Director: Steven Spielberg

Main Cast: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Bob Peck, BD Wong

Release Date: June 11, 1993

Main Plot: A new park with genetically modified dinosaurs has just been built on Isla Nublar. Tragedy struck when one of the workers was killed by a Velociraptor. Park founder John Hammond asks paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant and his assistant Dr. Ellie Sattler to come to the park and ensure it’s safe. They are also joined by Hammond’s attorney Donald Gennaro, and the chaotic Dr. Ian Malcolm. When they reach the island, they are amazed to find that Hammond has created living dinosaurs. Though, at the same time, they all have their doubts. Next, Hammond’s grandsons Lex and Tim join the group for a park tour. Sattler leaves to care for sick triceratops. Soon, the park’s power supply is cut off by computer freak Dennis Nedry, who wants to steal embryos from the garden to sell to a secret buyer.

Director: Alexander Payne

Main Cast: George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller, Nick Krause

Release Date: December 9, 2011

Main Plot: Mr. Matt’s family has lived in Hawaii for generations. His extended family – he and his numerous cousins ​​- own 25,000 acres of uncultivated land on Kauai that is in custody because it will expire in seven years. The easiest thing for the family is to sell the land for seven years. Despite the great wealth that accompanies the country, Matt has decided to live only on what he earns as a lawyer in Honolulu. However, Matt didn’t have a perfect life in a Hawaiian paradise, as many believe. He and his wife, Elizabeth, had problems in their marriage. She recently had a boating accident that left her in a coma. Their seventeen-year-old daughter, Alex, is at boarding school on the Big Island. They cannot cope with her rebellion, which was exacerbated by an argument of an unknown nature between mother and daughter during the last home visit of Alex. What will happen to this family?

Director: Danny DeVito

Main Cast: Danny DeVito, Billy Crystal, Kim Greist, Anne Ramsey, Kate Mulgrew

Release Date: December 11, 1987 

Main Plot: University professor Larry Donner struggles to write after his ex-wife Margaret steals his novel and turns it into a bestseller. He makes no secret of his hatred of Margaret, which upsets his friend Beth Ryan, an anthropology lecturer at the same university. While teaching a creative writing class, he was followed by a student named Owen. Owen wants to know what he thinks of his crime fiction. Larry tells him he doesn’t like it and explains that in every mystery story, the killer has to eliminate the subject and establish an alibi, or he’ll be caught. In addition, Larry Irving suggested watching a Hitchcock film to understand the structure of the fascinating story. Owen wants to kill his hateful mother and sees the stranger on the train. He misunderstands Larry’s advice and thinks his teacher will switch to murder to eliminate the motive. Margaret falls overboard on Owen’s trip to Hawaii; she disappears into the sea and is presumed dead. Did Owen kill Margaret?

Director: Curtis Bernhardt

Main Cast: Rita Hayworth, José Ferrer, Aldo Ray, Diosa Costello, Russell Collins

Release Date: February 17, 1954

Main Plot: The U.S. built a military installation on a small South Pacific island after World War II. While performing routine tasks in peacetime, Marine Sgt. Phil O’Hara and his fellow soldiers wait to be released from service. Phil and several of his men are picking up supplies when they come across missionaries Alfred, Margaret Davidson, and Dr. Robert MacPhail. They are also returning to the island after a year. Between transportation, Davidson and MacPhail will have two hours to visit the mission hospital they built on the island. Phil and the guys are excited about the mail boat, including singer Sadie Thompson. She is sailing to New Caledonia as another passenger between ships.

Director: Anthony Banua-Simon

Main Cast: John Allen, Bam Bam, Anthony Banua-Simon, Lex Barker, Henry Berry

Release Date: October 21, 2020 

Main Plot: Cane Fire investigates the past and present of the Hawaiian island of Kauai, weaving four generations of family history, numerous Hollywood productions, and troves of found footage into a kaleidoscopic portrait of the economic and cultural forces that have cast Indigenous and working-class residents as “extras” in their own story.

Director: Lauryn Leclere

Main Cast: Henry Fry

Release Date: April 27, 2018 

Main Plot: The documentary shows that culture clashes, travel, hurricanes, and youth cultures challenge the status quo. Broken Waves is the story of the first surf scene on the Texas Upper Coast. Situations hardly happen by any stretch of the imagination. Featuring testimonials from the Galveston Rat Colony, the Treasure Island Surf Club, and Houston’s first surfboard makers, the film chronicles the surfing boom that unfolded in Texas in the 1960s. For some, it was a cultural revolution, and their stories were true and real. The murky waters of the Gulf of Mexico and the new passion of riding the waves as a shared bond and lifelong friendships. Some stayed, others moved to California or Hawaii, and now, fifty years later, they have reunited.

Director: Kenji Claudio

Main Cast: Hannah Fraser, Bethany Hamilton, Kelly Slater, Olga Safari, Nikki Veins

Release Date: October 1, 2017 

Main Plot: Soul Trekkers is the story of 10 people who live their lives to the fullest as surfers, shapers, lifeguards, models, fashion designers, and people who come together for a common purpose on the beach. Come around the seas to discover how these surfers, fishermen, boards, and angels carve out amazing careers and become millionaires doing what they love.

Director: Etienne Aurelius

Main Cast: Mojean Aria, Charmaine Bingwa, Jane Davis, Butch Helemano, Maine Kinimaka

Release Date: July 9, 2022 

Main Plot: Ann is an indigenous young woman caught in an abusive relationship who takes revenge by setting fire to her lover’s house. Fearing punishment, she runs to the Hawaiian mountains of Kauai, where she meets a mythical creature that brings him back to her ancestral roots.

Director: Dan Bree

Main Cast: Jeff Corwin, Marc Matsumoto

Release Date: October 1, 2016 

Main Plot: Emmy-winning guest Jeff Corwin takes viewers aboard some of the best cruise ships in the world with this series. Corwin experiences some of Earth’s natural wonders as he stops at several ports along the way. While exploring the areas where he stops, Corwin embarks on an adventure involving mountaineering, deep-sea diving, and glacier exploration. Since most viewers don’t get the chance to experience such events themselves, Corwin gives them a chance to experience them throughout his adventures. Another, the series focused on wildlife conservation, marine exploration, and conservation of oceans and ocean-adjacent habitats, with each episode, typically featuring one or two oceanic or near-ocean species.

Director: Travis DuBridge

Main Cast: Travis DuBridge

Release Date: March 15, 2018

Main Plot: Loss of habitat, invasive species, climate change, and other factors reduce Hawaii’s forest bird populations, but none more than a disease. Mosquitoes brought and spread diseases to humans, including avian malaria and the avian pox virus. In the past, Hawaii had no mosquito population, and local bird species never evolved immunity to diseases spread by mosquitoes. Because of this, many native bird populations have been destroying by mosquitoes. Join Travis as he investigates what researchers are trying to control mosquito populations. He establishes the prevalence of avian malaria and identifies current and potential treatments for malaria, such as BTI and Wolbachia. This film also acts as a day in the life of a researcher, outlining the study and procedure and demonstrating how we conduct fieldwork.

Director:  Don Barnhart Jr.

Main Cast: Linda Vu, Don Barnhart Jr., Don Turner, Porsche Ing-Johnson, Jon Halbur

Release Date: 2008 

Main Plot: Born into the underworld of human trafficking and prostitution, luck gave Jerry and Mary a chance to break free. They took it, and now the crowd wants them to be interested in coming back.

Director: Edward Dein

Main Cast: Poncie Ponce, Connie Stevens, Connie Stevens, Robert Conrad

Release Date: October 7, 1959 

Main Plot: Set in the beautiful tropical landscape of Honolulu, Hawaii, this series revolved around the business of Hawaiian Eye Private Investigations. The two handsome, skilled, and badass detectives, Thomas Jefferson Lopaka and Tracy Steele ran a company. They partnered with the  Korean War veteran and a former city police detective. They worked in a posh office at the Hawaiian Village Hotel and served as detectives. They were sometimes assisted by a funny ukulele-playing Hawaiian taxi driver named Kazuo Kim. They were also assisted by a dimwitted, absent-minded, and frivolous nightclub singer and photographer named Chryseis “Cricket” Blake. The team was later joined by private investigator Greg MacKenzie, an old friend of Tom’s from the mainland. What will happen to their journey?

Director: Andy Sidaris

Main Cast: William Smith, Barbara Leigh, Guich Koock, Christopher Joy, Art Metrano

Release Date: September 21, 1979 

Main Plot: The Turtles live at April O’Neil’s new apartment with Master Splinter while they are between homes following their rooftop battle with the Foot Clan. They are also relying on pizza delivery from “Roy’s” Pizza. Splinter recognizes the initials from the canister of mutagen that caused them all to become mutants, as April reports on the cleanup effort being carried out in the city by TGRI. The Shredder is still alive and well, has taken back control of the Foot, and seeks vengeance on Splinter and his pupils. He kidnaps Professor David Perry of the TGRI. He forces him to help create two aggressive mutants to serve as his own students after finding that the ooze can alter animals into minions.

Director: Joshua Logan

Main Cast: Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr, Ray Walston, Juanita Hall

Release Date: April 14, 1958

Main Plot: In the story, can a girl from Little Rock meet a full-fledged French plantation owner on a glamorous evening away from the military hospital where she works as a nurse? Or should she wash the man out of her hair? Bloody Mary is the island’s philosopher, and it’s hard to believe that she will be the mother of Lita. She won the heart of US Marine Lt. Joseph Cale Sailors and nurses perform a musical comedy as they await hostilities in the South Pacific. As war approaches, the saga of Nellie Forbush and Emile de Beck turns into a serious drama.

Director: John Ford

Main Cast: John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Elizabeth Allen, Cesar Romero, Cesar Romero

Release Date: July 19, 1963

Main Plot: A veteran of the United States Navy (USN), Thomas “Boats” Gilhooley, working on a freighter abroad. He jumps ship to swim to the island after realizing that the boat is passing by Haleakaloha, French Polynesia. But it did not make a stop there as he had been told. A second old shipmate of Gilhooley’s, Michael “Guns” Donovan, a US Navy veteran who now resides abroad, arrives after returning from a fishing excursion in an outrigger canoe. William “Doc” Dedham, a USN veteran and the only physician in the archipelago, welcomes Donovan. He informs him that he will soon start a one to two-week pre-Christmas tour of the “outside islands” to attend to the locals’ medical needs. The three kids from Dedham are given up to Donovan.

Director: Robert Alton

Main Cast: Esther Williams, Howard Keel, Minna Gombell, Charles Maui, Rita Moreno

Release Date: December 29, 1950

Main Plot: Living on the Polynesian island of Tahiti with her affluent aunt Kate is Mimi Bennett. Mimi, a half-Native American and half-White girl, has always wanted to move to America. When Hazard Endicott shows up, her plans are altered. He is a Tahiti estate inheritor who works as a teacher in Ohio. His first objective is to find a servant, so he approaches Mimi with an offer after mistaking her for a local girl. She amuses herself by pretending to have rudimentary English skills. It turns out that the estate is a shack. Additionally, Endicott misreads an invitation to a party at Kate’s and shows up in casual island costume to an occasion where the guests are all dressed elegantly. Mimi shows him compassion, and a romance develops.