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American Civil War films

  • The Outlaw Josey WalesForrest Carter was the name on the 1972 novel that inspired this film. That name belonged to Asa Earl Carter, a former Ku Klux Klan leader and speechwriter…
  • The Good, the Bad and the UglyThe Good, the Bad and the Ugly arrived in Italian cinemas on the 23rd of December 1966, with a running time of 177 minutes and a budget of approximately $1.2…
  • Gone with the Wind (film)Gone with the Wind premiered on the 15th of December 1939, and on that single night, roughly 300,000 people packed the streets of Atlanta for seven miles…
  • The Beguiled (1971 film)The Beguiled arrived in theaters on the 28th of May 1971, a film so strange and unsettling that Universal Pictures struggled to figure out what to do with it.
  • Cold Mountain (film)In 1997, United Artists purchased the rights to Charles Frazier's bestselling novel for Anthony Minghella to write and direct.
  • Free State of Jones (film)The year 1863 marked a turning point in Jones County, Mississippi. Confederate soldiers seized crops and livestock from struggling neighbors who were already…
  • Gods and Generals (film)Ted Turner personally financed the 2003 film Gods and Generals after Warner Bros. Pictures rejected his initial pitch in 2000.
  • The Birth of a NationThe Birth of a Nation arrived in American theaters in 1915 and immediately changed what cinema could do. D. W. Griffith directed this silent epic, and within…
  • Shenandoah (film)Shenandoah, the 1965 film starring James Stewart, opens on a Virginia farm in 1864 where a stubborn patriarch named Charlie Anderson has done everything in…
  • The General (1926 film)The General, released in 1926, was Buster Keaton's most ambitious film and, at the time, his most catastrophic financial disappointment.
  • Glory (1989 film)Kevin Jarre stood in Room 421 of the Gramercy Park Hotel during a few weeks in 1988. He wrote the screenplay for Glory on spec while staring at the Robert…
  • Lincoln (film)In the freezing air of January 1865, President Abraham Lincoln stands in a dimly lit room within the White House. He stares at a map of Virginia while his…
  • The Horse SoldiersIn April 1863, Colonel Benjamin Grierson led 1,700 Illinois and Iowa soldiers from La Grange, Tennessee. They traveled several hundred miles through enemy…
  • The Red Badge of Courage (1951 film)The Red Badge of Courage, the 1951 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer war film directed by John Huston, arrived in theaters having already survived a war of its own.