899 Films & TV Shows Set In North America During The 19th Century
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Mohawk
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1810sA young Mohawk woman and her two lovers battle a squad of American soldiers hell-bent on revenge.
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Woman Walks Ahead
North Dakota South Dakota The 1890sDefy your times — In 1890, Catherine Weldon, a painter from New York, travels to North Dakota to paint a portrait of Sitting Bull and becomes involved in the struggle of the Lakota people to get the Government respects their rights over the land where they live.
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Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
California 🇷🇴 Romania Atlantic Ocean The 1890sFamily vacation. It will suck the life out of you. — Dracula, Mavis, Johnny and the rest of the Drac Pack take a vacation on a luxury Monster Cruise Ship, where Dracula falls in love with the ship’s captain, Ericka, who’s secretly a descendant of Abraham Van Helsing, the notorious monster slayer.
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Winchester
California The 1900s The 1880s The 1870s The 1860sTerror is building. — San Jose, California, 1906. Isolated in her labyrinthine mansion, eccentric firearm heiress Sarah Winchester believes that she is being haunted by the souls of those killed by the guns manufactured by her company.
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The Current War
Massachusetts Illinois The 1890s The 1880sPower changes everything — Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.
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The Sisters Brothers
Oregon California The 1850sMake a killing. Make a living. — Oregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret that the Commodore wants to know, so he sends the Sisters brothers, two notorious assassins, to capture him on his way to California.
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Lizzie
Massachusetts The 1890sThe legend of Lizzie Borden — Massachusetts, 1892. An unmarried woman of 32 and a social outcast, Lizzie lives a claustrophobic life under her father's cold and domineering control. When Bridget Sullivan, a young maid, comes to work for the family, Lizzie finds a sympathetic, kindred spirit, and a secret intimacy soon blossoms into a wicked plan.
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La leyenda del Charro Negro
Puebla The 1810sAfter releasing the Chupacabras, Leo San Juan decides that it is time to return together with his brother Nando to his grandmother's house. Halfway down the road, Charro Negro manages to confuse Leo and because of him, an innocent girl is dragged into the underworld. Leo is forced to repair the damage. Your friends will come to try to help you and get out of there as soon as possible. But it is no coincidence that the Charro has chosen to involve Leo, his intentions go beyond getting a new soul.
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Wild Nights with Emily
Massachusetts The 19th CenturyExplore Emily Dickinson's vivacious, irreverent side that was covered up for years — most notably her lifelong romantic relationship with another woman.
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La Bolduc
Quebec The 1890s The 1900s The 1910s The 1920s The 1930s The 1940sThe life story of Mary Travers, a musician and singer of French Canadian music.
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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Arizona Colorado New Mexico Wyoming The 19th CenturyStories live forever. People don't. — Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil War. Following the tales of a sharp-shooting songster, a wannabe bank robber, two weary traveling performers, a lone gold prospector, a woman traveling the West to an uncertain future, and a motley crew of strangers undertaking a carriage ride.
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Edge of the Knife
British Columbia The 19th CenturyIsland of Haida Gwaii, northern Canada, 19th century. During a fishing gathering, Adiits'ii commits an unfortunate act. Tormented, he runs away to the wilderness as his mind embraces madness.
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Angelique's Isle
Ontario The 1840sAngelique's Isle is a harrowing tale of perseverance and survival that unfolds during the great copper rush of 1845. Newlyweds Angelique, a young Ojibway, and Charlie, her voyager husband, are left stranded throughout a brutal winter on Lake Superior's Isle Royale where Angelique is ultimately forced to face her inner demons and beliefs as the unbelievably beautiful, yet treacherous wilderness threatens to claim her.
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Deadman Standing
Kansas The 19th CenturyEvery man has a breaking point. Hyde Park was his. — The true story of a recently widowered lawman who befriends a boy dying of tuberculosis and a madam of the local brothel while their town is being politically and violently overtaken by a gang of reckless cattlemen from Texas.
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Hostiles
Colorado Montana New Mexico The 1890sNo peace without sacrifice — A legendary Native American-hating Army captain nearing retirement in 1892 is given one last assignment: to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory back to his Montana reservation.
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The Beguiled
Virginia The 1860sInnocent, until betrayed. — During the Civil War, at a Southern girls’ boarding school, young women take in an injured enemy soldier. As they provide refuge and tend to his wounds, the house is taken over with sexual tension and dangerous rivalries, and taboos are broken in an unexpected turn of events.
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The Ballad of Lefty Brown
Montana The 1880sHe never wanted to be the hero — Aging sidekick Lefty Brown has ridden with Eddie Johnson his entire life. But when a rustler kills Eddie, Lefty is forced from his partner’s shadow and must confront the ugly realities of frontier justice.
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Tombstone Rashomon
Arizona The 1880sThe Gunfight at the OK Corral only happened once, but has been tirelessly recreated in films, television shows and western towns ever since. No one has a monopoly on truth, and in Tombstone Rashomon, the truth is shared by six conflicting, yet historical perspectives. In doing so, the film’s narrative becomes prismatic and the result is perhaps the most comprehensive telling of the most important gunfight in American history. This is the Tombstone story told in the style of the Japanese classic Rashomon where we see history from several perspectives including that of Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Kate, Ike Clanton, Colonel Hafford and Johnny Behan.
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Hickok
Kansas The 1870sLegendary Lawman and Gunslinger Wild Bill Hickok, is tasked with taming the wildest cow-town in the West, while delivering his own brand of frontier Justice and infamous gunfighter's reputation as the fastest draw in the West is put to the test
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Hochelaga, Land of Souls
Quebec The 1830s The 17th Century The 16th Century The 13th CenturyMohawk archaeologist Baptiste Asigny engages in a search for his ancestors following a tragic terrain slump in the Percival Molson Stadium.
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The Jade Pendant
California The 1870sLove and loss in America — Fleeing an arranged marriage in China, the independent Peony signs a contract to work as a “flower girl” in America, where she meets Tom, an American Born Chinese cook whose father works on the Transcontinental Railroad. Thwarted by a Hong Kong Triad boss seeking to extend his power into America, theirs is the tale of the first great Chinese immigration to the United States – a story of romance, bigotry, passion, food and a search for everlasting love – set against the largest mass lynching in American history, in Los Angeles’ Chinatown, in 1871.
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The Last Buffalo
Alberta The 19th CenturyFor thousands of years, the Great Plains were home to countless numbers of American bison, but in the late 1800s, the number of bison dropped from nearly 30 million to just a few hundred in less than 100 years. What happened to place this national icon on the brink of extinction? Join us as we detail the events that led to this mass extermination. Then follow the story of William Temple Hornaday, a chief taxidermist at the Smithsonian Institution who headed west to hunt bison for the museum, but ended up saving the species instead.
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Godless: Season 1
New Mexico The 1880sWelcome to no man’s land. — A ruthless outlaw terrorizes the West in search of a former member of his gang, who’s found a new life in a quiet town populated only by women.
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Alias Grace: Season 1
Ontario The 1840sBased on the true story of Grace Marks, a housemaid and immigrant from Ireland who was imprisoned in 1843, perhaps wrongly, for the murder of her employer Thomas Kinnear. Grace claims to have no memory of the murder yet the facts are irrefutable. A decade after, Dr. Simon Jordan tries to help Grace recall her past.
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Anne with an E: Season 1
Prince Edward Island The 1890sA young orphan's arrival in Avonlea affects the hearts and minds of everyone she meets, beginning with the pair of aging siblings who take her in.
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