Union soldier movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant union soldier movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, period drama, period piece, suspense and suspenseful films and TV shows about / with union soldier, american civil war, civil war, soldier, u.s. civil war, confederate soldier, military, gun, horse and battles plots mostly in Drama, War and Western genres shot in USA, Italy, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as union soldier: Cold Mountain (2003), The Beguiled (2017), Seraphim Falls (2006), The Red Badge of Courage (1974), Union Bound (2016), A Rebel Born (2019), Mysterious Island (2010), The Shadow Riders (1982), Love (2011), The Beguiled (1971).
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List of union soldier movies
163K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, Italy, Romania
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he left behind ...
Style:
romantic, sincere, epic, sexy, period piece ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
american civil war, love story, survival, civil war, tragic love, lovers reunited, slavery, tragic romance, loss of family member, star crossed lovers, getting home, loss of loved one ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 1860s, year 2003 ...
Place:
north carolina, usa, south carolina, appalachia, charleston south carolina ...
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
During the Civil War, at a Southern girls’ boarding school, young women take in an injured enemy soldier. As they provide refuge and tend to his wounds, the house is taken over with sexual tension and dangerous rivalries, and taboos are broken in ...
Style:
sexy, gothic, suspense, period piece, costume drama ...
Plot:
union soldier, american civil war, wounded soldier, girl, sexual tension, sex scene, amputee, girls' school, teenage girl, murder, jealousy, seduction ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s, victorian era, year 2017, 2010s
Place:
virginia
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The Civil War has ended, but Colonel Morsman Carver is on one final mission – to kill Gideon, no matter what it takes. Launched by a gunshot and propelled by rage, the relentless pursuit takes the two men through frigid snow-capped mountains and ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, suspense, intense, captivating ...
Plot:
wilderness, revenge, vengeance, chase, twists and turns, american civil war, desert, survival, justice, plot twist, colonel, union soldier ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s
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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.....
Style:
bleak, reflective, historical drama, melancholic
Audience:
adult
Plot:
american civil war, civil war, union soldier, courage, loss of innocence, war trauma, coming of age, frustration, u.s. civil war, male protagonist, moral ambiguity, violence ...
Time:
1860s, 19th century, 1800s
Place:
virginia
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Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
He went to war to free slaves but in the end was freed by them.
Style:
tense, emotional, inspirational, bleak
Audience:
adult
Plot:
slavery, civil war, prisoner of war camp, escape, union soldier, oppression, pow, biopic, bravery, survival, courage, patriotism ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
southern usa, america
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Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A Rebel Born follows the life of Nathan Bedford Forrest, who was a brilliant and very controversial Confederate general in the War Between the States. Even now, more than 150 years after the end of the war, Forrest has remained surrounded in ...
Style:
epic, rough, factual, complex
Plot:
american civil war, musket, fight scenes, weapons, battles, battlefield, union soldier, warrior, army, war, courage, war violence ...
Time:
1860s
Place:
usa
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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, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, atmospheric ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
giant bird, sea disaster, escape, deadly creature, american civil war, monster, fantasy world, catastrophe, race against time, imaginary, escapades, runaway ...
Time:
1860s, 19th century, victorian era
Place:
fictional island, louisiana
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After starring in "The Sacketts", Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott team up again but this time as Mac and Dal Traven, in a movie based on a classic Louis L'Amour novel. They are brothers, who meet up at the end of the Civil War fighting on ...
Style:
retro, tense, realistic, serious, bleak
Plot:
kidnapping, civil war veteran, rescue, homecoming, train, brother brother relationship, marriage proposal, shootout, pursuit, woman in jeopardy, civil war, brothers ...
Time:
1860s, 19th century
Place:
texas, mexico
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9K
Genre: Drama, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
After losing contact with Earth, Astronaut Lee Miller becomes stranded in orbit alone aboard the International Space Station. As time passes and life support systems dwindle, Lee battles to maintain his sanity - and simply stay alive. His world is a ...
Style:
futuristic, thought provoking, psychological, mind bending, surreal ...
Plot:
isolation, trapped in space, astronaut, space travel, stranded, space, space and aliens, space station, losing-it hero, loneliness, journal, survival ...
Time:
future, 2030s, 2040s, 2010s, 1860s
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Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Offbeat Civil War drama in which a wounded Yankee soldier, after finding refuge in an isolated girls' school in the South towards the end of the war, becomes the object of the young women's sexual fantasies. The soldier manipulates the ...
Style:
sexual, period piece, gothic, suspense, psychosexual thriller ...
Plot:
civil war, american civil war, jealous woman, sexuality, looking for sex, revenge, incest, unrequited love, boarding school, seduction, obsession, manipulation ...
Time:
19th century, year 1971, 1860s, 1800s, 70s
Place:
mississippi, california
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
TV show
Story:
This lengthy docudrama records the harrowing conditions at the Confederacy's most notorious prisoner-of-war camp. The drama unfolds through the eyes of a company of Union soldiers captured at the Battle of Cold Harbor, VA, in June 1864, and ...
Style:
political, realistic, serious, captivating, bleak ...
Plot:
american civil war, civil war, military, pow, epic battle, rain, prison, u.s. civil war, american history, swamp, confederate army, confederate soldier ...
Time:
1800s, 19th century, 1860s
Place:
georgia, usa
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Genre: Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Union soldiers in search of food descend on the farm of a Confederate family and decide to stay until one in their ranks' wounds have healed. While the war weary Union captain (Chris Cooper) falls for the mother of the family (Patricia ...
Style:
period piece, independent film, realistic, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
civil war, american civil war, u.s. civil war, coming of age, iconoclastic, intrigue, farm, union soldier, society, military, army investigation, survival ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
kentucky, usa
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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:
costume drama, period piece, historical drama, suspense, sincere ...
Plot:
american civil war, military life, war injury, good deed, rivals, soldier, life is a bitch, saving a life, goodhearted, kindness, wounded soldier, ambulance ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1860s
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 254 min.
Story:
Summer 1863. The Confederacy pushes north into Pennsylvania. Union divisions converge to face them. The two great armies clash at Gettysburg, site of a theology school. For three days, through such legendary actions as Little Round Top and ...
Style:
epic, captivating, breathtaking, factual, intense ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
american civil war, military, war, battles, slavery, civil war, civil rights, independence, usa history, soldier, infantry, epic battle ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, 1860s
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, maryland
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153K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.
Style:
epic, inspirational, period piece, suspense, emotional ...
Plot:
american civil war, battles, civil war, military, slavery, prejudice, racism, war, black history, u.s. civil war, human spirit, african american ...
Time:
19th century, year 1989, 1800s, 1860s, 20th century ...
Place:
massachusetts, america, south carolina, georgia, africa ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 219 min.
Story:
The film centers mostly around the personal and professional life of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, a brilliant if eccentric Confederate general, from the outbreak of the American Civil War until its halfway point when Jackson is killed ...
Style:
serious, sincere, rough, costume drama, period piece ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
american civil war, military, confederate soldier, american history, civil war, epic battle, confederate army, battlefield, war hero, military life, u.s. civil war, social relations ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s
Place:
virginia, west virginia, maine, north america, america ...
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Genre: Drama, War, Western
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Near the end of the Civil War, imprisoned Confederate raider Giuliano Gemma is sent under guard to warn both his men and the Army at Fort Yuma that an impending rebel raid is really nothing but a ruse by scoundrels from both sides, in cahoots to ...
Style:
spaghetti western, perverse, euro western, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
civil war, american civil war, cowboy, betrayal, military base, captivity, old west, corrupt officer, military, dishonesty, heroes, save the day ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s
Place:
yuma arizona, arizona
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Inspired by the gripping true story of a man who would do anything for his family—and for freedom. When Peter, an enslaved man, risks his life to escape and return to his family, he embarks on a perilous journey of love and endurance.
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, psychological, psychological thriller, period drama ...
Plot:
black slave, slavery, lovers, slave, survival, runaway, problem, african american, alligator, guard dog, american south, epic battle ...
Time:
2020s, 1860s, 19th century
Place:
louisiana, usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A Chickasaw man survives great hardships and tragedy to establish a vast ranching empire along the famous cattle highway of the American West.
Style:
inspirational
Plot:
indians, american indian, slave trader, interracial marriage, black history, train, civil war, cattleman, civil rights, rancher, police brutality, interracial romance ...
Time:
1800s, 1860s, 19th century
Place:
oklahoma, florida
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Kentucky, 1861. Francis and Henry Mellon depend on each other to keep their unkempt estate afloat as winter encroaches. After Francis takes a casual fight too far, Henry ventures off in the night, leaving each of them to struggle through the wartime ...
Style:
mumblecore, period piece, independent film
Plot:
civil war, bride and groom, little girl, female nudity, baby, theft, department store, horse, con men, locked door, coffee, illiteracy ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s
Place:
kentucky
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA, China
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A Texan traveling across the wild West bringing the news of the world to local townspeople, agrees to help rescue a young girl who was kidnapped.
Style:
touching, period piece, perverse, road movie, suspense ...
Plot:
teaching the ways of the world, native american, civil war veteran, rescue, friendship, cowboy, runaway, american civil war, organized crime, mentor, hopes, civil war ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, 2020s, victorian era, 1870s ...
Place:
hawaii, usa, dallas texas, san antonio texas, texas
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Nat Turner, a former slave in America, leads a liberation movement in 1831 to free African-Americans in Virgina that results in a violent retaliation from whites.
Style:
factual, brutal, intense, emotional, stylized ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
slavery, preacher, civil war, rebellion, racism, violence, suffering, poverty, preaching, black slave, murder, rape ...
Time:
year 2016, 19th century, 2010s, georgian era
Place:
virginia, southern usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 57 min.
Story:
Ernest finds his old family album in the attic and discusses his family members from the album to his neighbor, Vern.
Style:
family comedy, light hearted, sentimental, retro, sitcom ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
reminiscence, storytelling, attic, memory, monologue, nostalgia, children, heartwarming, weirdo, satire, small town, identity ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A lone rider comes across a dying soldier, the victim of an Indian attack, who gives him a paper authorizing the payment of $150,000 to the U.S. Army. The rider gathers some colleagues who disguise themselves as soldiers and who take the paper to a ...
Style:
spaghetti western, euro western
Plot:
ambush, money, soldier, shooting, traitor, captain, native american attack, river battle, female prisoner, sergeant, bank robbery, fistfight ...
Place:
arizona
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15K
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, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
american civil war, civil war, vengeance, betrayal, revenge, gunfight, justice, brutality, redemption, colonel, unlikely friendships, old west ...
Time:
19th century, 20th century, year 1865, 1860s
Place:
texas, usa, ireland, new orleans
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
TV show
Story:
The continuing saga of the Hazards and the Mains. The Hazards are from the North and the Mains from the South. George Hazard and Orry Main met at West Point and fought in the Mexican American war together becoming fast friends. Now they find ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, family saga, patriotic ...
Plot:
american civil war, slavery, civil war, slave, u.s. civil war, confederate soldier, war hero, corporal punishment, cavalry, epic battle, military, black ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1860s
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
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:
intense, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, natural horror ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
giant bird, stranded, american civil war, desert island, island, castaway, submarine, survival, civil war, balloon, monster, ocean ...
Time:
19th century, 1900s, 1800s, year 1961, year 1865 ...
Place:
fictional island, pacific ocean, richmond virginia
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Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
As America recovers from the Civil War, one man tries to put the pieces of his life back together but finds himself fighting a new battle on the frontier. Cable is an embittered Confederate soldier who returns from the war to reclaim his Arizona ...
Style:
serious, realistic, bleak, wild
Plot:
american civil war, apache, wild west, modern western, modern west, last stand, war hero, confederate soldier, battles, homecoming, rivalry, soldier ...
Time:
year 1865
Place:
arizona, usa, texas, mexico
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A suave Mexican cattleman inadvertently gets involved in the Civil War.
Style:
retro, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
american civil war, civil war, military, kidnapping, cattle, colonel, chase, spying, cowboy, slavery, spy, drinking ...
Time:
19th century, year 1966, 1860s, 70s
Place:
virginia, usa, richmond virginia, mexico, texas ...
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
At the end of the Civil War, a major shipment of gold has been stolen and buried in the desert. Only one man knows the whereabouts of gold and the army sends captain Matt Martin to arrest him and come back with the gold. Martin, his prisoner and a ...
Style:
exciting, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
american civil war, civil war, treasure hunt, post civil war, buried treasure, greedy man, deal, prisoner, stolen gold, thirst, apache tribe, stash ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s, year 1865
Place:
texas, usa, arizona
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