Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "reconstruction-era"

1. Deadwood (2004–2006)

TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, History

A show set in the late 1800s, revolving around the characters of Deadwood, South Dakota; a town of deep corruption and crime.

Stars: Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane, Molly Parker, Brad Dourif

Votes: 117,645

2. Gone with the Wind (1939)

Passed | 238 min | Drama, Romance, War

A sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.

Directors: Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood | Stars: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Thomas Mitchell, Barbara O'Neil

Votes: 334,293 | Gross: $198.68M

3. Hell on Wheels (2011–2016)

TV-14 | 42 min | Drama, Western

The Civil War is past, but former Confederate soldier Cullen Bohannon can't put it behind him. Fresh are the memories of the death of his wife, killed at the hands of Union soldiers, an act that sets him on a course of revenge.

Stars: Anson Mount, Colm Meaney, Robin McLeavy, Phil Burke

Votes: 55,763

4. Wagon Train (1957–1965)

TV-PG | 75 min | Western

Stories of the journeys of a wagon train as it leaves post-Civil War Missouri on its way to California through the plains, deserts, and Rocky Mountains.

Stars: Frank McGrath, Terry Wilson, Robert Horton, John McIntire

Votes: 3,752

5. Billy the Kid (2022– )

TV-MA | 49 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

An epic romantic adventure based on the life of Billy the Kid, from his humble Irish roots and his early days as a cowboy and gunslinger in the American frontier, to his pivotal role in the Lincoln County War and beyond.

Stars: Tom Blyth, Daniel Webber, Shaun Benson, Sean Owen Roberts

Votes: 7,237

6. Roots (1977)

TV-14 | 74 min | Biography, Drama, History

A dramatization of author Alex Haley's family line from ancestor Kunta Kinte's enslavement to his descendants' liberation.

Stars: LeVar Burton, Robert Reed, John Amos, Louis Gossett Jr.

Votes: 18,880

7. The Big Valley (1965–1969)

TV-PG | 60 min | Western

The Wild West adventures of the Barkley family in California's San Joaquin Valley.

Stars: Richard Long, Peter Breck, Lee Majors, Linda Evans

Votes: 3,543

8. The Birth of a Nation (1915)

TV-PG | 195 min | Drama, History, War

The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.

Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper

Votes: 26,340 | Gross: $10.00M

9. Old Yeller (1957)

Approved | 83 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

A teenage boy grows to love a stray yellow dog while helping his mother and younger brother run their Texas homestead while their father is away on a cattle drive. First thought to be good-for-nothing mutt, Old Yeller is soon beloved by all.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Dorothy McGuire, Fess Parker, Tommy Kirk, Jeff York

Votes: 15,166 | Gross: $21.91M

10. Song of the South (1946)

G | 94 min | Animation, Comedy, Family

The kindly story-teller Uncle Remus tells a young boy stories about trickster Br'er Rabbit, who outwits Br'er Fox and slow-witted Br'er Bear.

Directors: Harve Foster, Wilfred Jackson | Stars: Ruth Warrick, Bobby Driscoll, James Baskett, Luana Patten

Votes: 15,230 | Gross: $63.72M

11. Copper (2012–2013)

TV-MA | 42 min | Action, Drama

In the 1860s, an Irish-American Civil War veteran joins the New York City police force.

Stars: Tom Weston-Jones, Kyle Schmid, Anastasia Griffith, Ato Essandoh

Votes: 11,024

12. Scarlett (1994)

PG-13 | 90 min | Drama, Romance

In this long-awaited sequel to Gone With the Wind, Scarlett's flight from the scrutiny of Atlanta society takes her on a journey to Savannah, Charleston, England, and Ireland, where she discovers her family's roots.

Stars: Joanne Whalley, Timothy Dalton, Annabeth Gish, Julie Harris

Votes: 3,397

13. The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981)

PG | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The sole surviving Texas Ranger (Klinton Spilsbury) of an ambush arranged by outlaw leader Major Bartholomew "Butch" Cavendish (Christopher Lloyd) returns to fight back as a great masked western hero, The Lone Ranger.

Director: William A. Fraker | Stars: Klinton Spilsbury, Michael Horse, Christopher Lloyd, Matt Clark

Votes: 2,518 | Gross: $12.62M

14. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 110 min | Drama, History

Story of a black woman in the South who was born into slavery in the 1850s and lives to become a part of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

Director: John Korty | Stars: Cicely Tyson, Eric Brown, Richard Dysart, Joel Fluellen

Votes: 2,498

15. Best of the Badmen (1951)

Approved | 84 min | Western

The outlaws of the Clanton and Younger gangs are the heroes of this fictionalized biography.

Director: William D. Russell | Stars: Robert Ryan, Claire Trevor, Jack Buetel, Robert Preston

Votes: 698

16. El Paso (1949)

Approved | 103 min | Western

In El Paso, lawyer and ex-Confederate captain Clay Fletcher forms a vigilante group to bring law and order to a town where the judge is a drunk, the sheriff is corrupt and the town is run by a crooked landowner.

Director: Lewis R. Foster | Stars: John Payne, Gail Russell, Sterling Hayden, George 'Gabby' Hayes

Votes: 454

17. Judge Priest (1934)

Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Judge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, uses common sense and considerable humanity to dispense justice in a small town in the Post-Bellum Kentucky.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Will Rogers, Tom Brown, Anita Louise, Henry B. Walthall

Votes: 2,520

18. American Empire (1942)

Passed | 82 min | Western

Two men join forces to build a cattle empire, battle rustlers, bad weather and each other.

Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Richard Dix, Leo Carrillo, Preston Foster, Frances Gifford

Votes: 313

19. Mother Carey's Chickens (1938)

Approved | 82 min | Drama, Romance

An 1890s widow has two daughters and two sons. The daughters fall in love with the same gentleman.

Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Anne Shirley, Ruby Keeler, James Ellison, Fay Bainter

Votes: 340

20. San Antone Ambush (1949)

Approved | 60 min | Drama, Western

Following the Civil War, Federal Comissioner Shattuck has organized a gang to help him ride roughshod over the Texans. They rob a U. S. Army payroll wagon, kill the cavalry escort, make off... See full summary »

Director: Philip Ford | Stars: Monte Hale, Bette Daniels, Paul Hurst, Roy Barcroft

Votes: 30

21. Movies of Color: Black Southern Cinema (2002 Video)

55 min | Documentary

Film scholars discuss movies made by and for Blacks in the segregated America of the first half of the 20th century.

Director: Tom Thurman | Stars: Stanley Booth, John Cawelti, Bishetta Merritt, Charles Pace

22. The Black Gun

Western | Announced

During the U.S. Reconstuction following the Civil War a Black Gunman helps his people to independence.

23. Lawmen: Bass Reeves (2023)
Episode: Part VII (2023)

TV-MA | 32 min | Drama, Western

Bass struggles with the weight of the badge like never before. After a deadly mission goes awry, the U.S. Deputy Marshal's fate is left in the hands of someone else.

Director: Christina Alexandra Voros | Stars: David Oyelowo, Lauren E. Banks, Demi Singleton, Forrest Goodluck

Votes: 456

24. Lawmen: Bass Reeves (2023)
Episode: Part VIII (2023)

TV-MA | 53 min | Drama, Western

After a waltz with the devil, Bass, Billy Crow, and Sherrill have a dangerous reckoning with Mister Sundown. Meanwhile, trouble ensues for Jennie, Sally, and Esme back at the Reeves' farm.

Director: Christina Alexandra Voros | Stars: David Oyelowo, Lauren E. Banks, Demi Singleton, Forrest Goodluck

Votes: 460

25. Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2012– )
Episode: Far and Away (2024)

TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Journalist Sunny Hostin and actor Jesse Williams learn that their ancestors come from very diverse places.

Stars: Henry Louis Gates Jr., Sunny Hostin, Jesse Williams

Votes: 26

26. The Presidents (2005)
Episode: A. Johnson to Arthur (1865-1885) (2005)

Documentary, Biography, History

About US Presidents 17) Andrew Johnson (1865-1869), 18) Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877), 19) Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881), 20) James A. Garfield (1881) and 21) Chester A. Arthur (1881-1885).

Stars: Edward Herrmann, Kenneth Ackerman, Steve Alexander, Paul Bergeron

Votes: 7