U.S. Civil War
see all genres ›The United States’ divisive clash of 1861 saw several slave-owning Southern states secede from the Union only to be forced back in after four bloody and debilitating years of warfare. This ugly chapter remains a source of historical fascination (and even personal identification) for many Americans.
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Mysterious Island
It is 1865 and Union prisoners use a military balloon to escape a Southern prison camp near the end of the Civil War. The balloon drifts for days and finally lands on a mysterious volcanic island with very unusual inhabitants. Also landing (in a better aircraft) is Rulu, a...Watch Movie
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Lee: Beyond the Battles
Using contemporary on-location footage, re-enactors, photographic and portrait stills this PBS production gives the viewer a glimpse of Robert E. Lee the man. One historian has called him "the Marble Man" more an icon to the South than a flesh and blood man. This work gives us...Watch Movie
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Their One Love
One of the many Civil War movies made during the 50th anniversary of the conflict. This was one of Thanhouser’s last one-reel dramas and was released just after D.W. Griffith’s Civil War epic THE BIRTH OF A NATION. Griffith’s monumental picture had included three long-shots of nighttime...Watch Movie
