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1. Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara (2023)
134 min | Drama, History
A Jewish boy is kidnapped and converted to Catholicism in 1858.
Director: Marco Bellocchio | Stars: Paolo Pierobon, Fausto Russo Alesi, Barbara Ronchi, Enea Sala
Votes: 2,790
2. 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: 28,874
3. Yojimbo (1961)
Not Rated | 110 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Eijirô Tôno, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yôko Tsukasa
Votes: 131,502
4. The Birth of a Nation (1915)
TV-PG | 195 min | Drama, History, War
The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper
Votes: 26,366 | Gross: $10.00M
5. Tracks (I) (2013)
PG-13 | 112 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
A young woman goes on a 1,700-mile trek across the deserts of West Australia with four camels and her faithful dog.
Director: John Curran | Stars: Mia Wasikowska, Adam Driver, Lily Pearl, Philip Dodd
Votes: 31,757 | Gross: $0.51M
6. Eiffel (2021)
R | 108 min | Biography, Drama, History
The government is asking Eiffel to design something spectacular for the 1889 Paris World Fair, but Eiffel simply wants to design the subway. Suddenly, everything changes when Eiffel crosses paths with a mysterious woman from Arun's past.
Director: Martin Bourboulon | Stars: Romain Duris, Emma Mackey, Pierre Deladonchamps, Armande Boulanger
Votes: 7,582
7. Drum (1976)
R | 110 min | Action, Drama
A mid-19th-century mulatto slave is torn between his success as a pit-fighter and the injustices of white society.
Directors: Steve Carver, Burt Kennedy | Stars: Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Ken Norton, Pam Grier
Votes: 1,061
8. Scrooge (1970)
G | 113 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
A musical retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about an old bitter miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.
Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, Edith Evans, Kenneth More
Votes: 12,588 | Gross: $3.70M
9. Wake of the Red Witch (1948)
Approved | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
During the 1860s in the South Pacific, Capt. Ralls, skipper of the Red Witch, has a series of adventures involving sunken gold bullion, pearls, natives, an unscrupulous ship owner and a giant octopus.
Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: John Wayne, Gail Russell, Gig Young, Adele Mara
Votes: 2,944
10. The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)
Not Rated | 90 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Having escaped execution and assumed an alias, Baron Frankenstein transplants his deformed underling's brain into a perfect body, but the result proves to be mortally perilous.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews, Eunice Gayson, Michael Gwynn
Votes: 6,129
11. Band of Angels (1957)
Passed | 125 min | Drama
Amantha Starr grows up as a privileged Southern belle in the ante-bellum South, but after her father dies broke, her world is destroyed when she discovers that her mother was Black.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Clark Gable, Yvonne De Carlo, Sidney Poitier, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Votes: 2,630
12. The Leopard
60 min | Drama, History | Post-production
Based on the novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Stars: Francesco Colella, Astrid Meloni, Marcus Marcelli, Mario Patanè
13. Kansas Pacific (1953)
Approved | 73 min | Western
With the Civil War about to begin, Southern saboteurs attack frontier railroad construction.
Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Eve Miller, Barton MacLane, Harry Shannon
Votes: 805
14. Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
Approved | 110 min | Biography, Drama, History
Humble Abraham Lincoln gains the respect of his Illinois neighbors, growing in stature and respect until he is elected President in 1860 and departs for Washington.
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, Ruth Gordon, Mary Howard
Votes: 2,064
15. Arizona (1940)
Passed | 125 min | Drama, Western
In Tucson of the 1860s, a pioneer woman struggles to succeed in the freight and cattle business while at risk at the hands of corrupt and violent local businessmen and rampaging Indians.
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Jean Arthur, William Holden, Warren William, Porter Hall
Votes: 1,494
16. The Haunted Strangler (1958)
Approved | 78 min | Crime, Mystery, Horror
A researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier seemingly becomes possessed by the long-dead strangler.
Director: Robert Day | Stars: Boris Karloff, Anthony Dawson, Derek Birch, Dorothy Gordon
Votes: 2,047
17. A Day in the Country (1946)
Not Rated | 40 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn, where they spend the day.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Sylvia Bataille, Jane Marken, Georges D'Arnoux, André Gabriello
Votes: 7,113
18. 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
19. Adventures of Captain Fabian (1951)
Passed | 100 min | Adventure
A sea captain becomes involved with a servant girl in early New Orleans. She sees him as a way to gain access into wealthy households.
Directors: William Marshall, Robert Florey | Stars: Errol Flynn, Micheline Presle, Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead
Votes: 414
20. Tap Roots (1948)
TV-PG | 109 min | Drama, Romance, War
In 1860s Mississippi, the Dabneys, founders of the Dabney plantation in Levington, experience tragedy and turmoil when they refuse to join either side of the American Civil War.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Van Heflin, Susan Hayward, Boris Karloff, Julie London
Votes: 432
21. The Great Man's Lady (1941)
Passed | 90 min | Drama, Romance, Western
A 100-year-old pioneer woman tells her story in flashbacks.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Brian Donlevy, K.T. Stevens
Votes: 850
22. Emma: Queen of the South Seas (1988)
193 min | Drama
This two episode TV Mini Series is based on the story of Emma Eliza Coe, who in the second half of the nineteenth century she was known as the "Queen of the South Seas". Being the daughter ... See full summary »
Stars: Rebecca Rigg, Henk Johannes, Alfred Bell, Barbara Carrera
Votes: 82
23. Challenge to Lassie (1949)
G | 76 min | Drama, Family
When Lassie's master dies, an old friend tries to convince a judge that the dog's life should be spared.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp, Geraldine Brooks, Reginald Owen
Votes: 666
24. Snow on the Blades (2014)
119 min | Action, Drama, History
Shimura Kingo fails his duty to protect the life of the Shogun's chief minister, and spends his life tracking down the assassins. However, all but one of the assassins die before Kingo can reach them. Still, Kingo presses on.
Director: Setsurô Wakamatsu | Stars: Kiichi Nakai, Hiroshi Abe, Ryôko Hirosue, Masahiro Takashima
Votes: 272
25. The Son of Dr. Jekyll (1951)
Passed | 78 min | Crime, Horror, Romance
Edward Jekyll, ignorant of how his father had brought forth death and destruction with his experiments, is pursuing a chemist career despite the fact that he has been discharged from school... See full summary »
Director: Seymour Friedman | Stars: Louis Hayward, Jody Lawrance, Alexander Knox, Lester Matthews
Votes: 380
26. Hungry Hill (1947)
92 min | Drama
Story of a feud that has gone on between two Irish families for more than 50 years.
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst | Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Dennis Price, Cecil Parker, Dermot Walsh
Votes: 595
27. Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner (1949)
Approved | 10 min | Short, Sport
This entry of Screen Snapshots travels to Las Vegas, Nevada, and Ralph Staub visits and talks to many Hollywood notables as they arrive at the famed gambling city and vacation at a ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: Ralph Staub, Clara Bow, Rex Bell, Roy Rogers
Votes: 8
28. Gesuzza the Garibaldian Wife (1933)
75 min | Drama, History
The story is the harried attempt of a Sicilian partisan, as part of the risorgimento, to reach Garibaldi's headquarters in Northern Italy, and to petition the revered revolutionary to ... See full synopsis »
Director: Alessandro Blasetti | Stars: Giuseppe Gulino, Aida Bellia, Gianfranco Giachetti, Mario Ferrari
Votes: 255
29. Football: A Brief History by Alfie Allen (2017)
124 min | Documentary, History, Sport
Alfie Allen tracks the history of modern football from its Medieval roots to its current form today, which is played around the world.
Stars: Alfie Allen, Daniel Portman, Sol Campbell, Jake Humphrey
Votes: 34
30. Napoli 1860: La fine dei Borboni (1970 TV Movie)
Drama
Director: Alessandro Blasetti | Stars: Regina Bianchi, Bruno Cirino, Fulvio Gelato, Giancarlo Sbragia
31. On the Track of Burke and Wills (2011 Video)
108 min | Documentary, Adventure, Biography
This video traces the route of the ill-fated expedition of Burke and Wills from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria. The journey, in 1860, took them to Swan Hill, Menindee, Cooper Creek to... See full summary »
Stars: John McCullough, Vic Widman, Barb Arnold, Bill Arnold
32. Light in the West: Photographers of the American Frontier 1860-1880 (1980)
58 min | Documentary
When photography was in its infancy, the American West was still a frontier; and, for a period of about fifty years, the two interacted in a complex and fascinating way. Dramatic subject ... See full summary »
Director: Ray Witlin
34. The Ragged Thieves (1955 TV Movie)
Drama, Family
Stars: Gladys Young, Michael Aldridge, Powys Thomas, Kenneth Haigh
35. Otevrený kruh (1973 TV Movie)
88 min | Biography, Drama
The last decades of the life of the now world-renowned painter Karel Purkyne and his struggle for the possibility of creative expression. After studying in Paris, he returned to Prague. He ... See full summary »
Director: Marie Polednáková | Stars: Ludek Munzar, Karel Höger, Jana Hlavácová, Hana Maciuchová
36. L'extravagant Capitaine Smith (1957 TV Movie)
Comedy
Director: Philippe Ducrest | Stars: Teddy Bilis, Pierre Derome, Eveline Eyfel, Jacques Harden
37.
The Aunty Jack Show (1972–1973)
Episode:
The Aunty Jack Family Show
(1972)
30 min | Comedy
Today's theme is "Family", but will we learn about Aunty Jack's?
Director: Maurice Murphy | Stars: Grahame Bond, John Derum, Rory O'Donoghue, Sandra McGregor
38.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003)
Episode:
Becoming: Part 1
(1998)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Angel plots to revive an ancient demon bent on sweeping everything on earth into hell itself.
Director: Joss Whedon | Stars: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Charisma Carpenter
Votes: 4,352
39.
Explorers (1975)
Episode:
The Story of Burke and Wills
(1975)
53 min
The Royal Society of the Colony of Victoria chose Robert O'Hara Burke to explore the centre of Australia.
Director: Antony Armstrong-Jones Snowdon | Stars: David Attenborough, John Bell, John Cuffe, Tim Elliott
40.
Pony Express (1959– )
Episode:
The Last Mile
(1960)
30 min | Western
When Arapaho Indians threaten his section of the Pony Express line, Clark volunteers to ride the most dangerous part and finds himself saddled with an unwanted companion, a pretty brunette ... See full summary »
Director: Franklin Adreon | Stars: Grant Sullivan, Madlyn Rhue, Robert Brubaker, Hugh Sanders
41.
Wild West Tech (2003–2005)
Episode:
Gold Rush Tech
(2004)
TV-PG | 45 min | Documentary, History, Western
Examines the technology used during the gold rush, namely the evolving of mining tools, as pumps, drills, elevators or cables
Director: Amy Huggins | Stars: Keith Carradine, James A.E. Fuentez, Rick Groat, Frank Lorey
Votes: 7
42.
Drunk History (2013–2019)
Episode:
Derek Waters' Believe It or Not
(2019)
TV-MA | 21 min | Comedy, History
Larry lifts off in a weather balloon propelled lawn chair. Phineas Gage survives a metal rod through his brain to become a sideshow. A ghost helps convict a man of murder.
Director: Derek Waters | Stars: Derek Waters, Doug Anthony Jones, Allan McLeod, Jennie Pierson
Votes: 72
43.
Dates That Made History (2017–2020)
Episode:
Sacking of the Summer Palace in Beijing (October 1860 A.D.)
(2020)
TV-PG | 26 min | Documentary, History
Three Chinese emperors- Qianlong Emperor, Kangxi Emperor, Yongzheng Emperor, were responsible for creating Yuanmingyuan. In the mid-19th century, the palatial grounds were targeted by British and French forces bent on total destruction.
Director: Juliette Garcias | Stars: Patrick Boucheron, Pierre Singaravélou
44.
Nick Knowles: Original Home Restoration (2014)
Episode:
Resourcefull Ratcliffes
(2014)
43 min | Reality-TV
The Radcliffes are renovating their home that used to be an 1860 schoolhouse. Step one is to find the hidden fireplace. Then there's months of do it yourself work to do. They chose ... See full summary »
Stars: Nick Knowles, Martin Miller, Andy Ratcliffe, Emme Ratcliffe
45.
Pony Express (1959– )
Episode:
Message from New Orleans
(1959)
30 min | Western
Curious as to why a gorgeous Southern belle would travel all the way from Louisiana to Julesburg to meet Kit Dennison, one of his young riders, Clark searches for back issues of the New ... See full summary »
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Grant Sullivan, Don Dorrell, Bethel Leslie, Stephen Bekassy
46.
Lock 'N Load with R. Lee Ermey (2009– )
Episode:
Pistols
(2009)
TV-PG | 45 min | Documentary, History, War
Gunny gets up close and personal because in this episode he follows the development of the pistol starting with the muzzle loaders in 1500. And for some of these guns, like the duck foot ... See full summary »
Director: French Horwitz | Stars: R. Lee Ermey, Anthony De Longis, Ines Rosales
Votes: 25
47.
TopTenz (2010– )
Episode:
10 Lies You're Told About American Slavery
(2017)
11 min | Documentary
Since slavery is black blot on the reputation of the United States and a brutal practice it stands to reason that there would be a substantial revisionist history effort on the subject as ... See full summary »
Star: Simon Whistler
48.
Lock 'N Load with R. Lee Ermey (2009– )
Episode:
Rifle
(2009)
TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary, History, War
Gunny tries out the rifles of various eras that faced each other in battle to discover the advantages and disadvantages of each. With each pair Gunny explains the improvements that made the new rifles superior to previous weapons.
Stars: Gary Archer, R. Lee Ermey, Phil Spangenberger
Votes: 19
49.
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (2011–2014)
Episode:
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: The Murder at Road Hill House
(2011)
TV-14 | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Based on true events. Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Jack Whicher is sent to rural Wiltshire to investigate the horrific murder of a three-year-old boy.
Director: James Hawes | Stars: Paddy Considine, Peter Capaldi, Tom Georgeson, William Beck
Votes: 2,474
50.
Pawn Stars (2009– )
Episode:
Honest Abe
(2010)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Reality-TV
A customer brings in a goofy looking, three-wheeled, 1960's, electric car but the Old Man loves it. More surprising, when a customer brings in a pair of Air Jordan's Chumlee turns out to be... See full summary »
Director: Jairus Cobb | Stars: Corey Harrison, Richard Harrison, Rick Harrison, Austin 'Chumlee' Russell
Votes: 58