Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional three thousand dollars in order to enter a...

Mickey Mouse, piloting a steamboat, delights his passenger, Minnie, by making musical instruments out of the menagerie on deck.

This little-known German film retells the true story of the British ocean liner that met a tragic fate. Ernst Fritz Fürbringer plays the...

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an...

The just-out-of-college, effete son of a no-nonsense steamboat captain comes to visit his father whom he's not seen since he was a child.

An American Merchant Marine captain, rescued from a Chinese Communist jail by local villagers, is "shanghaied" into transporting the entire village...

Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-martialed out of the army and boards a Japanese ship...

A dramatised life of Samuel Langhorn Clemens, or Mark Twain.

Over 2000 Union soldiers, passengers and crew were crammed aboard the steamboat Sultana, licensed to carry 376. Graft, greed, overcrowding, a poorly...

Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.

Piggy and Fluffy have adventures on a riverboat and Uncle Tom is chased by skeletons promising to take him to Hallelujah Land. One of the "Censored...

Tar Steam Princess Armada travels along Lake Saimaa to St. Petersburg and back during the years of Russian rule over Finland. The ship's crew gets...

On a slow news day, the wisecracking staff of a newspaper write articles about the serious safety issues of a local excursion steamboat line.

The short is presented as a long-lost documentary from 1928, one that details the disappearance of a commercial steamship, The S.S. Willie.

Volk desperately tries to get onto a cruise ship to get Zayats.

Steamboatin' stories from those who lived them, river history, authentic footage and stills, along with music and narration by John Hartford.