young Ottilia, grandson of Carlotta, and Brass. Edward is ... See full summary »

Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Marie Gillain

Votes: 672

16. The Circle (IV) (2017)

93 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A University professor takes four archaeology students on a field trip to a remote Scottish island. With tensions already present in the group, they unearth clues to an ancient mystery that will threaten their lives.

Director: Peter Callow | Stars: Edward Baker-Duly, Sesselia Olafs, Griffin Stevens, Eva-Marie Kung

Votes: 520

17. Space Pirate Captain Herlock: Outside Legend - The Endless Odyssey (2002– )

390 min | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy

Professor Daiba unleashes an ancient horror from it's sleeping chamber. The crew members of the Arcadia set sail to stop it as well as have Tadashi Daiba meet Captain Harlcok.

Stars: Kôichi Yamadera, Tomokazu Seki, Kari Wahlgren, Barbara Goodson

Votes: 323

18. Ardal O'Hanlon: Tomb Raider (2022 TV Special)

59 min | Documentary

Ardal O'Hanlon explores a 1930s quest to find the first Irish men and women using archaeology, answering his deepest questions about what it means to be Irish.

Director: Chris Nikkel | Star: Ardal O'Hanlon

Votes: 27

19. Ukonvaaja (2016)

88 min | Documentary

Ukonvaaja - The Hammer of Ukko - is a documentary film that focuses on ancient Finnish folklore and mythology.

Director: Tuukka Tähti | Stars: A.W. Yrjänä, Antti Lahelma, John Björkman, Juha Ruohonen

Votes: 93

20. Tierra de Atlantes

Documentary | Post-production

Recent archaeological discoveries have confirmed the existence of Tartessos, a civilization traditionally imagined as an Eldorado in the Mediterranean Sea, and often mistaken as Atlantis -and which reality is not far from the myth.

Director: José Antonio Hergueta | Stars: Juan María Acosta, Carolina Lopez-Ruiz, Leonardo García Sanjuán, Francisco José García Fernández

21. The Mummy Who Came in from the Cold (2007 TV Movie)

53 min | Documentary

In Yakoutia, a forgotten province of Siberia, an anthropologist Eric Crubezy has unearthed a strange tomb containing the body of a woman with her eyes covered and clothed in a garment of ... See full summary »

Votes: 10

22. Phenomenon: The Lost Archives (1998– )
Episode: Noah's Ark Found? (1998)

60 min | Documentary

In 1960, a joint US/Turkish expedition sets out to investigate the aerial sighting of a boat shaped object located in the Ararat Mountains of Eastern Turkey. Though this initial ... See full summary »

Director: Douglas A. Snider | Stars: Dean Stockwell, Wilbur Bishop, Bill Rogers, Ron E. Wyatt

Votes: 12

23. Je veux être... toi (1977–1982)
Episode: Paléontologue (1978)

15 min | Documentary, Short, Family

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Director: Georges Ferraro | Stars: Daniel, Éric, Erwan, Florence

24. Nova (1974– )
Episode: Decoding the Great Pyramid (2019)

TV-G | 54 min | Documentary

Archaeological research by Mark Lehner and Zahi Hawass shed light on some of the mysteries of the Egyptian pyramids.

Director: Tom Fowlie | Stars: Eric Meyers, Mark Lehner, Salima Ikram, Claire Malleson

Votes: 113