Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Thunderball (1965)

Summary: James Bond heads to the Bahamas to recover two nuclear warheads stolen by S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Agent Emilio Largo in an international extortion scheme.

Release Date: December 22, 1965

Genres: Action, Adventure, Thriller

Director: Terence Young

Writers: Richard Maibaum

, John Hopkins

, Jack Whittingham

Runtime: 2 h 10 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Eon Productions

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Home Box Office (HBO), RCA (II), CBS/Fox, MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, Image Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Franchise: James Bond

Movie budget: $ 9,000,000

Domestic: $ 63,595,658

International: $ 9,759

A Man for All Seasons (1966)

Summary: The story of Sir Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarry.

Release Date: December 16, 1966

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Fred Zinnemann

Writer: Robert Bolt

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: G

Production: Highland Films

Distributor: Columbia Pictures, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, Columbia TriStar Home Video, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Twilight Time, Netflix, The Criterion Channel

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,000,000

The Monster Squad (1987)

Summary: A young group of monster fanatics attempt to save their hometown from Count Dracula and his monsters.

Release Date: August 14, 1987

Genres: Action, Comedy, Fantasy

Director: Fred Dekker

Writers: Shane Black

, Fred Dekker

Runtime: 1 h 19 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: TAFT Entertainment Pictures, Keith Barish Productions, Home Box Office (HBO)

Distributor: J&M Entertainment, Image Entertainment, Lionsgate Home Entertainment, Live Distributing Inc., Olive Films, Paramount Pictures, Trifecta Entertainment and Media, Vestron Video, Viacom, Worldvision Enterprises

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 12,000,000

Domestic: $ 3,769,990

Jason and the Argonauts (1963)

Summary: The legendary Greek hero leads a team of intrepid adventurers in a perilous quest for the legendary Golden Fleece.

Release Date: June 19, 1963

Genres: Action, Adventure, Family

Director: Don Chaffey

Writers: Jan Read

, Beverley Cross

, Apollonios Rhodios

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: G

Production: Charles H. Schneer Productions

Distributor: The Criterion Collection, Columbia TriStar Home Video, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,500,000

Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die (1966)

Summary: In this spoof of spy films, CIA agent, Kelly, is in Rio De Janeiro spying on a wealthy industrialist, David Ardonian, who secretly plans to turn the world sterile and repopulate it with his harem. UK spy, Susan Fleming, helps Kelly.

Release Date: September 08, 1966

Genres: Action, Comedy

Directors: Henry Levin

, Dino Maiuri

Writers: Dino Maiuri

, Jack Pulman

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

Production: Dino de Laurentiis Cinematografica

Distributor: Columbia Pictures

Countries: Italy, United States

Language: Italian

The Champions (1968)

Summary: After a plane carrying three Agents crashes in the Himalayas, they are rescued by an advanced civilisation secretly living in Tibet who grant them enhanced versions of the ordinary five senses, and intellectual and physical abilit...

Release Date: September 25, 1968

Genres: Adventure, Thriller, Sci-Fi

Runtime: 1 h 00 min

Production: Incorporated Television Company (ITC)

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Conan the Adventurer (1997)

Summary: TV series featuring the mythical barbarian.

Release Date: September 22, 1997

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Runtime: 0 h 43 min

Production: Balenciaga Productions, Keller Entertainment Group, Threshold Entertainment

Countries: Germany, Mexico, United States

Language: English

The One That Got Away (1957)

Summary: A cocky German fighter pilot is shot down over England in 1940 and makes numerous attempts to escape to fight again.

Release Date: November 22, 1957

Genres: Adventure, Drama, War

Director: Roy Ward Baker

Writers: Howard Clewes

, Kendal Burt

, James Leasor

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: The Rank Organisation, British Film, Julian Wintle Productions

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Battle of Britain (1969)

Summary: In 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle to prevent the Luftwaffe from gaining air superiority over the English Channel as a prelude to a possible Axis invasion of the U.K.

Release Date: September 16, 1969

Genres: Action, Drama, History

Director: Guy Hamilton

Writers: James Kennaway

, Wilfred Greatorex

, Derek Dempster

Runtime: 2 h 12 min

MPAA: G

Production: Spitfire Productions

Distributor: United Artists

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 17,000,000

In Search of the Castaways (1962)

Summary: In 19th century England, young Mary Grant and her brother, Robert, embark on a dangerous quest to find their missing father, a sea captain who vanished somewhere along the Chilean coast.

Release Date: December 21, 1962

Genres: Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Director: Robert Stevenson

Writers: Lowell S. Hawley

, Jules Verne

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

MPAA: G

Production: Walt Disney Productions

Distributor: Buena Vista Distribution Company, Buena Vista Home Video, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Buena Vista Pictures, Walt Disney Home Video, Walt Disney Telecommunications and Non-Theatrical Company

Countries: United States, United Kingdom

Language: English

Domestic: $ 21,745,500

Sink the Bismarck! (1960)

Summary: The World War II story of the Royal Navy's effort to defeat Nazi Germany's most powerful warship.

Release Date: February 11, 1960

Genres: Action, Drama, History

Director: Lewis Gilbert

Writers: Edmund H. North

, C.S. Forester

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Twentieth Century Fox

Distributor: CBS/Fox

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,330,000

Pursuit of the Graf Spee (1956)

Summary: In the first major naval battle of World War II, the British Navy must find and destroy a powerful German warship.

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Directors: Michael Powell

, Emeric Pressburger

Writers: Michael Powell

, Emeric Pressburger

Runtime: 1 h 59 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: The Archers

Distributor: Rare Films and More

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

The Avengers (1961)

Summary: A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners.

Release Date: March 28, 1966

Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime

MPAA: TV-14

Production: Associated British Corporation

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English