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The Private History of a Campaign That Failed (1981)
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The Private History of a Campaign That Failed (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Mark Twain tale of cowardly Confederate soldiers.
Plot: civil war, american civil war, soldier, u.s. civil war, confederacy, cowardice, accomplice, confederate soldier, mark twain
Place: missouri

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, realistic, serious and captivating films with plots about civil war, american civil war, soldier, family relations, battles, confederacy and horse mostly in Drama, Comedy and War genres. Some movies like The Private History of a Campaign That Failed: Point of Honor (2015), Across Five Aprils (1990), The Red Badge of Courage (1974), Class of '61 (1993), Sword of Trust (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Point of Honor (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min.
Story: At the start of the Civil War, a prominent Virginia family makes the controversial decision to defend the South while freeing all of their slaves, pitting the family against one another and testing their strength, courage and love.
Style: captivating, stylized, tense, serious, historical drama ...
Plot: american civil war, civil war, family relations, parents and children, family problems, soldier, siblings relations, military
Time: 19th century
Place: usa, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Across Five Aprils (1990)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Story: Jethro Creighton (Todd Duffey) is a young man of nine years from Southern Illinois who is growing up during the outbreak of the American Civil War. Helping his father farm is all he really knows. This makes things difficult when his kin fights for ...
Style: independent film
Plot: civil war, american civil war, confederacy, death, brother brother relationship, soldier, union, slavery, battles, family relations, dialect
Place: illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Red Badge of Courage (1974)
Genre: Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: During the Civil War, a young man enthusiastically joins the Union army thirsting to find glory and honor, but his first battle opens his eyes to reality.....
Plot: american civil war, civil war, battles, woods, cannon, confederate soldier, union soldier, corpse, flashback, horse, taunting, young soldier ...
Time: 1800s
Place: virginia
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Class of '61 (1993)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: 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.
Style: historical drama
Plot: american civil war, civil war, generation, coming of age, shootout, woods, fight for freedom, confederate army, american soldier, accomplice, battles, combat ...
Time: 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Sword of Trust (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When Cynthia and Mary show up to collect Cynthia's inheritance from her deceased grandfather, the only item she's received is an antique sword that he believed to be proof that the South won the Civil War.
Style: semi serious, captivating, psychological, satirical, thrilling ...
Plot: pawnshop, sword, inheritance, relic hunter, investigation, antique shop, antique dealer, satire, private investigation, relic, confederacy, civil war ...
Place: tennessee, birmingham alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Le Harem de Madame Osmane (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Spain, Morocco
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In Algiers in 1993, while the civil war is starting, Mrs Osmane's tenants have to endure her bad temper. Her husband left her and the fear to lose her respectability haunt her. The former member of the Resistance during the Independence War ...
Plot: lgbt, matriarchy, mother daughter relationship, women's rights, soldier, husband wife relationship, wedding party, male nudity, biology teacher, bigamist, engagement, tattoo ...
Time: 90s
Place: algeria
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
No More Excuses (1968)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min.
Story: A bizarre portrait of the New York singles scene.
Plot: interview, soldier, underground, american civil war, vietnam war, chimpanzee, animal, nudity, assassination of president, surrealism
Place: manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The life of an aging black slave, Tom, and the people he interacts with.
Plot: slavery, civil war, african american, american civil war, human exploitation, blaxploitation, black, american culture
Time: victorian era
Place: kentucky, louisiana, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
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This Savage Land (1969)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Shortly after the Civil War, Kansas homesteaders are harrassed by Confederate marauders.
Plot: civil war, grandparents, civil war veteran, shootout, american civil war, marauder, accomplice, violence, pistol, u.s. civil war, death of wife, post civil war ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Through the eyes of a British "documentary", this film takes a satirically humorous, and sometimes frightening, look at the history of an America where the South won the Civil War.
Style: mockumentary, satirical, disturbing, political, independent film ...
Plot: racism, civil war, american civil war, politics, alternate history, satire, interracial relations, slavery, journalism, injustice, political unrest, discrimination ...
Time: year 1912
Place: canada, south america, japan, washington d.c., south africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Crazy Like a Fox (2004)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: This is the story of Nat Banks, an 8th generation Virginian gentleman farmer living in the past, who loses his family farm, Greenwood, to a pair of land speculators from Washington, D.C. When the predatory couple manipulates a "legal" real ...
Style: humorous, feel good, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot: righting the wronged, rivalry, save the day, fighting the system, culture clash, screwball, heroes, society, good versus evil, buddies, friendship, interracial relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: virginia, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A rivalry is brewing between the soldiers at an otherwise tranquil Army base and the civilians of a nearby Southern town. With good intentions, Col. Flanders tries to keep the piece and uses Brian Keith to work community relations. However, peace is ...
Style: dark comedy, political, independent film
Plot: army vs civilians, small town, soldier, satire, military base, tank, arrest, sergeant, dance, militia, hitchhiking
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Copperhead (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A family is torn apart during the American Civil War.
Style: realistic, tense, touching, serious, captivating
Plot: american civil war, anti war, family life, society, life is a bitch, farm, civil war, danger, relationships, intrigue, family relations, wartime life
Time: 19th century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
The Lincoln Conspiracy (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Speculative Sunn Classics chestnut detailing a wide-ranging government conspiracy to murder the 16th American President and the subsequent cover up and escape of his killers.
Style: independent film
Plot: abraham lincoln, civil war, usa president, american civil war, u.s. president, paranormal phenomena, actor, alternate history, assassination, usa history, treason, killer ...
Time: 1860s, 19th century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Journey to Shiloh (1968)
Genre: Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: At the beginning of the Civil War, seven friends embark on a cross-country journey in order to join the Confederate army.
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, captivating, atmospheric
Plot: american civil war, civil war, lonely, iconoclastic, battles, war, heroes, soldier, buddies, society, rivalry, military ...
Time: 19th century
Place: tennessee, texas, usa, mississippi, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Blood and Honor (2000)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 273 min.
Story: No overview found.
Plot: civil war, american civil war, paraplegic, sister sister relationship, suicide, suffocation, murder, rape
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Field of Lost Shoes (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: 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.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense, touching
Plot: american civil war, military, civil war, battles, teenage life, danger, youth, friendship, battlefield, soldier, bare chested male, u.s. civil war ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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California (1977)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story: At the end of the Civil War, a Union soldier is released from prison and travels with a fellow prisoner to Missouri where his travelling companion is shot and hung for horse stealing. California decides to take the dead companion's belongings ...
Style: spaghetti western, euro western
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 87 min.
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Style: independent film
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Beulah Land (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 281 min.
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Story: This sweeping epic dramatized the lives of two Georgia families during the early-to-mid 1800s: the Kendricks, who resided on the Beulah Land plantation, and the Davises, who owned the Oaks plantation. Both families loved, prospered and lost during ...
Plot: plantation, american civil war, civil war, black, dysfunctional family, slavery, southern belle, brother, family disapproval
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In the year 1870 Rome, then governed by the Pope, was captured by the Italian General La Marmora's troops. After the armistice, the Italian soldier Alfonso killed a Pope's soldier, the son of Don Prospero. Then he sought refuge in the ...
Plot: soldier, war for independence, italian history, vatican, italian army, italian soldier
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Duration: 80 min.
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Style: realistic, serious, touching, sincere, exciting
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Genre: Drama, Western, War
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Duration: 94 min.
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