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Operator 13
Virginia The 1860sA TRICK OF FATE MADE THEM BOTH ENEMY AND LOVER. — American Civil War, 1862. After the disaster of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Major Allen, chief of the Secret Service of the Union, asks actress Gail Loveless to become one of his operators and infiltrate enemy territory.
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Nana
🇫🇷 France The 1860sYoung Parisian Nana wards off of a boozed-up military officer at a local restaurant, and fellow diner Gaston Greiner is so impressed with her pluck that he decides to make her a performer at his musical theater. Soon, Nana is a star, and the girlfriend of Greiner and two other men. But when he learns that she's been getting around, Greiner fires her. As she tries to reclaim her singing job while dodging yet another suitor, her treachery might get the better of her.
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Juarez and Maximilian
Ciudad de México The 1860sThe story of Mexican President Benito Juárez and the emperor Maximilian of Habsburg and the empress Carlota.
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Little Women
New York Massachusetts The 1860sLittle Women is a coming-of-age drama tracing the lives of four sisters: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. During the American Civil War, the girls father is away serving as a minister to the troops. The family, headed by their beloved Marmee, must struggle to make ends meet, with the help of their kind and wealthy neighbor, Mr. Laurence, and his high spirited grandson Laurie.
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Secret Service
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860sIn 1864 a Secret Service agent for the Union army goes undercover in Richmond and pretends to be a Confederate captain.
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Two Fisted Justice
The 1860sIt's good guy Carson and the Poncho Riders against bad guy Slavin and his gang.
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Abraham Lincoln
New England The 1860sThe wonder film of the century, about the most romantic figure who ever lived! — A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early years as a country lawyer; his marriage to Mary Todd; his debates with Stephen A. Douglas; the election of 1860; his presidency during the Civil War; and his assassination in Ford’s Theater in 1865.
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Only the Brave
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860sCooper is a Union Army officer who after being jilted by girlfriend, Virginia Bruce, volunteers on what could be a suicide mission. He volunteers to go behind enemy lines disguised in Confederate gray as a staff officer to Robert E. Lee. He's to ride to a certain plantation which is a local brigade headquarters and deliberately let himself by caught with maps showing false Union troop dispositions. Of course the penalty then as now is execution.
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Ludwig II, King of Bavaria
🇩🇪 Germany The 1880s The 1870s The 1860sIn the last years of his life, Bavarian king Ludwig II (1845 – 1886) devotes himself to ambitious architectural projects, which strain the state coffers to the extreme. The monarch, who is afraid of people, also withdraws more and more into a dream world at his various castles. His brother is already in a psychiatric institute and Ludwig is also eventually put under the care of psychiatrist Bernhard von Gudden. The king attempts to get out from under this guardianship at Starnberg lake…
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Morgan's Last Raid
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860sDan Claibourne ( Tim McCoy ) refuses to fight against his state when Tennessee secedes during the Civil War preliminaries. His sweetheart brands him a traitor. Dan joins Morgan's raiders of the Confederate Army and gets an opportunity to rescue the girl during a raid.
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Eliso
The 1860sGeorgia, 1864. The Tsarist regime is using Cossacks to forcibly resettle Muslim Georgians to Turkey in order to steal their land. Meanwhile a Muslim girl falls in love with a Christian from the next village.
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The Fight for the Matterhorn
England 🇮🇹 Italy 🇨🇭 Switzerland The 1860sStruggle for the Matterhorn (German: Der Kampf ums Matterhorn) is a 1928 German-Swiss silent drama film co-directed by Mario Bonnard and Nunzio Malasomma and starring Luis Trenker, Marcella Albani, and Alexandra Schmitt. The film is part of the popular cycle of mountain films of the 1920s and 1930s. Art direction was by Heinrich Richter. Based on a novel by Carl Haensel, the film depicts the battle between British and Italian climbers to be the first to climb the Matterhorn. Trenker later remade the film as The Challenge in 1938.
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The Birth of White Australia
New South Wales The 1860s The 18th CenturyAn early Australian silent film depicting historical events on the Young district goldfields, then known as Lambing Flat. During the gold rush of 1861, tensions between Australian miners and immigrant Chinese led to rioting, with Chinese miners attacked and driven from the diggings. The film portrays these events as being the genesis - or birth - of the White Australia policy, a significant political issue of the day.
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Court-Martial
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860sDuring the American Civil War, A Union-Army officer is ordered by U. S. President Abraham Lincoln to bring in Belle Starr, the leader of a Missouri guerrilla band, dead or alive. However, he falls in love with her, does not bring her in, and is facing a court-martial.
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The Heart of Maryland
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860sAt the outbreak of the War Between the States, Maryland Calvert is loved by Maj. Alan Kendrick, son of a Virginia general, and Capt. Fulton Thorpe. Nancy, whom Thorpe has loved unwisely, follows him to Washington and commits suicide when she learns he will not marry her; as a result, Alan is forced to request his resignation. When Fort Sumter is fired upon, Alan, who admires Lincoln's principles, joins the Union Army though his father is among the Secessionist leaders; as a result, he is estranged from Maryland. Thorpe, who has joined the Confederacy as a spy, is responsible for Alan's arrest, but Maryland victoriously comes to his aid by ringing the alarm bell.
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The General
Tennessee Georgia The 1860sBuster drives "The General" to trainload of laughter. — During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnnie Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.
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Hands Up!
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860sYou'll put your Hands Up! and scream with laughter — Jack, a southern spy during the Civil War, must try to capture a shipment of gold. His task is complicated by the two sisters, Native Americans, and a firing squad.
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The Iron Horse
The 1860sBrandon, a surveyor, dreams of building a railway to the west. He sets off with his son, Davy, to survey a route. They discover a new pass which will shave 200 miles off the expected distance, but they are set upon by a party of Cheyenne. One of them, a white renegade with only two fingers on his right hand, kills Brandon and scalps him. Davy is all alone now.
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Barbara Frietchie
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860sTwo lovers in a small town in Maryland are torn apart by the Civil War--she is loyal to the south while he heads north to join the federal army, determined to protect the Union. Eventually his unit arrives in his hometown and he is reunited with his lover, but things aren't the way they used to be.
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The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860sA biographical film featuring the presidency and assassination of Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War. Only an incomplete abridged copy survives.
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The Warrens of Virginia
Virginia The 1860sAn All-American Play for All-American People! — As the Civil War begins, Ned Burton leaves his Southern love Agatha Warren and joins the Union army. He is later protected and saved from death by Agatha in spite of her loyalty to the South.
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Die Buddenbrooks
The 1870s The 1860s The 1850s The 1840sFour-generation story-saga dealing with the decline of a middle-class Lübeck family. The first adaptation of a Thomas Mann book was also Gerhard Lamprecht’s first major film.
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Grandma's Boy
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860sWhere Laughter Reigns and Joy Pours! — A meek young man must find the courage within when a rogue tramp menaces his home town.
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The Copperhead
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860sA farmer in Illinois played by Lionel Barrymore is recruited by Abraham Lincoln to pose as a copperhead during the Civil War.
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Hitchin' Posts
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860sJefferson Todd and Louis Castiga, brothers-in-law, come to blows on a Mississippi River steamer when Todd discovers Castiga's presence there with a woman.
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Milestones
England The 1880s The 1860s1860 ushers in the era of iron ships, Richard Sibley, a builder of wooden ships, stubbornly resists the change, which leads him to forbid the marriage of his daughter Rose to John Rhead, a proponent of the new method. This injustice outrages John's sister Gertrude so much that she breaks off her engagement to Sibley's son Sam. Meanwhile, John and Rose elope.
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Hay Foot, Straw Foot
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860sHe had a name like a cheap cigarette and a line of second hand tricks that carried the smoke of ages. — Silent military romantic love triangle comedy (based on the story by Julien Josephson), about a soldier named Ulysses S. Grant Briggs, who comes from the south and enlists in the army. He and his best friend, who is from the north, compete for a beautiful stage actress, and risks court-martial to win her.
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Die rollende Kugel
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The Scarlet Drop
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860s"Kaintuck" Ridge (Carey), refused admission to the local militia to fight on the side of Union in the American Civil War, joins a gang of marauders and at the end of the conflict finds himself a fugitive with a price on his head.
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Woman
🇺🇸 United States of America 🇮🇹 Italy The 1860s The 12th Century The 1st CenturyA series of stories reflecting the changing position of women in the world, including the familiar tales of Adam and Eve, Messalina and Claudius, Abelard and Heloise, Cyrene and the Fisherman, as well as that of a young girl and an officer in the American Civil War.
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
The 1860sThe First Submarine Photoplay Ever Filmed — Captain Nemo has built a fantastic submarine for his mission of revenge. He has traveled over 20,000 leagues in search of Charles Denver - a man who caused the death of Princess Daaker. Seeing what he had done, Denver took the daughter to his yacht and sailed away.
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A Sister of Six
New England California The 1860sA young woman and her five little brothers and sisters are left orphans by the murder of their father over gold found on his ranch. Together the seven offspring fight against their greedy neighbors to keep what is rightfully theirs.
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The Crisis
Mississippi The 1860s The 1850sAmerica's Greatest American Story — Stephen Brice, a young lawyer in Civil War-era St. Louis, falls in love with Virginia Carvel, the daughter of his benefactor. But she is loyal to the South and Brice is committed to Lincoln's cause. In the course of the war, their convictions separate them, and Virginia becomes engaged to her cousin Clarence Colfax, a Confederate officer. Brice becomes an officer under General Sherman, and eventually finds himself faced with the captured Colfax, facing execution for spying. Brice must decide whether or not to intercede in his rival's behalf.
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The Birth of a Nation
South Carolina The 1870s The 1860sThe Fiery Cross of the Ku Klux Klan! — Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.
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The Coward
Virginia The 1860sSet during the American Civil War, Keenan stars as a Virginia colonel and Charles Ray as his weak-willed son. The son is forced, at gunpoint, by his father to enlist in the Confederate army. He is terrified by the war and deserts during a battle. The film focuses on the son's struggle to overcome his cowardice.
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The Life of Abraham Lincoln
The 1860sThis short 1915 Edison film stars Frank McGlynn as the famous president from his marriage to assassination by Booth.
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The Warrens of Virginia
Virginia The 1860sAs the Civil War begins Ned Burton leaves his Southern love Agatha Warren and joins the Union army. He is later protected and saved from death by Agatha in spite of her loyalty to the South.
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Cohen Saves the Flag
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860sCohen and his rival Goldberg enlist in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Goldberg receives a lieutenant’s commission while Cohen becomes a sergeant. During the Battle of Gettysburg, Cohen inadvertently becomes a hero when he tosses back an enemy hand grenade and raises a fallen flag in the midst of the conflict. Goldberg conspires to have Cohen shot by a firing squad, but Cohen’s girlfriend Rebecca rides to the rescue.
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Germinal; or, The Toll of Labor
🇫🇷 France The 1860sBased on Emile Zola's novel, an uncompromisingly harsh and realistic story of a coalminers' strike in northern France in the 1860s.
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When Lincoln Paid
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860sThe mother of a dead Union soldier attempts to convince President Lincoln to pardon a similarly condemned Confederate soldier whose unjust conviction was the result of her vindictive scheme.
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A Soldier's Duty
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860sA short love story about jealousy and deceit; a soldier is in love with a girl, but when he gets injured, a jealous rival in love tells this girl that the soldier has died. She jumps into a ravine but is saved, and everything turns out well.
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The Informer
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860sThe young lover leaving home at the opening of the war to join the Confederate Army, tells his brother to take care of his fatherless sweetheart during the perilous times which are to follow. But the brother weakens and fails to be true to his trust. He permits her to believe that her lover is dead. Caught in the neighborhood, however, between the lines of the enemy, the brother appears before them at the crucial moment. In retaliation the false brother turns informer. Both forces are aroused to arms and during the attack upon the girl defending her wounded lover and family alone in the negro's cabin retribution comes in the form of a stray bullet.
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The Great Mine Disaster
The 1860sIn 1912 Jasset turned from fantasy and spectacle to realism in making the first of two Zola adaptations, as part of Éclair's new series of social dramas. For Au pays des ténèbres, based on Germinal, he took his crew to Charleroi in Belgium to film in authentic locations, and although he updated the story to the present, he went to great lengths to recreate in the studio the detail of the actual mining galleries, exploiting the ability of film to be a recorder of contemporary reality.
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His Trust Fulfilled
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860sContinuing where His Trust (1911) leaves off, George takes care of his deceased master's daughter after her mother's death. He sacrifices his own meager savings to give the girl a good life, until the money runs out and he tries to steal money from the girl's rich cousin.
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The Battle
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860sUnion soldiers march off to battle amid cheering crowds. After the battle turns against the Union Army, one soldier runs away, hiding in his girlfriend's house. Ashamed of his cowardice, he finds his courage and crosses enemy lines to bring help to his trapped comrades.
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Swords and Hearts
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860sA poor girl is secretly in love with a wealthy young planter.
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