899 Films & TV Shows Set In North America During The 19th Century
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Around the World in 80 Days
New York New Mexico California England 🇫🇷 France 🇩🇪 Germany 🇹🇷 Turkey 🇮🇳 India 🇨🇳 China Atlantic Ocean The 1890sLet your imagination soar. — A bet pits a British inventor, a Chinese thief and a French artist on a worldwide adventure that they can circle the globe in 80 days.
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The Alamo
Texas The 1830sYou will never forget — Based on the 1836 standoff between a group of Texan and Tejano men, led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, and Mexican dictator Santa Anna's forces at the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas.
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Tremors 4: The Legend Begins
Nevada The 1880sA Revolution Has Begun... — This prequel of the bone-chilling Tremors begins in the town of Rejection, Nev., in 1889, where 17 men die under mysterious circumstances. Spooked by recent events, the miners who populate the town leave in droves until there's nothing left but a shell of a community. It's up to the remaining residents to get to the bottom of the deaths -- but they must do so before they, too, are eradicated off the face of the planet.
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Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning
🇨🇦 Canada The 1810sEvil Rises — Set in 19th Century Canada, Brigette and her sister Ginger take refuge in a Traders' Fort which later becomes under siege by some savage werewolves. And an enigmatic Indian hunter decides to help the girls, but one of the girls has been bitten by a werewolf. Brigitte and Ginger may have no one to turn to but themselves.
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Dead Birds
Alabama The 1860sThere are worse things than dying. — A group of Confederate soldiers hole up on an abandoned plantation after robbing a bank, and find themselves at the mercy of supernatural forces.
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The Work and the Glory
New York The 19th CenturyOne Man....A Remarkable Vision; One Family....A Desperate Struggle — When Benjamin Steed and Mary Ann Steed relocate their family to upstate New York in the early 1800's, they unwittingly settle in a town divided along religious lines. After their new hired help turns out to be at the center of the uproar, each member of the Steed family must come to terms with their own beliefs in the face of heavy persecution. Together they struggle to weather the raging controversy surrounding a young man named Joseph Smith.
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First Invasion: The War of 1812
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1810sFirst Invasion: The War of 1812, a History Channel documentary that first aired in 2004, portrays a young United States of America "on the brink of annihilation" as it battles the largest and most powerful empire on earth. Critics say the documentary is far too pro-American, and that it ignores or downplays crucial elements of the War of 1812. Others praise First Invasion for its compelling presentation of a far too neglected period of history.
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The Murdoch Mysteries: Except the Dying
Ontario The 1890sIn late 19th century Toronto, Detective William Murdoch investigates the murder of a young girl found in the red light district. When a possible witness to the murder is also killed, Murdoch must stop the killer before he strikes again.
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The Last Samurai
Kyoto Prefecture California The 1870sIn the face of an enemy, in the heart of one man, lies the soul of a warrior. — Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.
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Open Range
Montana The 1880sNo place to run. No reason to hide. — A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.
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Cold Mountain
North Carolina The 1860sFind the strength. Find the courage. No matter what it takes... find the way home. — In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he left behind to tend their farm. As Inman makes his perilous journey home, Ada struggles to keep their home intact with the assistance of Ruby, a mysterious drifter sent to help her by a kindly neighbor.
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Shanghai Knights
🇨🇳 China England Nevada New York The 1880sA Royal Kick In The Arse. — The dynamic duo of Chon Wang and Roy O'Bannon return for another crazy adventure. This time, they're in London to avenge the murder of Chon's father, but end up on an even bigger case. Chon's sister is there to do the same, but instead unearths a plot to kill the royal family. No one believes her, though, and it's up to Chon and Roy (who has romance on his mind) to prove her right.
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Holes
Texas The 1990s The 1900s The 1890s The 1850sSome secrets are too big to keep hidden. — Stanley's family is cursed with bad luck. Unfairly sentenced to months of detention at Camp Green Lake, he and his campmates are forced by the warden to dig holes in order to build character. What they don't know is that they are digging holes in order to search for a lost treasure hidden somewhere in the camp.
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The Missing
New Mexico The 1880sHow far would you go, how much would you sacrifice to get back what you have lost? — When rancher and single mother of two Maggie Gilkeson sees her teenage daughter, Lily, kidnapped by Apache rebels, she reluctantly accepts the help of her estranged father, Samuel, in tracking down the kidnappers. Along the way, the two must learn to reconcile the past and work together if they are going to have any hope of getting Lily back before she is taken over the border and forced to become a prostitute.
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Gods and Generals
Virginia Maryland The 1860sThe nations heart was touched by... — The film centers mostly around the personal and professional life of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, a brilliant if eccentric Confederate general, from the outbreak of the American Civil War until its halfway point when Jackson is killed accidentally by his own soldiers in May 1863 during his greatest victory.
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The Time Machine
New York The Moon The 1900s The 2030s The 1890sThe greatest adventure THROUGH all time! — Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds mankind divided into two warring races.
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Gangs of New York
New York The 1860s The 1840sAmerica was born in the streets. — It's 1863. America was born in the streets. Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who murdered his father years earlier. With an eager pickpocket by his side and a whole new army, Vallon fights his way to seek vengeance on the Butcher and restore peace in the area.
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Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
Oregon The 19th CenturyLeader. Hero. Legend. — As a wild stallion travels across the frontiers of the Old West, he befriends a young human and finds true love with a mare.
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Saint Sinner
Washington California The 1810sTo save the past, we must change the future. — In 1815 a monk, Tomas Alcala, unwittingly unleashes two female succubi, Munkar and Nakir, upon an unsuspecting 21st century. He is chosen by God to travel through the centuries and stop the demons' rampage.
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Séraphin: Heart of Stone
Quebec The 1880sSéraphin unfolds against the severe and achingly beautiful landscape of rural Quebec in 1889, where young lovers are torn from each other when a bankrupt shopkeeper forces his daughter into an arranged marriage to save his business. But true love cannot be denied...
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Wicked Spring
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860sSix men... two armies... one dream — During the 1864 battle of the Wilderness, three Union soldiers and three Confederate Soldiers get seperated from their units as twilight engulfs the ravaged battlefield. The men wander alone through the dangerous woods, separate of each other, until they meet by chance on the banks of a quiet creek. The men meet and spend the night around a campfire, not realizing they are enemies until the next morning when the sun rises and a new day of battle begins.
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Original Sin
🇨🇺 Cuba The 1880sThis is not a love story – it's a story about love. — A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp
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Kate & Leopold
New York The 1870sIf they lived in the same century they'd be perfect for each other. — When her scientist ex-boyfriend discovers a portal to travel through time -- and brings back a 19th-century nobleman named Leopold to prove it -- a skeptical Kate reluctantly takes responsibility for showing Leopold the 21st century. The more time Kate spends with Leopold, the harder she falls for him. But if he doesn't return to his own time, his absence will forever alter history.
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American Outlaws
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860sSometimes the wrong side of the law is the right place to be. — When a Midwest town learns that a corrupt railroad baron has captured the deeds to their homesteads without their knowledge, a group of young ranchers join forces to take back what is rightfully theirs. They will become the object of the biggest manhunt in the history of the Old West and, as their fame grows, so will the legend of their leader, a young outlaw by the name of Jessie James.
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Texas Rangers
Texas The 1860sTen years after the Civil War has ended, the Governor of Texas asks Leander McNelly to form a company of Rangers to help uphold the law along the Mexican border. With a few veterans of the war, most of the recruits are young men who have little or no experience with guns or policing crime.
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