Cinematography: John Cura

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by John Cura. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


Doctor Who: The Chase (TV)

1965 · Movie · 148 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Richard Martin · Douglas Camfield

Cast William Hartnell · William Russell · Maureen O'Brien · Jacqueline Hill

Synopsis Daleks manage to construct their own time machine and begin pursuing the TARDIS across time and space. The chase takes in a number of stopping-off points, including a dying desert planet, a spooky haunted house, the Empire State Building and...

6.3

34 votes

6.3

34 votes

Direction Richard Martin

Cast William Hartnell · Jacqueline Hill · William Russell · Carole Ann Ford

Synopsis As they slowly recover from the shock of being thrown to the TARDIS floor, the Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara all seem to be acting strangely. A number of unexplained events occur and suspicions are raised that some alien force...

5.4

26 votes

5.4

26 votes

Direction Julia Smith

Cast Patrick Troughton · Michael Craze · Anneke Wills · Frazer Hines

Synopsis The TARDIS arrives on a extinct volcanic island. Before long, the travellers are captured and taken into the depths of the Earth, where they find a hidden civilisation - the lost city of Atlantis.The Atlanteans worship a goddess named Amdo...

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Doctor Who: The Romans (TV)

1965 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Christopher Barry

Cast William Hartnell · Jacqueline Hill · William Russell · Maureen O'Brien

Synopsis The four time travellers are enjoying a rare holiday, staying at a villa not far from Rome in the year 64 AD. The Doctor soon becomes restless and sets off to visit the city, taking Vicki with him. In their...

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Doctor Who: The Rescue (TV)

1965 · Movie · 50 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Christopher Barry

Cast William Hartnell · Jacqueline Hill · William Russell · Maureen O'Brien

Synopsis Arriving on the planet Dido in the late 25th Century, the time travellers come upon a crashed spaceship from Earth. Its two occupants - a paralysed man named Bennett and a young girl, Vicki - are living in fear of...

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Doctor Who: The Highlanders (TV)

1966 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Hugh David

Cast Patrick Troughton · Michael Craze · Anneke Wills · Frazer Hines

Synopsis The time travellers arrive in Scotland in the aftermath of the battle of Culloden. The Doctor gains the trust of a small band of fleeing Highlanders by offering to tend their wounded Laird, Colin McLaren; but while Polly and the...

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Doctor Who: The Web Planet (TV)

1965 · Movie · 146 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Richard Martin

Cast William Hartnell · Jacqueline Hill · William Russell · Maureen O'Brien

Synopsis A strange power drain forces the TARDIS to materialise on the planet Vortis. There, the Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Vicki become involved in the plans of the butterfly-like Menoptra to reclaim their planet from the parasitic Animus that is slowly...

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Direction John Davies

Cast Patrick Troughton · Michael Craze · Anneke Wills · Frazer Hines

Synopsis The time travellers visit a human colony that appears to be a happy place run along the lines of an enormous holiday camp but has in fact been infiltrated and taken over by a race of giant crab-like creatures -...

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Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones (TV)

1967 · Movie · 144 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gerry Mill

Cast Patrick Troughton · Michael Craze · Anneke Wills · Frazer Hines

Synopsis The TARDIS arrives on Earth in 1966 - on a runway at Gatwick airport. Polly witnesses a murder in a nearby hangar and is then kidnapped by the perpetrator, Spencer of Chameleon Tours. Subsequently Ben also vanishes. The Doctor and...

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Doctor Who: The Savages (TV)

1966 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Christopher Barry

Cast William Hartnell · Peter Purves · Jackie Lane · Robert Sidaway

Synopsis The TARDIS has arrived on a far-distant and seemingly idyllic world, but the Doctor, Steven and Dodo discover that it hides a terrible secret: the apparently civilised Elders maintain their advanced society by draining off and transferring to themselves the...

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Doctor Who: The Gunfighters (TV)

1966 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Rex Tucker

Cast William Hartnell · Peter Purves · Jackie Lane · Richard Beale

Synopsis The TARDIS arrives in the town of Tombstone in the Wild West and the Doctor decides he must visit a dentist. The local dentist is Doc Holliday, currently engaged in a feud with the Clanton family. Lawmen Wyatt Earp and...

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Doctor Who: Marco Polo (TV)

1964 · Movie · 172 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Waris Hussein · John Crockett

Cast William Hartnell · Jacqueline Hill · William Russell · Carole Ann Ford

Synopsis Arriving in Central Asia in 1289, the Doctor and his companions join the caravan of the famous Venetian explorer Marco Polo as it makes its way from the snowy heights of the Pamir Plateau, across the treacherous Gobi Desert and...

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Direction Derek Martinus

Cast Patrick Troughton · Frazer Hines · Alec Ross · Robert Jewell

Synopsis The TARDIS has been stolen by antiques dealer Edward Waterfield, who lures the Doctor and Jamie into a trap. They are transported back to Waterfield's own time, 1867, where his daughter Victoria is being held hostage by the Daleks to...

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Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors (TV)

1967 · Movie · 145 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Derek Martinus

Cast Patrick Troughton · Frazer Hines · Deborah Watling · George Waring

Synopsis The TARDIS arrives on Earth at the time of a new ice age and the travellers make their way into a base where scientists commanded by Leader Clent are using an ioniser device to combat the advance of a glacier....

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Direction Mervyn Pinfield

Cast William Hartnell · Jacqueline Hill · William Russell · Maureen O'Brien

Synopsis The TARDIS jumps a time track and the travellers arrive on the planet Xeros. There they discover their own future selves displayed as exhibits in a museum established as a monument to the galactic conquests of the warlike Morok invaders...

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Direction Gerald Blake

Cast Patrick Troughton · Frazer Hines · Deborah Watling · Norman Jones

Synopsis The TARDIS arrives in Tibet in 1935 and the Doctor visits the remote Detsen monastery in order to return a sacred bell, the ghanta, given to him for safe keeping on a previous visit. There he meets an Englishman, Travers,...

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Doctor Who: The Crusade (TV)

1965 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Douglas Camfield

Cast William Hartnell · Jacqueline Hill · William Russell · Maureen O'Brien

Synopsis The TARDIS arrives in 12th Century Palestine where a holy war is in progress between the forces of King Richard the Lionheart and the Saracen ruler Saladin. Barbara is abducted in a Saracen ambush and the Doctor, Ian and Vicki...

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Doctor Who: The Dominators (TV)

1968 · Movie · 121 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Morris Barry

Cast Patrick Troughton · Frazer Hines · Wendy Padbury · Johnson Bayly

Synopsis The TARDIS materialises on the planet Dulkis, currently under threat from two alien Dominators, Rago and his subordinate Toba, who have landed in a spaceship. Aided by their robotic servants, the Quarks, and slave workers drawn from the native Dulcian...

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Direction Tristan de Vere Cole

Cast Patrick Troughton · Frazer Hines · Deborah Watling · Derrick Gilbert

Synopsis The TARDIS materialises on board a spaceship, the Silver Carrier, where the Doctor and Jamie are attacked by a Servo Robot. Jamie manages to contact a nearby space station known as the Wheel and they are rescued. Meanwhile, the Silver...

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Direction Hugh David

Cast Patrick Troughton · Frazer Hines · Deborah Watling · John Garvin

Synopsis The TARDIS lands on the surface of the sea, just off the east coast of England. The time travellers use a rubber dinghy to get ashore, where they are shot with tranquiliser darts and taken prisoner by security guards as...

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