899 Films & TV Shows Set In North America During The 19th Century
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The Girl of the Golden West
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1850sA hard-bitten saloon girl falls for a dashing outlaw, and tries to keep the local sheriff from catching him and sending him to prison.
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River of Romance
Mississippi The 1830sMississippi, 1830's. Tom Rumsford comes back to Magnolia Landing, his parents'estate. Having been brought up in the North by Quaker relatives, he just hates violence and accordingly refuses a duel. As this is the only way in the South to settle a dispute between gentlemen, Tom's father is so infuriated by his behavior that Tom has no other choice but leave. Away from Magnolia Landing, Tom learns bravery and returns seven years later as "the notorious Colonel Blake", the terror of the Lower Mississippi.
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Morgan's Last Raid
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860sDan Claibourne ( Tim McCoy ) refuses to fight against his state when Tennessee secedes during the Civil War preliminaries. His sweetheart brands him a traitor. Dan joins Morgan's raiders of the Confederate Army and gets an opportunity to rescue the girl during a raid.
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The Trail of '98
California Alaska The 1890sSEE It all vividly re-enacted before your eyes...The Klondike Gold Rush...Chilcoot Pass...The gigantic Snow Slide...The White Horse Rapids...The Burning of Dawson...and a Thousand Spectacular Visions of the Century's Greatest Adventure — Fortune hunters from all over the country rushing to the Klondike in 1897 to seek their fortunes in the gold are tested by hardships of the journey.
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Glorious Betsy
Maryland The 1800sTHE GLAMOUROUS ROMANCE OF THE BELLE OF BALTIMORE AND NAPOLEON'S BROTHER — Vitaphone production reels #2471-2478; third Warner Bros. feature film - the first being The Jazz Singer and the second Tenderloin - to include talking sequences, along with the by now usual Vitaphone musical score and sound effects. A copy of this film survives at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., but the sound disks are lost.
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Ramona
California The 1880sBased on the Helen Hunt Jackson novel of 1884 about a young woman of partial Native American descent, who experiences love and loss in 1800s California.
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Court-Martial
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860sDuring the American Civil War, A Union-Army officer is ordered by U. S. President Abraham Lincoln to bring in Belle Starr, the leader of a Missouri guerrilla band, dead or alive. However, he falls in love with her, does not bring her in, and is facing a court-martial.
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The Yankee Clipper
New England The 19th CenturyA race between a British clipper ship and an American ship of a new design will determine the right to transport Chinese tea.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Louisiana The 1850sIn 1856, slave Eliza plans to marry George with the consent of the Shelbys, her masters, but George's owner prevents the wedding. A few years later, Eliza flees with her son, Harry, after learning the Shelbys plan to hand them over to a crooked creditor to prevent foreclosure. George also escapes and goes on the run while Eliza and Harry are captured and brought back home. Mother and son are separated as George tries to find them both.
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The Rough Riders
🇨🇺 Cuba The 1890sThe story of the military unit organized by future U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt and its adventures in Cuba during the Spanish-American War of 1898.
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The Love Mart
Louisiana The 1800sShe was his slave---bought and paid for---and now he was protecting her with his life. Would she ever understand why? — Victor, an adventurous young swashbuckler in 19th-century New Orleans, takes possession of a barber shop as the result of winning a duel, and decides to settle down to a life as a barber. He meets a beautiful young woman and pursues her, but she dismisses his attentions because she thinks he is just a barber. Also pursuing the woman is the evil Capt. Remy, whom she also brushes off. He, however, doesn't take rejection so lightly, and forges papers "proving" that the girl is a "quadroon"--part black, which means that she can be sold as a slave. She is sold to Capt. Remy, and when Victor hears of it, he determines to rescue her.
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The Heart of Maryland
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860sAt the outbreak of the War Between the States, Maryland Calvert is loved by Maj. Alan Kendrick, son of a Virginia general, and Capt. Fulton Thorpe. Nancy, whom Thorpe has loved unwisely, follows him to Washington and commits suicide when she learns he will not marry her; as a result, Alan is forced to request his resignation. When Fort Sumter is fired upon, Alan, who admires Lincoln's principles, joins the Union Army though his father is among the Secessionist leaders; as a result, he is estranged from Maryland. Thorpe, who has joined the Confederacy as a spy, is responsible for Alan's arrest, but Maryland victoriously comes to his aid by ringing the alarm bell.
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Wild Geese
Manitoba The 1880sA PICTURE THE WORLD HAS BEEN WAITING FOR! — Silent romantic melodrama about a wife and mother who is desperate to keep a secret from the past IN the past, despite her husband's intentions to reveal it.
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Don Mike
California The 19th CenturyThis silent south-of-the-border romantic cowboy western was written by star Fred Thomson's wife, Frances Marion under the pseudo name Frank M. Clifton. Following the "no good deed goes unpunished" idiom, when after rescuing a group of settlers, hero Don Miguel Arguella (Thomson) is double-crossed by the group leader who files a claim on his land and makes a move towards his girlfriend. Sadly, this is a lost film.
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The General
Tennessee Georgia The 1860sBuster drives "The General" to trainload of laughter. — During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnnie Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.
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Hands Up!
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860sYou'll put your Hands Up! and scream with laughter — Jack, a southern spy during the Civil War, must try to capture a shipment of gold. His task is complicated by the two sisters, Native Americans, and a firing squad.
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Old Ironsides
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1810sWHAT A YARN! — An embellished account of the 1813 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution--a.k.a. "Old Ironsides"--against the Barbary pirates then terrorizing American shipping, focusing on the crew and passengers of a fictional merchant ship, The Esther, who fall afoul of the same pirates and thus become involved with the Constitution's mission.
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With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo
Texas The 1830sSilent film dramatization of The Battle of the Alamo — Silent film of the events of The Alamo
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The Gold Rush
Alaska Yukon The 1890sThe World's Greatest Laughing Picture! — A lone prospector ventures into Alaska looking for gold. He soon gets mixed up with some burly characters, falls in love with the beautiful Georgia, and tries to win her heart with his singular charm.
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Tumbleweeds
Oklahoma The 1880sWilliam S. Hart stars in this 1925 silent film as a "tumbleweed" (i.e., a drifter) intent on claiming land during the 1889 land rush in the Oklahoma Territory. Though he falls in love with a beautiful woman and hopes to settle down with her on his newly acquired land, he must first contend with men who wish to bring him harm. In the prologue of the 1939 Astor Pictures revival of this film, Hart gives a moving eight-minute introduction -- the first and only time he appeared in a film accompanied by his striking voice.
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Barbara Frietchie
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860sTwo lovers in a small town in Maryland are torn apart by the Civil War--she is loyal to the south while he heads north to join the federal army, determined to protect the Union. Eventually his unit arrives in his hometown and he is reunited with his lover, but things aren't the way they used to be.
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The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860sA biographical film featuring the presidency and assassination of Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War. Only an incomplete abridged copy survives.
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The Warrens of Virginia
Virginia The 1860sAn All-American Play for All-American People! — As the Civil War begins, Ned Burton leaves his Southern love Agatha Warren and joins the Union army. He is later protected and saved from death by Agatha in spite of her loyalty to the South.
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