284 Films & TV Shows Set In North America During The 1860s
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Beloved
Ohio The 1860s The 1870sThe past has a life of its own. — After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved". Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things start to happen...
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The Tempest
Mississippi The 1850s The 1860sAn adaptation of Shakespeare's classic is set in the Mississippi bayous during the Civil War.
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The Day Lincoln Was Shot
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860sHatred so deep can be murder. — A dramatization of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Based on the book by Jim Bishop.
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Buffalo Soldiers
New Mexico The 1880s The 1860sFrom slaves to free men. From free men to soldiers. From soldiers to legends. — They've ridden dusty miles without end and fought fierce battles. Yet when these brave African-American cavalrymen enter a scraggly frontier town, they must walk through it instead of ride. The town dishonors them but the soldiers' Native-American foes do not. Apache leader Victoria and other warriors give the horsemen a name of honor and strength: "Buffalo Soldiers". The troopers' daring hunt for Victorio frames this stirring tribute to the former slaves and other African-Americans of the 9th and 10th U.S. Calvary Regiments. Danny Glover, Mykelti Williamson, Glynn Turman, Carl Lumbly and Michael Warren star in an adventure bringing to light that largely unknown story and the unique moral dilemma the men faced. Atten-hut! "Buffalo Soldiers are riding" through town.
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Last Stand at Saber River
Arizona The 1860sAs America recovers from the Civil War, one man tries to put the pieces of his life back together but finds himself fighting a new battle on the frontier. Cable is an embittered Confederate soldier who returns from the war to reclaim his Arizona homestead from rebel pioneers who sympathize with the Union war effort.
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Andersonville
Virginia Georgia The 1860sThe great untold story of the American Civil War. — This lengthy docudrama records the harrowing conditions at the Confederacy's most notorious prisoner-of-war camp. The drama unfolds through the eyes of a company of Union soldiers captured at the Battle of Cold Harbor, VA, in June 1864, and shipped to the camp in southern Georgia. A private, Josiah Day, and his sergeant try to hold their company together in the face of squalid living conditions, inhumane punishments, and a gang of predatory fellow prisoners called the Raiders.
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Jumanji
New Hampshire The 1990s The 1960s The 1860s The 1800sRoll the dice and unleash the excitement! — When siblings Judy and Peter discover an enchanted board game that opens the door to a magical world, they unwittingly invite Alan -- an adult who's been trapped inside the game for 26 years -- into their living room. Alan's only hope for freedom is to finish the game, which proves risky as all three find themselves running from giant rhinoceroses, evil monkeys and other terrifying creatures.
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Pharaoh's Army
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860sUnion soldiers in search of food descend on the farm of a Confederate family and decide to stay until one in their ranks' wounds have healed. While the war weary Union captain (Chris Cooper) falls for the mother of the family (Patricia Clarkson) - whose husband is off fighting for the rebels - her son plots revenge on the dirty, double-dealing Yankees. Co-stars Kris Kristofferson.
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Black Fox
Texas The 1860sTwo Tribes have joined forces to drive the white man away-two men aren't about to let that happen... — A former slave affects peace between Indian tribes and homesteaders in 1860s West Texas.
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Savate
🇲🇽 Mexico 🇫🇷 France The 1860s1865: A young French officer, travelling the U.S. in search of the murderer of his best friend, gets involved in a struggle between poor farmers and a rich landowner. To help the farmers, he offers them his "Savate" (French kickboxing) skills.
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Timecop
District of Columbia The 1990s The 1920s The 2000s The 1860sTurn back the clock and you're history. — An officer for a security agency that regulates time travel, must fend for his life against a shady politician who has a tie to his past.
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Little Women
New York Massachusetts The 1860sThe story that has lived in our hearts for generations, now comes to the screen for the holidays. — With their father away as a chaplain in the Civil War, Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy grow up with their mother in somewhat reduced circumstances. They are a close family who inevitably have their squabbles and tragedies. But the bond holds even when, later, male friends start to become a part of the household.
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Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
Massachusetts The 1990s The 1860sJames Earl Jones hosts this film based on two stories by the late Rod Serling, who wrote the stories of the original 'The Twilight Zone' (1959) series. In "The Theater," a young woman attends a movie theater only to find that her life story is being revealed on the screen. In "Where the Dead Are," a Boston surgeon in 1868 searches for a scientist who may have the answer to a medical mystery.
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Cheyenne Warrior
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860sTragedy brought them together , tradition tore them apart. — An interracial love story, set in the turbulent wild west, stirs up tensions between the Indians and the settlers.
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Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860sLucy married at the turn of the last century, when she was fifteen and her husband was fifty. If Colonel William Marsden was a veteran of the "War for Southern Independence", Lucy became a "veteran of the veteran" with a unique perspective on Southern history and Southern manhood. Her story encompasses everything from the tragic death of a Confederate boy soldier to the feisty narrator's daily battles in the Home--complete with visits from a mohawk-coiffed candy-striper.
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Sommersby
Tennessee The 1860sShe knew his face. His touch. His voice. She knew everything about him... But the truth. — Set in the south of the United States just after the Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without her husband Jack, believed killed in the Civil War. By all accounts, Jack Sommersby was not a pleasant man, thus when he returns, Laurel has mixed emotions. It appears that Jack has changed a great deal, leading some people to believe that this is not actually Jack but an imposter. Laurel herself is unsure, but willing to take the man into her home, and perhaps later into her heart...
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Gettysburg
Pennsylvania The 1860sSame Land. Same God. Different Dreams. — In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee leads the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania with the goal of marching through to Washington, D.C. The Union Army of the Potomac, under the command of General George G. Meade, forms a defensive position to confront the rebel forces in what will prove to be the decisive battle of the American Civil War.
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Grey Knight
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860sThe perfect soldiers are the ones who can not be killed! — Slave traders bring back evil voodoo entity that is accidently freed by the Confederate army during the Civil War. The entity possesses the bodies of the dead soldiers to create an army of its own bent on conquest, using the corpses of both the North and South.
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Class of '61
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860sThree West Point 1861 generation cadets and friends go on opposite sides after the breakout of The Civil War, with tragic consequences. A subplot involves Lucius, a Shelby Peyton's slave, who kills a slave trader and goes on the run.
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Dances with Wolves
Kansas Tennessee South Dakota The 1860s The 1850s The 1840sInside everyone is a frontier waiting to be discovered. — Wounded Civil War soldier, John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.
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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
🇦🇹 Austria California New Mexico England The 1870s The 1860s The 1800s The 1900s The 1980s The 1st Century BC The 14th Century The 13th Century The FutureHistory is about to be rewritten by two guys who can't spell. — Bill and Ted are high school buddies starting a band. They are also about to fail their history class—which means Ted would be sent to military school—but receive help from Rufus, a traveller from a future where their band is the foundation for a perfect society. With the use of Rufus' time machine, Bill and Ted travel to various points in history, returning with important figures to help them complete their final history presentation.
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Glory
Georgia Massachusetts South Carolina The 1860sTheir innocence. Their heritage. Their lives. — Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.
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From a Whisper to a Scream
Tennessee The 1860s The 1930s The 1950s The 1980sWelcome to Oldfield. Stop in for a night of pure terror. — The uncle of an executed murderess relates four stories of his hometown, Oldfield, to a reporter. In the first, an elderly man pursues a romance with a younger woman, even to the grave and beyond. In the second, a wounded man on the run from creditors is rescued by a backwoods hermit who holds the secret to eternal life. In the third, a glass-eating carny pays the ultimate price for looking for love on the outside. And in the fourth, a group of Civil War soldiers are held captive by a household of orphans with strange intentions for them.
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The Supernaturals
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1980s The 1860sThere are strangers in the woods and a century of hatred is about to erupt. — Nichelle Nichols is an army sergeant who leads her platoon into the woods of the deep south on a training exercise. Unfortunately, it is the site where a bunch of yankee soldiers murdered a town of confederates. The corpses of the dead soldiers rise up to wreak revenge.
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Dreamchild
New York England The 1930s The 1860sExploring the somewhat darker and more mysterious side of the Lewis Carroll's classic book, the movie follows Alice Liddell (the book's inspiration) as an old woman who is haunted by the characters she was once so amused by. As she thinks back on it, she starts to see her relationship with the shy author/professor in a new way and realizes the vast change between the young Alice and the old.
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