Highest-Rated Movies about 'Pioneer', Sort by Popularity

Breath Made Visible (2009), What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (2018), Little Big Man (1970), Steep (2007), The Big Trail (1930), What You Gonna Do When The World's On Fire? (2018), Damsel (2018), The Homesman (2014) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Pioneer movies.

#3. Little Big Man (1970)

Storyline: Jack Crabb is 121 years old as the film begins. A collector of oral histories asks him about his past. He recounts being captured and raised by indians, becoming a gunslinger, marrying an indian, watching her killed by General George Armstrong Custer, and becoming a scout for him at Little Big Horn.

Plot Keywords: indian, gunslinger, historian, reverend, pioneer, wild, amusing ...

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#6. What You Gonna Do When The World's On Fire? (2018)

Storyline: Pauline Kael, the New Yorker film critic for 25 years until the early 1990s, was a lightning rod of American culture. She waged a battle to be recognized and her opinions made her readers hate or love her. Her distinctive voice pioneered the art form, and was largely a result of stubborn determination, huge confidence, and a deep love of the arts. The movie also shows 20th-century movies through Pauline's eye, and shows Pauline's own life through moments of other movies. The filmmakers had complete access to the subject -- through Gina James, Pauline's only child and the executor of her estate; friends and colleagues; and Pauline's personal archives. With over 30 new interviews, including David O. Russell, Quentin Tarantino, Camille Paglia, Molly Haskell, Alec Baldwin Greil Marcus, Paul Schrader, John Guare and Joe Morgenstern. Sarah Jessica Parker voices Pauline through her writing and letters.

Plot Keywords: woman, film critic, pioneer, engaging, inspiring, united states, hollywood ...

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#9. Tuck Everlasting (2002)

Storyline: Winnie Foster has everything a young woman could desire. She comes from a well-bred, wealthy, and respected family. She dresses in the finest clothes and is afforded every opportunity to refine herself. But Winnie finds that the heat of summer is not nearly as stifling as her gilded cage. She longs for freedom, for adventure. She escapes one morning to explore the woods surrounding her family's home, and encounters the Tucks, a close-knit family with a mysterious past that begs the question: If you could live forever, would you? And just when Winnie believes she has answered that question for herself, a mysterious man looking to profit from the source of the Tuck's immortality that will have her question her life, her desires, and what is the right thing to do. And in the end, learns, that death is not what is to be feared, but an unlived life.

Plot Keywords: young girl, teen boy, mother, pioneer, dreamy, heartwarming, forest ...

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#10. When the Daltons Rode (1940)

Storyline: Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing their land to a crooked development company. When Tod tries to help them, a faked murder charge turns the Daltons into outlaws, but more victims than villains in this fictionalized version. Will Tod stay loyal to his friends despite falling in love with Bob Dalton's former fiancée Julie?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>

Plot Keywords: pioneer, outlaw, railroad baron, rancher, lawyer, sheriff, thrilling ...

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#13. Melody Time (1948)

Storyline: Segments: "Once Upon a Wintertime," two lovers rescued from an icy river by friendly animals; "Bumble Boogie," bee beset by musical instruments and symbols come to life; "Johnny Appleseed," story of the legendary pioneer tree-planter; "Trees," mood piece set to musical treatment of Joyce Kilmer's poem; "Little Toot," story of a heroic little tugboat who saves an ocean liner; "Blame it on the Samba," Donald Duck and Jose Carioca have the blues blown away at a Latin cafe; "Pecos Bill," story of the legendary cowpoke, his trusty mount Widowmaker and his sweetheart Slue Foot Sue.—Paul Penna <tterrace@wco.com>

Plot Keywords: donald duck, cowboy, pioneer, bee, parrot, engaging, playful ...

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#14. The Charge at Feather River (1953)

Storyline: The story involves an overland journey through hostile Cheyenne territory to rescue two white women captured by the Cheyenne. One has turned renegade and is not anxious to be rescued as she is about to be married to Chief Thunder Hawk. Vera Miles dies and the cavalry comes to the rescue in the nick of time by a stream called Feather River. Knives, arrows, spears and tomahawks all come flying at the audience. Frank Lovejoy discourages a rattlesnake with tobacco juice and even gets off a shot into the audience.—Tom Kresin <tomk@meaddata.com>

Plot Keywords: cavalryman, cavalry captain, cavalry sergeant, woman, frontier woman, pioneer, thrilling ...

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