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List of american civil war movies

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My Brother's War (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Civil War drama directed by Whitney Hamilton. Grace Kieler disguises herself as a man and takes her brother's place in the Confederate army in an effort to protect him from the horrors of the war. When she meets young war widow Virginia ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, atmospheric, independent film
Plot: american civil war, soldier, politics, battles, wartime life, rivalry, life is a bitch, society, religions or cults, civil war, friendship, brother sister relationship ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: baltimore
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 5.6
 451
Saving Lincoln (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The almost entirely true story of Abraham 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 ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, stylized
Plot: american civil war, civil war, head of state, state affairs, danger, friendship, historical event, abraham lincoln, death of son, assassination plot, storytelling, biopic ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s, year 1958
Place: usa, washington d.c.
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The Supernaturals (1986)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Nichelle Nichols is an army sergeant who leads her platoon into the woods of the deep south on a training exercise. Unfortunately, it is the site where a bunch of yankee soldiers murdered a town of confederates. The corpses of the dead soldiers rise ...
Style: retro, spooky, independent film, slasher, scary ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zombie, american civil war, civil war, supernatural being, deep south, confederate soldier, murder, reincarnation, ghost, military, supernatural, battles ...
Time: year 1986, future, 19th century, 1860s
Place: alabama, usa
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 6.6
 1K
The Hunley (1999)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: CSS Hunley tells the incredible true story of the crew of the manually propelled submarine CSS Hunley, during the siege of Charleston of 1864. It is a story of heroism in the face of adversity, the Hunley being the first submersible to sink an enemy ...
Style: captivating, touching, serious, realistic
Plot: submarine, american civil war, civil war, american history, underwater, sea, yacht, water, usa history, boat, politics, navy ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, 1860s, year 1995
Place: charleston south carolina, south carolina
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 7.3
 1K
Morning Star (1991)
Genre: Biography, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 187 min.
TV show
Story: The story of George Custer, Crazy Horse and the events prior to the battle of the Little Bighorn, told from the different perspectives of two women.
Style: historical drama, serious, realistic, sincere, epic
Plot: american indian, native american, sioux tribe, cavalry, american civil war, usa history, wild west, buffalo, racism, adoption, genocide, wartime life ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s, 1870s
Place: montana
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 8.4
 19K
Roots (1977)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 588 min.
TV show
Story: African teen Kunta Kinte, brought to America to be enslaved, and the generations of his family.
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, uplifting, suspense ...
Plot: slavery, racism, civil war, american civil war, family history, human spirit, slave trade, african american, american south, escape attempt, black, justice ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century, 1800s, 20th century, 1860s ...
Place: africa, usa, america, tennessee
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 5.6
 3K
Badland (2019)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Detective Matthias Breecher, hired to track down the worst of the Confederate war criminals, roams the Old West seeking justice. His resolve is tested when he meets a determined pioneer woman who is far more than she seems.
Style: rough, tense, suspenseful, brutal, dark ...
Plot: american civil war, civil war, gunslinger, chase, notoriety, sheriff, heroes, gunfight, veteran, morality, escape, fight ...
Time: 19th century
Place: usa
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 6.1
 608
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
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 5.3
 170
Dog Jack (2010)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: "Dog Jack" is the story of a slave boy and his dog who escape the master's plantation, join the union army, and have to face their former master on the battlefield. The story is inspired by the historical true-life adventures of the ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, uplifting, bleak ...
Plot: american civil war, military, soldier, heroes, civil war, slave, plantation, dog, military enlistment, teenage boy, scout, black ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania
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 6.6
 2K
True Women (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 183 min.
TV show
Story: True Women is a sweeping saga of love, war and adventure. Spanning five decades from the Texas Revolution through the Civil War, Reconstruction and beyond, True Women is the story of the love, friendship, survival and triumphs
Style: period piece, costume drama, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot: american civil war, civil war, indian chief, female protagonist, american history, woman, emancipation, femme fatale, black, woman with a gun, woman power, civil rights ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s, 1840s, 1850s, 1830s ...
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
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The Last Confederate: The Story of Robert Adams (2005)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Amid the bitter divisiveness of the Civil War, Confederate Capt. Robert Adams (Julian Adams) feels the rift within his soul. Steadfastly loyal to the South, Adams also holds an unshakable love for his Northerner wife, Eveline McCord (Gwendolyn ...
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, romantic, saga
Plot: civil war, battles, wartime life, love affair, true love, society, heroes, military, love and romance, supportive spouse, prison escape, american civil war ...
Time: 19th century
Place: south carolina, southern usa
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 6.7
 30K
Harriet (2019)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History
Country: China, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The story of Harriet Tubman, who helped free hundreds of slaves from the South after escaping from slavery herself in 1849.
Style: thought provoking, costume drama, tense, historical drama, political ...
Audience: adult
Plot: african american, slavery, black history, american civil war, female protagonist, freedom, female warrior, black, black woman, biopic, civil war, resistance fighter ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 2010s, year 2019
Place: southern usa, philadelphia, baltimore, south carolina, new york ...
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Mysterious Island (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A cinematic adaptation of Jules Verne's 1874 novel "The Mysterious Island", the story begins during the American Civil War, as famine and death ravage the city of Richmond, Virginia. Five northern POWs make the decision to escape the ...
Style: intense, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, scenic ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: giant bird, beast, sea disaster, american civil war, survival, race against time, monster, escapades, union soldier, catastrophe, fantasy world, deadly creature ...
Time: 1860s, 19th century, victorian era
Place: fictional island
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 6.7
 14K
Rio Lobo (1970)
Genre: Drama, War, Western
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 114 min.
Story: After the Civil War, Cord McNally searches for the traitor whose perfidy caused the defeat of McNally's unit and the loss of a close friend.
Style: harsh, serious, realistic, tense, rough ...
Plot: american civil war, civil war, betrayal, vengeance, gunfight, revenge, justice, brutality, redemption, colonel, unlikely friendships, old west ...
Time: 19th century, 20th century, year 1865, 1860s
Place: texas, usa
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Heaven & Hell: North & South, Book III (1994)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 273 min.
TV show
Story: Civil War has just finished, but things in the country aren't much better, especially in the South. The final installment in John Jakes trilogy of the Civil War. It focuses on the Reconstruction period and the continuing saga of the Hazards ...
Style: patriotic, saga, realistic, serious, family saga
Plot: american civil war, civil war, patriot, black history, time machine, war hero, battlefield, love triangle, old west, military life, friendship, vengeance ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s, victorian era
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Alex Haley's Queen (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 282 min.
TV show
Story: A plantation owner's son falls in love with a slave named Easter and together they have a Mixed race daughter named Queen. As Queen grows up, she faces the struggle of trying to fit into the troubled world around her. She tries passing for ...
Style: gothic, costume drama, heartbreaking, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: slavery, civil war, biracial, interracial romance, white male black female relationship, american civil war, african american, miscegenation, black, family relations, interracial, women ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s
Place: southern usa
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 6.3
 23K
Sommersby (1993)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Set in the south of the United States just after the Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without her husband Jack, believed killed in the Civil War. By all accounts, Jack Sommersby was not a pleasant man, thus when he ...
Style: romantic, touching, psychological, sentimental, suspenseful ...
Plot: mistaken identity, husband wife relationship, village life, love, american civil war, civil war, courtroom drama, war, war veteran, suspicion of murder, haunted by the past, civil war veteran ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s, 50s, year 1993, victorian era
Place: tennessee, southern usa, usa
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 5.9
 2K
Emperor (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An escaped slave travels north and has chance encounters with Frederick Douglass and John Brown. Based on the life story of Shields Green.
Style: disturbing, realistic, touching, serious, captivating ...
Plot: slavery, plantation, american civil war, rebellion, african american, battles, freedom, equality, chase, militia, family relations, fight ...
Place: maryland, new york, charleston south carolina
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How the West Was Won (1962)
Genre: Adventure, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 164 min.
Story: The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.
Style: exciting, epic, intense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: old west, native american, civil war, wilderness, american civil war, gold, usa history, outlaw, small town, attempted murder, cowboy, survival ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, year 1962, year 1865, victorian era ...
Place: california, arizona, missouri, ohio, usa ...
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The Andersonville Trial (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: A dramatization of the 1865 war-crimes trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of the notorious Confederate POW camp at Andersonville, Georgia.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, thought provoking, disturbing ...
Plot: american civil war, civil war, military, lawyer, american politics, time machine, courtroom, legal action, legal, prison, injustice, power relations ...
Time: 1800s, 19th century, year 1865, 1860s
Place: georgia, usa
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American Confederate (2019)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A look at a group of Union and Confederate cavalry from late 1862 until the end of the Civil War in 1865.
Style: captivating, psychological
Plot: american civil war, civil war, military, battles, wartime, fight, american soldier, war hero, historical event, war, soldier, shooting ...
Time: 1860s
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 7.5
 3K
Mercy Street (2016)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 53 min.
TV show
Story: Follows the lives of two volunteer nurses on opposing sides of the Civil War - New England abolitionist Mary Phinney and Confederate supporter Emma Green. Based on true stories and set in a Union hospital in the occupied Confederate city of ...
Style: historical drama, psychological, tense, sincere, suspense ...
Plot: american civil war, nurse, military life, doctor, ambulance, showdown, rivals, war, life is a bitch, wounded, female soldier, physician ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1860s
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Exit Humanity (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A decade after the American Civil War, Edward Young returns home from a hunting trip to find a horrific reanimation of his wife and that their son Adam has disappeared. He must battle his way through an unexplainable outbreak of the walking dead.
Style: suspense, serious, rough, bleak, tense ...
Plot: zombie, supernatural, survival, obsessive quest, life turned upside down, civil war, chaos, escapades, danger, life is a bitch, good versus evil, american civil war ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s
Place: usa, tennessee
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Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Six people are lured into a small Deep South town for a Centennial celebration where the residents proceed to kill them one by one as revenge for the town's destruction during the Civil War.
Style: slasher, grindhouse, scary, disturbing, bloody ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: small town, vengeance, maniac, murder, gory, american civil war, exploitation, redneck, macabre, brutality, mayor, sadism ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: florida, southern usa
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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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Mysterious Island (1961)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by giant plants and animals. They must use their ingenuity to survive the dangers, and to devise a way to return home. Sequel to ...
Style: exciting, intense, suspenseful, suspense, retro ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: stranded, giant bird, american civil war, island, submarine, survival, civil war, castaway, ocean, monster, balloon, giant monster ...
Time: 19th century, 1900s, 1800s, year 1961, year 1865 ...
Place: fictional island, pacific ocean
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 5.6
 195
Civil Love (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Rachel is a widow during the Civil War who holds the South responsible for her husband's death. When a wounded enemy soldier takes refuge in her barn, Rachel reluctantly helps him. As she gets to know him more, she realizes she must protect him ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, captivating, independent film
Plot: american civil war, family relations, fall in love, wartime life, hopes, soldier, life is a bitch, love and romance, hapless soldier, parents and children, farm, strong female presence ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century
Place: usa
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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
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 7.5
 11K
Copper (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Kevin Corcoran is a rugged young Irish immigrant policeman trying to keep the peace in the historical Five Points neighborhood in 1860s New York City while searching for information on the disappearance of his wife and death of his daughter.
Style: serious, atmospheric, stylized, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: law enforcement, fighting crime, gunfight, american civil war, power struggle, ex military, society, priest, african american, racial slur, black american, corruption ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, victorian era, 1860s
Place: usa, manhattan new york city, new york
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Alvarez Kelly (1966)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A suave Mexican cattleman inadvertently gets involved in the Civil War.
Style: retro, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Plot: american civil war, civil war, military, kidnapping, chase, colonel, cattle, spying, cowboy, spy, slavery, wine ...
Time: 19th century, year 1966, 1860s
Place: virginia, usa, mexico
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