7 Films & TV Shows Set In New England During The 1870s
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The Call of Cthulhu
Rhode Island Louisiana 🇳🇴 Norway 🇬🇱 Greenland New South Wales 🇳🇿 New Zealand The 1920s The 1900s The 1870sA dying professor leaves his great-nephew a collection of documents pertaining to the Cthulhu Cult. The nephew begins to learn why the study of the cult so fascinated his grandfather. Bit-by-bit he begins piecing together the dread implications of his grandfather's inquiries, and soon he takes on investigating the Cthulhu cult as a crusade of his own.
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The Weight of Water
Maine The 1870sHell hath no fury... — A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational axe murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. She discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an eyewitness.
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Little Men
Massachusetts The 1870sIn this adaptation of the classic novel by Louisa May Alcott, two street kids from Boston find themselves at Plumfield, a rural boarding school run by Jo and her husband -- and they soon learn academic and life lessons they won't ever forget.
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The Time Machine
Massachusetts California The 1970s The 1850s The 1870s The 17th CenturyA scientist builds a machine that will enable him to travel back and forth in time, but when he puts it in motion, he gets more than he bargained for.
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The Haunted Palace
Massachusetts The 1870s The 18th CenturyA warlock's home is his castle...Forever! — A warlock burned at the stake comes back and takes over the body of his great grandson to take his revenge on the descendents of the villages that burned him.
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The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
Massachusetts The 1870sA Merry Escapade! Scandalous! Joyous! — In the late 1800s, Miss Pilgrim, a young stenographer, or typewriter, becomes the first female employee at a Boston shipping office. Although the men object to her at first, she soon charms them all, especially the handsome young head of the company. Their romance gets sidetracked when she becomes involved in the Women's Suffrage movement.
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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Massachusetts England The 1870sDarryl F. Zanuck's Entertainment gem will take its place in the Hall of Fame ! — Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries and becomes rich and famous, though his happiness is threatened when a rival company sets out to ruin him.
