Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "confederate-states-of-america"

1. 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: 334,174 | Gross: $198.68M

2. Cold Mountain (2003)

R | 154 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

In the waning days of the American Civil War, a wounded soldier embarks on a perilous journey back home to Cold Mountain, North Carolina to reunite with his sweetheart.

Director: Anthony Minghella | Stars: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Eileen Atkins

Votes: 156,034 | Gross: $95.64M

3. The General (1926)

Passed | 78 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

After being rejected by the Confederate military, not realizing it was due to his crucial civilian role, an engineer must single-handedly recapture his beloved locomotive after it is seized by Union spies and return it through enemy lines.

Directors: Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender, Jim Farley

Votes: 98,106 | Gross: $1.03M

4. Virginia City (1940)

Passed | 121 min | Western

Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from Confederate Prison and is set to Virginia City, Nevada, where he finds out that the former commander of his prison, Vance Irby, is planning to send $5 million in gold to save the Confederacy.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins, Randolph Scott, Humphrey Bogart

Votes: 2,960

5. Field of Lost Shoes (2015)

PG-13 | 96 min | Action, Drama, War

A group of teenage cadets sheltered from war at the Virginia Military Institute must confront the horrors of an adult world when they are called upon to defend the Shenandoah Valley.

Director: Sean McNamara | Stars: Michael Krebs, Jake Lawson, Sean Marquette, David Arquette

Votes: 2,110

6. Killing Lincoln (2013 TV Movie)

Unrated | 92 min | Biography, Drama, History

Based on The New York Times best-selling novel, Killing Lincoln is the suspenseful, eye-opening story of the events surrounding the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.

Director: Adrian Moat | Stars: Tom Hanks, Regen Wilson, Billy Campbell, Jesse Johnson

Votes: 2,389

7. Alvarez Kelly (1966)

Approved | 116 min | Western

During the Civil War, Mexican cattleman Alvarez Kelly supplies the Union with cattle until Confederate Colonel Tom Rossiter's hungry men force Kelly to change his customers.

Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: William Holden, Richard Widmark, Janice Rule, Patrick O'Neal

Votes: 2,735

8. Run of the Arrow (1957)

Approved | 86 min | Drama, Western

When the South loses the war, Confederate veteran O'Meara goes West, joins the Sioux, takes a wife and refuses to be an American but he must choose a side when the Sioux go to war against the U.S. Army.

Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Rod Steiger, Sara Montiel, Brian Keith, Ralph Meeker

Votes: 2,420

9. The Great Locomotive Chase (1956)

Approved | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Family

During the Civil War Union spy Andrews and his men volunteer to steal a Confederate train and drive it to Union territory while destroying the Confederate railway system along the way.

Director: Francis D. Lyon | Stars: Fess Parker, Jeffrey Hunter, Jeff York, John Lupton

Votes: 1,373

10. Andersonville (1996)

167 min | Drama, History, War

The story of the most notorious Confederate prisoner of war camp in the American Civil War.

Stars: Paul Andre Gibbons, Jarrod Emick, Frederic Forrest, Ted Marcoux

Votes: 2,097

11. Saving Lincoln (2013)

Not Rated | 101 min | Biography, Drama, History

The story of Mr. Lincoln and his self-appointed bodyguard, U.S. Marshal Ward Hill Lamon - a banjo-playing Southerner who foiled repeated attempts on the President's life, and kept him functioning during the darkest hours of the Civil War.

Director: Salvador Litvak | Stars: Tom Amandes, Lea Coco, Penelope Ann Miller, Bruce Davison

Votes: 459

12. Stagecoach West (1960–1961)

60 min | Western

Luke Perry and Simon Kane, accompanied by Simon's young son David, run a stagecoach line in the Old West, where they come across a wide variety of ladies in distress, killers, and robbers.

Stars: Wayne Rogers, Richard Eyer, Robert Bray, James Burke

Votes: 173

13. Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers (1987 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 93 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

After the death of Shaggy's Uncle Beaureguard, he, Scooby, and Scrappy arrive at his uncle's plantation to collect the inheritance. But as soon as they arrive, they find it is haunted by ... See full summary »

Directors: Paul Sommer, Carl Urbano, Ray Patterson | Stars: Don Messick, Casey Kasem, Sorrell Booke, William Callaway

Votes: 5,023

14. Macho Callahan (1970)

R | 99 min | Drama, Western

Macho Callahan breaks out of a Confederate military prison, intent on revenge against the man who conscripted him into the army. Before he gets started, he kills another man in a petty dispute and is in turn pursued by the vengeful widow.

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski | Stars: David Janssen, Jean Seberg, Lee J. Cobb, James Booth

Votes: 480

15. South of St. Louis (1949)

Passed | 88 min | Western

The friendship of three Texas ranchers whose ranch is destroyed by Cottrell, of the Union army, and his band of outlaw raiders. The working title was "Distant Drums", and south of St. Louis was a term used to describe Civil War deserters.

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Joel McCrea, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott, Dorothy Malone

Votes: 575

16. I Want Him Dead (1968)

87 min | Western

During the Civil War, a Confederate soldier seeks to avenge his sister after she is raped and murdered, only to uncover a plot to disrupt peace talks between the North and the South.

Director: Paolo Bianchini | Stars: Craig Hill, Lea Massari, José Manuel Martín, Andrea Bosic

Votes: 435

17. The Dirty Outlaws (1967)

R | 103 min | Drama, Western

An outlaw masquerades as the son of a blind man in order to find a cache of gold located in a vacated town.

Director: Franco Rossetti | Stars: Andrea Giordana, Rosemary Dexter, Franco Giornelli, Dana Ghia

Votes: 429

18. The Civil War: Brothers Divided (2016– )

Documentary, History, War

Examining various battles during America's Civil War, Civil War Chronicles exposes America's unsung heroes.

Stars: Brian Scott Carleton, Drew Moss, Garry E. Adelman, Simon Pellegrino

Votes: 203

19. Slavery by Another Name (2012 TV Movie)

90 min | Documentary, History

A documentary that recounts the many ways in which American slavery persisted as a practice many decades after its supposed abolition.

Director: Sam Pollard | Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Turron Kofi Alleyne, Michael Bacon, Douglas A. Blackmon

Votes: 308

20. Checkmate, Lincolnites! (2019– )

History

Drawing on quotes from acclaimed historians and deranged YouTube commenters alike, a duo of Civil War soldiers debate and debunk the Lost Cause of the Confederacy.

Stars: Andrew Rakich, Matthew Beat, Karl Kasarda, Matthew Rigdon

Votes: 21

21. April 1865 (2003 TV Movie)

100 min | Documentary, War

APRIL 1865 examines the extraordinary series of events that changed the course of history in 30 brief days. In that one month, Petersburg fell, Richmond fell and burned, General Lee ... See full summary »

Stars: Bob Bosler, Allen Brenner, Bill Ciampa, Benny Gibson

Votes: 61

22. Brother Outlaw (1971)

84 min | Drama, Western

A man is falsely charged with bank robbery, prompting his brother to break him out of prison. Together the pair set out to find the real culprits, and their search leads them to a gang of outlaws headed by a notorious gunfighter.

Director: Edoardo Mulargia | Stars: Tony Kendall, James Rogers, Sophia Kammara, Dino Strano

Votes: 159

23. Confederate Honey (1940)

Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Nett Cutler (Elmer Fudd) romances Crimson O'Hairoil in this send-up of Gone With the Wind (1939).

Directors: Friz Freleng, Cal Dalton, Ben Hardaway | Stars: John Deering, Jim Bannon, Bea Benaderet, Sara Berner

Votes: 261

24. Eighty Acres of Hell (2006 TV Movie)

94 min | History

Unprepared for a protracted war, the huge number of prisoners of war overwhelmed both sides ability to hold them. Coupled with the bitter animosity toward the enemy this lead to inhuman ... See full summary »

Director: Gary Foreman | Stars: Thomas Y. Cartwright, William C. Davis, Joseph G. Dawson, David Dixon

Votes: 26

25. Debunking the Myth of the Lost Cause: A Lie Embedded in American History (2021)

5 min | Documentary, Animation, Short

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Director: Anton Bogaty | Star: Christina Greer

26. The Southerners (1914)

Short, Drama

It was in the early spring of 1861 that Boyd Peyton came home to Mobile after his first cruise as an officer in the United States Navy. Coming home to Mobile meant a very great deal to Boyd... See full summary »

Director: Richard Ridgely | Stars: Mabel Trunnelle, Julius A. Mood Jr., Bigelow Cooper, Anne Leonard

27. The Suppressed Order (1916)

Short, Drama

A southern boy is sent to his hometown to betray a Confederate raiding party. He is dissuaded from his mission by his sister, who reminds him that many of his friends belong to the raiders.

Director: Tom Ricketts | Stars: Edward Coxen, Winifred Greenwood, George Field, George Webb

28. Whistling Dixie (2022)

22 min | Short, War

A naive, young volunteer in the American Civil War must make a choice when the true nature of his side's cause becomes apparent.

Director: Mark Lawther | Stars: Andrew McNeill, Hannah Marron, Andrew McCracken, Kristian Leonard

29. A President's Answer (1918)

25 min | Short, Drama

In the Civil War, Dave Elkin joins up with the rebel forces. He is captured and is taken to Washington and put in a POW camp. There, he kills one of the cruel guards and is sentenced to die... See full summary »

Director: Benjamin Chapin | Star: Benjamin Chapin

30. Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode: Tattoo: the Love God/Magnolia Blossoms (1979)

TV-G | 60 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Tattoo asks Roarke to grant his fantasy of being a "love god", which Roarke takes literally. Friends Myra Collinsky and Gladys Boylan want to experience the days of the Civil-War-era South.

Director: Earl Bellamy | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, Christopher Connelly, Gene Evans

Votes: 74

31. Investigating History (2003– )
Episode: The Lost Battle of the Civil War (2004)

Documentary, History

Realing from strategic defeats in the East, Confederate forces plan a flanking attack on the Western frontier in an attempt to draw Union forces to the west and relieve the pressure on ... See full summary »

Director: Jamie Schenk | Star: Bill Kurtis

32. The Conquerors (2005)
Episode: Sherman's March to the Sea (2005)

46 min | Documentary, Biography, History

How Union Army Major General William Tecumseh Sherman led a force of 60.000 infantry and 5500 Union Calvary on a punitive march, known as Sherman's March to the Sea, through the Confederacy in late 1964 to end the American Civil War.

Stars: Anne J. Bailey, Thomas Y. Cartwright, Matthew Davis, Dale Dye

33. TED-Ed (2012– )
Episode: Debunking the myth of the Lost Cause: A lie embedded in American history - Karen L. Cox (2021)

5 min | Documentary, Animation

Following the American Civil War southern revisionists recast the cause of the war as a struggle for states rights rather than slavery.

Star: Karen L. Cox

34. Civil War 360 (2013– )
Episode: The Confederacy (2013)

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

Slave badges from South Carolina. Sheet music filled with boasts of triumph. The jewelry of the First Lady of the Confederacy. Smithsonian curators have collected thousands of Confederate ... See full summary »

Director: Molly Hermann | Stars: Trace Adkins, Nicholas Crider, Chance Gibson, Shaun Gildea

Votes: 18