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1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Approved | 178 min | Adventure, Western
A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.
Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffrè
Votes: 811,478 | Gross: $6.10M
2. Gangs of New York (2002)
R | 167 min | Crime, Drama
In 1862, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points area of New York City seeking revenge against Bill the Butcher, his father's killer.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jim Broadbent
Votes: 473,062 | Gross: $77.81M
3. Glory (1989)
R | 122 min | Biography, Drama, History
Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.
Director: Edward Zwick | Stars: Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes, Morgan Freeman
Votes: 144,481 | Gross: $26.83M
4. The Wonder (I) (2022)
R | 108 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A tale of two strangers who transform each other's lives, a psychological thriller, and a story of love pitted against evil.
Director: Sebastián Lelio | Stars: Florence Pugh, Tom Burke, Kíla Lord Cassidy, Niamh Algar
Votes: 44,272
5. The Aeronauts (2019)
PG-13 | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A balloon pilot and a scientist find themselves in a fight for survival while attempting to make discoveries in a gas balloon in the 1860s.
Director: Tom Harper | Stars: Felicity Jones, Eddie Redmayne, Himesh Patel, Vincent Perez
Votes: 37,421
6. The Leopard (1963)
PG | 186 min | Drama, History
The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860s Sicily.
Director: Luchino Visconti | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale, Paolo Stoppa
Votes: 28,835
7. The King and I (1956)
G | 133 min | Biography, Drama, Musical
A widow accepts a job as a live-in governess to the King of Siam's children.
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr, Rita Moreno, Martin Benson
Votes: 27,919 | Gross: $21.30M
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: 17,210 | Gross: $12.87M
9. 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: 98,165 | Gross: $1.03M
10. Ride with the Devil (I) (1999)
R | 138 min | Drama, Romance, War
During the American Civil War, two friends join the Bushwhackers, a militant group loyal to the Confederacy.
Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Tobey Maguire, Skeet Ulrich, Jewel, Jeremy W. Auman
Votes: 14,560 | Gross: $0.63M
11. The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (2013)
PG | 105 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A ten-year-old scientist secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother, escapes home, and travels across the country aboard a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institute.
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis, Callum Keith Rennie, Kyle Catlett
Votes: 19,967 | Gross: $0.10M
12. Silk (2007)
R | 107 min | Drama, Romance
The story of a married silkworm merchant-turned-smuggler in 19th century France traveling to Japan for his town's supply of silkworms after a disease wipes out their African supply. During his stay in Japan, he becomes obsessed with the concubine of a local baron.
Director: François Girard | Stars: Michael Pitt, Keira Knightley, Koji Yakusho, Sei Ashina
Votes: 11,749 | Gross: $1.10M
13. 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: 7,740
14. Black Fox: The Price of Peace (1995 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 96 min | Western
In 1860s Texas, a man whose abused wife fell in love with a Kiowa organizes a hunting party to recapture her.
Director: Steven Hilliard Stern | Stars: Christopher Reeve, Raoul Max Trujillo, Tony Todd, Janet Bailey
Votes: 227
15. Angels and Insects (1995)
R | 116 min | Drama, Romance
In the 1800s a naturalist marries into a family of British country gentry.
Director: Philip Haas | Stars: Mark Rylance, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patsy Kensit, Jeremy Kemp
Votes: 4,842 | Gross: $5.30M
16. The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
Passed | 116 min | Biography, Drama
The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfus Affair.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Paul Muni, Gale Sondergaard, Joseph Schildkraut, Gloria Holden
Votes: 9,019
17. 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: 2,499
18. The Red Badge of Courage (1951)
Passed | 69 min | Drama, War
Truncated adaptation of Stephen Crane's novel about a Civil War Union soldier who stuggles to find the courage to fight in the heat of battle.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Audie Murphy, Bill Mauldin, Douglas Dick, Royal Dano
Votes: 4,839
19. The Great Locomotive Chase (1956)
Approved | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Family
During the Civil War Union spy Andrews and his men volunteer to steal a Confederate train and drive it to Union territory while destroying the Confederate railway system along the way.
Director: Francis D. Lyon | Stars: Fess Parker, Jeffrey Hunter, Jeff York, John Lupton
Votes: 1,374
20. Maharaj
Biography, Crime, Drama | Post-production
Inspired by true events, Maharaj is an incredible David vs. Goliath story. Set in the 1800s, it narrates how a regular man, journalist by profession, takes on a powerful role model of ... See full summary »
Director: Malhotra P. Siddharth | Stars: Sharvari Wagh, Jaideep Ahlawat, Mark Bennington, Shalini Pandey
21. Men Go to Battle (2015)
98 min | Comedy, Drama, War
Men Go To Battle is the story of two brothers struggling to hold their crumbling estate together outside a small Kentucky town in the fall of 1861.
Director: Zachary Treitz | Stars: Timothy Morton, David Maloney, Rachel Korine, Kate Lyn Sheil
Votes: 370 | Gross: $0.02M
22. The Iron Horse (1924)
Passed | 150 min | Drama, History, Romance
After witnessing the murder of his father by a renegade as a boy, the grown-up Brandon helps to realize his father's dream of a transcontinental railway.
Director: John Ford | Stars: George O'Brien, Madge Bellamy, Charles Edward Bull, Cyril Chadwick
Votes: 2,444 | Gross: $2.06M
23. The Amazing Screw-On Head (2006 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A Civil War-era secret agent with an extraordinary special power serves under president Abraham Lincoln protecting America from supernatural foes. Unsold animated TV pilot adapted from a short comic book from the creator of Hellboy.
Director: Chris Prynoski | Stars: Paul Giamatti, David Hyde Pierce, Patton Oswalt, Corey Burton
Votes: 2,118
24. Ironclads (1991 TV Movie)
Unrated | 94 min | War
A naval battle between two large ships: the "Monitor" and the "Merrimack".
Director: Delbert Mann | Stars: Virginia Madsen, Alex Hyde-White, Reed Diamond, Philip Casnoff
Votes: 311
25. Passion of Love (1981)
117 min | Drama, History, Romance
In the 1860s, Giorgio (Giraudeau), a young Italian soldier, is sent to a remote post, far away from his lover, Clara (Antonelli). He is lodged in the house of the colonel (Girotti). He ... See full summary »
Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Valeria D'Obici, Bernard Giraudeau, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Massimo Girotti
Votes: 1,020
26. Sex in the Ancient World: Prostitution in Pompeii (2009 TV Movie)
88 min | Documentary, History
The excavations of Pompeii reveal a thriving sex industry with prostitutes ranging from female slaves to male celebrities. But like today sexual promiscuity was not considered proper or ... See full summary »
Director: Kurt Sayenga | Stars: Anthony Velazquez, Angelina Bulygina, Tiffany Lauren Bennicke, Mariann Gavelo
Votes: 106
27. We Believed (2010)
205 min | History
The stories of three young men who, in the wake of the ferocious repression by the Bourbon reign in 1828, decide to join Giuseppe Mazzini's Young Italy movement.
Director: Mario Martone | Stars: Raffaele Di Florio, Francesca Inaudi, Andrea Bosca, Edoardo Natoli
Votes: 631
28. The Young Racers (1963)
Not Rated | 84 min | Action, Drama
A former race car driver-turned-writer attempts to expose a ruthless, womanizing Grand Prix racer - who may actually be sensitive and misunderstood.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Mark Damon, William Campbell, Luana Anders, Patrick Magee
Votes: 341
29. My Brother's War (2005)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, Romance, War
On the day of her engagement, Grace Kieler finds her family and fiancé divided on political matters. With her future husband off to join the Union army and her brother vowing loyalty to the... See full summary »
Director: Whitney Hamilton | Stars: Dana Bennison, Rebecca Damon, Gerry Green, Whitney Hamilton
Votes: 78
30. Eighty Acres of Hell (2006 TV Movie)
94 min | History
Unprepared for a protracted war, the huge number of prisoners of war overwhelmed both sides ability to hold them. Coupled with the bitter animosity toward the enemy this lead to inhuman ... See full summary »
Director: Gary Foreman | Stars: Thomas Y. Cartwright, William C. Davis, Joseph G. Dawson, David Dixon
Votes: 26
31. Lincoln and Lee at Antietam: The Cost of Freedom (2006)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary
Historical documentary on the Battle of Antietam in 1862, the bloodiest day of the Civil War, that claimed nearly 4,000 lives and wounded over 17,000.
Director: Robert Child | Stars: Chad O. Allen, Benjamin F. Black, Cindy Brinkerhof, Mike Brown
Votes: 53
32. How Life Began (2008 TV Movie)
Documentary, History
Was life triggered by some event, like lightning hitting a pond full of amino acids? Earth was teeming with life billions of years before the dinosaurs existed. Single celled organisms ... See full summary »
Director: Luke Ellis | Stars: Robert Hazen, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Marcelo Gleiser, George Coyne
Votes: 40
33. Secret Missions of the Civil War (2005 TV Movie)
120 min | Documentary, History, War
Two hour special on "secret" missions during the Civil War including The Great Locomotive Chase, Mosby's Raid on Fairfax, and the Attempted Burning of New York City.
Director: Darryl Rehr | Stars: David Ackroyd, Ulf Bjorlin, Allen Brenner, Mike Brown
Votes: 14
34. The Pea Ridge Campaign of 1862 (2021)
29 min | Documentary, Short
A documentary about the American Civil War Battle of Pea Ridge.
35. Bismarck 1862-1898 (1927)
History
Director: Kurt Blachy | Stars: Franz Ludwig, Robert Leffler, Erna Morena, Ralph Ludwig
Votes: 8
36. Stuart's South to North Crossing 150th Anniversary Adventure (2011 Video)
76 min | Documentary, Adventure, History
Stars: Frankie J. Holden, Michelle Pettigrove
37. Shiloh: Grant's Trial in the West (1987 Video Game)
History, War
Turn-based strategy game based on the U.S. Civil War battle fought in Tennessee in April 1862.
39.
The Wednesday Play (1964–1970)
Episode:
Alice
(1965)
72 min | Drama
Written for THE WEDNESDAY PLAY (1964-70), which the BBC retitled PLAY FOR TODAY in 1970, ALICE has the earliest airdate (10/13/65) of the Potter productions to survive on tape. After THE ... See full summary »
Director: Gareth Davies | Stars: George Baker, Deborah Watling, Rosalie Crutchley, David Langton
Votes: 48
40.
BattleField Detectives (2003– )
Episode:
Civil War: Battle of Antietam
(2004)
Documentary, History, War
Forensic historians investigate the Battle of Antietam to determine how if could become the deadliest day in American history. They find a combination of new deadlier weapons and close combat on variable terrain were major factors.
Stars: Shaun C. Grenan, Kevin R. Hershberger, Dan C. Johnson, Eric U. Lowman
Votes: 10
41.
BattleField Detectives (2003– )
Episode:
Civil War: Shiloh
(2006)
Documentary, History, War
BattleField Detectives challenges the conventional wisdom the the Confederate surprise attack at Shiloh failed due to the death of their commander, Albert Sidney Johnson, and the delay in ... See full summary »
Stars: Mike Brown, John Neely, Russ Richards
Votes: 14
42.
Friday the 13th: The Series (1987–1990)
Episode:
Eye of Death
(1989)
TV-MA | 46 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
A devious antiques dealer uses a magic lantern to travel back to the Civil War so he can steal artifacts from dead soldiers.
Director: Timothy Bond | Stars: John D. LeMay, Louise Robey, Chris Wiggins, Tom McCamus
Votes: 118
43.
Quantum Leap (1989–1993)
Episode:
The Leap Between the States - September 20, 1862
(1993)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Sam Beckett leaps into his great-grandfather during the Civil War and must not interfere with his great-grandparents meeting nor get captured behind Confederate lines.
Director: David Hemmings | Stars: Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell, Kate McNeil, Geoffrey Lower
Votes: 430
44.
Supernatural (2005–2020)
Episode:
Hook Man
(2005)
TV-14 | 41 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Sam and Dean investigate an age-old urban legend known only as the Hook-Man, the spirit of a 19th century pastor with a twisted sense of morals that is unknowingly being used as an innocent girl's attack dog.
Director: David Jackson | Stars: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Dan Butler, Jane McGregor
Votes: 7,081
45.
Man, Moment, Machine (2005–2007)
Episode:
Lincoln and the Flying Spying Machine
(2006)
Biography, History
Abraham Lincoln, a self taught President, uses new technology to help win the Civil War. He uses the hot air balloon, high above the battle fields, to relay information back to the troops ... See full summary »
Director: Michael McInerney | Stars: Hunter Ellis, Lisette Foster-Scott, Warren Saire, Riley J. Scott
46.
True Blood (2008–2014)
Episode:
Sparks Fly Out
(2008)
TV-MA | 55 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
After their encounter with the racist policeman, Sookie tells Bill that she won't be seeing him anymore. The next day, Bill keeps his promise to Sookie's grandmother, Adele 'Gran' ... See full summary »
Director: Daniel Minahan | Stars: Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Sam Trammell, Ryan Kwanten
Votes: 2,221
47.
Great Canadian Rivers (2001– )
Episode:
The Cowichan River
(2001)
Documentary
The Cowichan river flows for 47 kilometers from Lake Cowichan to the Pacific Ocean on the Island of Vancouver. It was opened up to non-native settlers in the mid-nineteenth century. Teaming... See full summary »
Director: Peter Findlay | Stars: David Aldcroft, Lawrence Bayne, Ray Billings, Ted Burns
48.
The American Civil War: A Pictorial History Through the Photographs of Mathew B. Brady (1959)
Episode:
Mr. Lincoln's Politics
(1959)
Documentary, History, War
Star: Allyn Edwards
49.
The American Civil War: A Pictorial History Through the Photographs of Mathew B. Brady (1959)
Episode:
Antietam 1862
(1959)
Documentary, History, War
Star: Allyn Edwards
50.
North and South, Book II (1986)
Episode:
July 1861 - Summer 1862
(1986)
95 min | Drama, History, Romance
The ebb and flow of war has begun with victories and defeats on both sides. Brett and Semiramis make it safely back to Mont Royal, after a dangerous encounter with Northern troops. When ... See full summary »
Director: Kevin Connor | Stars: Kirstie Alley, David Carradine, Philip Casnoff, Mary Crosby
Votes: 196