1850s - Story Timelines
67 Movies and TV Series
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
― The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London ..
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Stardust
― In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that h..
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Holes
― Stanley's family is cursed with bad luck. Unfairly sentenced to months of detention at Camp Green La..
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The Sisters Brothers
― The colourfully named gold prospector Hermann Kermit Warm is being pursued across 1,000 miles of 185..
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North & South
― North & South is a British television drama serial, produced by the BBC and originally broadcast..
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Nicholas Nickleby
― The Charles Dickens story of Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life for his recen..
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The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey
― The film begins in 1857, when India was ruled by the British East India Company. Mangal Pandey is a ..
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The Widow of Saint-Pierre
― In 1850, on the isolated French island of Saint-Pierre, a murder shocks the natives. Two fishermen a..
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Washington Square
― Set in 1870's New York, a spinster heiress is courted by a much younger, penniless man, much to the ..
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The Piano
― After a long voyage from Scotland, pianist Ada McGrath and her young daughter, Flora, are left with ..
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Jeremiah Johnson
― A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendet..
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How The West Was Won
― The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the en..
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The Great Train Robbery
― In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a mov..
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North And South
― Two friends, one northern and one southern, struggle to maintain their friendship as events build to..
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The Emigrants
― In the middle of the 19th century, Kristina and Karl-Oskar live in a small rural village in Smaaland..
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Walker
― William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to..
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The Charge of The Light Brigade
― A chronicle of events that led to the British involvement in the Crimean War against Russia and whic..
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Mountains of The Moon
― The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the so..
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The New Land
― Continuation from Utvandrarna (1971): The Swedes arrive in the USA. They still have a long journey t..
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The Chess Players
― It is the year 1856. Nawab Wajid Ali Shah is the king of Awadh, one of the last independent kingdoms..