1850s Movies, Movies about 1850s

Here we've displayed a list of the best 1850s films : Django Unchained(2012), The Emigrants(1971), Westward the Women(1951), Camille(1936), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers(1954), Burn!(1969), The Iron Horse(1924), The Charge of the Light Brigade(1936), Third Man on the Mountain(1959), The Hanging Tree(1959), Madame Bovary(1949), Peter Ibbetson(1935) ... ...

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Django Unchained

With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

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The Emigrants

Småland, Sweden, mid-19th century. A farming family struggle with their rocky, unyielding land, and decide to embark on the arduous journey to new hope in America.

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Westward the Women

A trail guide escorts a group of women from Chicago to California to marry men that have recently began settling there.

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Camille

A Parisian courtesan must choose between the young man who loves her and the callous baron who wants her, even as her own health begins to fail.

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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

In 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too.

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Burn!

During a slave revolt in 1844, a British mercenary aids an Antilles island-colony gain its independence from Portugal but years later he returns there to manhunt a local rebel army leader and former friend.

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The Iron Horse

After witnessing the murder of his father by a renegade as a boy, the grown-up Brandon helps to realize his father's dream of a transcontinental railway.

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The Charge of the Light Brigade

A major countermands orders and attacks to avenge a previous massacre of men, women, and children.

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Third Man on the Mountain

A boy attempts to realize his father's dream of climbing an alpine peak known as the Citadel.

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The Hanging Tree

Character study of a Doctor who saves a local criminal from a mob who are trying to hang him, but then tries to control the life of the young man, realizing that he can exploit his secret.

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Madame Bovary

A provincial doctor's wife's romantic illusions about life and social status lead her to betray her naive husband, take on lovers and run up ruinous debts.

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Peter Ibbetson

A Victorian-era architect, commissioned by the Duke of Towers to design his stables, falls in love with the Duchess.

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The World in His Arms

In San Francisco in 1850, a Russian Countess runs away from an arranged marriage to a Russian Prince and falls into the arms of an American sea captain who occasionally poaches seals in Russian Alaska.

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In the Heart of the Sea

A recounting of a New England whaling ship's sinking by a giant whale in 1820, an experience that later inspired the great novel Moby-Dick.

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The Great Train Robbery

England, 1850s. A master criminal aims to rob a train of a large sum of gold. Security is incredibly tight and the task seems an impossible one. However, he has a plan and just the right people to carry it out.

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Canyon Passage

Businessman Logan Stuart is torn between his love of two very different women in 1850's Oregon and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line.

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Shipwrecked

A young Norwegian boy in 1850s England goes to work as a cabin boy and discovers some of his shipmates are actually pirates.

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Dimples

Dimples Appleby lives with the pick-pocket grandfather in 19th century New York City. She entertains the crowds while he works his racket. A rich lady makes it possible for the girl to go legit. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is performed.

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The Charge of the Light Brigade

In 1854, during the Crimean War, poor planning leads to the British Light Brigade openly charging a Russian artillery position with tragic consequences.

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The Homesman

Three women who have been driven mad by pioneer life are to be transported across the country by covered wagon by the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy, who in turn employs low-life drifter George Briggs to assist her.

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Paint Your Wagon

Two unlikely prospector partners share the same wife in a California gold rush mining town.

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Shine on Harvest Moon

The one time partnership between two men has turned into a full fledged range war. Roy is the son of one of the former partners, the heroine is daughter to the other. The film featured and ... See full summary »

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The Farmer Takes a Wife

Charming love story set on the Erie Canal in the mid-19th Century. A farmer works on the canal to earn money to buy a farm. He meets a cook on a canal boat, but she can't even consider ... See full summary »

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The Great Waltz

In 1845 Vienna, Johann Strauss II - Schani to his friends - would rather write and perform waltzes than anything else, this at a time when a waltz is not considered proper society music. ... See full summary »

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King of the Khyber Rifles

A half-caste British officer in 19th-century India battles the prejudices of both his Army colleagues and the local populace while trying to help put down a rebellion led by a greedy local ruler.

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The Personal History of David Copperfield

A modern take on Charles Dickens's classic tale of a young orphan who is able to triumph over many obstacles.

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The Bright Shawl

Charles Abbott is a wealthy adventurer in Cuba of the 1850s. He is in love with Narcissa but goes after La Clavel to obtain information on the Spanish. He becomes implicated in the death of... See full summary »

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The King Steps Out

Princess is destined to marry the Emperor, until her sister steps in.

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Kit Carson

Indian fighter, trapper and frontier scout Kit Carson leads a wagon train of settlers from Fort Bridger, along the Oregon Trail through Shoshone territory, to California which plans to secede from Mexico.

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His Majesty O'Keefe

A Yankee sea captain has adventures in paradise trying to become an entrepreneur in Micronesia.

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