899 Films & TV Shows Set In North America During The 19th Century
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Amistad
Connecticut New York Massachusetts District of Columbia π¨πΊ Cuba πͺπΈ Spain πΈπ± Sierra Leone The 1830s The 1840sFreedom is not given. It is our right at birth. But there are some moments when it must be taken. β In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are then held prisoner in Connecticut, and their release becomes the subject of heated debate. Freed slave Theodore Joadson wants Cinque and the others exonerated and recruits property lawyer Roger Baldwin to help his case. Eventually, John Quincy Adams also becomes an ally.
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Washington Square
New York The 1850sShe must choose between her father's fortune... Or the man she loves. β Set in 1870's New York, a spinster heiress is courted by a much younger, penniless man, much to the chagrin of her over-protective father, and must decide whether to spend the rest of her life alone, or marry a man who is interested in her only because of her inheritence.
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Last Stand at Saber River
Arizona The 1860sAs America recovers from the Civil War, one man tries to put the pieces of his life back together but finds himself fighting a new battle on the frontier. Cable is an embittered Confederate soldier who returns from the war to reclaim his Arizona homestead from rebel pioneers who sympathize with the Union war effort.
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End of Summer
New York The 1890sA lifetime of secrets explodes in a season of desire. β An unmarried aristocrat (Jacqueline Bisset) resists the advances of the adventurous man (Peter Weller) whom she actually desires, causing him to turn his attentions to her new ward (Amy Locane) and a young maid (Karen Dwyer).
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Andersonville
Virginia Georgia The 1860sThe great untold story of the American Civil War. β This lengthy docudrama records the harrowing conditions at the Confederacy's most notorious prisoner-of-war camp. The drama unfolds through the eyes of a company of Union soldiers captured at the Battle of Cold Harbor, VA, in June 1864, and shipped to the camp in southern Georgia. A private, Josiah Day, and his sergeant try to hold their company together in the face of squalid living conditions, inhumane punishments, and a gang of predatory fellow prisoners called the Raiders.
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North Star
Alaska The 1890sWhere land is power and revenge is obsession. β Set during the Alaskan gold rush of the late 1800s. In his efforts to gain control of a small mining town, Sean McLennon is buying up every claim that becomes available, usually after the deaths of the previous owners at the hands of McLennon's 'assistants'. One of the miners targeted by McLennon, a half-Indian hunter named Hudson Saanteek, manages to escape his hired thugs and comes back into town looking to re-establish his claim and get revenge. McLennon and his men have the advantage of numbers and weapons, but Saanteek has his survival skills and knowledge of the Alaskan wilderness.
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Crossroads of Laredo
Texas The 19th CenturyTex is a gunslinger who murders a cowboy and steals his money. Lem is an honest man who wants nothing more than to marry Barbara. When Tex marries Barbara and treats her badly, Lem decides to settle the score.
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Dead Man
Washington The 1870sNo one can survive becoming a legend. β On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange North American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.
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Jumanji
New Hampshire The 1990s The 1960s The 1860s The 1800sRoll the dice and unleash the excitement! β When siblings Judy and Peter discover an enchanted board game that opens the door to a magical world, they unwittingly invite Alan -- an adult who's been trapped inside the game for 26 years -- into their living room. Alan's only hope for freedom is to finish the game, which proves risky as all three find themselves running from giant rhinoceroses, evil monkeys and other terrifying creatures.
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The Journey of August King
North Carolina The 1810sThe Journey of August King is a multi-dimensional drama about a North Carolina farmer in 1815. August King, a widower, is on his way home as he does every year after selling his produce and purchasing the stock and goods he will need to survive the winter. On his journey, he comes upon a run-away slave, a young woman about 19 and August King must decide to violate the law and help this slave to freedom or else leave her to be hunted down and, ultimately, returned to her slave owner.
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Wild Bill
South Dakota The 19th CenturyThe Name Is Legendary. The Man Is Real. β Biopic about famous gunslinger Wild Bill Hickock. The early career of legendary lawman is telescoped and culminates in his relocation in Deadwood and a reunion with Calamity Jane.
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Pharaoh's Army
πΊπΈ United States of America The 1860sUnion soldiers in search of food descend on the farm of a Confederate family and decide to stay until one in their ranks' wounds have healed. While the war weary Union captain (Chris Cooper) falls for the mother of the family (Patricia Clarkson) - whose husband is off fighting for the rebels - her son plots revenge on the dirty, double-dealing Yankees. Co-stars Kris Kristofferson.
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Black Fox
Texas The 1860sTwo Tribes have joined forces to drive the white man away-two men aren't about to let that happen... β A former slave affects peace between Indian tribes and homesteaders in 1860s West Texas.
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Savate
π²π½ Mexico π«π· France The 1860s1865: A young French officer, travelling the U.S. in search of the murderer of his best friend, gets involved in a struggle between poor farmers and a rich landowner. To help the farmers, he offers them his "Savate" (French kickboxing) skills.
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Interview with the Vampire
California Louisiana π«π· France The 18th Century The 1870s The 1980sDrink from me and live forever β A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
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Timecop
District of Columbia The 1990s The 1920s The 2000s The 1860sTurn back the clock and you're history. β An officer for a security agency that regulates time travel, must fend for his life against a shady politician who has a tie to his past.
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Little Women
New York Massachusetts The 1860sThe story that has lived in our hearts for generations, now comes to the screen for the holidays. β With their father away as a chaplain in the Civil War, Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy grow up with their mother in somewhat reduced circumstances. They are a close family who inevitably have their squabbles and tragedies. But the bond holds even when, later, male friends start to become a part of the household.
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The Road to Wellville
Michigan The 1900s The 1890sA comedy of the heart and other organs. β An unhappy young couple visit the infamous Kellogg spa in Battle Creek, Michigan while a young hustler tries get into the breakfast-cereal business and compete against John Kellogg's corn flakes.
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Bad Girls
Colorado Oregon The 1880sIt was a dangerous time to be a woman. And a good time to have friends. β Four former harlots try to leave the wild west (Colorado, to be exact) and head north to make a better life for themselves. Unfortunately someone from Cody's past won't let it happen that easily.
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Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
Massachusetts The 1990s The 1860sJames Earl Jones hosts this film based on two stories by the late Rod Serling, who wrote the stories of the original 'The Twilight Zone' (1959) series. In "The Theater," a young woman attends a movie theater only to find that her life story is being revealed on the screen. In "Where the Dead Are," a Boston surgeon in 1868 searches for a scientist who may have the answer to a medical mystery.
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Cheyenne Warrior
πΊπΈ United States of America The 1860sTragedy brought them together , tradition tore them apart. β An interracial love story, set in the turbulent wild west, stirs up tensions between the Indians and the settlers.
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Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
πΊπΈ United States of America The 1860sLucy married at the turn of the last century, when she was fifteen and her husband was fifty. If Colonel William Marsden was a veteran of the "War for Southern Independence", Lucy became a "veteran of the veteran" with a unique perspective on Southern history and Southern manhood. Her story encompasses everything from the tragic death of a Confederate boy soldier to the feisty narrator's daily battles in the Home--complete with visits from a mohawk-coiffed candy-striper.
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The Yearling
Florida The 1870sIn 1870s Florida, a rural family struggles to survive. A lonely twelve-year-old son, Jody (Wil Horneff), the lone surviving child, against his mother's better judgment eventually persuades his parents to allow him a pet fawn, which Jody grows to love deeply. Tragic conflict arises when the fawn begins eating the family's food crops.
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Sommersby
Tennessee The 1860sShe knew his face. His touch. His voice. She knew everything about him... But the truth. β Set in the south of the United States just after the Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without her husband Jack, believed killed in the Civil War. By all accounts, Jack Sommersby was not a pleasant man, thus when he returns, Laurel has mixed emotions. It appears that Jack has changed a great deal, leading some people to believe that this is not actually Jack but an imposter. Laurel herself is unsure, but willing to take the man into her home, and perhaps later into her heart...
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