25 Films & TV Shows Set In Kentucky During The 19th Century
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Men Go to Battle
Kentucky The 1860sKentucky, 1861. Francis and Henry Mellon depend on each other to keep their unkempt estate afloat as winter encroaches. After Francis takes a casual fight too far, Henry ventures off in the night, leaving each of them to struggle through the wartime on their own.
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Hatfields & McCoys: Season 1
Kentucky West Virginia The 19th CenturyIt’s the true American story of a legendary family feud—one that spanned decades and nearly launched a war between Kentucky and West Virginia. The Hatfield-McCoy saga begins with Devil Anse Hatfield and Randall McCoy.. Close friends and comrades until near the end of the Civil War, they return to their neighboring homes—Hatfield in West Virginia, McCoy just across the Tug River border in Kentucky—to increasing tensions, misunderstandings and resentments that soon explode into all-out warfare between their families. As hostilities grow, friends, neighbors and outside forces join the fight, bringing the two states to the brink of another civil war.
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The Adventures of Huck Finn
Arkansas Illinois Missouri Kentucky The 1830sFor anyone who has ever dreamed of running away from it all — Mischievous Huck Finn is unnerved when his father, reemerging after years away, kidnaps him in an attempt to take away a $600 inheritance from his late mother. Fearing for his life, Huck fakes his own death and escapes. He soon runs into his friend, Jim, a slave fleeing his master. Together, the pair embarks on a raft journey down the Mississippi River, staying ahead of pursuers who blame the slave for Huck's alleged murder.
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Treasure of Matecumbe
Florida Kentucky The 1860sThe richest adventure of them all — In post-Civil War Kentucky, young David Burnic becomes the unexpected heir to the family secret, a map leading to buried treasure on the Florida isle of Matecumbe.
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The Hatfields and the McCoys
Kentucky The 1800sA retelling of the famous feud between two mountain families, the Hatfields and the McCoys, in rural Kentucky in the late 1800s.
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Huckleberry Finn
Arkansas Illinois Missouri Kentucky The 1830sThe Greatest Of All American Adventure Stories. — Huckleberry Finn is a 15-year-old boy who has had a difficult relationship with his often violent father for a long time. When Dad tried to kidnap him, Huck decides to run away from home, and heads out of town on a raft. Huck is soon joined by Jim, a runaway slave who is no more eager to see his master than Huck is to see his father. As the two friends make their way down the Mississippi, they're faced with a variety of challenges and adventures.
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Slaves
Kentucky The 1850sThe tamings...The desires...The furies...of the Old South! — A Kentucky slave fights for his freedom from cruel overseer whose mistress eventually joins Davis and the other slaves in their revolt.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Arkansas Illinois Missouri Kentucky The 19th CenturyThe most exciting adventures a boy ever had! Hilarious escapades, hair-raising adventures on the fabulous Mississippi! — From chicken thief to cabin boy, riverboat pilot to circus performer, Huck Finn outsmarts everyone on his way down the muddy Mississippi.
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Band of Angels
Kentucky Louisiana The 1860sYou're no blue blood any more, honey. The master bought you...and now he's waitin'! — Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widower father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and he sends her to the best schools. When he dies suddenly however, Amantha's world is turned upside down. She learns that her father had been living on borrowed money and that her mother was actually a slave and her father's mistress. The plantation is to be sold to pay off her father's debts and as the daughter of slave, Amatha is also to be sold as property. She is bought by a Louisiana plantation owner, Hamish Bond and over time she grows to love him until she learns he was a slave-trader. She tries again to become part of white society but realizes that her future lies elsewhere.
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The Kentuckian
Kentucky Texas The 1820sHunter...Frontiersman...Adventurer! — A frontiersman and his son fight to build a new home in Texas.
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The Sun Shines Bright
Kentucky The 1890sJUDGE BILLY PRIEST...the only man who ever called Mallie Crump a Lady — John Ford weaves three "Judge Priest" stories together to form a good- natured exploration of honour and small-town politics in the South around the turn of the century. Judge William Priest is involved variously in revealing the real identity of Lucy Lake, reliving his Civil War memories, preventing the lynching of a youth and contesting the elections with Yankee Horace K. Maydew.
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14 Carrot Rabbit
Kentucky Yukon The 1890sYosemite Sam (as Chilikoot Sam) tries unsuccessfully to steal gold from Bugs Bunny during the Yukon gold rush.
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Roseanna McCoy
Kentucky West Virginia The 1880sThe story of the great 'Hatfield - McCoy' feud — It's the Hatfields vs. the McCoys in this 1949 film, with Farley Granger and Joan Evans as the hillbilly Romeo and Juliet whose forbidden romance rekindles a long-standing feud between their respective families.
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Lady for a Night
Tennessee Kentucky The 1870s The 1880sFROM THE DEEP ROMANTIC SOUTH COMES ANOTHER THRILLING DRAMA OF LOVE AND INTRIGUE — Gambling boat operator Jenny Blake throws over her gambler beau Jack Morgan in order to marry into high society.
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Confederate Honey
Kentucky The 1860sNett Cutler (Elmer Fudd) romances Crimson O'Hairoil in this send-up of Gone With the Wind (1939).
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Arkansas Illinois Missouri Kentucky The 1830sHIS GREATEST TRIUMPH! — Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Arkansas Illinois Missouri Kentucky The 1830s The 1840sThrills! Adventure! Laughs! — Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.
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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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Judge Priest
Kentucky The 1890sEnough laughs to make your head spin! — Judge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, restores the justice in a small town in the Post-Bellum Kentucky using his common sense and his great sense of humanity.
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Huckleberry Finn
Arkansas Illinois Missouri Kentucky The 1830sHey Folks, We're Together Again! — A year after their former exploits, Tom Sawyer's puppy love of Becky Thatcher keeps him home while Huck Finn, chafing under "civilizing" influences like school and shoes, plans to run away. His scapegrace, abusive father intervenes; Tom and black Jim help him escape; and (departing from the novel) all three raft down the Mississippi, where they're joined by two likable rogues and meet pretty orphans Ella and Mary Jane. The latter may change Huck's mind about girls...
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Tom Sawyer
Arkansas Illinois Missouri Kentucky The 1830sThe classic Mark Twain tale of a young boy and his friends on the Mississippi River. Tom and his pals Huckleberry Finn and Joe Harper have numerous adventures, including running away to be pirates and, being believed drowned, attending their own funeral. The boys also witness a murder and Tom and his friend Becky Thatcher are pursued by the vengeful murderer.
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Huckleberry Finn
Arkansas Illinois Missouri Kentucky The 1830sHuckleberry Finn, a rambuctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River. Accompanying him is Jim, a slave running away from being sold. Together the two strike a bond of friendship that takes them through harrowing events and thrilling adventures.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Kentucky The 1850sBased on the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe: Eliza, a slave who has a young child, pleads with Tom, another slave, to escape with her. Tom does not leave, but Eliza flees with her child. After getting some help to escape the slave traders who are looking for her, she then must try to cross the icy Ohio River if she wants to be free. Meanwhile, Tom is sold from one master to another, and his fortunes vary widely.
