899 Films & TV Shows Set In North America During The 19th Century
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Robin Hood of El Dorado
California The 1840s"Let Them Pay!" - They have robbed me of everything...home...land...love! I will not rest until they have paid...IN BLOOD! — In the 1840's Mexico has ceded California to the United States, making life nearly impossible for the Mexican population due to the influx of land and gold-crazy Americans. Farmer Joaquin Murrieta revenges the death of his wife against the four Americans who killed her and is branded an outlaw. The reward for his capture is increased as he subsequently kills the men who brutally murder his brother. Joining with bandit Three Fingered Jack, Murrieta raises an army of disaffected Mexicans and goes on a rampage against the Americans, finally forcing his erstwhile friend, Bill Warren, to lead a posse against him.
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Hearts in Bondage
New York Virginia District of Columbia The 1860sInspired romance - Bright gallantry - High courage - Against the blood-stained background of a war-torn nation! — Best friends Kenneth Reynolds and Raymond Jordan are U.S. Navy officers, and Kenneth is engaged to Raymond's sister. But the eruption of the Civil War divides them, as Raymond stands by his native Virginia while Kenneth remains on duty as a Northern officer. Kenneth's uncle, John Ericsson, designs a new kind of ship, an ironclad he calls the Monitor. Eventually the war pits Kenneth, on board the Monitor, against his friend Raymond, serving aboard the South's own ironclad, the Merrimac (as it is called here). A naval battle ensues, one that will go down in history.
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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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Ramona
California The 1870sIn The New Perfected Technicolor — Half-Indian girl brought up in a wealthy household is loved by the son of the house against his family's wishes and loves another Indian employed by the household.
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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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Dancing Pirate
California Massachusetts The 1820sThe first dancing musical in 100% new Technicolor — Jonathan Pride is a mild-mannered dance instructor in 1820 Boston. En route to visit relatives, Jonathan is shanghaied by a band of zany pirates and forced to work as a galley boy. When the pirate vessel arrives at the port of Las Palomas, Jonathan, clad in buccaneer's garb, makes his escape. Everyone in Las Palomas, including Governor Alcalde (Frank Morgan) and fetching senorita Serafina (Steffi Duna), assumes that Jonathan is the pirate chieftain, leading to a series of typical comic-opera complications.
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The Lonely Trail
Texas The 1860sThough he fought for the North in the Civil War, John is asked by the Governor of Texas to get rid of some troublesome carpetbaggers. He enlists the help of Holden before learning that Holden too is plundering the local folk.
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Hearts Divided
Maryland The 1800sIT'S GAY! GRAND! GLORIOUS! — Napoleon Bonaparte's younger brother, visiting the United States, falls madly in love with a young woman he meets in Baltimore.
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The Vigilantes Are Coming
California The 1840sWAR FLAMES IN THE WEST AS THE VIGILANTES RIDE TO CRUSH THE RAIDERS OF THE RANGE — A masked hero called "The Eagle" leads California ranchers in a struggle against Russian Cossacks who are plotting to take over California and turn it into a Russian colony.
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Sutter's Gold
California The 1840sStory of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
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The Emperor of California
California The 1850s The 1840sThe film follows the life story of Johann Augustus Suter, the owner of Sutter's Mill, famous as the birthplace of the great California Gold Rush of 1848.
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The Little Colonel
Kentucky The 1870sShe Has Won An Unconditional Surrender From Every Heart! — After Southern belle Elizabeth Lloyd runs off to marry Yankee Jack Sherman, her father, a former Confederate colonel during the Civil War, vows to never speak to her again. Several years pass and Elizabeth returns to her home town with her husband and young daughter. The little girl charms her crusty grandfather and tries to patch things up between him and her mother.
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Annie Oakley
Ohio The 1880sMeet Col. Cody, Sitting Bull, and all the two-gun heroes of the plains, in the big show that astonished two continents ... a livid background for the flaming love of Annie Oakley! — Awkward Annie (Barbara Stanwyck) loves her sharpshooting rival (Preston Foster) in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
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The Littlest Rebel
Virginia The 1860sAmerica's Little Sweetheart . . . The Dimpled Darling You Love in the Greatest of Civil War Dramas ! — Virgie Cary's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his dying wife and is arrested. A Yankee officer takes pity and sets up an escape. Everyone is captured and the officers are to be executed. Virgie and Uncle Billy beg President Lincoln to intercede.
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Barbary Coast
California The 1850sLove was a gamble she couldn't afford to lose. — Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiancé dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Luis Chamalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling house in San Francisco in the 1850s. She falls in love with miner Jim Carmichael and takes his gold dust at the wheel. She goes after him, Chamalis goes after her with intent to harm Carmichael.
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Uncivil Warriors
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860sOh yeah, spies?? — Set in the civil war, the stooges are spies for the north. They impersonate southern officers and infiltrate the enemy ranks to get valuable information. On the run when they are discovered, they hide in a cannon and are blown back to their northern headquarters.
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Frisco Kid
California The 1850sHe's the Two-Fisted Hero of the Square Mile of Hell the Devil Himself disowned! — After a roustabout sailer avoids being shanghaied in 1852 San Francisco, his audacity helps him to arise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.
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Gold Diggers of '49
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1850s The 1840sPorky and Beans are prospectors during the Gold Rush, but when a villain steals Porky's bag of loot Beans races to get it back so he can marry Porky's daughter Little Kitty.
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The New Frontier
Oklahoma The 1890sIn 1889 pioneers race ahead of the law to claim free land in Oklahoma, forming wide-open towns. In one such, citizens elect Milt Dawson to challenge the self-appointed rule of gambler Ace Holmes, only to have him shot in the back. But leading the next batch of settlers is Milt's quick-on-the-draw son John, who gets help from friendly outlaws.
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So Red the Rose
Mississippi The 1860sSO RED THE ROSE is King Vidor's quietly affecting Civil War romance, starring Margaret Sullavan as a Southern aristocrat, the mistress of a Southern plantation, whose sheltered life is torn apart by the War between the States. During the war's darkest days she is sustained by her love for a distant cousin, a Confederate officer, played by Randolph Scott.
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Judge Priest
Kentucky The 1890sEnough laughs to make your head spin! — Judge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, restores the justice in a small town in the Post-Bellum Kentucky using his common sense and his great sense of humanity.
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Sweet Adeline
New York The 1890sIn 1898, composer Sid Barnett manages to get his sweetheart, Adeline the beer-garden singer, to sing the lead in his new Broadway operetta; this infuriates Elysia, the erstwhile star. But Sid frets as Adeline spends increasing amounts of time with the dashing Major Day.
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Belle of the Nineties
Louisiana The 1890sCabaret entertainer Ruby Carter shifts her operations to New Orleans and becomes exceedingly popular with the local men.
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The Age of Innocence
New York The 1870sAn engaged attorney and a divorcee fall for each other in 1870s Manhattan.
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