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

51. Scarlet Angel (1952)

Approved | 81 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Pursued by a sea captain, larcenous saloon queen Roxy McClanahan assumes the identity of a Civil War widow with wealthy relatives.

Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Rock Hudson, Yvonne De Carlo, Richard Denning, Whitfield Connor

Votes: 248

52. The Gal Who Took the West (1949)

Approved | 84 min | Western

In order to gain passage to the West, a woman poses as an opera singer, and causes a feud between two cousins.

Director: Frederick De Cordova | Stars: Yvonne De Carlo, Charles Coburn, Scott Brady, John Russell

Votes: 334

53. Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942)

Passed | 82 min | Western

In 1870s Montana, Wild Bill Hickok fights against injustices brought upon the settlers by a crooked land-developer aided by a dishonest sheriff and illegal land-grabbers.

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Constance Bennett, Bruce Cabot, Warren William, Betty Brewer

Votes: 214

54. To the Last Man (1933)

Passed | 74 min | Western

In Kentucky just after the Civil War, the Hayden-Colby feud leads to Jed Colby being sent to prison for 15 years for murder. The Haydens head for Nevada and when Colby gets out of prison he heads there also seeking revenge. The head of the Hayden family tries to avoid more killing but the inevitable showdown has to occur, complicated by Lynn Hayden and Ellen Colby's plans to marry.

Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Randolph Scott, Esther Ralston, Jack La Rue, Buster Crabbe

Votes: 677

55. 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: 329

56. Black Bart (1975 TV Movie)

25 min | Comedy, Crime, Western

Western spoof concerning the adventures of a black Sheriff and his fast-drawing sidekick fighting corruption and bigotry in the old west. Based on Blazing Saddles (1974).

Director: Robert Butler | Stars: Louis Gossett Jr., Millie Slavin, Noble Willingham, Steve Landesberg

Votes: 301

57. Seasons of Love (1999)

240 min | Drama

Thomas Linthorne is a farmer, who, with his bride, Kate, settles a parcel of untilled Midwestern farmland in 1866. Linthorne is a dynamic and driven man who eventually becomes a pillar of ... See full summary »

Stars: Peter Strauss, Rachel Ward, Rip Torn, John Finn

Votes: 101

58. Denver & Rio Grande (1952)

Passed | 89 min | Drama, Western

A romanticized history of the building of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad in the Colorado mountains.

Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Sterling Hayden, Dean Jagger, Kasey Rogers

Votes: 622

59. American Empire (1942)

Passed | 82 min | Western

Two men join forces to build a cattle empire, battle rustlers, bad weather and each other.

Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Richard Dix, Leo Carrillo, Preston Foster, Frances Gifford

Votes: 317

60. Best of the Badmen (1951)

Approved | 84 min | Western

The outlaws of the Clanton and Younger gangs are the heroes of this fictionalized biography.

Director: William D. Russell | Stars: Robert Ryan, Claire Trevor, Jack Buetel, Robert Preston

Votes: 701

61. Trail Street (1947)

Approved | 84 min | Western

Bat Masterson's old friend Billy Burns convinces him to become marshal of Liberal, Kansas and help the residents fight drought and a destructive range war.

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Randolph Scott, Robert Ryan, Anne Jeffreys, George 'Gabby' Hayes

Votes: 833

62. Rebel in Town (1956)

Approved | 99 min | Western

After the Civil War, five Confederates find trouble in a Yankee town when one of them accidentally shoots and kills a young local boy.

Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: John Payne, Ruth Roman, J. Carrol Naish, Ben Cooper

Votes: 412

63. Payment in Blood (1967)

R | 98 min | Drama, Western

A gunman joins up with a gang of Confederate guerrillas to find a cache of missing Confederate gold.

Director: Enzo G. Castellari | Stars: Edd Byrnes, Ennio Girolami, Luisa Baratto, Federico Boido

Votes: 354

64. 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: 271

65. Santiago (1956)

Not Rated | 93 min | Adventure, Romance

A gun runner, dishonorably discharged from the military, is swept deeper into a revolution in Cuba after he crosses paths with an enemy from the past and a beautiful revolutionary and her son.

Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Alan Ladd, Rossana Podestà, Lloyd Nolan, Chill Wills

Votes: 323

66. Wild Oranges (1924)

Passed | 88 min | Drama, Romance

Millie Stope lives with her grandfather on a remote island. Her grandfather fled there for political reasons. But they're not alone. An escaped prisoner, Nicholas, is terrorizing them, and ... See full summary »

Director: King Vidor | Stars: Frank Mayo, Virginia Valli, Ford Sterling, Nigel De Brulier

Votes: 568

67. Gentle Annie (1944)

Passed | 80 min | Western

In 1901, an undercover US Marshal is sent to Oklahoma Territory to investigate a string of train robberies and arrest the culprits.

Director: Andrew Marton | Stars: James Craig, Donna Reed, Marjorie Main, Harry Morgan

Votes: 376

68. Rainbow on the River (1936)

Approved | 87 min | Drama, Romance

A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in New York.

Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Bobby Breen, May Robson, Charles Butterworth, Alan Mowbray

Votes: 69

69. Buffalo Soldiers: Fighting on Two Fronts (2022)

61 min | Documentary, History

It tells the story of Buffalo Soldiers, the name given to African-American regiments who fought in the U.S. military in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Director: Dru Holley | Stars: Ayanna Berkshire, Darrell Millner, Quintard Taylor, Anthony L. Powell

Votes: 56

70. The Nebraskan (1953)

Approved | 68 min | Drama, Western

Trying to make peace with the Nebraska Sioux leads frontier scout Wade Harper through many perils.

Director: Fred F. Sears | Stars: Philip Carey, Roberta Haynes, Wallace Ford, Richard Webb

Votes: 283

71. Cattle Town (1952)

Approved | 71 min | Western

Post-civil-war Texas sells lands to wealthy Northerners but some of them are crooks bent on cheating the locals, prompting an investigation headed by the governor's envoy.

Director: Noel M. Smith | Stars: Dennis Morgan, Philip Carey, Amanda Blake, Rita Moreno

Votes: 223

72. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: Billy the Kid (2011)

TV-PG | 53 min | Documentary, Biography, History

On April 28, 1881, just days from being hanged for murder, 21-year-old Henry McCarty, alias Billy the Kid, outfoxed his jailors and electrified the nation with the last in a long line of daring escapes.

Director: John Maggio | Stars: Michael Murphy, Hampton Sides, Denise Chávez, Michael Wallis

Votes: 106

73. American Entrepreneurial Genius (2016)
Episode: 1872 - 1888 (2016)

History

In Program 5, the economy comes out of the Civil War with the beginning of a consumer economy and product branding.