Best American Civil War movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Nicole Kidman, Jude Law, Renée Zellweger, Eileen Atkins,
Directors : Anthony Minghella,

In the waning days of the American Civil War, a wounded soldier embarks on a perilous journey back home to Cold Mountain, North Carolina to reunite with his sweetheart.

Actors : Bill McKinney, Sondra Locke, Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

A Missouri farmer joins a Confederate guerrilla unit and winds up on the run from the Union soldiers who murdered his family.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif,
Directors : Alan Parker,

Two F.B.I. Agents, with wildly different styles, arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists.

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Kirsten Dunst, Winona Ryder, Claire Danes,
Directors : Gillian Armstrong,

The March sisters live and grow in post-Civil War America.

Actors : Julian Sands, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich, Sam Waterston,
Directors : Roland Joffé,

A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians.

Actors : John Savage, James Woods, James Belushi, Michael Murphy,
Directors : Oliver Stone,

An American photojournalist gets caught in a political struggle at El Salvador in 1980.

Actors : Matthew Broderick, Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes,
Directors : Edward Zwick,

Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.

Actors : Doug McClure, Glenn Corbett, James Stewart, Patrick Wayne,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

During the Civil War, a Virginia farmer and his family vow to remain neutral but one of the sons is captured by Union soldiers, sending the farmer to his rescue.

Actors : Dorothy Tutin, Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley,
Directors : Ken Hughes,

Oliver Cromwell can no longer tolerate King Charles' policies, and the self-interest of the ruling class, and leads a civil war to install Parliament as the ultimate ruler of England.

Actors : Richard Boone, Stuart Whitman, Wende Wagner, Anthony Franciosa,
Directors : Gordon Douglas,

A former Confederate officer and a Mexican try to prevent a former Confederate colonel from selling stolen rifles to renegade Apaches in Mexico.