64 Films & TV Shows Set In United States of America During The 1840s
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Miracle Workers: Oregon Trail
Nebraska Oregon The 1840sIn 1844, an idealistic small-town preacher teams up with a wanted outlaw and an adventurous & liberated prairie wife to lead a wagon train west on the Oregon Trail across an American landscape which, much like today, is fraught with both promise and peril.
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Harriet
New York Maryland Pennsylvania South Carolina Ontario The 1840s The 1850s The 1860sBe free or die — The extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.
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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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12 Years a Slave
New York Louisiana The 1850s The 1840sThe extraordinary true story of Solomon Northup — In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon’s chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist will forever alter his life.
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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Pennsylvania Indiana Illinois Louisiana South Carolina The 1860s The 1850s The 1810s The 1820s The 1830s The 1840sAre you a patriot or a vampire? — President Lincoln's mother is killed by a supernatural creature, which fuels his passion to crush vampires and their slave-owning helpers.
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Cloud Atlas
California Hawaii Scotland England 🇧🇪 Belgium 🇰🇷 South Korea 🇳🇿 New Zealand The 1970s The 1930s The 2010s The 1840sEverything is Connected — A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future. Based on the award winning novel by David Mitchell. Directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis.
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The Dead and the Damned
California The 1850s The 1840sCowboys, Indians and Zombies made the wild west, even wilder — A meteor lands in Jamestown California in 1849 during the gold rush. It is found by miners who release it's spoors which turn the population into blood thirsty mutants.
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Tom Sawyer
Missouri The 1840sTom Sawyer has a head full of pranks and drives when he invents is not just a new adventure, preferably around with his best buddy Huck Finn - much to the chagrin of his Aunt Polly with Tom and his half-brother Sid in the town of St. Petersburg on the Mississippi river.
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Meek's Cutoff
Oregon The 1840sThe Road to Civilisation is Not Always Civilised — Set in 1845, this drama follows a group of settlers as they embark on a punishing journey along the Oregon Trail. When their guide leads them astray, the expedition is forced to contend with the unforgiving conditions of the high plain desert.
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Pennsylvania Nevada Louisiana 🇳🇬 Nigeria Africa - General 🇨🇦 Canada The 1970s The 1940s The 1910s The 1860s The 1840sWitness the Origin. — After seeking to live a normal life, Logan sets out to avenge the death of his girlfriend by undergoing the mutant Weapon X program and becoming Wolverine.
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The Donner Party
California The 1840sSurvival lies within — Based on the real events of The Donner Party tragedy. The Donner Party was a group of California-bound American settlers caught up in the western expansion of the 1840s. After becoming snowbound in the Sierra Nevada during the winter of 1846-1847, a number of the trapped settlers joined together in a final effort to reach California and organize a rescue party.
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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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Ravenous
🇲🇽 Mexico California The 1840sYou Are Who You Eat — Upon receiving reports of missing persons at Fort Spencer, a remote Army outpost on the Western frontier, Capt. John Boyd investigates. After arriving at his new post, Boyd and his regiment aid a wounded frontiersman who recounts a horrifying tale of a wagon train murdered by its supposed guide -- a vicious U.S. Army colonel gone rogue. Fearing the worst, the regiment heads out into the wilderness to verify the gruesome claims.
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The Mask of Zorro
California 🇲🇽 Mexico The 1820s The 1840sNo one has seen his face... but everyone ... knows this mark. — It has been twenty years since Don Diego de la Vega fought Spanish oppression in Alta California as the legendary romantic hero, Zorro. Having escaped from prison he transforms troubled bandit Alejandro into his successor, in order to foil the plans of the tyrannical Don Rafael Montero who robbed him of his freedom, his wife and his precious daughter.
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Amistad
Connecticut New York Massachusetts District of Columbia 🇨🇺 Cuba 🇪🇸 Spain 🇸🇱 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. — 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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Dances with Wolves
Kansas Tennessee South Dakota The 1860s The 1850s The 1840sInside everyone is a frontier waiting to be discovered. — Wounded Civil War soldier, John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.
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The Good, the Bad and Huckleberry Hound
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1850s The 1840sIt's the gold rush era in the Wild West. A mysterious stranger (Huckleberry Hound) arrives in a small desert town carrying a huge golden nugget. The notorious Dalton brothers steal it. The town asks "the stranger" to go after them.
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Zorro, The Gay Blade
California The 1840sZexy, Zany, Zensational! — George Hamilton stars in a dueling dual role as twin sons of the legendary Zorro. Soon after the dashing Don Diego Vega inherits his father's famous sword and costume, a broken ankle prevents the masked avenger from fulfilling his heroic duties. When his flamboyantly fashion-conscious brother assumes the secret identity to continue an ongoing fight for justice, the results are nothing short of hilarious!
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Mandingo
Louisiana The 1840sExpect The Savage. The Sensual. The Shocking. The Sad. The Powerful. The Shameful. Expect The Truth. — Warren Maxwell, the owner of a run-down plantation, pressures his son, Hammond, to marry and produce an heir to inherit the plantation. Hammond settles on his own cousin, Blanche, but purchases a sex slave when he returns from the honeymoon. Meanwhile, Warren buys a new Mandingo slave named Mede to breed and to earn money as a prize-fighter.
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The Mark of Zorro
California The 1840sThe swishing fop Don Diego de la Vega becomes the swashbuckling masked hero Zorro when tyranny threatens his people in nineteenth-century California.
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Tom Sawyer
Missouri The 1840sTom 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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The Emigrants
Minnesota 🇸🇪 Sweden Atlantic Ocean The 1840sa new land...a new hope...a new dream — A Swedish peasant family, ravaged by poverty, privation and misery in mid-19th century Sweden, set out on a perilous journey to America in hope of a better life.
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The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin
Massachusetts California The 1840sTo restore his family's lost wealth, a young Boston lad stows away on a ship bound for the California Gold Rush. When their very proper butler gives chase, all roads lead to nonstop adventure, wild and woolly characters, and a lucky punch that leads to a bonanza of belly laughs!
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The Way West
Oregon Missouri The 1840sCracking Like a Whip From Here to Excitement! — In the mid-19th century, Senator William J. Tadlock leads a group of settlers overland in a quest to start a new settlement in the Western US. Tadlock is a highly principled and demanding taskmaster who is as hard on himself as he is on those who have joined his wagon train. He clashes with one of the new settlers, Lije Evans, who doesn't quite appreciate Tadlock's ways. Along the way, the families must face death and heartbreak and a sampling of frontier justice when one of them accidentally kills a young Indian boy.
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Texas Across the River
Texas The 1840sA Swinging Fun-Romp that Fractures the Frontier! — The Louisiana wedding of debutante Phoebe Ann Naylor to Don Andrea de Baldasar, El Duce de la Casala is stopped by the Cavalry over a matter of honor. Don Andrea flees across the river to Texas, where he meets up with Sam Hollis and his Indian sidekick, Kronk, who are carrying rifles to the town of Moccasin Flats. Don Andrea rescues an Indian maiden, Lonetta, tames some longhorns, competes with Sam for Phoebe's affections, eludes a Comanche war party and the cavalry and ultimately saves the town and gets his girl.
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