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1) Gettysburg
Pub. Date
1993
Description
Civil War drama depicting the events and personal struggles of the Union and Confederate soldiers at the Battle of Gettysburg.
Description
Mac and Dal, two brothers who fought on opposite sides in the Civil War, return home to Texas to discover that their sisters and Dal's sweetheart have been kidnapped by rampaging Rebel guerrillas refusing to accept the defeat of the Confederacy. With the help of their notorious uncle, Mac and Dal must rescue the women before they can be sold into a Mexican brothel.
3) Shenandoah
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Description
The story of a man who is forced to examine his stand on the Civil War when he goes to rescue his son, who is being held prisoner.
4) Little Women
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Dramatisation of Louisa May Alcott's novel about the lives of the four March sisters during the American Civil War as they learn to navigate love, loss and the trials of growing up.
Pub. Date
©2001.
Description
Epic story covering a period in U.S. history from John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry in 1859 to the summer of 1865 following President Lincoln's death. Focuses on two related families living on either side of the Mason-Dixon line who find themselves at war with each other.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Lincoln : Reveals the political and personal struggles of President Lincoln as he guided the nation through the Civil War while confronting his own family tragedies. The colt: A newborn colt joins the First Michigan Cavalry's march into war as both an omen of good fortune and a reminder that some creatures are blessedly innocent to the careless ways of man.
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...
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
A Civil War spectacular. Portrays life in the South during and after the Civil War as revealed in a story depicting the war itself, the conflict between the defeated Southerners and emancipated renegade Negroes, the despoiling of the South during the carpetbagger period, and the revival of the Southern white man's honor through the efforts of the Ku Klux Klan.
Pub. Date
℗♭2009
Description
A faded photograph leads Natalie Jones to the bittersweet secrets of her late father's past-where horses run free, families are bound by honor, and true love really exists.
Angel in the family: Sisters reunite for Christmas and experience a miracle.
A Christmas visitor: A father is determined to bring his family back together to celebrate Christmas after the death of his son.
Ordinary miracles: A troubled teen goes to live with a judge whose life...
12) 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.
Series
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Gettysburg (254 min.): "... the gripping saga of the tactics, command errors and sacrifices behind the bloodiest battle ever fought on U.S. soil."--Container.
Gods and generals (219 min.): "... reveals the spirited allegiances and fierce combat of earlier Civil War struggles, framing its tale with the fateful clashes of Bull Run, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville."--Container.
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
[2024]
Description
Explores the lure of the Old West and how it was won, and lost, through the blood, sweat and tears of many. Spanning the four years of the Civil War, from 1861 to 1865, Kevin Costner's ambitious cinematic adventure will take audiences on an emotional journey across a country at war with itself, experienced through the lens of families, friends and foes all attempting to discover what it truly means to be the United States of America.
16) 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...
18) Pharaoh's Army
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Union soldiers in search of food descend on the farm of a Confederate family and decide to stay until a soldier's wounds heal. The Union Captain falls for the woman whose husband is off at war, while her son plots revenge on the Yankees.
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.
20) Glory
Description
Two idealistic young Bostonians lead the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, America's first Black regiment in the Civil War.
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