284 Films & TV Shows Set In North America During The 1860s
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Mysterious Island
πΊπΈ United States of America The 1860sA world beyond imagination! Adventure beyond belief! β During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by giant plants and animals. They must use their ingenuity to survive the dangers, and to devise a way to return home. Sequel to '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea' .
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Rebel Without Claws
πΊπΈ United States of America The 1860sThe Confederate Army wants to get an important message through to General Lee, but all the carrier pigeons have been shot down. Tweety steps in.
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Ten Who Dared
Colorado The 1860sThe John Wesley Powell expedition of 1869 explores the dangerous Colorado River, withstands internal dissension, and finally discovers the Grand Canyon.
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The Jayhawkers!
Kansas Texas The 1860sAgainst the background of a turbulent era when Civil War was a flaming cloud on history's horizon . . A TREMENDOUS MOTION PICTURE! β Before the U.S. Civil War rebel leader Luke Darcy sees himself as leader of a new independent Republic of Kansas but the military governor sends an ex-raider to capture Darcy.
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The Horse Soldiers
Mississippi The 1860sJohn Ford's Thundering Spectacle β A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail supply center. Along with them is sent a doctor who causes instant antipathy between him and the commander. The secret plan for the mission is overheard by a southern belle who must be taken along to assure her silence.
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The Legend of Tom Dooley
πΊπΈ United States of America The 1860sOut of that song -- a fury of a movie! β Tom Dooley and Country Boy are on the run after killing an enemy soldier not knowing the war is over. The Command refuses to give them some slack for making this tragic but honest mistake and sends a lawman after them.
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The Last Rebel
πΊπΈ United States of America The 1860sMexican western film about Joaquin Murrieta, the Robin Hood of the West.
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Old Yeller
Texas The 1860sAll the heart, all the excitement of a great frontier adventure! β Young Travis Coates is left to take care of the family ranch with his mother and younger brother while his father goes off on a cattle drive in the 1860s. When a yellow mongrel comes for an uninvited stay with the family, Travis reluctantly adopts the dog.
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Run of the Arrow
πΊπΈ United States of America The 1860sThe strange saga of the Johnny Reb who turned Sioux to wage a one-man war against the Yankees ! β When the South loses the war, Confederate veteran O'Meara goes West, joins the Sioux, takes a wife and refuses to be an American but he must choose a side when the Sioux go to war against the U.S. Army.
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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'! β 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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Raintree County
Indiana The 1860sIn The Great Tradition Of Civil War Romance β In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither by Susanna Drake, a rich New Orleans girl. This love triangle is further complicated by the American Civil War, and dark family history.
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Drango
Georgia The 1860sONE MAN AGAINST A TOWN GONE MADE WITH LUST! β A few months after the end of the civil war, Major Drango is sent as military governor in a southern small town, whose citizens he must face the obstility.
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Revolt at Fort Laramie
πΊπΈ United States of America The 1860s...THIS TIME IT WAS DIFFERENT...THIS TIME SOLDIER WAS MASSACRING SOLDIER IN A FLAMING REBELLION AT FORT LARAMIE! β At the breaking of the Civil War the garrison of Fort Laramie splits between the sympathezers of the two different factions, but when the fort is attacked by the Sioux, they unite their forces to fight them.
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The Big Land
Missouri Texas The 1860sOh, you boys can sleep as late as you like in the morning... so long as you get up for breakfast. Five o'clock. β Back home in Texas following the Civil War, former Confederate officer Chad Morgan (Alan Ladd) leads a cattle drive to Missouri, assuring fellow ranchers that their stock will bring $10 a head at auction. Instead, ruthless cattle baron Brog (Anthony Caruso) has scared off all competition and offers much less.
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The Searchers
Texas The 1870s The 1860sHe had to find her... he had to find her... β As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.
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The Great Locomotive Chase
πΊπΈ United States of America The 1860sA true-life spy story of ultimate suspense. High speed and inconceivable bravery! β During the Civil War, a Union spy, Andrews, is asked to lead a band of Union soldiers into the South so that they could destroy the railway system. However, things don't go as planned when the conductor of the train that they stole is on to them and is doing everything he can to stop them. Based on a true story.
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Pillars of the Sky
Oregon The 1860sThe story of a people's faith and the courage of a man they called Godless! β First Sergeant Emmett Bell faces off with Apache chieftain Kamiakin in this nuanced portrayal of racial tensions between Native Americans and white settlers in 1860s Oregon Country.
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Love Me Tender
πΊπΈ United States of America The 1860sHEAR ELVIS SING . . . β At the end of the Civil War, a Confederate team is ordered to rob a Union payroll train but the war ends leaving these men with their Union loot, until the Feds come looking for it.
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Friendly Persuasion
Indiana The 1860sHere's A Superb Motion Picture Full Of Fun...Laughter and Happiness β The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It's not easy for them to meet the rules of their religion in everyday life but when Southern troops pass the area they are in real trouble. Should they fight, despite their peaceful attitude?
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Great Day in the Morning
Colorado The 1860sTHE BUGLE BLAST that echoed thru history! β After a card game Southerner Owen Pentecost finds himself the owner of a Denver hotel. Involved with two women - one who came with the hotel, and one newly arrived from the East to open a dress shop - he then has to make even more fundamental choices when, with the start of the Civil War, he becomes one of a small minority in a strongly Unionist town.
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The Last Frontier
πΊπΈ United States of America The 1860sCinemaScope brings you all its continent-sweeping power! β Three trappers become scouts for a cavalry captain (Guy Madison) who loses his fort to a hated colonel (Robert Preston).
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The Tall Men
Montana Texas The 1860sAs Big and Spectacular and Exciting As The Mighty West Itself! β Two brothers discharged from the Confederate Army join a businessman for a cattle drive from Texas to Montana where they run into raiding Jayhawkers, angry Sioux, rough terrain and bad weather.
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Five Guns West
πΊπΈ United States of America The 1860sGUNS, GOLD AND A GIRL! β During the Civil War, five condemned Southern prisoners are plucked off Death Row and promised pardons on the condition that they undertake a mission to head west and bring back a double-crossing Confederate spy who has a stagecoach full of Confederate gold.
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Prince of Players
πΊπΈ United States of America The 1860sWere the Whispers True? β Prince of Players is a biographical film about the 19th century American actor Edwin Booth.
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Yellowneck
πΊπΈ United States of America The 1860sFive Confederate soldiers desert, make their way through the Everglades and try to make it to Cuba. β A disgraced Confederate Colonel who has deserted his command flees to the Everglades where he encounters a disparate group of four other Southern deserters. Together they struggle to find their way out of the swamp and resolve their own personal demons under the eyes of hostile Seminoles as they battle to survive the elements and each other.
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