Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "american-civil-war-veteran"

1. Little Women (2019)

PG | 135 min | Drama, Romance

Jo March reflects back and forth on her life, telling the beloved story of the March sisters - four young women, each determined to live life on her own terms.

Director: Greta Gerwig | Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen

Votes: 246,455 | Gross: $108.10M

2. The Legend of Tarzan (2016)

PG-13 | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Tarzan, having acclimated to life in London, is called back to his former home in the jungle to investigate the activities at a mining encampment.

Director: David Yates | Stars: Alexander Skarsgård, Rory J Saper, Christian Stevens, Christoph Waltz

Votes: 188,770 | Gross: $126.64M

3. The Searchers (1956)

Passed | 119 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

An American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm.

Director: John Ford | Stars: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond

Votes: 96,395

4. Stagecoach (1939)

Passed | 96 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process.

Director: John Ford | Stars: John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Andy Devine, John Carradine

Votes: 53,817

5. News of the World (2020)

PG-13 | 118 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A Civil War veteran agrees to deliver a girl taken by the Kiowa people years ago to her aunt and uncle against her will. They travel hundreds of miles and face grave dangers as they search for a place that either can call home.

Director: Paul Greengrass | Stars: Tom Hanks, Helena Zengel, Tom Astor, Travis Johnson

Votes: 95,711

6. Shane (1953)

Not Rated | 118 min | Drama, Western

A weary gunfighter in 1880s Wyoming begins to envision a quieter life after befriending a homestead family with a young son who idolizes him, but a smoldering range war forces him to act.

Director: George Stevens | Stars: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon De Wilde

Votes: 44,176 | Gross: $20.00M

7. Red River (1948)

Passed | 133 min | Drama, Western

Dunson leads a cattle drive, the culmination of over 14 years of work, to its destination in Missouri. But his tyrannical behavior along the way causes a mutiny, led by his adopted son.

Directors: Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson | Stars: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan

Votes: 34,426

8. Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)

GP | 116 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

When a former Civil War soldier saves a nun from a gang of bandits, they team up to help the Mexicans in their war against the French.

Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Shirley MacLaine, Manolo Fábregas, Alberto Morin

Votes: 30,605 | Gross: $11.50M

9. Forsaken (I) (2015)

R | 90 min | Action, Drama, Western

In 1872, an embittered gunslinger named John Henry Clayton attempts to make amends with his estranged father Reverend Samuel Clayton while their community is besieged by ruthless land-grabbers.

Director: Jon Cassar | Stars: Esther Purves-Smith, Kiefer Sutherland, Donald Sutherland, Lex Cassar

Votes: 13,815

10. The Plunderers (1960)

Approved | 94 min | Drama, Western

When four rowdy cowhands ride into a small town and make trouble, no one seems willing or able to take them on, not even Sam Christy, the toughest man in town. But then there is a murder.

Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Jeff Chandler, John Saxon, Dolores Hart, Marsha Hunt

Votes: 436

11. Goin' South (1978)

PG | 108 min | Comedy, Romance, Western

Due to the lack of men after the Civil War, a western town allows a young bachelorette who lives alone to save a thief from hanging by marrying him. They must deal with his old gang, the Sheriff, the railroad, a gold mine, and each other.

Director: Jack Nicholson | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Mary Steenburgen, Christopher Lloyd, John Belushi

Votes: 8,023

12. Jane Got a Gun (2015)

R | 98 min | Action, Drama, Western

A woman asks her ex-lover for help in order to save her outlaw husband from a gang out to kill him.

Director: Gavin O'Connor | Stars: Natalie Portman, Joel Edgerton, Ewan McGregor, Rodrigo Santoro

Votes: 23,854 | Gross: $1.51M

13. Diablo (2015)

R | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A young civil war veteran is forced on a desperate journey to save his kidnapped wife.

Director: Lawrence Roeck | Stars: Scott Eastwood, Walton Goggins, Camilla Belle, Adam Beach

Votes: 5,281

14. Stagecoach (1966)

Approved | 115 min | Action, Adventure, Western

On the stagecoach to Cheyenne, a mixed group of passengers must work together to survive the arduous journey and the Indian attacks.

Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Ann-Margret, Alex Cord, Red Buttons, Mike Connors

Votes: 2,254 | Gross: $8.72M

15. The Naked Spur (1953)

Passed | 91 min | Drama, Thriller, Western

A bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-trustworthy strangers.

Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan, Ralph Meeker

Votes: 12,670

16. Sergeant Rutledge (1960)

Approved | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Western

Respected Black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white woman and murdering her father, his superior officer.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Jeffrey Hunter, Woody Strode, Constance Towers, Billie Burke

Votes: 5,374

17. The Indian Fighter (1955)

Passed | 88 min | Drama, Western

A scout leading a wagon train through hostile Indian country unwittingly gets involved with a Sioux chief's daughter.

Director: André De Toth | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Elsa Martinelli, Walter Matthau, Diana Douglas

Votes: 2,886

18. El Paso (1949)

Approved | 103 min | Western

In El Paso, lawyer and ex-Confederate captain Clay Fletcher forms a vigilante group to bring law and order to a town where the judge is a drunk, the sheriff is corrupt and the town is run by a crooked landowner.

Director: Lewis R. Foster | Stars: John Payne, Gail Russell, Sterling Hayden, George 'Gabby' Hayes

Votes: 460

19. Blind Justice (1994 TV Movie)

R | 85 min | Action, Drama, Western

Canaan, a mysterious gunfighter left nearly blind from Civil War combat, roams through Mexico with a baby he has sworn to protect. On his way to a town where a family will supposedly adopt ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Spence | Stars: Armand Assante, Elisabeth Shue, Robert Davi, Adam Baldwin

Votes: 1,019

20. The Little Colonel (1935)

Approved | 81 min | Comedy, Family, Musical

In the post-Civil war south, a darling little girl attempts to restore the peace between her parents and her plantation owner grandfather.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Shirley Temple, Lionel Barrymore, Evelyn Venable, John Lodge

Votes: 1,888

21. Judge Priest (1934)

Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Judge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, uses common sense and considerable humanity to dispense justice in a small town in the Post-Bellum Kentucky.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Will Rogers, Tom Brown, Anita Louise, Henry B. Walthall

Votes: 2,519

22. Texas (1941)

Passed | 93 min | Western

Two young men head west in search of fortune and adventure.

Director: George Marshall | Stars: William Holden, Glenn Ford, Claire Trevor, George Bancroft

Votes: 1,450

23. The Cisco Kid (1994 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 91 min | Comedy, Western

This update of the 1950 western TV series changes Cisco and Pancho from wandering heroes of the old west to somewhat anti-"gringo" Mexican revolutionaries.

Director: Luis Valdez | Stars: Jimmy Smits, Cheech Marin, Sadie Frost, Bruce Payne

Votes: 327

24. The Proud and Damned (1972)

PG | 92 min | Drama, Western

In 1870, five ex-Confederate soldiers get embroiled in a foreign civil war south of the border.

Director: Ferde Grofé Jr. | Stars: Chuck Connors, Aron Kincaid, Cesar Romero, José Greco

Votes: 408

25. Her First Flame (1920)

20 min | Short, Comedy, Sci-Fi

It is the year 1950; women have taken over men's jobs and have become the aggressors in romantic situations. Lizzie Hap stuffs the ballot box, defeats her opponent, Minnie Fish, and is ... See full summary »

Director: Bruno C. Becker | Stars: Gale Henry, Milburn Morante, Hap Ward, Phyllis Allen

Votes: 34

26. Rebel Forrest: The Nathan Bedford Forrest Story (2002)

57 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Historians, biographers, and family descendants of Civil War General Nathan Bedford Forrest examine the life of one of the South's most controversial figures.

Director: Jon Rawl | Stars: Bill Fitch, Shelby Foote, Chester L. Quarles, Hank Sanders

27. Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2012– )
Episode: Salem's Lot (2023)

TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Henry Lewis Gates Jr. takes Claire Danes and Jeff Daniels on a journey into their roots.

Director: Sabin Streeter | Stars: Claire Danes, Jeff Daniels, Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Votes: 45

28. Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2012– )
Episode: Buried Secrets (2024)

TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Singer Sammy Hagar and actor Ed O'Neill uncover their roots and discover deep family secrets.

Stars: Henry Louis Gates Jr., Sammy Hagar, Ed O'Neill

Votes: 30

29. Antiques Roadshow (1997– )
Episode: LSU Rural Life Museum, Hour 1 (2024)

TV-G | 52 min | Reality-TV

Head to historic Baton Rouge for incredible Louisiana treasures and a top $100,000 find.

Directors: Kelsey Bresnahan, Jeff Cronenberg | Stars: Michael Bertoia, Joel Bohy, Dessa Goddard, Allen Katz