103 Films & TV Shows Set In North America During The 1870s
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Interview with the Vampire
California Louisiana 🇫🇷 France The 18th Century The 1870s The 1980sDrink from me and live forever — A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
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The Yearling
Florida The 1870sIn 1870s Florida, a rural family struggles to survive. A lonely twelve-year-old son, Jody (Wil Horneff), the lone surviving child, against his mother's better judgment eventually persuades his parents to allow him a pet fawn, which Jody grows to love deeply. Tragic conflict arises when the fawn begins eating the family's food crops.
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The Age of Innocence
New York The 1890s The 1870sIn a world of tradition. In an age of innocence. They dared to break the rules. — Tale of 19th century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.
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Cannibal! The Musical
Colorado The 1880s The 1870sAll Singing! All Dancing! All Flesh Eating! — Heading through Colorado Territory in search of gold and women, Alferd Packer and his group of bemused companions find themselves lost, starving and musically inspired by the obstacles they confront along the way, including a die-hard Confederate cyclops, a trio of surly trappers, a tribe of Japanese-speaking "Indians," and ultimately, each other.
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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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Young Guns
New Mexico The 1870sSix reasons why the west was wild. — A group of young gunmen, led by Billy the Kid, become deputies to avenge the murder of the rancher who became their benefactor. But when Billy takes their authority too far, they become the hunted.
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Around the World in 80 Days
California England 🇫🇷 France 🇪🇸 Spain 🇮🇳 India 🇭🇰 Hong Kong Kanagawa Prefecture The 1870sEnglish Lord Phileas Fogg has just become the main suspect in a daring bank robbery. Meanwhile, he has made a wager with several other lords that he will be able to travel around this world in a mere 80 days. Joined by his butler Passepartout, Fogg begins his journey. However, hot on his heels is Scotland Yard detective Mr. Fix.
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The Boy in Blue
Ontario The 1900s The 1880s The 1890s The 1870sEvery era has it's own kind of hero. — Ned Hanlan was Canada's most successful sculling champion at the turn of the 20th century. This dramatization of his life begins in his youth, when the wild young man is informally adopted by a gambler who promotes Ned on the sculling circuit, betting on the boy's rowing skills solely to make money off him. Later, a ruthless businessman named Knox takes over Ned's career, but when Ned realizes how dishonest Knox is, he finds another manager. Walter is an inventor and the first honest man Ned has dealt with in his career and, under Walter's guidance, Ned rises to great success in the sculling world.
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Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann
New Mexico The 1870sLyle Swann is a champion off-road racer. But to the people of 1877, he's something very, very different... — Lyle Swann is a successful off-road racer who mistakenly gets sent back in time 100 years. When a band of outlaws robs Swann of his motorcycle, he's forced to outfox the gangsters and give in to the seductions of a gorgeous local lady. With only his smarts and a map from an Exxon station, Lyle must try to make it out of the Old West alive and find a way back to modern times.
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The Legend of the Lone Ranger
Texas The 1850s The 1870sThe untold story of the man behind the mask, and the legend behind the man. — When the young Texas Ranger, John Reid, is the sole survivor of an ambush arranged by the militaristic outlaw leader, Butch Cavendich, he is rescued by an old childhood Comanche friend, Tonto. When he recovers from his wounds, he dedicates his life to fighting the evil that Cavendich represents. To this end, John Reid becomes the great masked western hero, The Lone Ranger. With the help of Tonto, the pair go to rescue President Grant when Cavendich takes him hostage.
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Heaven's Gate
Wyoming The 1900s The 1890s The 1870sThe only thing greater than their passion for America... was their passion for each other. — Harvard graduate James Averill is the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyo., when a battle erupts between the area's poverty-stricken immigrants and its wealthy cattle farmers. The politically connected ranch owners fight the immigrants with the help of Nathan Champion, a mercenary competing with Averill for the love of local madam Ella Watson. As the struggle escalates, Averill and Champion begin to question their decisions.
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The Long Riders
Minnesota Missouri The 1870s"All the world likes an outlaw. For some damn reason they remember 'em." - Jesse James — The origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the James gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of the bank robbers made up of brothers who begin their legendary bank raids because of revenge.
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The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang
Kansas The 1890s The 1880s The 1870sThey could save their brother. Or themselves. — A light-hearted view of the Dalton Gang's legendary raid on Coffeyville, Kansas and the years leading up to it as the brothers form themselves into a gang of horse thieves, train and bank robbers with their arch enemy, Detective Will Smith, constantly on their heels.
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The Time Machine
Massachusetts California The 1970s The 1850s The 1870s The 17th CenturyA scientist builds a machine that will enable him to travel back and forth in time, but when he puts it in motion, he gets more than he bargained for.
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The White Buffalo
South Dakota The 1870sTwo legendary enemies unite to fight the charging white beast!! — In this strange western version of Moby Dick, Wild Bill Hickok hunts a white buffalo he has seen in a dream. Hickok moves through a variety of uniquely authentic western locations - dim, filthy, makeshift taverns; freezing, slaughterhouse-like frontier towns and beautifully desolate high country - before improbably teaming up with a young Crazy Horse to pursue the creature.
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Time Travelers
Illinois The 1870s The 1970sWhen a novel virus devastates the world in 1976, Dr. Earnshaw notices that it resembles a virus that a Dr. Henderson found a cure for in 1871 Chicago. However, the doctor perished and his notes were destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire. Earnshaw is approached by a government agent, Jeffrey Adams, who informs him of a Top Secret time traveling technology and asks for his assistance in finding Dr. Henderson and his cure. But their adventure becomes a race against time when a glitch sends them back to the day before the fire instead of the planned four days.
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Breakheart Pass
Nevada Utah The 1870sRevenge Mystery Danger Ambush — At the height of the frontier era, a train races through the Rocky Mountains on a classified mission to a remote army post. But one by one the passengers are being murdered, and their only hope is the mysterious John Deakin, who's being transported to face trial for murder.
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The Apple Dumpling Gang
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1850s The 1870sWanted: For chicanery, skulduggery, tomfoolery and habitual bungling! — A roving bachelor gets saddled with three children and a wealth of trouble when the youngsters stumble upon a huge gold nugget. They join forces with two bumbling outlaws to fend off the greedy townspeople and soon find themselves facing a surly gang of sharpshooters.
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Blazing Saddles
California The 1850s The 1870sNever give a saga an even break! — A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, robber baron Hedley Lemar sends his henchmen to make life in the town unbearable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor, so Hedley convinces him to send the town the first black sheriff in the west.
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Chato's Land
New Mexico The 1870sWhat Chato's land doesn't kill, Chato will. — A posse pursues Pardon Chato (Charles Bronson) a mestizo indian after he killed a US marshal in self-defense. As they get deeper into Indian territory, just who is hunting who.
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The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
Minnesota The 1870sThe West the way it really was! — The gangs of Jesse James and Cole Younger join forces to rob the First National Bank in Northfield, Minnesota, but things do not go as planned.
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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! — 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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Chisum
New Mexico The 1870sTHE LEGEND - John Wayne is 'Chisum' — Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County land war.
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The Molly Maguires
Pennsylvania The 1870sSchuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1876. A secret society of Irish coal miners, bond by a sacred oath, put pressure on the greedy and ruthless company they work for by sabotaging mining facilities in the hope of improving their working conditions and the lives of their families.
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Once Upon a Time in the West
Arizona The 1870sThere were three men in her life. One to take her… one to love her —and one to kill her. — As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the intention of starting a new life.
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