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*[[The Blue and the Gray (miniseries)|The Blue and the Gray]] (1982) [[made-for-television|Made-for-television]] series, starring John Hammond, [[Stacy Keach]], [[Lloyd Bridges]], and [[Gregory Peck]] as President [[Abraham Lincoln]]. |
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*[[The Shadow Riders (film)|''The Shadow Riders'']] (1982) [[made for television film]], starring [[Tom Selleck]] and [[Sam Elliott]] |
*[[The Shadow Riders (film)|''The Shadow Riders'']] (1982) [[made for television film]], starring [[Tom Selleck]] and [[Sam Elliott]] |
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*''[[Glory (1989 film)|Glory]]'' (1989), drama, starring [[Matthew Broderick]] and [[Denzel Washington]], about the African-American [[54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry]] |
*''[[Glory (1989 film)|Glory]]'' (1989), drama, starring [[Matthew Broderick]] and [[Denzel Washington]], about the African-American [[54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry]] |
Revision as of 14:41, 20 November 2013
Films about the war
Before 1920
- Barbara Frietchie: The Story of a Patriotic American Woman (1908)
- The Guerrilla (1908)
- The Fugitive (1910)
- The House with Closed Shutters (1910)
- In the Border States (1910)
- The Battle (1911), directed by D.W. Griffith
- His Trust Fulfilled (1911)
- Railroad Raiders of '62 (1911)
- Swords and Hearts (1911)
- For Her Sake (1911)
- Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight (1912)
- The Informer (1912)
- The Lie (1912)
- The Seventh Son (1912)
- The Battle of Gettysburg (1913)
- The Battle of Shiloh (1913)
- The Price of Victory (1913)
- The Seed of the Fathers (1913)
- Dan (1914)
- The Sleeping Sentinel (1914)
- Barbara Frietchie (1915)
- The Birth of a Nation (1915), also known as The Clansmen, controversial film directed by D.W. Griffith
- Colonel Carter of Cartersville (1915)
- The Coward (1915)
- According to the Code (1916)
- Her Father's Son (1916)
- Naked Hearts (1916)
- The Sting of Victory (1916)
- The Blood of His Fathers (1917)
- The Field of Honor (1917)
- The Lincoln Cycle (1917)
- The Spreading Dawn (1917)
- Hearts of Love (1918)
- The Last Rebel (1918)
- Morgan's Raiders (1918)
- The Scarlet Drop (1918)
- The Son of Democracy (1918)
- Miss Dulcie from Dixie (1918)
- Hay Foot, Straw Foot (1919)
- Secret Service (1919)
1920s
- The Copperhead (1920)
- Held by the Enemy (1920)
- Hitchin' Posts (1920)
- The Kentucky Colonel (1920)
- The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1920)
- The Highest Law (1921)
- Johnny Ring and the Captain's Sword (1921)
- Grandma's Boy (1922)
- Barbara Frietchie (1924)
- The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln (1924)
- The Warrens of Virginia (1924)
- Hands Up! (1926)
- The General (1927), film by Buster Keaton about The Great Locomotive Chase
- The Heart of Maryland (1927)
- Court-Martial (1928)
- Morgan's Last Raid (1929)
- The Overland Telegraph (1929)
1930s
- Only the Brave (1930)
- Abraham Lincoln (1930)
- Little Women (1933, 1949, 1978, 1994), adaptations of the book written by Louisa May Alcott
- Operator 13 (1934)
- The Littlest Rebel (1935), starring Shirley Temple
- So Red the Rose (1935)
- Uncivil Warriors (1935), a comedy starring The Three Stooges
- The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936), a film about alleged Lincoln assassination co-conspirator Samuel Mudd
- General Spanky (1936), a comedy starring Our Gang.
- Hearts in Bondage (1936)
- Trailin' West (1936)
- Under Southern Stars (1937)
- Western Gold (1937)
- John Ericsson - segraren vid Hampton Roads (1937), film about the inventor of the USS Monitor, John Ericsson
- Strange Glory (1938)
- Lincoln in the White House (1939)
- The Arizona Kid (1939)
- Gone with the Wind (1939), romance starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable, featuring life before and after the Battle of Atlanta
1940s
- Colorado (1940)
- Dark Command (1940)
- Santa Fe Trail (1940), drama starring Errol Flynn about the life of J.E.B. Stuart
- Swanee River (1940), a biopic about American composer Stephen Foster
- Belle Starr (1941)
- They Died With Their Boots On (1941), biopic about General George Custer
- Oklahoma Raiders (1944)
- Raiders of Ghost City (1944)
- Uncivil War Birds (1946), a Three Stooges film
- Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)
- A Southern Yankee (1948), comedy
- Tap Roots (1948), drama
1950s
- The Outriders (1950)
- Rocky Mountain (1950)
- Two Flags West (1950)
- The Last Outpost (1951)
- The Red Badge of Courage (1951), adapted from the novel by Stephen Crane
- Red Mountain (1951)
- The Redhead and the Cowboy (1951)
- Silver Canyon (1951)
- I Dream of Jeanie (1952), remake of Swanee River
- Springfield Rifle (1952)
- Escape from Fort Bravo (1953)
- Kansas Pacific (1953)
- Rebel City (1953)
- The Raid (1954), loosely based on the St. Albans Raid
- A Time Out of War (1954)
- The Battle of Gettysburg (1955), documentary
- Five Guns West (1955)
- Yellowneck (1955)
- Friendly Persuasion (1956), Palme d'Or-winning film starring Gary Cooper
- The Great Locomotive Chase (1956), second film about The Great Locomotive Chase
- Band of Angels (1957)
- Raintree County (1957)
- The True Story of the Civil War (1957), documentary
- The Horse Soldiers (1959), western, starring John Wayne, based on the Grierson's Raid in the Vicksburg Campaign and the Battle of Newton's Station
- The Jayhawkers! (1959)
1960s
- Mysterious Island (1961)
- How the West Was Won (1962)
- An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1962), French short film that won awards at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Awards
- Au coeur de la vie (1963)
- Johnny Shiloh (TV) (1963), "Disneyland" film about drummer boy John Clem
- Major Dundee (1965)
- Shenandoah (1965)
- Alvarez Kelly (1966)
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), western, directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood, that involves an encounter with both Union and Confederate forces
- A Time for Killing (1967)
- Journey to Shiloh (1968)
- The Undefeated (1969), western, starring John Wayne and Rock Hudson
1970s
- The Andersonville Trial (TV) (1971)
- The Beguiled (1971)
- The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), Clint Eastwood film about guerrilla warfare in Missouri
1980s and 1990s
- The Blue and the Gray (1982) Made-for-television series, starring John Hammond, Stacy Keach, Lloyd Bridges, and Gregory Peck as President Abraham Lincoln.
- The Shadow Riders (1982) made for television film, starring Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott
- Glory (1989), drama, starring Matthew Broderick and Denzel Washington, about the African-American 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
- Across Five Aprils (1990)
- Dances With Wolves (1990)
- Ironclads (1991), made-for-TV drama about the ironclad warships CSS Virginia and the USS Monitor, which clashed at the Battle of Hampton Roads
- Gettysburg (1993), war film featuring Tom Berenger and Jeff Daniels about the Battle of Gettysburg
- Ghost Brigade (1993)
- Sommersby (1993)
- Ozarks: Legacy and Legend (1995)
- Pharaoh's Army (1995)
- Andersonville (1996), television film about the notorious Andersonville prison camp
- The Tempest (1998), TV adaptation of the Shakespeare play set in the Civil War
- The Hunley (TV) (1999), film about the Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley
- Ride with the Devil (1999), Ang Lee film about the guerrilla battles in Kansas and Missouri between the jayhawkers and the bushwhackers
2000s
- Wicked Spring (2002)
- Gangs of New York (2002), drama, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, about the New York Draft Riots
- The Miracle Men (2002)
- Gods and Generals (2003), prequel to Gettysburg and covers the battles of First Bull Run, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville
- Cold Mountain (2003), drama, starring Jude Law and Nicole Kidman, that features the Battle of the Crater and aftermath of the war
- C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2004), alternative history film which speculates what would happen had the South won the Civil War
- Dead Birds (2004)
- The Colt (2005), drama, starring Ryan Merriman, features Battle of the Wilderness
- Prairie Rose (2006)
- Freedom (2007)
- The Last Confederate: The Story of Robert Adams (2007)
- Sons of Virginia (2007)
- Dog Jack (2009)
2010s
- The Conspirator (2010)
- Lincoln (2012), starring Daniel Day-Lewis, covering the last few months of the war
- War Flowers (2012)
- Copperhead (2013)
- Saving Lincoln (2013)
- The Keeping Room (2014)
Television shows and miniseries
- The Americans (1961), TV series
- Roots (1977)
- The Blue and the Gray (1982), TV miniseries
- Civil War Combat
- Grey Ghost
- North and South (Book I - November 3, 1985 Book II - May 4, 1986 Book III - February 27, 1994)
- Copper (2012) - portrays the 1864 Election Day sabotage
Documentaries
- The Battle of Gettysburg (1955)
- The Civil War (first broadcast on PBS from September 23 to Thursday, September 27, 1990)
- The Great Battles of the Civil War (TV series 1994)
- Gettysburg: 3 days of Destiny (2004)
- 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America (2006), TV, recounting the Battle of Antietam
- Aftershock: Beyond the Civil War (2006)
- Lincoln and Lee at Antietam: The Cost of Freedom (2006)
- Sherman's March (2007)
- Gettysburg (broadcast on History in 2011)