1840s - Story Timelines
68 Movies and TV Series
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The Chisholms
― The Chisholms is a CBS western miniseries starring Robert Preston, which aired from March 29, 1979, ..
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The Children's Rebellion
― In the 19th century, children -- particularly the children of the poor -- were considered to be an e..
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Bandidas
― Set in the late 19th century. When a ruthless robber baron takes away everything they cherish, a rou..
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September Dawn
― A story set against the Mountain Meadows Massacre, the film is based upon the tragedy which occurred..
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Cousin Bette
― Cousin Bette is a poor and lonely seamstress, who, after the death of her prominent and wealthy sist..
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Christmas Carol: The Movie
― The film begins with a live-action sequence set in Boston in 1857, the site of a live reading by ren..
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Doctor Dolittle
― Get ready for the wildest adventure of a lifetime in the most ambitious production ever brought to f..
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Wide Sargasso Sea
― In the wake of Jamaican emancipation, French colonist Annette Cosway falls into poverty and marries ..
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The Way West
― In the mid-19th century, Senator William J. Tadlock leads a group of settlers overland in a quest to..
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One Man's Hero
― One Man's Hero tells the little-known story of the "St. Patrick's Battalion" or "San Patricios," a g..
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The Donner Party
― Based on the real events of The Donner Party tragedy. The Donner Party was a group of California-bou..
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A Christmas Carol
― One of the best-loved holiday stories of all time is back in this animated, musical version of Charl..
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Dumas
― Alexandre Dumas, at the height of his career, takes Auguste Maquet, his chief literary collaborator ..
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We Believed
― The stories of three young men who, in the wake of the ferocious repression by the Bourbon reign in ..
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The Opium War
― The story of the Opium War between China, in the waning days of the Qing Dynasty, and the British Em..
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Texas Across The River
― The Louisiana wedding of debutante Phoebe Ann Naylor to Don Andrea de Baldasar, El Duce de la Casala..
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The House Where Evil Dwells
― At the prompting of his diplomat friend, Alex, writer Ted Fletcher takes his wife, Laura, and daught..
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Blue Note
― If you’re a fan of Ken Russell’s particular brand of stylistically dizzy biographies covering th..
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The Desperate Mission
― A man who has lost everything joins others paid to convey a wealthy man's wife - and a mysterious tr..
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Frontier Uprising
― Not having heard that war has erupted between the U.S. and Mexico, a wagon train heads west, only to..