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1. Django Unchained (2012)
R | 165 min | Comedy, Drama, Western
With the help of a German bounty-hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal plantation owner in Mississippi.
Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington
Votes: 1,703,811 | Gross: $162.81M
2. The Good Lord Bird (2020)
TV-MA | 48 min | Comedy, Drama, War
Ethan Hawke stars as abolitionist John Brown in this series based on the novel. "Onion" is a fictional enslaved boy who becomes a member of Brown's family of abolitionist soldiers and finds himself in the 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry.
Stars: Ethan Hawke, Hubert Point-Du Jour, Beau Knapp, Nick Eversman
Votes: 7,450
3. Queen (1993)
TV-14 | 282 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The son of a plantation owner has a daughter named Queen, with a slave. As Queen grows, she is faced with the struggle of trying to fit in with the troubled world around her.
Stars: Ann-Margret, Patricia Clarkson, Tim Daly, Ossie Davis
Votes: 1,730
4. The Love Letter (1998 TV Movie)
Unrated | 99 min | Fantasy, Romance
20th century computer games designer Scott exchanges love letters with 19th century poet Elizabeth Whitcomb through an antique desk that can make letters travel through time.
Director: Dan Curtis | Stars: Campbell Scott, Jennifer Jason Leigh, David Dukes, Estelle Parsons
Votes: 2,392
5. Jones Plantation (2023)
110 min | Drama
You can control a man with brute violence but you can never truly OWN a man until he's convinced that your word is law, and obedience is a virtue. A film destined to be a cult classic, and at the forefront of American Dissident Cinema.
Director: Andrew Treglia | Stars: Maurice Johnson, Lee Gaulman, J.J. Green, Jay T. Rockwell
Votes: 405
6. The Europeans (1979)
90 min | Drama, Romance
It's the fall of 1850, a few miles outside Boston. The household of the dour Mr. Wentworth receives two unannounced visitors from Europe, Eugenia and Felix, the daughter and son of his half... See full summary »
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Lee Remick, Robin Ellis, Wesley Addy, Tim Choate
Votes: 1,153
7. The St. Francisville Experiment (2000)
PG-13 | 79 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Four young people spend a night in a haunted mansion.
Director: Ted Nicolaou | Stars: Madison Charap, Troy Taylor, Ryan Larson, P.J. Palmer
Votes: 1,751
8. Man and Boy (1971)
G | 98 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
After the Civil War, a black ex-union soldier, his wife, and his son settle in Arizona Territory to homestead and build their lives. At first, Caleb Revers race doesn't seem to matter, but then things change.
Director: E.W. Swackhamer | Stars: Bill Cosby, Gloria Foster, Leif Erickson, George Spell
Votes: 208
9. Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad (1994 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, History
A number of slaves risk their lives to escape their masters with their only help coming from the famous secret slave escape network.
Director: Don McBrearty | Stars: Falconer Abraham, Dwight Bacquie, Janet Bailey, Nigel Bennett
Votes: 191
10. Way Down South (1939)
Passed | 61 min | Action, Music
In the pre-Civil War South, a plantation owner dies and leaves all his possessions, including his slaves, to his young son. While the deceased treated his slaves decently, his corrupt ... See full summary »
Directors: Leslie Goodwins, Bernard Vorhaus | Stars: Bobby Breen, Alan Mowbray, Ralph Morgan, Steffi Duna
Votes: 256
11. Code Noir (II)
Drama | Pre-production
A girl born into slavery in antebellum Louisiana fakes mental illness to avoid being sold away from her family.
Director: Richard Marks | Stars: Nana Gbewonyo, Thokozile Musonda, Thian Sykes, Jackson Nicholson
12. The Grip of Jealousy (1916)
50 min | Drama
In pre-Civil War days, a woman dies in childbirth. Her sister, believing the child to be illegitimate, leaves the baby in care of one of her sister's slaves.
Director: Joseph De Grasse | Stars: Louise Lovely, Lon Chaney, Grace Thompson, Jay Belasco
13. Cailloux (2020)
35 min | Documentary, Short
The American Civil War was a time of great unrest and uncertainty. Nowhere was this more apparent than in the lives of free people of color in New Orleans. As they watched their rights ... See full summary »
Director: Dane Moreton
14. Cameo Kirby (1914)
Passed | 50 min | Action, Drama, Romance
"Cameo" Kirby, so called because of his fondness for cameos, is the son of a New Orleans plantation owner who dies insolvent. When the plantation and slaves are sold at auction, Cameo's ... See full summary »
Director: Oscar Apfel | Stars: Dustin Farnum, Winifred Kingston, James Neill, Fred Montague
Votes: 17
15. The Bride of Hate (1917)
50 min | Drama, History
Dr. Dudley Duprez is a well-known Louisiana physician. His beautiful but wayward niece, Rose Duprez, is abducted by Paul Crenshaw, a friend of the doctor, and to prevent her shame from ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Edwards | Stars: Frank Keenan, Margery Wilson, Jerome Storm, David Hartford
16. The Old South (1940)
11 min | Short, History
Chronicle of the importance of cotton to the economy and culture of the American South.
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: George Lynn, Frank Whitbeck
Votes: 163
17. Ghosts of Cumberland Gap
Drama, Horror, Thriller | Post-production
A lonely young girl is sent to live with her cold-hearted aunt in the middle of nowhere, where she discovers some family secrets are better left buried - literally.
Director: A.J. Rose | Stars: Anna Swiney, Wendy Potter, Anita Rose, Tim Story
18. Wessyngton Plantation: A Family's Road to Freedom (2014 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 29 min | History
In 1796, Joseph Washington, a distant relative of our first president, purchased sixty acres in Middle Tennessee for tobacco farming. Eventually covering 13,000 acres, Wessyngton Plantation... See full summary »
Director: Ed Jones
19. Old Natchez on the Mississippi (1939)
9 min | Documentary, Short, Music
This Traveltalks short focuses on the city's preservation of the architecture, apparel, and customs of the antebellum South.
Stars: James A. FitzPatrick, Aunt Jenny, Uncle Mose, Uncle Ned
Votes: 50
20.
Voyagers! (1982–1983)
Episode:
Created Equal
(1982)
TV-G | 49 min | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Arriving in ancient Rome, Phineas and Jeffrey must save the slave Spartacus so that he can lead the revolt in Capra. They also meet a young Sam Clemens and help Harriet Tubman escape.
Director: Virgil W. Vogel | Stars: Jon-Erik Hexum, Meeno Peluce, Ed Bakey, Leigh Hamilton
Votes: 71
21.
The Styxhexenhammer666 Channel (2010– )
Episode:
Refuting Direct Democracy
(2017)
12 min | News
Star: Styxhexenhammer666