Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "confederate-army"

1. Gone with the Wind (1939)

Passed | 238 min | Drama, Romance, War

A sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.

Directors: Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood | Stars: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Thomas Mitchell, Barbara O'Neil

Votes: 334,537 | Gross: $198.68M

2. Cold Mountain (2003)

R | 154 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

In the waning days of the American Civil War, a wounded soldier embarks on a perilous journey back home to Cold Mountain, North Carolina to reunite with his sweetheart.

Director: Anthony Minghella | Stars: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Eileen Atkins

Votes: 156,180 | Gross: $95.64M

3. Gettysburg (1993)

PG | 271 min | Drama, History, War

In 1863, the Northern and Southern forces fight at Gettysburg in the decisive battle of the American Civil War.

Director: Ron Maxwell | Stars: Tom Berenger, Martin Sheen, Stephen Lang, Richard Jordan

Votes: 31,326 | Gross: $10.77M

4. The Birth of a Nation (2016)

R | 120 min | Biography, Drama, History

Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher in the antebellum South, orchestrates an uprising.

Director: Nate Parker | Stars: Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Penelope Ann Miller, Jackie Earle Haley

Votes: 21,830 | Gross: $15.86M

5. Seraphim Falls (2006)

R | 115 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

After the end of the American Civil War, a former Confederate colonel hunts down a former Yankee officer with whom he has a grudge.

Director: David Von Ancken | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Liam Neeson, Anjelica Huston, Michael Wincott

Votes: 34,552 | Gross: $0.42M

6. Rio Lobo (1970)

G | 114 min | Drama, War, Western

After the Civil War, Cord McNally searches for the two traitors whose treachery caused the defeat of McNally's unit and the loss of a close friend.

Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: John Wayne, Jorge Rivero, Jennifer O'Neill, Jack Elam

Votes: 13,677 | Gross: $9.27M

7. Antebellum (2020)

R | 105 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Successful author Veronica Henley finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality and must uncover the mind-bending mystery before it's too late.

Directors: Gerard Bush, Christopher Renz | Stars: Janelle Monáe, Eric Lange, Jena Malone, Jack Huston

Votes: 29,834

8. Gods and Generals (2003)

PG-13 | 219 min | Biography, Drama, History

The rise and fall of confederate general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, as he meets with military success against the Union from 1861 to 1863, when he is accidentally killed by his own soldiers.

Director: Ron Maxwell | Stars: Stephen Lang, Robert Duvall, Jeff Daniels, Donzaleigh Abernathy

Votes: 17,216 | Gross: $12.87M

9. The Horse Soldiers (1959)

Approved | 120 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

In 1863, a Union outfit is sent behind Confederate lines in Mississippi to destroy enemy railroads but a captive southern belle and the unit's doctor cause frictions within ranks.

Director: John Ford | Stars: John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers, Judson Pratt

Votes: 11,661 | Gross: $1.75M

10. In the Electric Mist (2009)

R | 117 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A detective in post-Katrina New Orleans has a series of surreal encounters with a troop of ghostly Confederate soldiers while investigating serial killings of local prostitutes, a 1965 lynching, and corrupt local businessmen.

Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman, Peter Sarsgaard, Mary Steenburgen

Votes: 19,887

11. The General (1926)

Passed | 78 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

After being rejected by the Confederate military, not realizing it was due to his crucial civilian role, an engineer must single-handedly recapture his beloved locomotive after it is seized by Union spies and return it through enemy lines.

Directors: Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender, Jim Farley

Votes: 98,227 | Gross: $1.03M

12. Mysterious Island (1961)

Not Rated | 101 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

During the Civil War a group of Union soldiers, a Confederate and a civilian escape the stockade using a hot-air balloon and end up on a strange Pacific island.

Director: Cy Endfield | Stars: Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan, Gary Merrill

Votes: 8,555

13. North and South, Book II (1986)

95 min | Drama, History, Romance

The story of two friends and their families on opposite sides of the American Civil War.

Stars: Kirstie Alley, David Carradine, Philip Casnoff, Mary Crosby

Votes: 6,213

14. Shenandoah (1965)

Approved | 105 min | Drama, War, Western

A Virginia farmer who has vowed to remain neutral during the Civil War is spurred into action when his youngest son is taken by Union soldiers.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: James Stewart, Doug McClure, Glenn Corbett, Patrick Wayne

Votes: 9,629

15. Friendly Persuasion (1956)

Passed | 137 min | Drama, Family, Romance

The pacifist attitude of a Quaker family is tested as a result of the American Civil War.

Director: William Wyler | Stars: Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins, Richard Eyer

Votes: 7,751

16. The Blue and the Gray (1982)

TV-PG | 381 min | Drama, History, War

America just before and during the Civil War, as seen through the eyes of an artist correspondent.

Stars: Stacy Keach, John Hammond, Julia Duffy, Robin Gammell

Votes: 1,867

17. Field of Lost Shoes (2015)

PG-13 | 96 min | Action, Drama, War

A group of teenage cadets sheltered from war at the Virginia Military Institute must confront the horrors of an adult world when they are called upon to defend the Shenandoah Valley.

Director: Sean McNamara | Stars: Michael Krebs, Jake Lawson, Sean Marquette, David Arquette

Votes: 2,111

18. The Rebel (1959–1961)

Approved | 30 min | Western

After the end of the Civil War, a former Confederate Army private roams the Wild West, and, as a rogue drifter, gets involved in helping out various settlers threatened by various bad guys.

Stars: Nick Adams, Chuck Hamilton, Sid Troy, Ross Sturlin

Votes: 654

19. Alvarez Kelly (1966)

Approved | 116 min | Western

During the Civil War, Mexican cattleman Alvarez Kelly supplies the Union with cattle until Confederate Colonel Tom Rossiter's hungry men force Kelly to change his customers.

Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: William Holden, Richard Widmark, Janice Rule, Patrick O'Neal

Votes: 2,738

20. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 110 min | Drama, History

Story of a black woman in the South who was born into slavery in the 1850s and lives to become a part of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

Director: John Korty | Stars: Cicely Tyson, Eric Brown, Richard Dysart, Joel Fluellen

Votes: 2,506

21. Andersonville (1996)

167 min | Drama, History, War

The story of the most notorious Confederate prisoner of war camp in the American Civil War.

Stars: Paul Andre Gibbons, Jarrod Emick, Frederic Forrest, Ted Marcoux

Votes: 2,096

22. Dark Command (1940)

Approved | 94 min | Drama, Romance, War

In Kansas during the Civil War, opposing pro-Union and pro-Confederate camps clash and visiting Texan Bob Seton runs afoul of William Cantrell's Raiders.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Walter Pidgeon, Roy Rogers

Votes: 3,042

23. Journey to Shiloh (1968)

Approved | 101 min | Drama, War, Western

At the beginning of the Civil War, seven friends embark on a cross-country journey in order to join the Confederate army.

Director: William Hale | Stars: James Caan, Michael Sarrazin, Brenda Scott, Don Stroud

Votes: 1,075

24. A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die (1972)

PG | 92 min | Drama, Western

Branded a coward for surrendering his New Mexico fort to the Confederates without firing a shot, a Union colonel attempts to redeem himself by leading a band of condemned prisoners on a suicide mission to recapture it.

Director: Tonino Valerii | Stars: James Coburn, Bud Spencer, Telly Savalas, Reinhard Kolldehoff

Votes: 2,204

25. Rocky Mountain (1950)

Passed | 83 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In California during the Civil War, a Confederate patrol and a Union troop must set their differences aside in order to survive a Shoshone attack.

Director: William Keighley | Stars: Errol Flynn, Patrice Wymore, Scott Forbes, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams

Votes: 1,322

26. Django the Bastard (1969)

PG | 98 min | Action, Drama, Horror

A mysterious stranger appears to take terrifying revenge on former Confederate officers who during the Civil War betrayed and were responsible for the massacre of their unit.

Director: Sergio Garrone | Stars: Anthony Steffen, Paolo Gozlino, Luciano Rossi, Teodoro Corrà

Votes: 1,268

27. Abraham Lincoln (1930)

Passed | 96 min | Biography, Drama, War

An episodic biography of the 16th President of the United States.

Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Walter Huston, Una Merkel, William L. Thorne, Lucille La Verne

Votes: 1,711

28. Grey Knight (1993)

R | 82 min | Horror, War

Slave traders bring back an evil voodoo entity that is accidentally freed by the Confederate army during the Civil War. The entity possesses the bodies of the dead soldiers to create an ... See full summary »

Director: George Hickenlooper | Stars: Corbin Bernsen, Adrian Pasdar, Ray Wise, Cynda Williams

Votes: 824

29. Saving Lincoln (2013)

Not Rated | 101 min | Biography, Drama, History

The story of Mr. Lincoln and his self-appointed bodyguard, U.S. Marshal Ward Hill Lamon - a banjo-playing Southerner who foiled repeated attempts on the President's life, and kept him functioning during the darkest hours of the Civil War.

Director: Salvador Litvak | Stars: Tom Amandes, Lea Coco, Penelope Ann Miller, Bruce Davison

Votes: 459

30. Class of '61 (1993 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 95 min | Action, Drama

Three West Point 1861 generation cadets and friends go on opposite sides after the breakout of The Civil War, with tragic consequences. A subplot involves Lucius, a Shelby Peyton's slave, who kills a slave trader and goes on the run.

Director: Gregory Hoblit | Stars: Christien Anholt, Andre Braugher, Dan Futterman, Josh Lucas

Votes: 483

31. The Last Outpost (1951)

Approved | 89 min | Drama, Western

Despite their fighting on opposite sides during the Civil War, brothers Vance and Jeb Britton have to set their differences aside in order to survive an Indian attack.

Director: Lewis R. Foster | Stars: Ronald Reagan, Rhonda Fleming, Bruce Bennett, Bill Williams

Votes: 636

32. Gettysburg (2011 TV Movie)

85 min | Documentary, History, War

An examination of the Battle of Gettysberg on both the personal and strategic level.

Director: Adrian Moat | Stars: Sam Rockwell, George Wunderlich, Peter Carmichael, Garry E. Adelman

Votes: 563

33. Five Guns West (1955)

Passed | 78 min | Drama, Western

During the Civil War, the Confederacy pardons five criminals and sends them into Comanche-territory to recover Union-seized Confederate gold and capture a Confederate turncoat.

Director: Roger Corman | Stars: John Lund, Dorothy Malone, Mike Connors, R. Wright Campbell

Votes: 980

34. The Marauders (1955)

Approved | 81 min | Western

An innocent squatter in Arizona Territory, Jeff Richards, builds a home in a box canyon, and then has to battle to survive as Dan Duryea and his small army of gunfighters try to evict him.

Director: Gerald Mayer | Stars: Dan Duryea, Jeff Richards, Keenan Wynn, Jarma Lewis

Votes: 240

35. South of St. Louis (1949)

Passed | 88 min | Western

The friendship of three Texas ranchers whose ranch is destroyed by Cottrell, of the Union army, and his band of outlaw raiders. The working title was "Distant Drums", and south of St. Louis was a term used to describe Civil War deserters.

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Joel McCrea, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott, Dorothy Malone

Votes: 580

36. Acquasanta Joe (1971)

94 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A gang of robbers armed with a union army cannon rob the bank holding bounty Killer Acquasanta Joe's earnings to date. He pursues, crossing and double crossing along the way.

Directors: Mario Gariazzo, Richard Harrison | Stars: Lincoln Tate, Ty Hardin, Richard Harrison, Silvia Monelli

Votes: 269

37. Kill Them All and Come Back Alone (1968)

R | 100 min | Action, Western

A mercenary and his five-man team of oddball cutthroats are tasked by a treacherous Confederate spy with infiltrating a Union Army fortress and stealing $1 million in gold.

Director: Enzo G. Castellari | Stars: Chuck Connors, Frank Wolff, Franco Citti, Leo Anchóriz

Votes: 1,045

38. Mosby's Marauders (1967)

80 min | Action, Adventure, History

A young Private in the Confederate Army, Willie Prentiss, is assigned to guard a remote river outpost during the American Civil War. Lonely Willie becomes pals with his Union army ... See full summary »

Director: Michael O'Herlihy | Stars: James MacArthur, Nick Adams, Jack Ging, Kurt Russell

Votes: 119

39. Red Mountain (1951)

Approved | 84 min | Drama, Western

In 1865 Confederate Capt. Sherwood is heading to Colorado where Confederate Gen. Quantrill is stirring up rebellion using various Indian Nations.

Directors: William Dieterle, John Farrow | Stars: Alan Ladd, Lizabeth Scott, Arthur Kennedy, John Ireland

Votes: 652

40. Shango (1970)

Not Rated | 96 min | Action, Drama, Western

(1970) Anthony Steffen, Edjuardo Fajardo, Maurice Poli, Barbara Nelli, Andrea Scotti. Shango is a Texas Ranger who finds himself up against a former Confederate officer and his gang of ... See full summary »

Director: Edoardo Mulargia | Stars: Anthony Steffen, Eduardo Fajardo, Maurice Poli, Barbara Nelli

Votes: 252

41. Operator 13 (1934)

Passed | 85 min | Drama, History, Musical

Union spy Gail Loveless impersonates a black maid in the early days of the Civil War, but complications arise when she falls in love with a Confederate officer.

Director: Richard Boleslawski | Stars: Marion Davies, Gary Cooper, Jean Parker, Katharine Alexander

Votes: 1,504

42. The Dirty Outlaws (1967)

R | 103 min | Drama, Western

An outlaw masquerades as the son of a blind man in order to find a cache of gold located in a vacated town.

Director: Franco Rossetti | Stars: Andrea Giordana, Rosemary Dexter, Franco Giornelli, Dana Ghia

Votes: 429

43. Civil War Combat: America's Bloodiest Battles (2000– )

Documentary, History, War

The names are familiar, the stories have been told - or so we think. This groundbreaking series brings four of the most famous engagements of the Civil War to life like never before. ... See full summary »

Stars: Tony Jay, Ed Mantell, Jeremiah Hornbaker, Scott Hartwig

Votes: 70

44. Ambrose Bierce: Civil War Stories (2006 TV Movie)

93 min | Biography, Drama, History

Three of the most popular and controversial Civil War stories by legendary writer Ambrose Bierce are presented in this acclaimed feature collection.

Directors: Don Maxwell, Brian James Egen | Stars: Campbell Scott, Vivian Schilling, Nathan Darrow, T. Max Graham

Votes: 157 | Gross: $0.02M

45. The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1961)

108 min | Drama, History, Romance

An orphan fights for the north in the Civil War, then returns to his girlfriend in Kentucky.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: Jimmie Rodgers, Luana Patten, Chill Wills, Linda Hutchings

Votes: 121

46. Professionals for a Massacre (1967)

89 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Caught selling stolen guns, three Confederate soldiers get a reprieve from the firing squad, provided they go into Mexico on a mission to recover stolen gold belonging to the Confederacy.

Director: Nando Cicero | Stars: George Hilton, Edd Byrnes, Jorge Martín, Milo Quesada

Votes: 340

47. San Antone (1953)

90 min | Drama, Western

A Texas cowboy is in-love with the fiancee of a despicable Confederate officer whose life he must save after the Civil War when the officer, fighting as a mercenary in Mexico, is captured by Mexican revolutionaries.

Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Rod Cameron, Arleen Whelan, Forrest Tucker, Katy Jurado

Votes: 191

48. Civil War Historian Rates 9 American Civil War Battles in Movies (2023 Video)

22 min | Documentary, Short, History

Garry Adelman, chief historian of the American Battlefield Trust, rates nine American Civil War battles in movies, commenting on Civil War-era artillery and rifles, explaining the use of ... See full summary »

Star: Garry Adelman

49. The Battle of Shiloh (2012 Video)

175 min | Documentary, History, War

The Battle of Shiloh documentary takes the viewer to the fields of western Tennessee. They are filled with soldiers. Thousands of soldier reenactors set up camps and cook on open fires. ... See full summary »

Director: Brad Clark | Stars: Bruce Clark, Brad Clark, Mary Clark

Votes: 8

50. The Civil War: Brothers Divided (2016– )

Documentary, History, War

Examining various battles during America's Civil War, Civil War Chronicles exposes America's unsung heroes.

Stars: Brian Scott Carleton, Garry E. Adelman, Drew Moss, Simon Pellegrino

Votes: 203