Best Adventure movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan, Rock Hudson, Jim Brown,
Directors : John Sturges,

USN nuclear sub USS Tigerfish must rush to the North Pole to rescue the staff of Drift Ice Station Zebra weather station.

Actors : Candice Bergen, Sean Connery, John Huston, Brian Keith,
Directors : John Milius,

In early 20th century Morocco, a Sharif kidnaps an American woman and her children, forcing President Theodore Roosevelt to send in forces to conduct a rescue mission.

Actors : Arthur Hill, Laurence Olivier, Thelonious Bernard, Diane Lane,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

A French boy (Daniel) and an American girl (Lauren), who goes to school in Paris, meet and begin a little romance. They befriend Julius who enchants them with his storytelling. In an ...

Actors : Steve McQueen, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Elga Andersen, Siegfried Rauch,
Directors : Lee H. Katzin,

Almost in breadth and depth of a documentary, this movie depicts an auto race during the 70s on the world's hardest endurance course: Le Mans in France. The race goes over 24 hours on 14.5 ...

Actors : Richard Harris, Hugh Griffith, Trevor Howard, Marlon Brando,

In 1787, British ship Bounty leaves Portsmouth to bring a cargo of bread-fruit from Tahiti but the savage on-board conditions imposed by Captain Bligh trigger a mutiny led by officer Fletcher Christian.

Actors : Richard Widmark, Frankie Avalon, Laurence Harvey, John Wayne,
Directors : John Wayne,

In 1836, a small band of soldiers sacrifice their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.

Actors : Peter Lukoye, Virginia McKenna, Geoffrey Keen, Bill Travers,

Married couple George Adamson and Joy Adamson have long lived in northern Kenya for George's work as the senior game warden of the region. One of George's primary responsibilities is to ...

Actors : Maythavee Burapasing, Lawrence de Stefano, Ron Smoorenburg, Kelly B. Jones,
Directors : Tom Waller,

A Thai youth football team is trapped in a cave while rescue workers scramble to save them.

Actors : Candice Bergen, Ben Johnson, Gene Hackman, James Coburn,
Directors : Richard Brooks,

A group of ex-rough riders, an ex-prostitute and a gunfighter enter a horse race in the desert.

Actors : Pamela Reed, Thomas G. Waites, Daryl Hannah, James Remar,
Directors : Michael Chapman,

A young Cro-Magnon woman is raised by Neanderthals.

Actors : Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Charlton Heston, Richard Johnson,

In the Sudan, in 1884-85, Egyptian forces led by a British general defend Khartoum against an invading Muslim army led by a religious fanatic, the Mahdi.

Actors : Ava Gardner, David Niven, Flora Robson, Charlton Heston,

During the 1900 Boxer Rebellion against foreigners in China, U.S. Marine Major Matt Lewis, aided by British Consul Sir Arthur Robertson, devises a strategy to keep the rebels at bay until an international military relief force arrives.

Actors : Damien Thomas, Walter Matthau, Cris Campion, Olu Jacobs,
Directors : Roman Polanski,

The adventures of pirate Captain Red and his first mate Frog.

Actors : Gregory Peck, David Janssen, Richard Crenna, James Franciscus,
Directors : John Sturges,

Three American astronauts are stranded in space when their retros won't fire. Can they be rescued before their oxygen runs out?

Actors : Deborah Walley, Peter Breck, Allen Fiuzat, Patsy Garrett,
Directors : Joe Camp,

A stray dog saves two kidnapped children.

Actors : Anne Bancroft, William Atherton, Roy Thinnes, George C. Scott,
Directors : Robert Wise,

A film that chronicles the events of the Hindenburg disaster in which a zeppelin burst into flames.

Actors : Annie Potts, Eugene Roche, Mark Hamill, William Bryant,
Directors : Matthew Robbins,

A high school grad and a hooker-in-training try to track down his stolen Corvette.

Actors : Donald Sinden, Mako, Jacques Marin, David Hartman,
Directors : Robert Stevenson,

In 1907, four explorers discover a lost colony of Vikings in the Arctic.

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, Alan Arkin, Robert Duvall, Nicol Williamson,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

To treat his friend's cocaine induced delusions, Watson lures Sherlock Holmes to Sigmund Freud.

Actors : Robert Ryan, Melvyn Douglas, Paul Rogers, Peter Ustinov,
Directors : Peter Ustinov,

Billy is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried.