List of films and television shows about the American Civil War explained

The following is a list of films and television shows about the American Civil War (1861–1865).

1910s

Year	width= 80	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Original title (Original script)	width=100	Director	Subject
1912	United States	Chattanooga		Lincoln J. Carter	War. Chattanooga campaign
1913	United States	The Girl of the Sunny South		Travers Vale	Drama.
1913	United States	The Battle of Gettysburg		Charles Giblyn Thomas H. Ince	Drama, War. Battle of Gettysburg
1913	United States	The Battle of Shiloh		Joseph W. Smiley	Drama, War. Battle of Shiloh
1913	United States	The Seed of the Fathers		Stanner E.V. Taylor	Drama, War.
1914	United States	The Littlest Rebel		Edgar Lewis	Drama, War. Based on the play The Littlest Rebel.
1914	United States	Dan		George Irving Jack Pratt	Drama, War.
1915	United States	Life of Sam Davis: A Confederate Hero of the Sixties			Drama, History. Sam Davis
1915	United States	'Twas Ever Thus		Hobart Bosworth	Drama, War.
1915	United States	Under Southern Skies		Lucius J. Henderson	Drama. Based on the play Under Southern Skies.
1915	United States	May Blossom		Allan Dwan	Drama. Based on the play May Blossom.
1915	United States	The Heart of Lincoln		Francis Ford	Drama, History.
1915	United States	Barbara Frietchie		Herbert Blaché	Drama. Based on the play Barbara Frietchie.
1915	United States	The Heart of Maryland		Herbert Brenon	Drama, History, War. Based on the play The Heart of Maryland.
1915	United States	The Coward		Reginald Barker	Drama, History, War. Based on an unknown story.
1915	United States	The Warrens of Virginia		Cecil B. DeMille	Drama, War.
1915	United States	The Birth of a Nation		D. W. Griffith	Drama, History, War. Based on a novel .
1915	United States	Colonel Carter of Cartersville		Howell Hansel	Drama, History.
1916	United States	Rose of the South		Paul Scardon	Drama, History.
1916	United States	Peck o' Pickles		Thomas N. Heffron	Comedy, Drama.
1916	United States	The Crisis		Colin Campbell	Drama, History, War. Based on a novel The Crisis.
1916	United States	Naked Hearts		Rupert Julian	Drama.
1916	United States	Her Father's Son		William Desmond Taylor	Comedy.
1916	United States	The Sting of Victory		J. Charles Haydon	Drama.
1916	United States	According to the Code		E. H. Calvert	Drama, War.
1917	United States	Your Obedient Servant		Edward H. Griffith	Drama.
1917	United States	Those Without Sin		Marshall Neilan	Drama.
1917	United Kingdom	Little Women		Alexander Butler	Drama, Romance, Family. Based on a novel Little Women.
1917	United States	The Little Yank		George Siegmann	War, Drama.
1917	United States	Her Country's Call		Lloyd Ingraham	Biography, Drama.
1917	United States	The Field of Honor		Allen Holubar	Drama.
1917	United States	The Spreading Dawn		Laurence Trimble	Drama. Based on a short fiction The Spreading Dawn.
1918	United States	My Own United States		John W. Noble	Drama. Based on the short story The Man Without a Country.
1918	United States	Morgan's Raiders		Bess Meredyth Wilfred Lucas	Drama.
1918	United States	Madam Who?		Reginald Barker	Drama. Confederate Secret Service
1918	United States	Woman		Maurice Tourneur	Drama, War.
1918	United States	The Last Rebel		Gilbert P. Hamilton	Drama.
1918	United States	Little Women		Harley Knoles	Drama, Family, Romance. Based on a novel Little Women.
1918	United States	Hearts of Love		J. Charles Haydon	Drama, History, War.
1918	United States	The Scarlet Drop		John Ford	Western.
1919	United States	Secret Service		Hugh Ford	Drama, War. Based on the play Secret Service. American Civil War spies
1919	United States	Hay Foot, Straw Foot		Jerome Storm	Comedy.

1920s

Year	width= 80	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Original title (Original script)	width=100	Director	Subject
1920	United States	The Kentucky Colonel		William A. Seiter	Drama. Based on a novel A Kentucky Colonel.
1920	United States	Held by the Enemy		Donald Crisp Wilton Welch	Drama, War. Based on an unknown play.
1920	United States	The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come		Wallace Worsley	Drama, History, War. Based on a novel The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come.
1920	United States	Hitchin' Posts		John Ford	Drama.
1920	United States	The Copperhead		Charles Maigne	Drama. Based on an unknown novel and an unknown play.
1921	United States	Jesse James Under the Black Flag		Franklin B. Coates	History, Western. Jesse James
1921	United States	Johnny Ring and the Captain's Sword		Norman L. Stevens	Drama.
1921	United States	The Highest Law		Ralph Ince	Drama.
1921	United States	The Heart of Maryland		Tom Terriss	Drama. Based on the play The Heart of Maryland.
1922	United States	The Heart of Lincoln		Francis Ford	War.
1924	United States	The Warrens of Virginia		Elmer Clifton	Drama, Romance. American Civil War spies
1924	United States	Barbara Frietchie		Lambert Hillyer	Drama, War. Based on the play Barbara Frietchie.
1924	United States	Abraham Lincoln		Phil Rosen	Biography, Drama, History. Abraham Lincoln
1926	United States	Hands Up!		Clarence G. Badger	Action, Comedy, War.
1926	United States	The General		Clyde Bruckman Buster Keaton	Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, War. Based on a memoir The Great Locomotive Chase. Great Locomotive Chase
1927	United States	Jesse James		Lloyd Ingraham	Western.
1927	United States	The Heart of Maryland		Lloyd Bacon	Action, Drama, Romance, War. Based on the play The Heart of Maryland.
1928	United States	The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come		Alfred Santell	Drama, Romance. Based on a novel The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come.
1928	United States	Court Martial		George B. Seitz	Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War, Western.
1928	United States	The Overland Telegraph		John Waters	Western.
1929	United States	The California Mail		Albert S. Rogell	Western.
1929	United States	Morgan's Last Raid		Nick Grinde	Adventure, Romance, War, Western.

1930s

Year	width= 80	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Original title (Original script)	width=100	Director	Subject
1930	United States	Only the Brave		Frank Tuttle	Action, Drama, Music, Mystery, Romance, War. American Civil War spies
1930	United States	Abraham Lincoln		D. W. Griffith	Biography, Drama, War. Abraham Lincoln
1931	United States	Secret Service		J. Walter Ruben James Anderson	Drama, History, Romance, War, Western. Based on an unknown play. American Civil War spies
1933	United States	Little Women		George Cukor	Drama, Family, Romance, War. Based on a novel Little Women.
1934	United States	Operator 13		Richard Boleslawski	Drama, History, Musical, Romance, War, Western. Based on an unknown novel. American Civil War spies
1935	United States	So Red the Rose		King Vidor	Drama, Romance, War. Based on a novel So Red the Rose.
1935	United States	The Littlest Rebel		David Butler	Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical, War. Based on the play The Littlest Rebel.
1936	United States	The Prisoner of Shark Island		John Ford	Biography, Drama, History. Samuel Mudd
1936	United States	Trailin' West		Noel M. Smith	Western. American Civil War spies
1936	United States	Hearts in Bondage		Lew Ayres	Drama, History, Romance, War. List of naval battles of the American Civil War
1936	United States	General Spanky		Fred C. Newmeyer Gordon Douglas	Comedy, Family, War.
1937	Sweden	John Ericsson, Victor of Hampton Roads	John Ericsson - segraren vid Hampton Roads	Gustaf Edgren	Biography, Drama, History, War, Western. John Ericsson
1937	United States	Western Gold		Howard Bretherton	Action, Music, Western.
1937	United States	Wells Fargo		Frank Lloyd	Drama, History, Western.
1938	United States	Of Human Hearts		Clarence Brown	Drama, Western.
1939	United States	Southward Ho		Joseph Kane	Western.
1939	United States	Swanee River		Sidney Lanfield	Biography, Drama, Musical. Stephen Foster
1939	United States	Frontier Pony Express		Joseph Kane	Drama, Music, Western. American Civil War spies
1939	United States	The Arizona Kid		Joseph Kane	Drama, Music, Western.
1939	United States	The Old Maid		Edmund Goulding	Drama. Based on the play The Old Maid.
1939	United States	Gone with the Wind		Victor Fleming	Drama, Romance, War. Based on a novel Gone with the Wind.

1940s

Year	width= 80	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Original title (Original script)	width=100	Director	Subject
1940	United States	Arizona		Wesley Ruggles	Drama, Western.
1940	United States	Young Bill Hickok		Joseph Kane	Drama, Music, Western.
1940	United States	Colorado		Joseph Kane	Drama, Music, Western.
1940	United States	The Man from Dakota		Leslie Fenton	Drama, History, War, Western. Based on a novel Arouse and Beware.
1940	United States	Virginia City		Michael Curtiz	Drama, Western.
1940	United States	Dark Command		Raoul Walsh	Drama, Western. Quantrill's Raiders
1941	United States	Belle Starr		Irving Cummings	Drama, Western. Belle Starr
1941	United States	They Died with Their Boots On		Raoul Walsh	Biography, Drama, Romance, War, Western. George Armstrong Custer
1942	United States	Tennessee Johnson		William Dieterle	Biography, Drama. Andrew Johnson
1943	United States	The Desperadoes		Charles Vidor	Western.
1944	United States	Oklahoma Raiders		Lewis D. Collins	Drama, Music, Western.
1944	United States	Raiders of Ghost City		Lewis D. Collins Ray Taylor	Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Western.
1946	United States	Renegade Girl		William Berke	Drama, Western.
1947	United States	The Romance of Rosy Ridge		Roy Rowland	Romance, Western. Based on a novel The Romance of Rosy Ridge.
1948	United States	Son of God's Country		R. G. Springsteen	Drama, Western.
1948	United States	Silver River		Raoul Walsh	Drama, Romance, Western. Based on an unknown story.
1948	United States	Tap Roots		George Marshall	Drama, Romance, War, Western. Newton Knight
1948	United States	A Southern Yankee		Edward Sedgwick	Comedy, History, War, Western. American Civil War spies
1948	United States	The Man from Colorado		Henry Levin	Romance, Western.
1949	United States	Fighting Man of the Plains		Edwin L. Marin	Western. Quantrill's Raiders
1949	United States	Law of the Golden West		Philip Ford	Drama, Western.
1949	United States	Little Women		Mervyn LeRoy	Drama, Family, Romance. Based on a novel Little Women.
1949	United States	South of St. Louis		Ray Enright	Western.

1950s

Year	width= 80	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Original title (Original script)	width=100	Director	Subject
1950	United States	The Eagle and the Hawk		Lewis R. Foster	Western. American Civil War spies
1950	United States	The Outriders		Roy Rowland	Western.
1950	United States	Kansas Raiders		Ray Enright	Drama, Western.
1950	United States	Two Flags West		Robert Wise	War, Western. Galvanized Yankees
1950	United States	Rocky Mountain		William Keighley	Action, Adventure, Drama, Western.
1951	United States	The Great Missouri Raid		Gordon Douglas	Western.
1951	United States	Red Mountain		William Dieterle John Farrow	Drama, Western. Quantrill's Raiders
1951	United States	Silver Canyon		John English	Drama, Music, Western.
1951	United States	Best of the Badmen		William D. Russell	Western.
1951	United States	The Redhead and the Cowboy		Leslie Fenton	Drama, Romance, Western.
1951	United States	Drums in the Deep South		William Cameron Menzies	Western. Based on an unknown story.
1951	United States	The Last Outpost		Lewis R. Foster	Drama, Western.
1951	United States	The Red Badge of Courage		John Huston	Drama, War. Based on a novel The Red Badge of Courage.
1951	United States	Springfield Rifle		Andre de Toth	Thriller, War, Western. American Civil War spies
1952	United States	Hangman's Knot		Roy Huggins	Drama, Western.
1952	United States	Behind Southern Lines		Thomas Carr	Action, Adventure, Drama, War, Western.
1953	United States	The Stranger Wore a Gun		Andre de Toth	Drama, War, Western. Based on the short story Yankee Gold.
1953	United States	Rebel City		Thomas Carr	Drama, Western.
1953	United States	Woman They Almost Lynched		Allan Dwan	Western.
1953	United States	Jack McCall, Desperado		Sidney Salkow	Drama, Western.
1953	United States	Kansas Pacific		Ray Nazarro	Western. Kansas Pacific Railway
1953	United States	Escape from Fort Bravo		John Sturges	Drama, Romance, Western.
1954	United States	Border River		George Sherman	Drama, Western.
1954	United States	Siege at Red River		Rudolph Maté	Drama, Western.
1954	United States	The Black Dakotas		Ray Nazarro	Western.
1954	United States	The Raid		Hugo Fregonese	Drama, War, Western. Based on an unknown book. St. Albans Raid
1955	United States	Prince of Players		Philip Dunne	Biography, Drama. Based on the book Prince of Players. Edwin Booth, John Wilkes Booth, Assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
1955	United States	Yellowneck		R. John Hugh	Adventure, Drama, War, Western.
1955	United States	Apache Ambush		Fred F. Sears	Drama, Western.
1955	United States	Five Guns West		Roger Corman	Drama, Western.
1956	United States	Great Day in the Morning		Jacques Tourneur	Drama, Western. Based on a novel Great Day in the Morning.
1956	United States	The Great Locomotive Chase		Francis D. Lyon	Action, Adventure, Family, War, Western. Great Locomotive Chase
1956	United States	Love Me Tender		Robert D. Webb	Drama, Musical, Romance, Western.
1956	United States	Friendly Persuasion		William Wyler	Drama, Family, Romance, War, Western. Based on a novel The Friendly Persuasion.
1957	United States	Ride a Violent Mile		Charles Marquis Warren	Action, Adventure, Drama, War, Western.
1957	United States	The Guns of Fort Petticoat		George Marshall	Action, Romance, War, Western. Based on a short story Petticoat Brigade.
1957	United States	Drango		Hall Bartlett Jules Bricken	Western.
1957	United States	Run of the Arrow		Samuel Fuller	Drama, Western.
1957	United States	Revolt at Fort Laramie		Lesley Selander	Western.
1957	United States	Band of Angels		Raoul Walsh	Drama. Based on a novel Band of Angels.
1957	United States	Raintree County		Edward Dmytryk	Drama, Romance, War, Western. Based on a novel Raintree County.
1958	United States	Quantrill's Raiders		Edward Bernds	Western.
1959	United States	Westbound		Budd Boetticher	Drama, Western.
1959	United States	The Legend of Tom Dooley		Ted Post	Drama, Western. Based on the song Tom Dooley. Tom Dula
1959	United States	The Horse Soldiers		John Ford	Adventure, Drama, Romance, War, Western. Based on a novel The Horse Soldiers. Grierson's Raid

1960s

Year	width= 80	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Original title (Original script)	width=100	Director	Subject
1960	United States	13 Fighting Men		Harry W. Gerstad	Drama, War, Western.
1960	United States	Young Jesse James		William F. Claxton	Action, Adventure, War, Western.
1961	United States	The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come		Andrew V. McLaglen	Drama, History, Romance, War, Western. Based on a novel The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come.
1962	France	In the Midst of Life	Au cœur de la vie	Robert Enrico	Drama, War. Based on the stories by Ambrose Bierce.
1962	United States	How the West Was Won		Henry Hathaway John Ford George Marshall	Western.
1963	United States	Red Runs the River		Katherine Stenholm	Drama, History, War. Richard S. Ewell, First Battle of Bull Run, Second Battle of Bull Run
1964	United States	Advance to the Rear		George Marshall	Comedy, War, Western. Based on a novel Company of Cowards.
1965	Spain United States	Finger on the Trigger		Sidney W. Pink	Drama, Western.
1965	United States	Arizona Raiders		William Witney	Western.
1965	United States	Major Dundee		Sam Peckinpah	Adventure, Drama, War, Western.
1965	United States	Shenandoah		Andrew V. McLaglen	Drama, War, Western. Based on a novel Fields of Honor.
1966	Italy	Three Graves for a Winchester (Three Bullets for Ringo)	3 colpi di Winchester per Ringo	Emimmo Salvi	Drama, Western.
1966	United States	Incident at Phantom Hill		Earl Bellamy	Western.
1966	United States	Alvarez Kelly		Edward Dmytryk	Drama, Western. Beefsteak Raid
1966	Italy Spain West Germany	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly	Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo	Sergio Leone	Adventure, Western. Based on an unknown story.
1967	Italy	Day of Violence	I giorni della violenza	Alfonso Brescia	Drama, Western.
1967	Italy Spain	Red Blood, Yellow Gold	Professionisti per un massacro Los profesionales de la muerte	Nando Cicero	Action, Adventure, Drama, Western.
1967	United States	Mosby's Marauders		Michael O'Herlihy	Action, Adventure, History, War, Western.
1967	United States	The Fastest Guitar Alive		Mickey Moore	Western. American Civil War spies
1967	United States	A Time for Killing		Phil Karlson	Drama, Western. Based on a novel The Southern Blade.
1968	Italy Spain	I Want Him Dead	Lo voglio morto Lo quiero muerto	Paolo Bianchini	Western.
1968	Italy Spain	Kill Them All and Come Back Alone	Ammazzali tutti e torna solo	Enzo G. Castellari	Action, Western.
1968	United States	Arizona Bushwhackers		Lesley Selander	Drama, Romance, Western.
1968	United States	Journey to Shiloh		William Hale	Drama, War, Western. Based on a novel Journey to Shiloh.
1969	United States	The Desperados		Henry Levin	Western.
1969	United States	The Undefeated		Andrew V. McLaglen	Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War, Western. Joseph O. Shelby

1970s

Year	width= 80	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Original title (Original script)	width=100	Director	Subject
1970	United States Mexico	Rio Lobo		Howard Hawks	War, Western.
1971	United States	The Beguiled		Don Siegel	Drama, Thriller, War. Based on a novel A Painted Devil.
1972	Sweden	The New Land	Nybyggarna	Jan Troell	Drama, Western. Based on a novels The Emigrants.
1972	Italy France West Germany Spain	A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die	Una Ragione Per Vivere E Una Per Morire	Tonino Valerii	Drama, Western.
1972	United States	No Drums, No Bugles		Clyde Ware	Drama, War.
1973	Italy Spain	Fasthand	Mi chiamavano "Requiescat"... ma avevano sbagliato Mano rápida	Mario Bianchi	Western.
1973	United Kingdom United States	Charley One-Eye		Don Chaffey	Western.
1975	Hungary	American Torso	Amerikai anzix	Gábor Bódy	Drama.
1976	United States	The Outlaw Josey Wales		Clint Eastwood	Western. Based on a novel .
1977	United States	The Lincoln Conspiracy		James L. Conway	Drama. Based on the book The Lincoln Conspiracy. Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

1980s

Year	width= 80	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Original title (Original script)	width=100	Director	Subject
1985	United States	Rebel Love		Milton Bagby	Drama, Romance, War.
1989	United States	Glory		Edward Zwick	Biography, Drama, History, War. Based on the books Lay This Laurel, One Gallant Rush and Robert Gould Shaw letters. 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, Second Battle of Fort Wagner

1990s

Year	width= 80	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Original title (Original script)	width=100	Director	Subject
1990	United States	Across Five Aprils		Kevin Meyer	Drama, History, War. Based on a novel Across Five Aprils.
1990	United States United Kingdom	Dances with Wolves		Kevin Costner	Adventure, Drama, Western. Based on a novel Dances with Wolves.
1993	France United States	Sommersby		Jon Amiel	Drama, Mystery, Romance.
1993	United States	Gettysburg		Ronald F. Maxwell	Drama, History, War. Based on a novel The Killer Angels. Battle of Gettysburg
1994	United States Canada	Little Women		Gillian Armstrong	Drama, Family, Romance. Based on a novel Little Women.
1995	United States	Ozarks: Legacy & Legend		Kieth Merrill	History, Western.
1995	United States	Pharaoh's Army		Robby Henson	Western.
1999	United States	Ride with the Devil		Ang Lee	Drama, Romance, War, Western. Based on a novel Woe to Live On.

2000s

Year	width= 80	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Original title (Original script)	width=100	Director	Subject
2000	United States	Blood and Honor		Donald Farmer	Action, Drama, War.
2001	United States	American Outlaws		Les Mayfield	Action, Western.
2002	United States	Wicked Spring		Kevin Hershberger	Drama, War, Western. Battle of the Wilderness
2002	Italy United States	Gangs of New York		Martin Scorsese	Crime, Drama. Based on the book The Gangs of New York. New York City draft riots
2003	United States	Gods and Generals		Ronald F. Maxwell	Biography, Drama, History, War. Based on a novel Gods and Generals. Stonewall Jackson
2003	United States Italy Romania United Kingdom	Cold Mountain		Anthony Minghella	Adventure, Drama, Romance, War. Based on a novel Cold Mountain.
2004	United States	Gettysburg: Three Days of Destiny		Robert Child	Action, Drama, History, War. Battle of Gettysburg
2004	United States			Kevin Willmott	Comedy, Drama, War.
2005	United States	The Battle of Aiken		Christopher Forbes	Action. Battle of Aiken
2005	United States	My Brother's War		Whitney Hamilton	Drama, Romance, War.
2006	United States	Prairie Rose		Rebecca Sutera Tulloch	Drama. Camp Douglas
2007	United States	Johnny		R. David Burns	Biography, War. John Clem
2007	United States	Freedom		Rick McVey	Drama, History, War.
2007	United States	Sons of Virginia		Dale Jackson	Action, History, War.
2007	United States			A. Blaine Miller	Action, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War, Western.
2008	United States	The Notorious Colonel Steel		Christopher Forbes	Drama, Western.

2010s

Year	width= 80	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Original title (Original script)	width=100	Director	Subject
2010	United States	The Battle of Pussy Willow Creek		Wendy Jo Cohen	Comedy, History, War.
2010	United States	Lost River: Lincoln's Secret Weapon		Rachel Gordon Jason Urban	History. Anna Ella Carroll
2010	United States	The Conspirator		Robert Redford	Crime, Drama, History. Mary Surratt, Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
2010	United States	Dog Jack		Edward T. McDougal	Drama, War. Based on the book Dog Jack.
2011	United States	The Civil War on Drugs		Zach Cregger Trevor Moore	Comedy, History, War.
2012	United States	Civil Love		Bryan Carzan	Drama, Romance.
2012	United States	Cole Younger & The Black Train		Christopher Forbes	Western. James–Younger Gang
2012	United States	Hatfields and McCoys: Bad Blood		Fred Olen Ray	Drama, Western. Hatfield–McCoy feud
2012	United States	War Flowers		Serge Rodnunsky	Drama, History, War.
2012	United States India	Lincoln		Steven Spielberg	Biography, Drama, History, War. Based on the book Team of Rivals. Abraham Lincoln
2013	United States	The Light of Freedom		Kim Robinson	Drama, Family, History.
2013	United States	The Retrieval		Chris Eska	Adventure, Drama, Western.
2013	United States	Saving Lincoln		Salvador Litvak	Biography, Drama, History. Ward Hill Lamon
2013	United States	Copperhead		Ronald F. Maxwell	Drama. Based on a novel The Copperhead.
2014	United States	Confederate Cavalry		Christopher Forbes	War.
2014	United States	Field of Lost Shoes		Sean McNamara	Action, Drama, War. Battle of New Market
2014	United States	The Keeping Room		Daniel Barber	Drama, Western.
2014	United States	Firetrail		Christopher Forbes	War, Western.
2015	United States	Men Go to Battle		Zachary Treitz	Comedy, Drama, War.
2015	United States	Perfect Disguise		Christopher Forbes	Western.
2016	United States	Josephine		Rory Feek	Drama, History.
2016	United States	The War Riders		Christopher Forbes	War.
2016	United States	Union Bound		Harvey Lowry	Action, Drama, History.
2016	United States China	Free State of Jones		Gary Ross	Action, Biography, Drama, History, War, Western. Newton Knight, Jones County
2017	United States	The Last Gunslinger		Christopher Forbes	Western.
2017	United States	Without a Country		Brad Clark	Adventure, Drama, History.
2017	United States	The Beguiled		Sofia Coppola	Drama, Thriller, War. Based on a novel The Beguiled.
2018	United States	The Confederate		Christopher Forbes	History.
2018	United States	Union		Whitney Hamilton	Drama, History, War.
2019	China United States	Harriet		Kasi Lemmons	Action, Biography, Drama, History. Harriet Tubman
2019	France Canada Belgium	The Savage State	L'État sauvage	David Perrault	Drama, Western.
2019	United States	American Confederate		Christopher Forbes	Western.
2019	United States	Little Women		Greta Gerwig	Drama, Romance. Based on a novel Little Women.
2019	United States	A Rebel Born		Christopher Forbes	Action. Nathan Bedford Forrest

2020s

Year	width= 80	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Original title (Original script)	width=100	Director	Subject
2020	United States	The Burning of Atlanta		Christopher Forbes	Action, History. Battle of Atlanta
2021	United States	Foxhole		Jack Fessenden	Drama, War.
2021	United States	Vivandière		James R. Temple	Action.
2021	United States	Kill Cavalry		Christopher Forbes	War. Hugh Judson Kilpatrick
2021	United States	Hampton's Legion		Christopher Forbes	Action, War. Wade Hampton III
2022	United States	Civil War Saint		Ashley Hays Wright	War.
2022	United States	Emancipation		Antoine Fuqua	Action, Thriller.
2022	United States	Submerged		Christopher Forbes	War. Sinking of USS Housatonic
2022	United States	Band of Rebels		Christopher Forbes	Western.
2022	United States	Jesse James: Unchained		Henrique Couto	Western.
2022	United States	Freedom's Path		Brett Smith	Drama, History, War.
2023	United States	Hampton's iron scouts		Christopher Forbes
2023	United States	Jesse James and Quantrill's Raiders		Christopher Forbes	Jesse James, Quantrill's Raiders
2023	United States	Treasure Train		Christopher Forbes	Based on the book The Treasure Train.
2023	United States	Letters to Freedom		Joshua Williams	Drama, Romance, War.
2023	United States	Storm Over Georgia		Christopher Forbes	Drama, History, War.
2023	Mexico Canada Denmark	The Dead Don't Hurt		Viggo Mortensen	Drama, Western.
2024	United States	Sherman’s March through the Carolinas		Christopher Forbes	Carolinas campaign
2024	United States	The War Between		Deborah Correa	Western.
2024	United States			Kevin Costner	Drama, Western.

Upcoming films

Year	width= 80	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Original title (Original script)	width=100	Director	Subject
2024	United States			Kevin Costner	Drama, Western.
	United States			Kevin Costner	Drama, Western.
	United States	Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 4		Kevin Costner	Western.
	United States	1000 Miles		Hanelle Culpepper	Biography, Drama, Thriller.
	United States	Last Ride to Tanner's Outpost		Jeff Wagner	Western.
	United States	The Red Man's View		Thomas R. Bond II	Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War, Western.
	United States	The Private		John A. Coulter	War.
		Johnny Reb		Thadd Turner	Action, Drama.
		The Renegade Ghouls of Kaplan's Swamp		Joel M. Reed	Horror.
		The Red Badge of Courage: A Soldier's Tale			Drama, War.
	United States	Call Black Horse
	United States	Americana			Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Western.
		Untitled John Brown Project			Biography.
		The Red Badge of Courage			Drama, War.
		Booth			Biography, Drama, Thriller.
		U.S. Grant			Biography.

Science fiction, fantasy and horror

Year	width= 80	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Original title (Original script)	width=100	Director	Subject
1941	Soviet Union	Mysterious Island	Таинственный остров	Eduard Pentslin	Adventure, Sci-Fi, Family. Based on a novel The Mysterious Island.
1961	United Kingdom	Mysterious Island		Cy Endfield	Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi. Based on a novel The Mysterious Island.
1973	Spain France	The Mysterious Island	L'Île Mysterieuse La Isla misteriosa y el capitán Nemo Die Geheimnisvolle Insel	Juan Antonio Bardem Henri Colpi	Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi. Based on a novel The Mysterious Island.
1987	United States	From a Whisper to a Scream		Jeff Burr	Action, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller.
1993	United States	Ghost Brigade		George Hickenlooper	Horror, War.
2004	United States	Dead Birds		Alex Turner	Horror, Thriller, Western.
2005	United States	An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge		Brian James Egen	Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller. Based on a short story An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.
2011	Canada	Exit Humanity		John Geddes	Drama, Horror.
2012	United States	Jules Verne's Mysterious Island		Mark Sheppard	Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi. Based on a novel The Mysterious Island.
2012	United States	Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies		Richard Schenkman	Action, Comedy, Horror. Abraham Lincoln
2012	United States Russia			Timur Bekmambetov	Action, Fantasy, Horror. Based on a novel Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. Abraham Lincoln
2013	United States	Shroud		David Jetre	Action, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Western.
2014	United States	Army of Frankensteins		Ryan Bellgardt	Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi.
2015	Germany	Dead or alive	Tot oder Lebendig	Jochen Taubert	Action, Horror, Western.
2016	United States	Dead South		Craig Ross Jr.	Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller.
2017	United States	Dead Again in Tombstone		Roel Reiné	Action, Fantasy, Horror, Western.
2020	Germany	Scalped alive	Lebendig skalpiert	Jochen Taubert	Comedy, Horror, Western.

Television films

Year	width= 80	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Original title (Original script)	width=100	Director	Subject
1946	United States	Little Women		Ernest Colling	Family, Drama, Romance. Based on a novel Little Women.
1958	United States	Little Women		William Corrigan	Musical, Drama, Family, Romance. Based on a novel Little Women.
1960	United States	The Renegade		Rudolph Maté	Adventure.
1963	United States	Johnny Shiloh		James Nielson	Adventure, Family, War, Western. John Clem
1970	United States	Menace on the Mountain		Vincent McEveety	Drama, Family, History, War, Western.
1970	United States	The Andersonville Trial		George C. Scott	Drama. Based on the play The Andersonville Trial. Henry Wirz
1971	United States	They've Killed President Lincoln!		Robert Guenette	Drama, History. Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
1971	United States	The Last Rebel		Denys McCoy	Western.
1974	United States	The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman		John Korty	Drama, History. Based on a novel The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.
1974	United States	The Red Badge of Courage		Lee Philips	Drama, War, Western. Based on a novel The Red Badge of Courage.
1975	Yugoslavia	Andersonville - Death Camp	Андерсонвил — Логор смрти Andersonvil — Logor smrti	Sava Mrmak	Drama, History, War. Based on the play The Andersonville Trial. Henry Wirz
1975	United States	The Hatfields and the McCoys		Clyde Ware	Action, Drama, Western. Hatfield–McCoy feud
1975	United States	Friendly Persuasion		Joseph Sargent	Drama. Based on the novels The Friendly Persuasion, Except for Me and Thee.
1978	United States	The Million Dollar Dixie Deliverance		Russ Mayberry	Adventure, Drama, Family.
1979	Canada United States	One of the Missing		J.D. Feigelson	Drama. Based on a short story One of the Missing.
1979	United States	Love's Savage Fury		Joseph Hardy	Drama, Western.
1979	United States	The Legend of the Golden Gun		Alan J. Levi	Fantasy, Western. William Quantrill
1980	United States	The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd		Paul Wendkos	Biography, Drama, History. Samuel Mudd
1981	West Germany United States	The Private History of a Campaign That Failed		Peter H. Hunt	Comedy, Drama. Based on short stories The Private History of a Campaign That Failed, The War Prayer.
1984	United States	Booker		Stan Lathan	Biography, Drama, Family. Booker T. Washington
1990	United States	Traitor in My House		Nell Cox	Drama, Family. Elizabeth Van Lew
1990	United States	The Rose and the Jackal		Jack Gold	Adventure, Drama, Romance, War, Western. American Civil War spies, Allan Pinkerton, Rose O'Neal Greenhow
1991	United States	The Perfect Tribute		Jack Bender	Drama. Gettysburg Address
1991	United States	Ironclads		Delbert Mann	War. Battle of Hampton Roads
1992	United States	Lincoln and the War Within		Calvin Skaggs	Drama. Abraham Lincoln, William H. Seward.
1993	United States	For Love and Glory		Roger Young	Drama.
1993	United States	Class of '61		Gregory Hoblit	Action, Drama.
1995	United States	Tad		Rob Thompson	Drama, History. Tad Lincoln
1996	United States	Andersonville		John Frankenheimer	Drama, History, War. Andersonville Prison
1998	United States	The Day Lincoln Was Shot		John Gray	Biography, Drama, History. Based on an unknown book. Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
1998	United States	The Tempest		Jack Bender	Drama. Based on the play The Tempest.
1999	United States	The Hunley		John Gray	Action, Drama, History, War, Western. Based on an unknown story. Sinking of USS Housatonic
2000	United States			James Keach	Biography, Drama. Fanny Kemble
2004	Canada	The Unsexing of Emma Edmonds		Pepita Ferrari	Biography. Sarah Emma Edmonds
2005	United States	The Colt		Yelena Lanskaya	Action, Drama, History, War, Western. Based on the short story Zherebyonok.
2005	United States Thailand Germany	Mysterious Island		Russell Mulcahy	Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi. Based on a novel The Mysterious Island.
2006	United States	Ambrose Bierce: Civil War Stories		Don Maxwell Brian James Egen	Biography, Drama, History, War. Based on stories One Kind Of Officer, Story Of A Conscience, An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge.
2006	United States	No Retreat from Destiny: The Battle That Rescued Washington		Kevin Hershberger	Action, Drama, War. Valley campaigns of 1864
2014	United States	Deliverance Creek		Jon Amiel	Drama, Romance, Western.
2015	United States	Point of Honor		Randall Wallace	Drama.
2016	United States	Rebel		Luke Cook	Action, Adventure, Romance, Western. Based on a novel The Starbuck Chronicles.

TV Series

Year	width= 80	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Original title (Original script)	width=100	Director	Subject
1917	United States	The Lincoln Cycle		John M. Stahl	Biography, Drama, History. Abraham Lincoln
1938	United States	The Lone Ranger		William Witney John English	Drama, Family, Western. Based on the radio program The Lone Ranger.
1950-51	United Kingdom	Little Women			Drama, Family, Romance. Based on a novel Little Women.
1951	United States	Mysterious Island		Spencer Gordon Bennet	Action, Family, Sci-Fi. Based on a novel The Mysterious Island.
1957-58	United States	The Gray Ghost		Hollingsworth Morse	Adventure, War, Western. John S. Mosby
1958	United Kingdom	Little Women		Alan Bromly	Drama, Family, Romance. Based on a novel Little Women.
1958-60	United States	The Texan			Western.
1961	United States	The Americans			Action, War. Based on a novel The Valiant Virginians.
1970	United Kingdom	Little Women		Paddy Russell	Drama, Family, Romance. Based on a novel Little Women.
1974-76	United States	Lincoln		George Schaefer	Biography, Drama, History, War. Abraham Lincoln
1976-79	United States	How the West Was Won			Drama, Western.
1977	United States	Roots		Marvin J. Chomsky John Erman David Greene Gilbert Moses	Biography, Drama, History, War. Based on a novel .
1978-9	United States	Centennial			Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western. Based on a novel Centennial.
1978	United States	Little Women		David Lowell Rich	Drama, Family, Romance. Based on a novel Little Women.
1979	United States	Little Women			Drama. Based on a novel Little Women.
1980	United States	Beulah Land		Virgil W. Vogel Harry Falk	Drama. Based on the novels Beulah Land, and Look Away, Beulah Land.
1981	United States	Manions of America		Joseph Sargent Charles S. Dubin	Drama.
1982	United States	The Blue and the Gray		Andrew V. McLaglen	Drama, History, War.
1985-94	United States	North and South			Drama, History, Romance, War. Based on a novels North and South.
1986	United States	Dream West		Dick Lowry	Biography, Drama, Western. Based on a novel Dream West.
1988	United States	Lincoln		Lamont Johnson	Drama, History, War. Based on a novel Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln
1991	United States	Son of the Morning Star		Mike Robe	Biography, History, Western. Based on the book Son of the Morning Star.
1993	United States	Alex Haley's Queen		John Erman	Biography, Drama, Romance, War. Based on a novel .
1994	United States	Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All		Ken Cameron	Drama, War. Based on a novel Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All.
1995	Canada New Zealand	Mysterious Island			Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi. Based on a novel The Mysterious Island.
1998	United States	The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer		Matthew Diamond	Comedy, History. Abraham Lincoln
2012	United States	Hatfields & McCoys		Kevin Reynolds	Drama, History, Romance, War, Western. Hatfield–McCoy feud
2012-13	United States	Copper			Action, Drama.
2013-14	United States	1863		Robert Tinnell	History.
2015-16	United States	To Appomattox		Mikael Salomon	Biography, Drama, History, War.
2016	United States	Roots		Bruce Beresford Thomas Carter Phillip Noyce Mario Van Peebles	Drama, War. Based on a novel .
2016-17	United States	Mercy Street			Drama, History. Based on the memoir Adventures of an Army Nurse in Two Wars.
2017	United Kingdom United States Ireland	Little Women		Vanessa Caswill	Drama. Based on a novel Little Women.
2024	United States	Manhunt		Carl Franklin John Dahl Eva Sørhaug	Drama, History, Thriller. Based on the book Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer. John Wilkes Booth, Edwin Stanton, Assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
2024	United States	The Gray House		Roland Joffé	Drama. American Civil War spies

Documentaries

• The Battle of Gettysburg (1955)
• The Civil War by Ken Burns (first broadcast on PBS from September 23 to Thursday, September 27, 1990)
• The Great Battles of the Civil War (TV series 1994)
• Sherman's March (1986)
• Civil War Combat (TV Series 2000-2003)
• Gettysburg: 3 days of Destiny (2004)
• 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed Women (2006), TV, recounting the Battle of Antietam
• Lincoln and Lee at Antietam: The Cost of Freedom (2006)
• The End of the Civil War (2009, History Channel): a collection of four separately produced and aired films sold as a single title: Sherman's March (2007), April 1865 (2003), The Hunt for John Wilkes Booth (2007), and Stealing Lincoln's Body (2009). The collection is also known as The Last Days of the Civil War.
• Gettysburg (broadcast on History in 2011)