Movie List

 

Background

    1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)

    Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992)

    Christopher Columbus (Br. 1949)

    Elizabeth (1998)

    Elizabeth R (1971)

    The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)

    The Virgin Queen (1955)

    Young Bess (1953)

 

Colonial New England

    The Crucible (1996)

    The Crucible (Fr. 1956)

    Maid of Salem (1937)

    Three Sovereigns for Sarah (1985)

    Salem Witch Trials (A&E)

    Squanto: A Warrior’s Tale (1994)

    Plymouth Adventure (1952)

    Mayflower: The Pilgrim’s Adventure (1978)

    The Courtship of Miles Standish (1923)

    The Scarlet Letter (1926)

    The Scarlet Letter (1934)

    The Scarlet Letter (Ger. 1973)

    The Scarlet Letter (1995)

 

Other Colonial

    Pocahontas (1995)

    Captain John Smith and Pocahontas (1953)

    Jamestown Rediscovery: A World Uncovered (A&E)

    The Black Robe (1991)

    Jamestown (1923)

    Unconquered (1947)

    Allegheny Uprising (1939)

    Hiawatha (1952)

 

Revolutionary Period

    1776 (1972)

    The Devil’s Disciple (Br. 1959)

    The Howards of Virginia (1940)

    America (1924)

    Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)

    Mary Silliman’s War (Can. 1994)

    The Scarlet Coat (1955)

    April Morning (1988)

    Johnny Tremain (1957)

    Revolution (1985)

    The Bastard (1978)

    The Patriot (2000)

    The Crossing (1999)

    The Rebels (1979)

    Washington at Valley Forge (1914)

 

Founding Period

    George Washington: The Forging of a Nation (1986)

    Jefferson in Paris (1995)

    Sally Hemings: An American Scandal (2000)

    Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain (A&E)

    Alexander Hamilton (1931)

 

Early Republic

    The Buccaneer (1958)

    The Buccaneer (1938)   

    The Gorgeous Hussy (1936)

    The President’s Lady (1953)

    The Seekers (1979)

    Lydia Bailey (1952)

    Magnificent Doll (1946)

    Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942)

    Old Ironsides (1926)

 

Westward Settlement

    Lewis & Clark: the Journey of the Corps of Discovery (1997)

    The Far Horizons (1955)

    Old Louisiana (1938)

    Jeremiah Johnson (1976)

    How the West Was Won (1962)

    Time Machine: The Mountain Men (A&E)

    The Mountain Men (1980)

    The Iroquois Trail (1950)

    Northwest Passage (1940)

    Last of the Mohicans (1921)

    Last of the Mohicans (1936)

    Last of the Mohicans (1992)

 

Texas

    Man of Conquest (1939)

    The Last Command (1955)

    The Alamo (1960)

    The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory (1987)

    The Alamo (2004)

 

Slavery

    Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1987)

    A Woman Called Moses (1978)

    Roots (Vols. 4 & 5)

    Beloved (1998)

    Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad (1994)

    The Underground Railroad (1999)

    Amistad (1997)

    Tamango (Fr. 1957)

    Slave Ship (1937)

    Ship of Slaves: The Middle Passage (A&E)

    Solomon Northrup’s Odyssey (1984)

    Frederick Douglass: When the Lion Wrote History (PBS)

 

Coming of Civil War

    Santa Fe Trail (1940)

    Seven Angry Men (1955)

    The American Experience: John Brown’s Holy War (PBS)

    Abraham Lincoln (1930)

    Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)

    Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)

    Gore Vidal’s Lincoln (1988)

 

Civil War

    Friendly Persuasion (1956)

    Friendly Persuasion (1975)

    Shenandoah (1965)

    Kansas Raiders (1950)

    Andersonville (1996)

    The Red Badge of Courage (1951)

    The Red Badge of Courage (1974)

    The Horse Soldiers (1959)

    The Man from Dakota (1940)

    Gettysburg (1993)

    The Littlest Rebel (1935)

    Glory (1989)

    Gods and Generals (2003)

    The Great Locomotive Chase (1956)

 

Civil War (2)

    Huckleberry Finn (1931)

    Huckleberry Finn (1939)

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1968)

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1985)

    Little Women (1933)

    Little Women (1949)

    Little Women (1994)

    Gangs of New York (2002)