Per pagar un deute, un caçador de recompenses (The Rock) viatja a Helldorado, una ciutat en el fons de la jungla de l'Amazones, per capturar un convicte (Scott). Però quan arriba, descobreix que a qui ha d'aturar només és un noi àvid d'emocions que busca riquesa, i tots dos formaran equip per intentar trobar una mina plena d'or.
Fred C. Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart) decideix anar a Tampico a la recerca d'or amb la intenció de deixar enrere la misèria. Emprèn el viatge en companyia de dos rodamóns més (Walter Huston i Tim Holt), però la cobdícia i l'enveja que sorgeix entre ells els crearà a poc a poc més problemes que qualsevol altra dificultat del camí.
Quan ja anava a partir amb vaixell a Amèrica per casar-se allà amb la seva nòvia Jesse Huston, el caçador anglès Allan Quatermain rescata a la selva un moribund amic, Dumont, que és perseguit per misteriosos nadius. Abans de ser assassinat, Dumont l'informa que Robeson Quatermain, germà d'Allan, és a Milosis, la ciutat d'or d'una antiga llegenda, governada per una raça blanca. Posposant el seu viatge a USA, Quatermain parteix a la recerca del seu germà, acompanyat per Jesse, el gegantí zulu Umslopogaas i el covard hindú Swarma. Després de travessar deserts i selves plenes de tota mena de perills fantàstics i enfrontar els salvatges Eshowe, el grup arriba a la daurada Milosis, ciutat governada per primitius homes blancs, governats per les reines Nyleptha i Sorais.
En aquesta nova aventura, l'Scooby i el seu equip es veuran obligats a refugiar-se en una estranya cafeteria plena de misteriosos personatges, on s'han d'enfrontar a uns extraterrestres al mig del desert.
El 1860, a l'Oest, Henry Moon, un forjat de mig pèl, se salva de la forca gràcies a una encantadora jove que accepta casar-se i fer-se'n càrrec. Julia Tate, una educada però obstinada noia del Sud, es casa amb Moon perquè l'ajudi a treballar en una mina d'or que, segons ella, es troba a les terres.
Dos homes surten de la presó d'Arizona el 1898 i es dirigeixen a una petita ciutat de miners a la recerca d'or i venjança. Un remake en versió western de "La jungla d'asfalt"
The story of the early days of Deadwood, South Dakota; woven around actual historic events with most of the main characters based on real people. Deadwood starts as a gold mining camp and gradually turns from a lawless wild-west community into an organized wild-west civilized town. The story focuses on the real-life characters Seth Bullock and Al Swearengen.
Three hard-core crews of gold prospectors take the gamble of a lifetime and battle to strike it big, deep in the wild west of outback Australia. The soaring highs and the crushing lows of the gold season are revealed as the crews pursue their all-important targets - braving brutal heat, punishing conditions, mechanical breakdowns and constant pressure.
Five family-run mining camps risk everything in the hope of hitting the paystreak. Working grueling days under the midnight sun, the crews give it their all to battle the elements ... and each other.
Vincent, a 20-year old geology student from Paris, goes to French Guyana to do an internship at a gold mining company. Taken under the wing of local gold lord Antoine Serra, Vincent quickly falls into the much more lucrative and dangerous world of gold trafficking. From Serra, who acts like a father to him, Vincent learns everything there is to know about the business. Newcomers aren't welcome - Louis, Serra's right hand, makes it clear that he does not trust him. Vincent and Serra start building a camp to explore a gold mine, but tensions rise to a full-fledged war between them and their Brazilian competitors. And things get even more complicated when Vincent discovers that the mythical Sarah Bernhard mine is not a legend. The Guyanese jungle is a world where businessmen, gangsters, geologists and soldiers collide, and men kill and are killed for a few grams of the precious metal.
In the Bendigo Goldfields in 1855, the charismatic headman of the Chinese mining camp suddenly finds himself struggling to maintain the fragile harmony between Chinese and European diggers and authorities when a murdered European woman is discovered to have links with the Chinese community.
The story takes place during the weeks before Christmas, in the small mining town of fictitious Granhyttan in Bergslagen, Sweden. One day a suspicious couple, Signe and Orvar, arrives in the small town and retires in an abandoned hut. Nobody knows what they up to; but strange things starts to happen as Staffan finds a gold nugget while playing in a disused mine at the Kråkberget Mountain during a skiing trip with his schoolmates. Staffan believes the nugget is a part of Skarp-Erik's gold, as his grandpa had told exciting stories about. The news about the gold discovery spread quickly and Staffan and his friends are soon pursued by curious schoolmates, school staff and also the mysterious strangers. All this happens as the students are rehearsing for the nativity play before Christmas break.
Paul Mackie and his expert team must haul a crew of first-time gold miners out of an epic three-year gold drought before their operation and family legacy ends in ruin.
Legend tells of the Lost Dutchman’s gold mine hidden somewhere within the 160,000 acres of brutal Arizona desert known as the “Superstition Mountains.” The promise of a $200 million mother lode has lured thousands of treasure hunters and continues to claim the lives of those eager to decipher the legend’s clues and riddles. Hunting for the Lost Dutchman is typically a one-man journey, but lifelong Dutch Hunter Wayne Tuttle is breaking with tradition and partnering with a team of experts to follow a newly revealed clue that could finally solve the 500-year-old mystery of America’s most famous and deadliest buried treasure.
