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Movies: Best "early america" Movies

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Cold Mountain(2003)

R
| 2h 34min | Drama, War, History, Adventure, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 769 votes)

In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he left behind to tend their farm. As Inman makes his perilous journey home, Ada struggles to keep their home intact with the assistance of Ruby, a mysterious drifter sent to help her by a kindly neighbor.

Directed by Anthony Minghella - With Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Eileen Atkins, Kathy Baker, Brendan Gleeson, ...
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Dances with Wolves(1990)

PG-13
| 3h 1min | Adventure, Drama, Western
3.9/5 (with 1,830 votes)

Wounded Civil War soldier, John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.

Directed by Kevin Costner - With Mary McDonnell, Rodney A. Grant, Kevin Costner, Graham Greene, Maury Chaykin, Floyd Red Crow Westerman, ...
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Glory(1989)

R
| 2h 2min | Drama, History, War
3.7/5 (with 660 votes)

Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.

Directed by Edward Zwick - With Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes, Morgan Freeman, Andre Braugher, Alan North, ...
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Gettysburg(1993)

PG
| 4h 14min | Drama, History, War
3.5/5 (with 125 votes)

In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee leads the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania with the goal of marching through to Washington, D.C. The Union Army of the Potomac, under the command of General George G. Meade, forms a defensive position to confront the rebel forces in what will prove to be the decisive battle of the American Civil War.

Directed by Ronald F. Maxwell - With Tom Berenger, Jeff Daniels, Martin Sheen, Sam Elliott, Andrew Prine, C. Thomas Howell, ...
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee(2007)

2h 5min | Western, Drama, History, TV Movie
3.3/5 (with 48 votes)

Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastman, a young, white-educated Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of assimilation, and Sitting Bull the proud Lakota chief whose tribe won the American Indians’ last major victory at Little Big Horn.

Directed by Yves Simoneau - With Adam Beach, Anna Paquin, Chevez Ezaneh, August Schellenberg, Aidan Quinn, Colm Feore, ...
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Knickerbocker Holiday(1944)

NR
| 1h 25min | Music, Comedy, History
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

The wild and woolly early days of New York -- when it was still known as New Amsterdam -- provide the backdrop for this period musical-comedy. In 1650, Peter Stuyvesant (Charles Coburn) arrives in New Amsterdam to assume his duties as governor. Stuyvesant is hardly the fun-loving type, and one of his first official acts is to call for the death of Brom Broeck (Nelson Eddy), a newspaper publisher well-known for his fearless exposes of police and government corruption. However, Broeck hasn't done anything that would justify the death penalty, so Stuyvesant waits (without much patience) for Broeck to step out of line. Broeck is romancing a beautiful woman named Tina Tienhoven (Constance Dowling), whose sister Ulda (Shelley Winters) happens to be dating his best friend, Ten Pin (Johnnie "Scat" Davis). After Stuyvesant's men toss Broeck in jail on a trumped-up charge, Stuyvesant sets his sights on winning Tina's affections.

Directed by Harry Joe Brown - With Nelson Eddy, Charles Coburn, Ernest Cossart, Shelley Winters, Percy Kilbride, Otto Kruger, ...

The Light in the Forest(1958)

1h 23min | Adventure, Drama, Romance / Love, Western
3.5/5 (with 7 votes)

A young white man who spent his whole life raised by a Native American tribe is sent to live with his true family and must learn to fit in with the people he was taught to hate.

Directed by Herschel Daugherty - With Fess Parker, Wendell Corey, Joanne Dru, James MacArthur, Jessica Tandy, Carol Lynley, ...

The Seekers(1979)

4h | Drama, History, War, TV Movie

This follow-up to "The Bastard" and "The Rebels" continues the account of Philip Kent's life and career from his emigration to colonial Massachusetts through the American Revolutionary War and concludes the family saga with the story of his two sons and their children as they arrive in the unexplored Northwest Territory. (Episodes 5 and 6 of the Kent Chronicles miniseries.)

Directed by Sidney Hayers - With Randolph Mantooth, Edie Adams, Neville Brand, Delta Burke, John Carradine, George DelHoyo, ...

Triangle: Remembering the Fire(2011)

40min | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

On March 25, 1911, a catastrophic fire broke out at the Triangle Waist Company in New York City. Trapped inside the upper floors of a ten-story building, 146 workers - mostly young immigrant women and teenage girls - were burned alive or forced to jump to their deaths to escape an inferno that consumed the factory in just 18 minutes. It was the worst disaster at a workplace in New York State until 9/11. The tragedy changed the course of history, paving the way for government to represent working people, not just business, for the first time, and helped an emerging American middle class to live the American Dream.