Media
|
Title |
Released
|
Country |
Director |
Notable cast |
Notes
|
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
|