Bad Company (1972), Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown (1997), The Horse Soldiers (1959), The Red Badge of Courage (1951), The Leopard (1963), Gone with the Wind (1939), The Twilight Samurai (2002), Western Union (1941) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best 1860s movies.
Storyline: A young man evading the Civil War encounters a conniving drifter and his lawless gang after venturing into the West.
Plot Keywords: outlaw, soldier, farmer, con artist, sheriff, bleak, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The friendship of a loyal servant, Scotsman John Brown (Billy Connolly), revives the spirits of Britain's widowed Queen Victoria (Judi Dench).
Plot Keywords: prince of wales, servant, prime minister, queen victoria, heartwarming, passionate, touching ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A pacifist doctor (William Holden) joins a Union colonel's (John Wayne) cavalry raid in Confederate territory.
Plot Keywords: major, colonel, surgeon, southern belle, mistress, slave, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on Stephen Crane's novel of a young Union soldier panicked upon exposure to his first Civil War battle.
Plot Keywords: soldier, friend, military officer, enemy, general, intense, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the 1860s, a dying aristocracy struggles to maintain itself against a harsh Sicilian landscape. The film traces with a slow and deliberate rhythm the waning of the noble home of Fabrizio Corbero, Prince of Salina (the Leopard) and the corresponding rise to eminence of the enormously wealthy ex-peasant Don Calogero Sedara. The prince himself refuses to take active steps to halt the decline of his personal fortunes or to help build a new Sicily but his nephew Tancredi, Prince of Falconeri swims with the tide and assures his own position by marrying Don Calogero's beautiful daughter Angelica. The climatic scene is the sumptuous forty-minute ball, where Tancredi introduces Angelica to society.
Plot Keywords: prince, nephew, beautiful woman, mayor, soldier, wife, spectacular ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Scarlett is a woman who can deal with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, the carpetbaggers who arrive after the war. Scarlett is beautiful. She has vitality. But Ashley, the man she has wanted for so long, is going to marry his placid cousin, Melanie. Mammy warns Scarlett to behave herself at the party at Twelve Oaks. There is a new man there that day, the day the Civil War begins. Rhett Butler. Scarlett does not know he is in the room when she pleads with Ashley to choose her instead of Melanie.
Plot Keywords: ingénue, soldier, husband, cousin, slave, emotional, touching ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the 19th century a woman (Rie Miyazawa) helps a widowed samurai (Hiroyuki Sanada) who must kill a rebellious swordsman.
Plot Keywords: samurai, childhood sweetheart, daughter, sister, husband, mother, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An outlaw (Randolph Scott) joins an engineer's (Dean Jagger) crew stringing telegraph line from Omaha to Salt Lake City.
Plot Keywords: brother, engineer, bank robber, scout, native american, tense, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood) makes his way west after the Civil War, determined to live a useful and helpful life. He joins up with a group of settlers who need the protection that a man as tough and experienced as he is can provide. Unfortunately, the past has a way of catching up with you, and Josey is a wanted man.
Plot Keywords: gunslinger, native american, grandchild, grandmother, captain, settler, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After a long three-year absence, the battle-scarred Confederate veteran of the American Civil War, Ethan Edwards, turns up on the remote and dusty Texan homestead of his brother, Aaron. In high hopes of finding peace, instead, the taciturn former soldier will embark on a treacherous five-year odyssey of retribution, when the ruthless Chief Scar's murderous Comanche raiding party massacre his family, burn the ranch to the ground and abduct his nine-year-old niece, Debbie. Driven by hatred of Indians, Ethan and his young companion, Martin Pawley, ride through the unforgiving desert to track down their lost Debbie; however, is the woman they lost and the prisoner in Scar's teepee still the same woman the searchers seek?
Plot Keywords: gunslinger, uncle, niece, brother, native american, powerful, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Fourteen years after starting his cattle ranch in Texas, Tom Dunston is finally ready to drive his 10,000 head of cattle to market. Back then Dunston, his sidekick Nadine Groot and a teen-aged boy, Matt Garth -who was the only survivor of an Indian attack on a wagon train - started off with only two head of cattle. The nearest market however is in Missouri, a 1000 miles away. Dunston is a hard task master demanding a great deal from the men who have signed up for the drive. Matt is a grown man now and fought in the Civil War. He has his own mind as well and he soon runs up against the stubborn Dunston who won't listen to advice from anyone. Soon, the men on the drive are taking sides and Matt ends up in charge with Dunston vowing to kill him.
Plot Keywords: rancher, cowboy, sidekick, cook, rousing, spirited, texas ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Shaw was an officer in the Federal Army during the American Civil War who volunteered to lead the first company of black soldiers. Shaw was forced to deal with the prejudices of both the enemy (who had orders to kill commanding officers of blacks), and of his own fellow officers.
Plot Keywords: soldier, military officer, friend, slave, gravedigger, gutsy, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 'Devi' focuses on a young woman who is deemed a goddess when her father-in-law, a rich feudal land-lord, has a dream envisioning her as an avatar of Kali.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: husband, wife, father, brother, nephew, sick person, solemn ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The four and 1/4 hour depiction of the historical and personal events surrounding and including the decisive American civil war battle features thousands of civil war re-enactors marching over the exact ground that the federal army and the army of North Virginia fought on. The defense of the Little Round Top and Pickett's Charge are highlighted in the actual three day battle which is surrounded by the speeches of the commanding officers and the personal reflections of the fighting men. Based upon the novel 'The Killer Angels'.
Plot Keywords: military officer, soldier, brutal, patriotic, spirited, pennsylvania, battlefield ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the god-forsaken district of early-1860's Lower Manhattan known as the Five Points, the vicious Nativist, Bill "The Butcher" Cutting, is the supreme overlord of an area riddled with crime, prostitution, theft and murder, as the American Civil War still rages on. Sixteen whole years after the brutal murder of his father from Bill's blood-stained hands, an orphaned Irish-American, Amsterdam Vallon, returns to this melting pot of corruption to avenge his untimely death; however, a lot has changed since then. Who can remember the once innocent boy and now a young man bent on revenge, who works his way up to the hierarchy of Five Points? Will Amsterdam ever taste the dangerous but sweet fruit of retribution?
Plot Keywords: butcher, immigrant, pickpocket, gang member, sheriff, love interest, dark ...
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