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Rhodes of Africa
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe 🇿🇦 South Africa The 1900s The 1890s The 1880s The 1870s The 1860sRhodes of Africa is a 1936 British biographical film charting the life of Cecil Rhodes. It was directed by Berthold Viertel and starred Walter Huston, Oskar Homolka, Basil Sydney and Bernard Lee.
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Custer's Last Stand
The 1870sBased On Historical Events Leading Up To CUSTER'S LAST FIGHT — Kit Cardigan seeks the killer of his father...among other plot threads leading up to the famous historical incident.
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The Little Colonel
Kentucky The 1870sShe Has Won An Unconditional Surrender From Every Heart! — After Southern belle Elizabeth Lloyd runs off to marry Yankee Jack Sherman, her father, a former Confederate colonel during the Civil War, vows to never speak to her again. Several years pass and Elizabeth returns to her home town with her husband and young daughter. The little girl charms her crusty grandfather and tries to patch things up between him and her mother.
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Oyuki the Virgin
The 1870sWhen a civil war threatens to break out, two geishas flee from their village with aristocrats. During the long journey, the socially inferior women prove to be morally superior to their betters.
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The Age of Innocence
New York The 1870sAn engaged attorney and a divorcee fall for each other in 1870s Manhattan.
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Boule de Suif
🇫🇷 France The 1870sFor the bourgeois she was and she is a prostitute — A film adaptation of the short story of the same name by Guy de Maupassant. The action takes place in the XIX century. Franco-Prussian War of 1870. A group of French bourgeois leaves in a stagecoach from Rouen occupied by Prussian troops. Along with them comes one attractive demimonde lady. The only way to get out is to persuade her, nicknamed "Ball-of-Fat" a la "Boule-de-Suif" to satisfy the lust of the head of the gendarmerie...
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Stingaree
🇦🇺 Australia The 1870sWith the world at her feet, she threw away gold and glory to be crushed in his lawless arms. — A young lady named Hilda who works as a servant for the wealthy Clarksons, sheep farmers, and dreams of being a great singer. An upcoming visit by Sir Julian, a famous composer arriving from London, drives jealous Mrs. Clarkson (an interfering biddy who fancies she can sing - but can't) to send away Hilda, so he doesn't hear Hilda has a good voice. Meanwhile, an infamous outlaw named Stingaree has just arrived in town and kidnaps Sir Julian, then poses as him at the Clarksons, where he meets Hilda a few hours before she is to leave.
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The Big Stampede
New Mexico The 1870sDeputy Sheriff John Steele recruits bandit Sonora Joe to help him find out who's been bumping off all the local lawmen and rustling the cattle.
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The Conquerors
New York The 1920s The 1890s The 1870sA newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire.
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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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Disraeli
England The 1870sDisraeli – Lover and Leader! — Prime Minister of Great Britain Benjamin Disraeli outwits the subterfuge of the Russians and chicanery at home in order to secure the purchase of the Suez Canal.
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The New Babylon
🇫🇷 France The 1870sIn the short-lived Commune of Paris, a conscripted soldier falls in love with a Communard saleswoman. As the army cracks down on the revolutionaries, the soldier is forced to fight against the Commune, and the pair's love is put to the test.
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The Communard's Pipe
The 1870sA movie about living and fighting of Paris Commune and fate of the little boy - Communard. based on Ilya Ehrenburg novel.
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Le Tour de France par deux enfants
The 1870sBy a cold day of September of 1872, two young brothers named André and Julien Volden leave Phalsbourg in Lorraine to grant their recently deceased father's wish. Their goal is to see their uncle Frantz in Marseille
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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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Disraeli
England The 1870sThe story of British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli and the purchase by England of the Suez Canal.
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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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Custer's Last Fight
The 1870sThe silent film Custer's Last Fight is the first movie about George Armstrong Custer and his final stand at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
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The Traitress
The 1870sA woman betrays the regiment location in which the officer she is interested in is assigned because he despises her, only to regret it when he is caught and try to free him.
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The Prussian Spy
The 1870sLady Florence hides her lover, a Prussian spy, from the French troops who are hunting for him. One of her other suitors, a French officer, discovers the hiding place and threatens to kill the spy.
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The Great Train Robbery
The 1870sIt electrified dad! It terrified mother! It will amuse you! — After the train station clerk is assaulted and left bound and gagged, then the departing train and its passengers robbed, a posse goes in hot pursuit of the fleeing bandits.
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The Last Cartridges
The 1870sAn incident of the Franco-Prussian War. It shows the bombardment of a house at Bazeille. It is the animated reproduction of de Neuville's celebrated painting.
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