284 Films & TV Shows Set In North America During The 1860s
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Raiders of Ghost City
πΊπΈ United States of America The 1860s13 CHAPTERS OF GUN-BLAZING THRILLS! β During the latter stages of the Civil War, a gang of supposed Confederates, headed by Alex Morel (Lionel Atwill), raid all gold shipments destined for Washington from Oro Grande, California. Can they be brought to justice?
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La Fuga
π²π½ Mexico The 1860sA stagecoach full of conflictive passengers makes its dangerours way from Mexico to Veracruz during the days of the French Intervention.
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The Desperadoes
Utah The 1860sRed-Blooded Action β Popular mailcoach driver Uncle Willie is in fact in league with the town's crooked banker. They plan to have the bank robbed after emptying it, and when Willie's choice for this doesn't show in time, he gets some local boys to do it. When his man does turn up he decides to stick around, as he is pals with the sheriff and also takes a shine to Willie's daughter Allison. This gives the bad men several new problems.
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Mexicanos al grito de guerra
π²π½ Mexico The 1860sIn times of the French Intervention, a student of NunΓ³, author of the Mexican National Anthem, falls in love with the niece of the French Ambassador, which causes quite amusing complications.
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Mysterious Island
Virginia Pacific Ocean The 1860sBased on Verne's book The Mysterious Island, five POWs escape from a camp in a balloon during the Civil War and crash-land on an uninhabited island in the Pacific. Trying to settle with their lives they find someone is helping them.
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They Died with Their Boots On
πΊπΈ United States of America The 1860sA STORY OF UNDYING FAITH! β The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.
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Belle Starr
πΊπΈ United States of America The 1860sShe Was a Wonderful Sweetheart...But a Terrible Enemy! β After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam Starr (Scott) Belle Shirley (Tierney) vows to take revenge. Breaking Starr out of prison, she joins his small guerrilla group for a series of raids on banks and railroads, carpetbaggers and enemy troops. Belle's bravado during the attacks earns her a reputation amongst the locals as well as the love of Starr himself. The pair get married, but their relationship starts to break down when Sam Starr lets a couple of psychotic rebels into the gang, leaving Belle to wonder if he really cares about the Southern cause.
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The Lady from Cheyenne
Wyoming The 1860sThe story of a gal who could dish it out...and take it! β Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key lots. Cork's lawyer Steve Lewis tries romancing Annie to get the lot back, finding her so overpoweringly liberated she leaves him dizzy. Still, Steve attains his nefarious object...almost...then has cause to deeply regret having aroused the sleeping giant of feminism!
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Santa Fe Trail
New York Kansas Virginia District of Columbia The 1860s The 1850sWhere the railroad and civilization ended, the Sante Fe Trail began! β As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.
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Arizona
Arizona The 1860sTurbulent Adventure in the Great West! β Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie. But Peter won't be distracted from his journey and Phoebe is left alone and plenty busy with villains Jefferson Carteret and Lazarus Ward plotting at every turn to destroy her freighting company. She has not seen the last of Peter, however.
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Dark Command
Kansas The 1860sA drama of undying love. β When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local banker. Politics is in the air however. It's just prior to the civil war and there is already a sharp division in the Territory as to whether it will remain slave-free. When he gets the opportunity to run for marshal, Seton finds himself running against the respected local schoolteacher, William Cantrell. Not is what it seems however. While acting as the upstanding citizen in public, Cantrell is dangerously ambitious and is prepared to do anything to make his mark, and his fortune, on the Territory. When he loses the race for marshal, he forms a group of raiders who run guns into the territory and rob and terrorize settlers throughout the territory. Eventually donning Confederate uniforms, it is left to Seton and the good citizens of Lawrence to face Cantrell and his raiders in one final clash.
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Illinois The 1860s The 1850sNow on the screen! β Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.
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Edison, the Man
New York New Jersey The 1880s The 1870s The 1860sSpencer Tracy's greatest performance! β In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with invention of an early form of stock market ticker.
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Young Bill Hickok
πΊπΈ United States of America The 1860sBILL HICKOK...PATHFINDER...PLAINSMAN...PIONEER...reliving America's most colorful days β Bill Hickok, assisted by Calamity Jane, is after a foreign agent and his guerrilla band who are trying to take over some western territory just as the Civil War is coming to a close.
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Colorado
Colorado The 1860sThrilling Adventure In Dangerous Days... As Roy Rogers blazes down ambushed trails to bring justice to an outlaw town! β Trouble in Colorado is tying up Union troops needed back east during the Civil War and Lieut. Burke is sent to investigate. Macklin and his gang are causing the problems and Capt. Mason joins them. When Burke catches up with them he also finds Mason, his brother.
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Confederate Honey
Kentucky The 1860sNett Cutler (Elmer Fudd) romances Crimson O'Hairoil in this send-up of Gone With the Wind (1939).
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Gone with the Wind
Georgia England The 1870s The 1860sThe greatest romance of all time! β The spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner is forced to use every means at her disposal to claw her way out of poverty, following Maj. Gen. William Sherman's destructive "March to the Sea,β during the American Civil War.
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Union Pacific
Utah The 1860s"Union Pacific" is coming! β One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
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The Old Maid
Pennsylvania The 1880s The 1860sVividly, unforgettably, a woman's love starved soul is revealed. All those strange secrets she locks in her heart ... moments of rapture and of heartbreak ... longings that no man can fathom. Of these has the year's finest picture been woven! β The lives of two cousins are complicated by the return of an ex-boyfriend and an illegitimate child.
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Mooching Through Georgia
πΊπΈ United States of America The 1860sMan relates how he outwitted the Yankee army during the Civil War.
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Juarez
π²π½ Mexico The 1860sSee It Now ! You'll Remember It Always ! β The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito JuΓ‘rez and democracy.
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Swanee River
πΊπΈ United States of America The 1860sThe Story of Stephen C. Foster - The Great American Troubadour β Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than factual biography.
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Southward Ho
Texas The 1860sA singing cowboy (Roy Rogers) and his sidekick (George "Gabby" Hayes) fight post-Civil War plunder in Texas.
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The Arizona Kid
Missouri The 1860sRoy is a Confederate officer stationed in Missouri during the Civil War. He must put an end to outlaw gangs working under the pretense of service to the Confederacy.
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Frontier Pony Express
πΊπΈ United States of America The 1860sBrave men on gallant horses...risking life and limb on the western plains...to insure the safety of their precious cargoes. β In the midst of the Civil War, Lassiter has a plan to get control of California. Working out of St. Joseph, he plans to send forged messages to the troops on the west coast via Pony Express. First he attempts to bribe Pony Express ride Roy Rogers. When Roy refuses he turns to the outlaw Johnson and his gang and this leads to trouble.
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