21 Films & TV Shows Set In Asia During The 1850s
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Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1850sStory of Rani Lakshmibai, one of the leading figures of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and her resistance to the British Rule.
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Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1850sGwalior Fort, during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. In a moment of despair, Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi, encourages her men by telling them the heroic story of Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy, a brave Telugu chieftain who took up arms in 1846 to protest against the numerous arbitrariness and crimes perpetrated by the leaders and military forces of the East India Company.
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The Warrior Queen of Jhansi
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1850sQueen. Soldier. Legend. โ The true story of Lakshmibai, the historic Queen of Jhansi who fiercely led her army against the British East India Company in the infamous mutiny of 1857.
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Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1850sThe greatest journey is finding where you belong โ A human child raised by wolves, must face off against a menacing tiger named Shere Khan, as well as his own origins.
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Mangal Pandey - The Rising
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1850sThe film begins in 1857, when India was ruled by the British East India Company. Mangal Pandey is a sepoy, a soldier of Indian origin, in the army of the East India Company. Pandey is fighting in the Anglo-Afghan Wars and saves the life of his British commanding officer, William Gordon. Gordon is indebted to Pandey and a strong friendship develops between them, transcending both rank and race.
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The Prodigal Son
Guangdong Province The 1850sThe fighting men in Chinese opera house โ A rich man's son believes himself to be the best kung fu fighter in Canton. Unfortunately, his father, anxious for his son's safety, bribes all his opponents to lose. After a humiliating defeat at the hands of an actor in a traveling theatre company, the son resolves to find a better teacher.
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The Bushido Blade
๐ฏ๐ต Japan The 1850sIt cuts to the heart of courage. โ A steel samurai blade that was to be given to the American ambassador by the Emperor of Japan is stolen. American sailors and Japanese samurai are sent to find it.
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Oblomov
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1850sSt. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov lives in a flat with his older servant, Zakhar. He sleeps much of the day, dreaming of his childhood on his parents' estate. His boyhood companion, Stoltz, now an energetic and successful businessman, adds Oblomov to his circle whenever he's in the city, and Oblomov's life changes when Stoltz introduces him to Olga, lovely and cultured. When Stoltz leaves for several months, Oblomov takes a country house near Olga's, and she determines to change him: to turn him into a man of society, action, and culture. Soon, Olga and Oblomov are in love; but where, in the triangle, does that leave Stoltz?
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Junoon
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1850sSet during the 1857 War of Independence, an obsessed Indian Nawab desires to wed a young Anglo-Indian woman, but the girl's obstinate mother stands between them.
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The Chess Players
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1850sSatyajit Ray's First Hindi Film โ It is the year 1856. Nawab Wajid Ali Shah is the king of Awadh, one of the last independent kingdoms of India. The British colonialists, intent on controlling this rich land, have sent general Outram on a secret mission to clear the way for an annexation. Pressure is mounting amidst intrigue and political manoeuvres, but the Nawab whiles away his time in pursuit of pleasure and religious practice. The court is of no help eitherโCourt nobles Mir and Mirza, ignoring the situation of their country and all their duties towards their families, spend their days playing endless games of chess. The film is based on Munshi Premchand's short story of the same name.
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Shaheed
๐ต๐ฐ Pakistan The 1850sIt is the year 1857 in India, a year that Sardar Ajit Singh, his wife, their children, including son, Bhagat, and their parents will never forget, for it was the day his brother, Kishan, sang out against the British, was arrested, escaped from prison, & has never been heard of again. This does have an impact on young Bhagat Singh's mind, so much so that when he grows up he joins the freedom fighting movement, being headed by Chandrashekar Azad. It is then that an unarmed freedom fighter, protesting the Simon Commission, is killed by Police. Bhagat, Chandrashekar, Shivram Rajguru, Sukhdev, and Jaygopal avenge this death by killing the Assistant of Commissioner Saunders. When a major police hunt is announced, they flee, especially Bhagat, as he has been identified as the Sikh with the turban. Bhagat takes off his turban, shaves off his beard, and continues to be active in the freedom movement...
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Adorable Sinner
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1880s The 1870s The 1860s The 1850sMen couldn't resist her...not even an Emperor! โ The Tsar Alexandre II meets a young student, Katia. He understands that he loves her and try to send her away but they end up seeing each other again and becomes his mistress. With the help of Katia, Alexandre prepares a liberal constitution, but these reforms make him hostile to the more privileged subjects without satirising the revolutionaries against the regime.
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The White Warrior
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1850sAt the Power Peak of the Universe... At the Fury Pinnacle of the World Stands... THE WHITE WARRIOR! โ The story of Hadji Murad, a 19th-century Chechen chieftain who led his warriors in a fight against the invading forces of the Russian Czar.
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The Barbarian and the Geisha
๐ฏ๐ต Japan The 1850sThe geisha girl they sent to love and to destroy the barbarian from the west! โ Townsend Harris is sent by President Pierce to Japan to serve as the first U.S. Consul-General to that country. Harris discovers enormous hostility to foreigners, as well as the love of a young geisha.
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Bengal Brigade
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1850sFrom marble palace to teeming jungle all India rocked with the violence of the great rebellion ! โ Year 1856, British India. Capt. Jeffrey Claybourne is severely punished after disobeying an order. Feeling unworthy of his fiancรฉe Vivian Morrow, the daughter of his superior officer, Claybourne leaves the army until he could regain his reputation. When the Rajah Karam launches an attack on the British forces in India, Claybourne finds a chance at redemption.
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Jhansi Ki Rani
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1850sSet in the 19th century against the backdrop of the Mutiny of 1857, the film is about the bravery of queen Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi, who took up arms and led her army against the British.
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1857
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1850sHistorical fiction drama set during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, also known as the First war of Independence.
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Suez
๐ซ๐ท France ๐ช๐ฌ Egypt The 1860s The 1850sHE CHANGED THE MAP of the World! โ Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.
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Katia
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1850sTheirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die โ In 1853, as the British and Russian empires compete to gain and maintain their place in the dreadful Great Game of political intrigues and alliances whose greatest prize is the domination of India and the border territories, Major Geoffrey Vickers must endure several betrayals and misfortunes before he can achieve his revenge at the Balaclava Heights, on October 25, 1854, the most glorious day of the Crimean War.
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The Beggar of Cawnpore
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1850sDr. Robert Lowndes of the British army practices in a small Indian outpost during a cholera epidemic, and to ease his fever, uses morphine. He becomes an addict, but his sweetheart, Betty Archer, makes him promise to reform. Another of Betty's suitors, however, Captain Guy Douglas, uses drugs to tempt Lowndes.