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3) Lincoln
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
A revealing drama that focuses on the 16th president's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country, and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.
4) The colt
Pub. Date
2005
Description
In 1864, the First Michigan Cavalry is stranded in a Virginia forest, when a colt is born to a beloved mare. When the horses are stolen, one of troopers, Jim, chases them and gets lost. Honoring the Confederate Reb's last wish sparks in Jim a remarkable honor and duty toward enlightenment and untold danger.
5) The beguiled
Pub. Date
[2017]
Formats
Description
At a girls' school in Virginia during the Civil War, where the young women have been sheltered from the outside world, a wounded Union soldier is taken in. Soon, the house is taken over with sexual tensions, rivalries, and an unexpected turn of events.
" ... A hothouse flower of startling power and intimacy. You can't shake it."--Rolling Stone.
"The performances are engrossing, particularly Kidman's ..."--Associated Press.
"Kirsten Dunst is terrific...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Alexandria, Virginia, 1862. The lives of two volunteer nurses on opposing sides of the Civil War--Mary Phinney, a staunch New England abolitionist, and Emma Green, a native Confederate belle--collide at Mansion House, the Green family's luxury hotel that has been transformed into a Union Army hospital. Ruled under martial law, the border town in Alexandria is now the melting pot of the region, filled with soldiers, civilians, female volunteers, doctors,...
7) Grant
Description
The dramatized mini-series examines Grant's life story using his perspective and experiences to explore a turbulent time in history: the Civil War and Reconstruction.
8) Kill Cavalry
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Follows General Hugh Judson "Kill Cavalry" Kilpatrick as he sets out to eliminate a Southern general during the Civil War.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain left behind a quiet life and a career as a college professor to fight for the Union. Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was a man of great religious faith who served in the defense of the Confederacy. And Gen. Robert E. Lee, who led the Confederate army, was a man who was forced to choose between his loyalty to the United States and his love of the Southern states where he was born and raised. As Chamberlain, Jackson,...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Cullen Bohannon, a former soldier and slaveholder, follows the track of Union soldiers, who killed his wife. This brings him to the middle of one of the biggest projects in US history, the building of the railroad. After the war years in the 1860s, this connected the east with the still wild west.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
For a few dollars: Two bounty hunters join forces to capture an outlaw gang leader.
The good, the bad and the ugly: The "Man With No Name" teams with two...
13) The Love Letter
Series
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
When Scotty discovers a poignant letter written by a mysterious woman called Lizzie he cannot get her out of his mind. Putting thoughts of his upcoming wedding aside, he is compelled to write Lizzie a letter of his own. A romantic correspondence ensues and flourishes into a love so powerful, not even a century and a half of time can keep them apart. Spanning an era from the Civil War to the present day, the perils of Lizzie's war torn present threaten...
14) Beulah land
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
This mini-series centers around the Kendrick family, owners of Beulah Land, and those connected to the plantation by history and fate. It follows Beulah Land from its height of spendor through its destruction in the Civil War and to its rebuilding.
17) Cold Mountain
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Description
In the waning days of the American Civil War, Inman, a wounded Conferate soldier leaves the hospital where he is recuperating and embarks on a perilous journey back home to Cold Mountain, North Carolina to reunite with Ada, the woman he left behind. Deserters like Inman are considered traitors and are ordered to be killed by the home-guards, ruthless vigilantes who also prey upon those who did not fight, torturing and killing families of Confederate...
18) Union bound
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Based on the amazing true story of Joseph Hoover, a Union Soldier who was captured and then aided by slaves on his journey back to the Union and to freedom
19) Lincoln
Pub. Date
2013
Description
A revealing drama that focuses on the 16th President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Two brothers, Phil and Ted Stoneman, visit their friends in Piedmont, South Carolina: the family Cameron. This friendship is affected by the Civil War, as the Stonemans and the Camerons must join up opposite armies. The consequences of the War in their lives are shown in connection to major historical events, like the development of the Civil War itself, Lincoln's assassination, and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.
A Civil War spectacular. Portrays...