En skojfrisk filmatisering av den på 50- 60-talet mycket populära tv-västernserien med samma namn. Maverick är på väg till århundradets pokermatch. På vägen dit måste han inkassera några skulder för att få tillräckligt med pengar till anmälningsavgiften. Under tiden träffar han några skumma typer och en vacker dam.
I slutet av 1800-talet får operafantasten Fitzcarraldo en vision om att han ska bygga ett operahus längst in i Amazonas regnskog. Alla utom hans trogna följeslagerska, bordellmamman Molly, anser att han är fullständigt galen. Men Fitzcarraldo beger sig segerviss in i djungeln ombord på en gammal rostig ångbåt. Han stöter på hinder när ett berg ligger mellan honom och hans dröm. För att nå sitt mål bestämmer han sig för att släpa hela båten över berget.
På jungfruresan, med över 2200 människor ombord, kör Titanic på ett isberg, men händelser och karaktärer har i 1943 års filmatisering anpassats för att passa Nazitysklands syften. Fartygets förlisning används här för att föra ut nazistisk och antikapitalistisk propaganda mot landets motståndare, Storbritannien.
Musse Pigg lotsar en ångbåt och fröjdar sin passagerare, Mimmi, genom att göra musikinstrument ur menageriet på däck.
Willie är den tafatte sonen till den hårde kaptenen Steamboat Bill. När Willie kommer på besök från universitet bestämmer sig pappan för att göra en man av sin son.
Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-marshaled out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for the Orient in late 1941. But has Leland really been booted out, or is there some other motive for his getting close to fellow passenger Doctor Lorenz? Any motive for getting close to attractive traveller Alberta Marlow would however seem pretty obvious.
On a slow news day, the wisecracking staff of a newspaper write articles about the serious safety issues of a local excursion steamboat line.
Over 2000 Union soldiers, passengers and crew were crammed aboard the steamboat Sultana, licensed to carry 376. Graft, greed, overcrowding, a poorly maintained boat, and the Mississippi River was swollen with spring snowmelt conspired together to create a disaster. On April 27, 1865, the boat’s boilers exploded, causing the worst maritime disaster in US history.
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 11" banned from TV syndication by United Artists in 1968 for racist stereotyping.
A dramatised life of Samuel Langhorn Clemens, or Mark Twain.
Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.
Short film about an express steamer
A trip on the Swedish lake Mälaren by a 115-year-old steamboat. The journey between Stockholm and Mariefred takes 3,5 hours. The steamboat Mariefred was manufactured over a hundred years ago and is one of the last steam-powered vessels on the lake. The steam whistle sounds when Maja, as she is called in Mariefred, steers into the bay towards Mariefred. A fanfare for the summer! A journey through a breathtakingly beautiful landscape to the sound of the old steam engine's quiet but powerful inhalation and exhalation. A declaration of love for old shipping and a rich history of the steam engine.
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 tired of their sophisticated coffee maker and replaces her with Roma girl Veera, who has escaped from an arranged marriage. On the way back, mysterious passengers appear on the ship.
The short is presented as a long-lost documentary from 1928, one that details the disappearance of a commercial steamship, The S.S. Willie.
Steamboatin' stories from those who lived them, river history, authentic footage and stills, along with music and narration by John Hartford.
