284 Films & TV Shows Set In North America During The 1860s
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Booker
Virginia West Virginia The 1860sSet in the 1860's South, Booker is the impassioned story of the boy who struggled through slavery to found the Tuskegee Institute. Through the eyes of nine-year-old Booker T. Washington, viewers witness the end of the Civil War, the cruelties that endured after slavery was abolished, and the hard work that led Booker to education and true freedom. Booker is a one-hour drama based on the childhood of Booker T. Washington and his quest for education in the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War. Booker was shown nationally on PBS by the series, WONDERWORKS and subsequently on the Disney Channel, the BBC, and throughout the world. Booker continues to be broadcast and used in thousands of schools in America and abroad. The film was chosen as among the top 10 best home video release for children by Parenting Magazine and best script for a children's drama by the Writer's Guild of America.
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The Shadow Riders
Texas The 1860sAfter starring in "The Sacketts", Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott team up again but this time as Mac and Dal Traven, in a movie based on a classic Louis L'Amour novel. They are brothers, who meet up at the end of the Civil War fighting on opposite sides. They go home only to find their family in dire need and their sisters and brother kidnapped by ruthless raiders. They set out to rescue their family.
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The Legend of the Golden Gun
πΊπΈ United States of America The 1860sIn Kansas during the middle of the Civil War, John Golden is left for dead and his family has been killed by the ruthless Confederate outlaw William Quantrill. Rescued by runaway slave Joshua Brown, Golden is determined to get revenge. With the help of a legendary gunfighter and a special gun, Golden must not only deal with Quantrill and his men, but has to dodge General Custer and his army, as well.
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The Shadow of Chikara
πΊπΈ United States of America The 1860sConfederate veterans of the last battle of the Civil War set out to find a hidden treasure.
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Haunted
Arizona The 1860sAn Ancient Evil is Unleashed ... And It Wants Revenge! β In Arizona during the Civil War, a woman is accused of witchcraft, tied to a horse and left to die in the desert. One hundred years later, the descendants of the woman's accusers start being killed off, and the townspeople suspect the woman has come back as an evil spirit.
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The Outlaw Josey Wales
Missouri Oklahoma Texas The 1860s...an army of one. β After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to travel alone, but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him - and Wales can't bring himself to leave them unprotected.
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Treasure of Matecumbe
Florida Kentucky The 1860sThe richest adventure of them all β 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 Story of Adele H.
Nova Scotia π«π· France The 1860sAdΓ¨le Hugo, daughter of renowned French writer Victor Hugo, falls in love with British soldier Albert Pinson while living in exile off the coast of England. Though he spurns her affections, she follows him to Nova Scotia and takes on the alias of AdΓ¨le Lewly. Albert continues to reject her, but she remains obsessive in her quest to win him over.
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A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die
πΊπΈ United States of America The 1860sA handful of condemned men on an impossible mission, against hopeless odds... β A dishonored Union Army officer (James Coburn) leads a group of convicts to retake Fort Holman from the Confederate Army.
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No Drums, No Bugles
West Virginia The 1860sDuring the Civil War, a conscientious objector is forced to flee to the woods of West Virginia to avoid being sent into combat where he would be forced to kill, which he is adamantly against. He sets up shelter in a cave and is warily accepted by his new "neighbors"--the animals who live in the vicinity.
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The Beguiled
πΊπΈ United States of America The 1860sOne man...seven women...in a strange house! β Offbeat Civil War drama in which a wounded Yankee soldier, after finding refuge in an isolated girls' school in the South towards the end of the war, becomes the object of the young women's sexual fantasies. The soldier manipulates the situation for his own gratification, but when he refuses to completely comply with the girls' wishes, they make it very difficult for him to leave.
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Man and Boy
Arizona The 1860sBill Cosby comes to the big screen in a stunning switch from his TV and comedy portrayals to a starkly dramatic role! β At the beginning of the 19th century a man and his son settle in Arizona which used to be a frontier state and full of criminals at that time.
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The Last Rebel
Missouri The 1860sSet in 1865 in southwest Missouri, at the close of the Civil War the film follows the adventures of two Confederate men and a black man who they rescue from a lynching.
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Little Big Man
Montana South Dakota Oklahoma The 1970s The 1850s The 1870s The 1860sEither the most neglected hero in history or a liar of insane proportion! β Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fighting with General Custer.
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Two Mules for Sister Sara
π²π½ Mexico The 1860sCLINT EASTWOOD...the deadliest man alive...takes on a whole army with two guns and a fistful of dynamite! β Hogan, on his way to do some reconnaissance for a future mission to capture a French fort, encounters Sister Sara, a nun in trouble. Before he knows it, Hogan is accompanying Sister Sara in the dangerous frontier while she seeks to achieve a hidden goal.
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Rio Lobo
πΊπΈ United States of America The 1860sGive 'Em Hell, John. β After the Civil War, Cord McNally searches for the traitor whose perfidy caused the defeat of McNally's unit and the loss of a close friend.
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The Cheyenne Social Club
Wyoming The 1860sImagine these two cowboys inheriting the one place in the west everyone wants to get their hands on .... "The Cheyenne Social Club." β Two cowboys inherit a "social club" specializing in satisfying men.
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Adios Sabata
π²π½ Mexico The 1860sSabata Aims to Kill β Set in Mexico under the rule of Emperor Maximilian I, Sabata is hired by the guerrilla leader SeΓ±or OcaΓ±o to steal a wagonload of gold from the Austrian army. However, when Sabata and his partners Escudo and Ballantine obtain the wagon, they find it is not full of gold but of sand, and that the gold was taken by Austrian Colonel Skimmel. So Sabata plans to steal back the gold.
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El Condor
π²π½ Mexico The 1860sYou can get killed trying to break through the walls of El Condor...but it's one helluva way to die! β Luke, an escaped convict, and Jaroo, a loner gold prospector, team up with a band of Apache Indians in 19th century Mexico to capture a large, heavily armed fortress for the millions -- or billions -- of dollars in gold that are rumored to be stored within. Written by Brian C. Madsen
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The Andersonville Trial
πΊπΈ United States of America The 1860sA dramatization of the 1865 war-crimes trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of the notorious Confederate POW camp at Andersonville, Georgia.
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Maximilian von Mexiko
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The Undefeated
π²π½ Mexico πΊπΈ United States of America The 1860sAcross 2000 Miles Of Savage Wasteland... They Lived A Thundering Adventure That Rocked Two Nations! β After the Civil War, ex-Union Colonel John Henry Thomas and ex-Confederate Colonel James Langdon are leading two disparate groups of people through strife-torn Mexico. John Henry and company are bringing horses to the unpopular Mexican government for $35 a head while Langdon is leading a contingent of displaced southerners, who are looking for a new life in Mexico after losing their property to carpetbaggers. The two men are eventually forced to mend their differences in order to fight off both bandits and revolutionaries, as they try to lead their friends and kin to safety.
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The Desperados
πΊπΈ United States of America The 1860sHANG ON TO YOUR MONEY, YOUR WOMEN and YOUR LIFE! Here come the DESPERADOS! β A Confederate and his sons become postwar marauders and face another son who left them, in Texas.
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Journey to Shiloh
Tennessee The 1860sAt the beginning of the Civil War, seven friends embark on a cross-country journey in order to join the Confederate army.
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One of the Missing
πΊπΈ United States of America The 1860sA Southern soldier in the American Civil War is sent to reconnoiter the enemy positions and becomes trapped beneath a huge pile of rubble by Northern cannon fire. His loaded gun is left pointing precariously at him and he is faced with imminent death.
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