Most popular American Civil War movies

Actors : Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman, Clint Eastwood, Jo Ann Harris,
Directors : Don Siegel,

While imprisoned in a Confederate girls' boarding school, an injured Union soldier cons his way into each of the lonely women's hearts, causing them to turn on each other, and eventually, on him.

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 : Stella Cooper, Ava Cooper, Rosamund Pike, Scott Shepherd,
Directors : Scott Cooper,

In 1892, a legendary Army captain reluctantly agrees to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory.

Actors : Roman Gabriel, Rock Hudson, Antonio Aguilar, John Wayne,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

After the Civil War, ex-Union Colonel John Henry Thomas and ex-Confederate Colonel James Langdon are leading two disparate groups of people through strife-torn Mexico. John Henry and ...

Actors : Jim Hutton, Richard Harris, James Coburn, Charlton Heston,
Directors : Sam Peckinpah,

In 1864, due to frequent Apache raids from Mexico into the U.S., a Union officer decides to illegally cross the border and destroy the Apache, using a mixed army of Union troops, Confederate POWs, civilian mercenaries, and scouts.

Actors : Jack Elam, Jorge Rivero, Jennifer O'Neill, John Wayne,
Directors : Howard Hawks,

After the Civil War, Cord McNally searches for the traitor whose perfidy caused the defeat of McNally's unit and the loss of a close friend.

Actors : Michael Callan, Gary Merrill, Joan Greenwood, Michael Craig,
Directors : Cy Endfield,

During the Civil War a group of Union soldiers and two Confederates escape the stockade using a hot air balloon and end up on a strange Pacific island.

Actors : Salma Hayek, Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh,
Directors : Barry Sonnenfeld,

The two best hired guns in the West must save President Grant from the clutches of a nineteenth-century inventor-villain.

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 : Morgan Freeman, Matthew Broderick, 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 : Bruce Dern, Mira Sorvino, Wes Studi, Kevin Makely,
Directors : Justin Lee,

Detective Matthias Breecher is hired to track down the worst of the Confederate war criminals. As he roams the Old West seeking justice, his resolve is tested when he meets a determined pioneer woman who is far more than she seems.

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 : Brenda Scott, Don Stroud, James Caan, Michael Sarrazin,
Directors : William Hale,

At the beginning of the Civil War, seven friends embark on a cross-country journey in order to join the Confederate army.

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 : 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 : Stephen Lang, Tom Berenger, Richard Jordan, Martin Sheen,
Directors : Ron Maxwell,

In 1863, the Northern and Southern forces fight at Gettysburg in the decisive battle of the American Civil War.

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.

Actors : Richard Harris, Dorothy Tutin, 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 : Cicely Browne, Lewis E. Ciannelli, Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi,

Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.