Keyword: 19th century

Bret Maverick

7.5

1981

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Set in Sweetwater, Arizona in the 1880s with solid citizen Bret owning a ranch and part of the Red Ox Saloon. Stable cast with varying stories, often centered on conflict between the ambitious sheriff and everyone else.

The Lizzie Borden Chronicles

6.9

2015

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Fictionalized account of actual events and people surrounding Lizzie Andrew Borden after her controversial acquittal of the double murder of her father and stepmother in 1892.

Year of the Rabbit

7.4

2019

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Detective Inspector Rabbit, a dedicated, tough, thick, and oft-inebriated Victorian copper, sleuths his way across London with his two young partners: a doofy rookie and a brilliant Black policewoman no one ever believes.

Shaka Zulu

7.7

1986

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A historical account on the life of the Zulu King Shaka.

Hatfields & McCoys

7.9

2012

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Dramatization of the bitter blood feud between the two families on the West Virginia/Kentucky border in the years after the Civil War.

Jericho

6.8

2016

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In the Yorkshire Dales in the 1870s, the shantytown of Jericho is the home of a community that will live, thrive and die in the shadow of the viaduct theyve been brought together to build.

Overland Trail

7.5

1960

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The adventures of a crusty superintendent for the Overland Stage Co. and his young sidekick as they try to keep the stage routes safe.

Strange Empire

5.8

2014

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In 1869 Janestown on the Alberta-Montana border, three women band together for survival after the men in their town are murdered.

Texas Rising

6.7

2015

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The story of how the Texas Rangers were created.

Quick Draw

7.6

2013

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Sheriff John Henry Hoyle and his reluctant Deputy Eli introduce the emerging science of forensics to an 1875 Kansas town.

The Onedin Line

7.6

1971

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James Onedin marries Anne Webster in order to get his hands on a ship. However the marriage turns out to be one of true love. James is ruthless in his attempt to get a shipping line started in Liverpool of the 1860s.

Desperate Romantics

7.4

2009

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Period drama set in London about the rise of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

A Christmas Carol

7.6

1999

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An old bitter miser who makes excuses for his uncaring nature learns real compassion when three ghosts visit him on Christmas Eve.

A Woman's Life

6.4

2016

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A fragmented account of the life of Jeanne as she sets out on the path of adult life and gradually experiences the harsh realities of a womans life in the 19th-century.

Hostile Territory

4.3

2022

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In post-civil war America, when a Union soldier is presumed dead, his children are mistakenly sent away on the orphan train. This is a wild-west story of people uniting for the greater good, and children forced to grow up quickly.

Sharpe's Honour

7.8

1994

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1813. Major Sharpes old enemy, Major Ducos manipulates a beautiful young marquesa into falsely accusing Sharpe of rape. Her husband calls Sharpe out in a duel. But when the husband is found dead the next morning, Sharpe is arrested and brought before a court martial, and it seems not even Patrick Harper and the Chosen Men can save Sharpe from a hanging, or rescue his honour.

Measuring the World

5.7

2012

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\Die Vermessung der Welt\ follows two brilliant and eccentric scientists, Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedrich Gauss, on their life paths in early-19th-century Germany.

Rosalie

4.8

2023

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The story of the first bearded lady attraction.

Swann in Love

6.5

1984

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In the late nineteenth century Paris, Briton Charles Swann, a man of wealth and culture, runs among the social set. That life is threatened when he falls in love with Odette de Crécy, a courtesan, that love all consuming in that he thinks about how he can be with her when they arent together. He also despises himself for loving her to the extent he does in knowing that if that love is ever destroyed, he wont be able to survive the emotional pain. He is also made quite aware that if he does marry Odette, whose services he pays for while he allows her to continue with her life, he will lose his social position as most will not be able to welcome her into their house. The wealthy Verudins may be the exceptions as they are considered vulgar and gauche despite their wealth, they who have their own choice for Odette, a man named de Forcheville. The other other exception is Charles old friend, the Baron de Charlus, who introduced the two to each other. The Barons support for Charles regardless of what he ends up doing is because he has already reconciled himself to his own socially taboo life, that of a homosexual with a penchant for younger men.

Colette

6.8

2018

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Colette is pushed by her husband to write novels under his name. Upon their success, she fights to make her talents known, challenging gender norms.

Bel Ami

5.4

2012

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A chronicle of a young mans rise to power in Paris via his manipulation of the citys wealthiest and most influential women.

Sharpe's Gold

7.5

1995

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Sharpe is sent on a mission to exchange rifles for deserters with a strange band of Spanish guerillas. He also has to chaperone two women looking for their missing husband.

Stranded

6.5

2002

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David Robinson is being shipped off to a penal colony. His wife and kids are allowed to accompany him. A storm strikes the ship and the family (save for one son, Jacob) are trapped below deck. Jacob is raised by pirates, and the family gets out of the boat and on to land, salvaging as much as they can from the boat, including dogs, chickens, and muskets. They learn to survive and build a shelter on land. Then, Jacobs pirates kidnap Emily, the daughter of a sea-captain. She escapes onto the island and becomes a love interest with Fritz and Ernst. Jacob is reunited with his family during a battle with the pirates over Emily, and she is returned to her father. In the end, the family goes their own ways, some staying on the island, some going home.

Steamboy

6.9

2004

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In 1860s Britain, a boy inventor finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly conflict over a revolutionary advance in steam power.