284 Films & TV Shows Set In North America During The 1860s
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Savage State
Missouri The 1860sSaint Charles County, Missouri, December 1863. Edmond, a prosperous French perfume merchant, decides to flee to a safer place when the storms of the American Civil War start knocking at his door, threatening the life and fortune of his family.
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Calamity, a Childhood of Martha Jane Cannary
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860s1863, a convoy in the American West, Martha Jane needs to learn how to take care of horses to drive the family wagon. Except she ends up wearing pants and cutting her hair. The scandal that its stark character provokes will force to face all the dangers in a gigantic and wild world where everything is possible.
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Antebellum
Louisiana The 2020s The 1860sIf it chooses you, nothing can save you. — Successful author Veronica finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality and must uncover the mind-bending mystery before it's too late.
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Little Women
New York Massachusetts 🇫🇷 France The 1860sOwn your story — Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
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Harriet
New York Maryland Pennsylvania South Carolina Ontario The 1840s The 1850s The 1860sBe free or die — The extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.
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Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860s The 1870sThe series explores the transformative years following the American Civil War, when the nation struggled to rebuild itself in the face of profound loss, massive destruction, and revolutionary social change. The twelve years that composed the post-war Reconstruction era (1865-77) witnessed a seismic shift in the meaning and makeup of our democracy, with millions of former slaves and free black people seeking out their rightful place as equal citizens under the law. Though tragically short-lived, this bold democratic experiment was, in the words of W. E. B. Du Bois, a ‘brief moment in the sun’ for African Americans, when they could advance, and achieve, education, exercise their right to vote, and run for and win public office.
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Winchester
California The 1900s The 1880s The 1870s The 1860sTerror is building. — San Jose, California, 1906. Isolated in her labyrinthine mansion, eccentric firearm heiress Sarah Winchester believes that she is being haunted by the souls of those killed by the guns manufactured by her company.
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The Beguiled
Virginia The 1860sInnocent, until betrayed. — During the Civil War, at a Southern girls’ boarding school, young women take in an injured enemy soldier. As they provide refuge and tend to his wounds, the house is taken over with sexual tension and dangerous rivalries, and taboos are broken in an unexpected turn of events.
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Free State of Jones
Mississippi The 1940s The 1870s The 1860sIn 1863, Mississippi farmer Newt Knight serves as a medic for the Confederate Army. Opposed to slavery, Knight would rather help the wounded than fight the Union. After his nephew dies in battle, Newt returns home to Jones County to safeguard his family but is soon branded an outlaw deserter. Forced to flee, he finds refuge with a group of runaway slaves hiding out in the swamps. Forging an alliance with the slaves and other farmers, Knight leads a rebellion that would forever change history.
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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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Field of Lost Shoes
Virginia The 1860sSend the boys in... and may God forgive me — A group of teenage cadets sheltered from war at the Virginia Military Institute must confront the horrors of an adult world when they are called upon to defend the Shenandoah Valley.
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Edge
Kansas The 1860sMissouri, 1865. Josiah Hedges aka "Edge" returns home from the Civil War to discover his closest comrades-in-arms have betrayed him, sparking a bloody reign of vengeance. A mysterious beauty crosses Edge's path, and together they will uncover a dark conspiracy that extends to the highest ranks of American power.
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The Keeping Room
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860sSome things are worth fighting for. — In this radically reimagined American Western set towards the end of the Civil War, Southerner Augusta encounters two renegade, drunken soldiers who are on a mission of pillage and violence. After escaping an attempted assault, Augusta races back to the isolated farmhouse that she shares with her sister Louise and their female slave Mad. When the pair of soldiers track Augusta down intent on exacting revenge, the trio of women are forced to take up arms to fend off their assailants, finding ways to resourcefully defend their home––and themselves––as the escalating attacks become more unpredictable and relentless.
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Deliverance Creek
Missouri The 1860sCivil Warrior — Set at the end of the Civil War, widowed mother of 3 Belle Gatlin Barlowe faces uncertainty as she attempts to defend her family's land by any means necessary. When the corrupt bank that runs their town pushes Belle into becoming an outlaw, the stakes become personal, setting off a chain of events that force her to question whether it's better to be good or to survive.
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The Lone Ranger
California Texas The 1930s The 1860sNever Take Off the Mask — The Texas Rangers chase down a gang of outlaws led by Butch Cavendish, but the gang ambushes the Rangers, seemingly killing them all. One survivor is found, however, by an American Indian named Tonto, who nurses him back to health. The Ranger, donning a mask and riding a white stallion named Silver, teams up with Tonto to bring the unscrupulous gang and others of that ilk to justice.
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Saving Lincoln
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860sThe true story of an epic friendship — The almost entirely true story of Abraham Lincoln and his self-appointed bodyguard, U.S. Marshal Ward Hill Lamon - a banjo-playing Southerner who foiled repeated attempts on the President's life, and kept him functioning during the darkest hours of the Civil War.
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Killing Lincoln
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860sApril 14, 1865. One gunshot. One assassin hell-bent on killing a tyrant, as he charged the 16th President of the United States. And in one moment, our nation was forever changed. This is the most dramatic and resonant crime in American history—the true story of the killing of Abraham Lincoln.
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Copperhead
New York The 1860sThe war at home — A family is torn apart during the American Civil War.
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Army of Frankensteins
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860sLincoln did not free the slaves alone. — A young man travels back in time, finding himself entrenched in the Civil War with an army of Frankensteins.
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Copper: Season 2
New York The 1860sKevin Corcoran is a rugged young Irish immigrant policeman trying to keep the peace in the historical Five Points neighborhood in 1860s New York City while searching for information on the disappearance of his wife and death of his daughter.
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John Carter
New York Arizona Mars The 1880s The 1860sLost in our world, found in another. — John Carter is a war-weary, former military captain who's inexplicably transported to the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars) and reluctantly becomes embroiled in an epic conflict. It's a world on the brink of collapse, and Carter rediscovers his humanity when he realizes the survival of Barsoom and its people rests in his hands.
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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Pennsylvania Indiana Illinois Louisiana South Carolina The 1860s The 1850s The 1810s The 1820s The 1830s The 1840sAre you a patriot or a vampire? — President Lincoln's mother is killed by a supernatural creature, which fuels his passion to crush vampires and their slave-owning helpers.
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Lincoln
Virginia District of Columbia The 1860sWith the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices will change the fate of generations to come. — The revealing story of the 16th US President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.
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Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies
Georgia The 1860sHe emancipated the slaves... he saved the union... and slaughtered the undead! — As Abraham Lincoln labors over the Gettysburg address, the importance of which he is fully aware, he learns that a menace from his past has returned, threatening to tear the already fractured nation to pieces. He must journey behind enemy lines to face an foe far more fearsome than the Confederate army: the walking dead.
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War Flowers
North Carolina The 1860sSome things aren't meant to be forgotten... — North Carolina 1863, the Civil War is raging. In this inspired story of tragedy and love we follow the lives of Melody, a precocious seven-year old, and her young mother Sarah as they struggle on their farm to survive during the Civil War.
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