145 Films & TV Shows Set In North America During The 1890s
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The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
New York The 1890sShe's the words and music in all America's heart! — An Irish horsecar driver's daughter meets New York showman Tony Pastor and goes into vaudeville.
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Chicken Every Sunday
Arizona The 1910s The 1900s The 1890sHERE'S YOUR DISH — A woman takes in boarders to support her husband's harebrained financial schemes.
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There's a Girl in My Heart
New York The 1890sA Gay-Nineties musical set in NYC's Bowery and East-Side explores the life of its inhabitants---an Irish policeman and his tap-dancing daughter and music-hall wife; a German professor of music and his singing daughter; and an Italian café-owner, a kindly priest, a struggling young doctor and a saloon-keeper. And a political ward-heeler, Terrence Dowd, who has a deceptive and dishonest plan to sell them all out in order to build a fight arena. But he meets his match in property-owner Claire Adamson.
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One Sunday Afternoon
New York The 1890sWARNER BROS.' HAPPY-GO-HUGGY HOLIDAY HAPPINESS-MAKER!!! — The third film version of James Hagan's play, this time with songs added, starring Dennis Morgan as a dentist who marries patient and loyal Dorothy Malone despite his constant infatuation with sexy flirt Janis Paige. Filmed previously in 1933 ("One Sunday Afternoon") and 1941 ("The Strawberry Blonde").
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The Sainted Sisters
Maine The 1890sTwo female con artists from New York City, fleeing the law with loot from their latest scam, hide out in a small Maine town, near the Canadian border. However - the residents of this small town aren't quite as unsophisticated as the girls think they are.
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The Harvey Girls
Utah The 1890sIt's Blazing, Blistering Romance... in the wide open spaces! — On a train trip West to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley meets a cheery crew of young women traveling out to open a "Harvey House" restaurant at a remote whistle-stop.
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Gallant Journey
California The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1880s The 1870sOne Of The World's Most Exciting Adventures! — Director William A. Wellman adds another to his long line of salutes-to-aviation films in this bio of an aviation pioneer, John Montgomery (Glenn Ford.) In 1883 he built a practical glider despite the opposition of his friends, who thought he was crazy, and of his family, who were afraid that his dreams of flying would hurt his father's political ambitions. He pursues his education at Santa Clara University where the Jesuits lend a helping and understanding hand. An earthquake destroys what appears to be a working model for an airplane, but a gold-sorting machine Montgomery invented, and then neglected, promises to provide for his financial needs to keep working on his aircraft until he gets involved in costly lawsuits defending his invention.
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The Naughty Nineties
Missouri The 1890sA Show Boat Load of Laughter! — In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekick try to devise a way to help the captain regain ownership of the vessel.
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The Great John L.
Massachusetts The 1890s The 1880sPortrait of legendary fighter John L. Sullivan, aka "The Boston Strong Boy", and his meteoric rise to become the first gloved World Heavyweight Champion. But the famed boxer is no match for the two women with holds on him, love struck actress Kathy Harkness and the real love of his life, beautiful but unyielding Anne Livingstone.
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An American Romance
Minnesota New York Illinois The 1890sOUT OF THE HOPE AND COURAGE OF A MAN ...THE LOVE AND DEVOTION OF A WOMAN! — A European immigrant becomes a master of industry but almost loses his family.
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Jack London
Yukon England 🇯🇵 Japan The 1900s The 1890sHe is a Man! — The true story of the adventurous and remarkable life of the American novelist Jack London(1876-1916).
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Klondike Kate
Alaska The 1890sQueen Of The Gold Rush!... She tamed the Toughest men in the Yukon! — A young man in Alaska finds himself accused of murder, and must fight to clear his name.
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Gentleman Jim
California The 1890sThe grandest story of the Naughty "Nineties" becomes the gayest picture of the Fighting "Forties!" — As bareknuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the top of the boxing world.
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The Spoilers
Alaska The 1890sCrashing Fists in the Gold-Crazed Alaska of '98! — When honest ship captain Roy Glennister gets swindled out of his mine claim, he turns to saloon singer Cherry Malotte for assistance in his battle with no-good town kingpin Alexander McNamara.
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My Gal Sal
New York The 1890sBiopic chronicling the early life of gay nineties-era songwriter Paul Dresser as he outgrows his job as carnival entertainer and moves up into New York society, writing one hit song after another. Despite his egotistical behavior, he manages to woo and win Sally Elliott, one of the more popular songstresses of the day
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Citizen Kane
New York Florida The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1870sIt's terrific! — Newspaper magnate, Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
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Lady from Louisiana
Louisiana The 1890sNorthern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate based around a lottery. Although he meets Julie Mirbeau and they are attracted to each other, the fact that her father heads the lottery means they end up on opposite sides. When her father is killed, Julie becomes more and more involved in the shady activities and in blocking Reynolds' attempts at prosecution.
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The Strawberry Blonde
New York The 1890sWanting what others have can only be destructive, or is it? — Biff Grimes is desperately in love with Virginia, but his best friend Hugo marries her and manipulates Biff into becoming involved in his somewhat nefarious businesses. Hugo appears to have stolen Biff's dreams, and Biff has to deal with the realisation that having what he wants and wanting what another has can be very different things.
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Wild Geese Calling
Alaska The 1890sAll the thundering drama, romance of the best-selling novel! — In the 1890s lumberjack John leaves Seattle for Alaska to look for gold. After he marries dancehall girl Sally, he finds she used to be in love with his best friend Blackie.
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Lady with Red Hair
New York Illinois England The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1880sAn actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.
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20 Mule Team
California The 1890s'IT'S GOT THE KICK OF 20 MULES!' — It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition. The only thing that will save the company is a new deposit of high grade Borax, and Skinner Bill Bragg has a pouch of it that he got from a dead prospector he buried on the road. Stag Roper knows the value of the strike could be worth millions, but he needs Bragg to find the prospector's claim so they can record it and become rich partners. While Roper has no intention of cutting Bragg in on the millions, he also has his eye on young Jean Johnson. Josie Johnson, Jean's mother, sees Roper as the scalawag he is, and that means trouble in Furnace Flat.
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Honest Love and True
Yukon The 1890sBetty Boop is a poor-but-honest-actress in the Gay 90s who, hungry and cold, gets a job as a singer in a dance-hall saloon.
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The Great Ziegfeld
New York Illinois California The 1920s The 1910s The 1890sThe Last Word In Entertainment! — Lavish biography of Flo Ziegfeld, the producer who became Broadway's biggest starmaker.
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The Lawless Nineties
Wyoming The 1890sFederal Agents Tipton and Bridger have been sent to Wyoming where the vote on statehood is imminent. Plummer and his gang are out to make sure the vote fails. When Plummer's men kill Bridger, Tipton fights on. He sends fake telegrams that trap some of Plummer's men. Then he organizes the ranchers and on election day they descend on the town barricaded by Plummer's gang.
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A Message to Garcia
District of Columbia 🇨🇺 Cuba The 1890sA fiery Cuban woman guides an emissary from the U.S. president through the jungles of war-torn Cuba.
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