899 Films & TV Shows Set In North America During The 19th Century
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Free State of Jones
Mississippi The 1940s The 1870s The 1860sIn 1863, Mississippi farmer Newt Knight serves as a medic for the Confederate Army. Opposed to slavery, Knight would rather help the wounded than fight the Union. After his nephew dies in battle, Newt returns home to Jones County to safeguard his family but is soon branded an outlaw deserter. Forced to flee, he finds refuge with a group of runaway slaves hiding out in the swamps. Forging an alliance with the slaves and other farmers, Knight leads a rebellion that would forever change history.
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Men Go to Battle
Kentucky The 1860sKentucky, 1861. Francis and Henry Mellon depend on each other to keep their unkempt estate afloat as winter encroaches. After Francis takes a casual fight too far, Henry ventures off in the night, leaving each of them to struggle through the wartime on their own.
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The Duel
Texas The 1880sVengeance cannot be denied. — A Texas Ranger investigates a series of unexplained deaths in a town called Helena.
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The Magnificent Seven
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1870sJustice has a number. — Looking to mine for gold, greedy industrialist Bartholomew Bogue seizes control of the Old West town of Rose Creek. With their lives in jeopardy, Emma Cullen and other desperate residents turn to bounty hunter Sam Chisolm for help. Chisolm recruits an eclectic group of gunslingers to take on Bogue and his ruthless henchmen. With a deadly showdown on the horizon, the seven mercenaries soon find themselves fighting for more than just money once the bullets start to fly.
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The Birth of a Nation
Virginia The 1800s The 1830sThe Untold Story of Nat Turner — Nat Turner, a former slave in America, leads a liberation movement in 1831 to free African-Americans in Virginia that results in a violent retaliation from whites.
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A Quiet Passion
Massachusetts The 19th CenturyThe story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist.
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Wild Run: The Legend
Quebec The 19th CenturyIn 1863, a group of snow-bound travelers invokes the devil, who gives them a flying canoe for them to go home. When one of them finds his wife about to die in labor, he makes a pact with the devil to save her and his newborn daughter Liza. He then cheats the devil of his prize by sacrificing himself. 25 years later, Liza wants to marry her beloved Jos, who has to go away to a remote logging camp to earn money to save his farm, but the devil is determined to ruin her happiness.
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The Legend of the Chupacabras
🇲🇽 Mexico The 1810sLeo San Juan and his team of "ghostbusters" continue with their adventures, this time fighting against the mexican monster himself: "El Chupacabras".
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Traded
Kansas The 1880sRevenge is a bitter deal. — In the 1880s western "Traded", a father must leave his ranch for Dodge City to save his daughter from an old enemy, putting his reputation as the fastest draw in the west to the test.
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The Remains
California The 2010s The 1890sSome things are best left alone. — After a family moves into an old Victorian home, they discover a chest in the attic containing antiques tainted by a malevolent spirit. As the antiques slowly possess each family member, the spirit grows stronger, hellbent on kidnapping the children.
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Crimson Peak
New York The 1900s The 1880sLove makes monsters of us all. — In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and remembers.
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In the Heart of the Sea
Massachusetts Pacific Ocean The 1820sBased on the incredible true story that inspired Moby Dick — In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex is assaulted by something no one could believe—a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance.
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Slow West
Colorado Scotland The 19th CenturyWanted Dead or Dead — In the Old West, a 17-year-old Scottish boy teams up with a mysterious gunman to find the woman with whom he is infatuated.
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The Hateful Eight
Wyoming The 1870sNo one comes up here without a damn good reason. — Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.
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The Revenant
Montana South Dakota The 1820s(n. One who has returned, as if from the dead.) — In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.
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Field of Lost Shoes
Virginia The 1860sSend the boys in... and may God forgive me — A group of teenage cadets sheltered from war at the Virginia Military Institute must confront the horrors of an adult world when they are called upon to defend the Shenandoah Valley.
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Bone Tomahawk
California The 1890sMay the Lord have mercy and grant you a swift death — During a shootout in a saloon, Sheriff Hunt injures a suspicious stranger. The doctor's assistant, wife of the local foreman, tends to him in prison. That night, the town is attacked and they both disappear—only the arrow of a cannibal tribe is found. Hunt and a few of his men go in search of the prisoner and the foreman's wife.
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The Timber
Yukon The 1890sFortunes will be made, lives will be lost. — In the wild west, two brothers embark on a journey to collect a bounty in a desperate attempt to save their home: but what they find along the way is more than they bargained for.
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The Ridiculous 6
🇺🇸 United States of America The 19th CenturyWhen his long-lost outlaw father returns, Tommy "White Knife" Stockburn goes on an adventure-filled journey across the Old West with his five brothers.
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Edge
Kansas The 1860sMissouri, 1865. Josiah Hedges aka "Edge" returns home from the Civil War to discover his closest comrades-in-arms have betrayed him, sparking a bloody reign of vengeance. A mysterious beauty crosses Edge's path, and together they will uncover a dark conspiracy that extends to the highest ranks of American power.
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Winter's Tale
New York The 1910s The 2010s The 1890sThis is not a true story. This is true love. — A burglar falls for an heiress as she dies in his arms. When he learns that he has the gift of reincarnation, he sets out to save her.
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Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn
Missouri The 1840sEverything is about to change. — Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.
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A Million Ways to Die in the West
Arizona The 1880sBring protection. — As a cowardly farmer begins to fall for the mysterious new woman in town, he must put his new-found courage to the test when her husband, a notorious gun-slinger, announces his arrival.
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The Better Angels
Indiana The 1810s The 1820sAt an isolated log cabin in the harsh wilderness of Indiana circa 1817, the rhythms of love, tragedy, and the daily hardships of life on the developing frontier shaped one of our nation’s greatest heroes: Abraham Lincoln. Abe is a thoughtful and quiet boy who spends his days at the side of his beloved mother while learning to work the land from his stern father. When illness takes his mother, Abe's new guardian angel comes in the form of his new stepmother, who sees the potential in the boy and pushes for his further education.
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Lucy
New York England 🇫🇷 France 🇩🇪 Germany 🇮🇹 Italy 🇹🇼 Taiwan The 2010s The 19th CenturyThe average person uses 10% of their brain capacity. Imagine what she could do with 100%. — A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.
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