James Michener Movies

Can a girl from Little Rock find happiness with a mature French planter she got to know one enchanted evening away from the military hospital where...

An American drifter comes to a remote Polynesian island controlled by a Puritanical missionary and turns the social life of the island upside-down.

Abner Hale, a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley and takes her to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii,...

Four sisters in New Zealand fall for soldiers en route to the Pacific theater in WWII.

Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando) is reassigned to a Japanese air base, and is confronted with US racial prejudice against the Japanese...

A naval aviator is assigned to bomb a group of heavily defended bridges during the Korean War.

The story of a pioneer family in the early 1800s that seeks its fortunes on the Ohio frontier.

A wanderer returns home only to find political turmoil, disease and romantic difficulties.

This epic adventure-drama based on James Michener's best-selling novel concerns a young American embassy official who is sent into the Middle-Eastern...

During World War II in the South Pacific love is found between a young nurse, Nellie Forbush and an older French plantation owner, Emile de Becque....

Dramatization of the four days of events leading up to the historic tragedy at Kent State University in May 1970, during the confrontation between...

Documentary - Ernest Borgnine, star of the classic train movie Emperor of the North, hosts and narrates this remarkable examination of the uniquely...

A writer visits an aircraft carrier during the Korean war to learn more about it and the way it's run. He also gets to find out more about the Navy...

Navy ensign Nellie Forbush and Marine lieutenant Joseph Cable find love and confront bigotry (including their own prejudices) while stationed in the...

1943. On an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, US troops are kicking their heels amid the cacao groves while restlessly waiting for the war to...

This film conveys a sense of the forces that have shaped Spain over the centuries, including Roman, Islamic, and Catholic influences, and gives James...