List of films and television shows about the American Civil War
The following is a list of films and television shows about the American Civil War from the beginning of the 20th century until present.
Films about the war
Before 1920
- The Guerrilla (1908)
- The Fugitive (1910)
- The House with Closed Shutters (1910)
- In the Border States (1910)
- The Battle (1911), directed by D.W. Griffith
- His Trust Fulfilled (1911)
- Railroad Raiders of '62 (1911)
- Swords and Hearts (1911)
- For Her Sake (1911)
- Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight (1912)
- The Informer (1912)
- The Lie (1912)
- The Seventh Son (1912)
- The Battle of Gettysburg (1913)
- The Battle of Shiloh (1913)
- The Price of Victory (1913)
- The Seed of the Fathers (1913)
- Dan (1914)
- The Sleeping Sentinel (1914)
- The Birth of a Nation (1915), also known as The Clansmen, directed by D.W. Griffith
- The Warrens of Virginia (1915)
- Colonel Carter of Cartersville (1915)
- The Coward (1915)
- According to the Code (1916)
- Her Father's Son (1916)
- Naked Hearts (1916)
- The Sting of Victory (1916)
- The Blood of His Fathers (1917)
- The Field of Honor (1917)
- The Lincoln Cycle (1917)
- The Spreading Dawn (1917)
- Hearts of Love (1918)
- The Scarlet Drop (1918)
- The Son of Democracy (1918)
- Miss Dulcie from Dixie (1918)
- Hay Foot, Straw Foot (1919)
1920s
- The Copperhead (1920)
- Grandma's Boy (1922)
- Barbara Frietchie (1924)
- The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln (1924)
- Hands Up! (1926)
- The General (1926), film by Buster Keaton about the Great Locomotive Chase
- Court Martial (1928)
- The Overland Telegraph (1929)
1930s
- Abraham Lincoln (1930), a biopic about President Abraham Lincoln
- Secret Service (1931)
- Little Women (1933)
- Operator 13 (1934)
- So Red the Rose (1935)
- The Littlest Rebel (1935)
- Hearts in Bondage (1936)
- General Spanky (1936)
- The Old Maid (1939)
- Gone with the Wind (1939), perhaps the most famous Civil War film
1940s
- The Man from Dakota (1940)
- Virginia City (1940)
- Dark Command (1940)
- They Died With Their Boots On (1941), a biopic about General George Custer
- Tennessee Johnson (1942), a biopic about President Andrew Johnson
- The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944), a biopic about Mark Twain
- Renegade Girl (1946)
- Silver River (1948)
- A Southern Yankee (1948)
- The Man from Colorado (1949)
- Little Women (1949)
- South of St. Louis (1949)
1950s
- Two Flags West (1950)
- Rocky Mountain (1950)
- Drums in the Deep South (1951)
- The Last Outpost (1951)
- The Red Badge of Courage (1951)
- Springfield Rifle (1952)
- Escape from Fort Bravo (1953)
- The Raid (1954), loosely based on the St. Albans Raid
- The Great Locomotive Chase (1956), based on the Great Locomotive Chase
- Love Me Tender (1956)
- Friendly Persuasion (1956)
- Revolt at Fort Laramie (1957)
- Band of Angels (1957)
- Raintree County (1957)
- The Horse Soldiers (1959), based on the Grierson's Raid in the Vicksburg Campaign and the Battle of Newton's Station
1960s
- Mysterious Island (1961)
- How the West Was Won (1962)
- Advance to the Rear (1964)
- Major Dundee (1965)
- Shenandoah (1965)
- Alvarez Kelly (1966)
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), western, directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood, that involves an encounter with both Union and Confederate forces
- A Time for Killing (1967)
1970s
- Rio Lobo (1970)
- The Beguiled (1971)
- The Red Badge of Courage (TV) (1974)
- The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), Clint Eastwood film about guerrilla warfare in Missouri
1980s and 1990s
- The Shadow Riders (1982) made for television film, starring Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott
- Glory (1989), drama, starring Matthew Broderick and Denzel Washington, about the African-American 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
- Dances With Wolves (1990)
- Ironclads (1991), made-for-TV drama about the ironclad warships CSS Virginia and the USS Monitor, which clashed at the Battle of Hampton Roads
- Sommersby (1993)
- Ghost Brigade (1993)
- Gettysburg (1993), war film featuring Tom Berenger and Jeff Daniels about the Battle of Gettysburg
- Pharaoh's Army (1995)
- Andersonville (TV) (1996)
- Amistad (1997), features a brief shot of the war at the end of the film
- The Hunley (TV) (1999), film about the Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley
- Ride with the Devil (1999), Ang Lee film about the guerrilla battles in Kansas and Missouri between the jayhawkers and the bushwhackers
2000s
- Wicked Spring (2002)
- Gangs of New York (2002), drama, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, about the New York Draft Riots
- Gods and Generals (2003), prequel to Gettysburg and covers the battles of First Bull Run, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville
- Cold Mountain (2003), drama, starring Jude Law and Nicole Kidman, that features the Battle of the Crater and aftermath of the war
- C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2004), alternative history film which speculates what would happen had the South won the Civil War
- Dead Birds (2004)
- The Colt (TV) (2005), drama, starring Ryan Merriman, features Battle of the Wilderness
- Mysterious Island (TV) (2005)
- The Last Confederate: The Story of Robert Adams (2007)
- Dog Jack (2009)
2010s
- The Conspirator (2010)
- Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies (2012)
- Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)
- Lincoln (2012), starring Daniel Day-Lewis, covering the last few months of the war
- Saving Lincoln (2013), about Ward Hill Lamon who was Lincoln's bodyguard
- Killing Lincoln (TV) (2013)
- Copperhead (2013)
- Field of Lost Shoes (2014)
- Army of Frankensteins (2014)
- The Keeping Room (2014)
- Free State of Jones (2016)
- The Beguiled (2017)
- Little Women (2019)
Television shows and miniseries
- The Twilight Zone (1959-1964), had a few episodes that dealt with the Civil War:
- The Passersby (1961)
- Still Valley (1961)
- An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1964)
- The Americans (1961), TV series
- The Blue and the Gray (1982), miniseries, starring John Hammond, Stacy Keach, Lloyd Bridges, and Gregory Peck as President Abraham Lincoln
- North and South (1985 - 1986/1994), miniseries, starring Patrick Swayze, James Read and Lesley-Anne Down
- The Rose and the Jackal (1990) Civil War Spy drama starring Christopher Reeve as Allan Pinkerton and Madolyn Smith as Rose Greenhow
- True Blood (2008-2014), one of the main protagonists of the show vampire Bill Compton is a former Confederate soldier and some flashbacks are set specifically in the Civil War.
- Hell on Wheels (2011-2016), protagonist of the show is an ex-Confederate soldier veteran.
- Copper (2012-2013) - portrays the 1864 Election Day sabotage
- Grant (2020), miniseries, depicts the life of Ulysses Grant, with a large portion covering the Civil War.
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 film) (1986)
- Civil War Combat (TV Series 2000-2003)
- Gettysburg: 3 days of Destiny (2004, IMDB:tt0419775)
- 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed Women (2006), TV, recounting the Battle of Antietam
- Aftershock: Beyond the Civil War (2006)
- Lincoln and Lee at Antietam: The Cost of Freedom (2006, IMDB:tt0491031)
- The End of the Civil War (2009 by History Channel): a collection of four separately produced and aired films sold as a single title: Sherman's March (2007, IMDB:tt0899221), April 1865 (2003, IMDB:tt0395943), The Hunt for John Wilkes Booth (2007, IMDB:tt0997253), and Stealing Lincoln's Body (2009, IMDB:tt1374959). The collection is also known as "The Last Days of the Civil War".
- Gettysburg (broadcast on History in 2011)
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