Oct 24, 1978
100 min
Full-HD

Donner Pass: The Road to Survival (1978)

A grim incident from American pioneer history is recreated as a determined group of settlers, facing almost insurmountable odds, struggles to reach California in 1846. Already divided by internal dissension over the choice of a leader and the selection of a route, the wagon train is soon decimated by Indian raids, a scarcity of food and water, and the unrelenting forces of nature. Finally after months of hardship, the party reaches the High Sierras, only to be stranded in the middle of the pass by an early snowstorm. And as fear of an agonizing death from starvation forces the abandonment of conventional rules of human behavior, the pioneers face a new enemy - each other.

Category

TV Movie Adventure Drama History Western

Country

United States of America

Companies

Schick Sunn Classics

Robert Fuller

James Reed

Andrew Prine

Lewis Keyser

Michael Callan

William Eddy

Diane McBain

Margaret Reed

John Anderson

Patrick Breen

John Doucette

George Donner

Cindy Eilbacher

Mary Graves

Royal Dano

Sutter

Recommended For You

Action
1967
Movie

The Way West

The Way West

6.1
1967

In the mid-19th century, Senator William J. Tadlock leads a group of settlers overland in a quest to start a new settlement in the Western US. Tadlock is a highly principled and demanding taskmaster who is as hard on himself as he is on those who have joined his wagon train. He clashes with one of the new settlers, Lije Evans, who doesn't quite appreciate Tadlock's ways. Along the way, the families must face death and heartbreak and a sampling of frontier justice when one of them accidentally kills a young Indian boy.

Western
2019
Movie

Deadwood: The Movie

Deadwood: The Movie

6.7
2019

Follow the 10-year reunion of the Deadwood camp to celebrate South Dakota's statehood. Former rivalries are reignited, alliances are tested and old wounds are reopened, as all are left to navigate the inevitable changes that modernity and time have wrought.

Genre : Western

Action
1987
Movie

The Quick and the Dead

The Quick and the Dead

6.4
1987

In 1876 Wyoming, the gun is the only law. And for Duncan and Suzanna McKaskel, newly arrived settlers beset by outlaws, rugged frontiersman Con Vallian is the only hope.

Fantasy
1999
Movie

Purgatory

Purgatory

7.2
1999

An outlaw band flees a posse and rides into Refuge, a small town where no one carries a gun, drinks, or swears. The town is actually Purgatory, and the peaceful inhabitants are all famous dead outlaws and criminals such as Doc Holiday and Wild Bill Hickok who must redeem themselves before gaining admittance to Heaven... or screw up and go to Hell.

Genre : Fantasy

Adventure
1980
Movie

The Mountain Men

The Mountain Men

5.9
1980

The story concerns two grizzled mountain men -- Bill Tyler and Henry Frapp -- during the dying days of the fur-trapping era. The plot begins when Running Moon runs away from her abusive husband Heavy Eagle and comes across the two seedy fur trappers. The mountain men take her in, unaware that Heavy Eagle has dispatched an army of Indian braves to reclaim her.

Genre : Adventure

Western
1956
Movie

Jubal

Jubal

6.9
1956

Jubal Troop is a cowboy who is found in a weakened condition, without a horse. He is given shelter at Shep Horgan's large ranch, where he quickly makes an enemy in foreman Pinky, a cattleman who accuses Jubal of carrying the smell of sheep.

Genre : Western

Adventure
1995
Movie

Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventure

Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventure

6.3
1995

A young boy draws on the inspiration of legendary western characters to find the strength to fight an evil land baron in the old west who wants to steal his family's farm and destroy their idyllic community. When Daniel Hackett sees his father Jonas gravely wounded by the villainous Stiles, his first urge is for his family to flee the danger, and give up their life on a farm which Daniel has come to despise anyway. Going alone to a lake to try to decide what to do, he falls asleep on a boat and wakes to find himself in the wild west, in the company of such "tall tale" legends as Pecos Bill, Paul Bunyan, John Henry and Calamity Jane. Together, they battle the same villains Daniel is facing in his "real" world, ending with a heroic confrontation in which the boy stands up to Stiles and his henchmen, and rallies his neighbors to fight back against land grabbers who want to destroy their town.

Genre : Adventure

Drama
1930
Movie

The Big Trail

The Big Trail

6.7
1930

Young scout Breck Coleman leads a wagon train along the dangerous trail to Oregon as he tries to get the affection of the beautiful pioneer Ruth Cameron and plans his revenge on the harsh scoundrels who murdered a friend of his in the past.

Adventure
1955
Movie

Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier

Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier

6.4
1955

Legends (and myths) from the life of famed American frontiersman Davy Crockett are depicted in this feature film edited from television episodes. Crockett and his friend George Russel fight in the Creek Indian War. Then Crockett is elected to Congress and brings his rough-hewn ways to the House of Representatives. Finally, Crockett and Russell journey to Texas and the last stand at the Alamo.

Genre : Adventure

Western
1956
Movie

The Last Wagon

The Last Wagon

6.6
1956

When a handful of settlers survive an Apache attack on their wagon train they must put their lives into the hands of Comanche Todd, a white man who has lived with the Comanches most of his life and is wanted for the murder of three men.

Genre : Western

Action
2003
Movie

Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding

Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding

5.9
2003

Mitch Buchannon, believed to have died in a boating accident survived and only has amnesia, he has been recovering in a Los Angeles hospital. His new fiancée, Allison Ford, resembles his old lover, Lt. Stephanie Holden who died years ago.

Western
1962
Movie

How the West Was Won

How the West Was Won

7
1962

The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.

Genre : Western

Western
2015
Movie

Jane Got a Gun

Jane Got a Gun

5.8
2015

After her outlaw husband returns home shot with eight bullets and barely alive, Jane reluctantly reaches out to an ex-lover who she hasn't seen in over ten years to help her defend her farm when the time comes that her husband's gang eventually tracks him down to finish the job.

Genre : Western

Western
1957
Movie

3:10 to Yuma

3:10 to Yuma

7.3
1957

Dan Evans, a small time farmer, is hired to escort Ben Wade, a dangerous outlaw, to Yuma. As Evans and Wade wait for the 3:10 train to Yuma, Wade's gang is racing to free him.

Genre : Western

Adventure
1990
Movie

Dances with Wolves

Dances with Wolves

7.8
1990

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.

Genre : Adventure

Western
2022
Movie

Dead for a Dollar

Dead for a Dollar

5.8
2022

In 1897, veteran bounty hunter Max Borlund is deep into Mexico where he encounters professional gambler and outlaw Joe Cribbens — a sworn enemy he sent to prison years before. Max is on a mission to find and return Rachel Kidd, the wife of a wealthy businessman, who as the story is told to Max, has been abducted by Buffalo Soldier Elijah Jones. Max is ultimately faced with a showdown to save honor.

Genre : Western

Western
2022
Movie

Terror on the Prairie

Terror on the Prairie

6
2022

A pioneering family fights back against a gang of vicious outlaws that is terrorizing them on their newly-built farm on the plains of Montana.

Genre : Western

Western
1960
Movie

The Magnificent Seven

The Magnificent Seven

7.5
1960

An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.

Genre : Western