| 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 |
The River Wild |
1994 |
USA |
Curtis Hanson |
Meryl Streep, Kevin Bacon, David Strathairn |
Streep was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award while Bacon received a Golden Globe nomination. |
| 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 |
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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 |