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1. The Alamo (1960)
Passed | 162 min | Adventure, Drama, History
In 1836, a small band of soldiers sacrifice their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.
Director: John Wayne | Stars: John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey, Frankie Avalon
Votes: 17,725 | Gross: $17.26M
2. The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory (1987 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 140 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
Against orders and with no help of relief Texas patriots led by William Travis, Jim Bowie, and Davy Crockett defend the Alamo against overwhelming Mexican forces.
Director: Burt Kennedy | Stars: James Arness, Brian Keith, Alec Baldwin, David Ogden Stiers
Votes: 743
3. The Alamo (2004)
PG-13 | 137 min | Drama, History, War
Based on the 1836 standoff between a group of Texan and Tejano men, led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, and Mexican dictator Santa Anna's forces at the Alamo in San Antonio Texas.
Director: John Lee Hancock | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Billy Bob Thornton, Emilio Echevarría, Jason Patric
Votes: 22,312 | Gross: $22.41M
4. The Far Horizons (1955)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, History, Romance
After purchasing Louisiana from France, the USA sends surveyors Lewis and Clark, assisted by a Shoshone guide, to chart the new territory.
Director: Rudolph Maté | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Charlton Heston, Donna Reed, Barbara Hale
Votes: 1,298
5. Amistad (1997)
R | 155 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1839, the revolt of Mende captives aboard a Spanish owned ship causes a major controversy in the United States when the ship is captured off the coast of Long Island. The courts must decide whether the Mende are slaves or legally free.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Djimon Hounsou, Matthew McConaughey, Anthony Hopkins, Morgan Freeman
Votes: 82,815 | Gross: $44.18M
6. The Birth of a Nation (2016)
R | 120 min | Biography, Drama, History
Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher in the antebellum South, orchestrates an uprising.
Director: Nate Parker | Stars: Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Penelope Ann Miller, Jackie Earle Haley
Votes: 21,823 | Gross: $15.86M
7. Django Unchained (2012)
R | 165 min | Drama, Western
With the help of a German bounty-hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal plantation owner in Mississippi.
Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington
Votes: 1,695,862 | Gross: $162.81M
8. Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier (1955)
Approved | 93 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
American frontiersman Davy Crockett fights in the Creek Indian War, is elected to the U.S. Congress and fights for Texas at the Alamo.
Director: Norman Foster | Stars: Fess Parker, Buddy Ebsen, Basil Ruysdael, Hans Conried
Votes: 4,889
9.
You Are There (1953–1972)
Episode:
Decatur's Raid at Tripoli (February 16, 1804)
(1956)
Drama, History
Stephen Decatur's daring nighttime raid on the Barbary pirates causes on a turning point on the young nation's asserting it's power over adversaries.
Director: William D. Russell | Stars: Walter Cronkite, John Baer, Hal Baylor, Alan Dexter
10. One Man's Hero (1999)
R | 121 min | Action, Drama, History
John Riley, an Irish immigrant soldier recruited in the American army during the Mexican-American War faces anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic bigotry from his fellow servicemen and defects to the Mexican army.
Director: Lance Hool | Stars: Tom Berenger, Joaquim de Almeida, Daniela Romo, Mark Moses
Votes: 1,341 | Gross: $0.23M
11. Harriet (I) (2019)
PG-13 | 125 min | Action, Biography, Drama
The extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes, whose courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.
Director: Kasi Lemmons | Stars: Cynthia Erivo, Janelle Monáe, Leslie Odom Jr., Joe Alwyn
Votes: 30,733
12. Andrew Jackson (2007 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Through interviews, visits to historical locations and vivid reenactments, this History Channel production details the life of Andrew Jackson. It illuminates his early years as well as his ... See full summary »
Directors: Jim Lindsay, Harlan Glenn | Stars: Edward Herrmann, Peter Kiklowicz, Ryan Proffitt, Nathan Wiederman
Votes: 41
13. The Slave Trade (2007 TV Movie)
57 min | History
Beginning with the American Revolution, this program explores the U.S. law of 1807 that abolished the transatlantic slave trade. Meet the people who were involved in or influenced by this ... See full summary »
Director: Abigail Schumann
14.
The Presidents (2005)
Episode:
J. Q. Adams to Polk (1825-1849)
(2005)
Documentary, Biography, History
About US Presidents 6) John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), 7) Andrew Jackson (1829-1837), 8) Martin Van Buren (1837-1841), 9) William Henry Harrison (1841), 10) John Tyler (1841-1845) and 11) James K. Polk (1845-1849).
Stars: Edward Herrmann, Richard Brookhiser, George Bush, George W. Bush
Votes: 7
15. James Polk (2009)
84 min | Documentary, Adventure, Biography
Depending on whom you ask, James K. Polk was A) A great President, B) A scoundrel or C) Who's that? This documentary is a humorous look at one filmmaker's cross country attempt to sort it all out.
Director: Brian Robert Rose | Stars: Paul Bergeron, Luis Granados, Mark Hanley, John Holtzapple
16.
A Taste of History (2008– )
Episode:
James K. Polk: The Dark Horse President
(2016)
Not Rated | 24 min | History
Walter demystifies the "Dark Horse, " James K. Polk, known as "the most important President that you know the least about." In Polk's kitchen, Chef Staib showcases the farm-to-table Southern fare that was dear to Polk's heart.
Director: Tom Daly | Star: Walter Staib
17.
The Presidents (2005)
Episode:
Washington to Monroe (1789-1825)
(2005)
Documentary, Biography, History
About US Presidents 1) George Washington (1789-1797), 2) John Adams (1797-1801), 3) Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809), 4) James Madison (1809-1817) and 5) James Monroe (1817-1825).
Stars: Edward Herrmann, Carol Berkin, Richard Brookhiser, George W. Bush
Votes: 8
18.
The Presidents (2005)
Episode:
Taylor to Lincoln (1849-1865)
(2005)
Documentary, Biography, History
About US Presidents 12) Zachary Taylor (1849-1850), 13) Millard Fillmore (1850-1853), 14) Franklin Pierce (1853-1857), 15) James Buchanan (1857-1861) and 16) Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865).
Stars: Edward Herrmann, Jean Baker, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton
Votes: 8
19. California (1947)
Passed | 97 min | Western
Epic account of how California became a state, featuring a wagon train, the Gold Rush, a wicked saloon queen, and an evil profiteer.
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Ray Milland, Barry Fitzgerald, George Coulouris
Votes: 1,092
20. The Monroe Doctrine (1939)
Approved | 22 min | Short, Drama, History
The story of President Monroe's response to attempts by Spain to interfere in South America.
Director: Crane Wilbur | Stars: Grant Mitchell, Charles Waldron, James Stephenson, Frank Wilcox
Votes: 117
21. The Men Who Built America: Frontiersmen (2018)
TV-PG | 83 min | Documentary, History
A look at the lives of iconic pioneers such as Daniel Boone, Lewis and Clark, Tecumseh, Davy Crocket and Andrew Jackson as they traveled across America.
Stars: Campbell Scott, Mykel Hawke, Andrew Robertt, Robert I. Mesa
Votes: 950
22. The Oregon Trail (1959)
Approved | 86 min | Drama, Western
In 1846, a newspaperman joins an Oregon Trail wagon train to verify rumors about the U.S. government sending troops disguised as settlers there in order to claim Oregon.
Director: Gene Fowler Jr. | Stars: Fred MacMurray, William Bishop, Nina Shipman, Gloria Talbott
Votes: 490
24. The Adams Chronicles (1976)
50 min | Drama, History
This ambitious multi-part PBS production brings to life five generations of one of America's leading political and historical families, tracing their lives from John Adams' years as a ... See full summary »
Stars: Pamela Payton-Wright, George Hearn, Michael Tolan, William Daniels
Votes: 213
25.
Biography (1987– )
Episode:
Lewis & Clark: Explorers of the New Frontier
(1995)
TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Extensive accounts from their journals bring the epic quest to explore a vast continent to life.
Votes: 87
26. Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery (1997 TV Movie)
TV-G | 240 min | Documentary, Adventure, Biography
The story of the most important American exploration expedition in American history and the participants in it.
Director: Ken Burns | Stars: Hal Holbrook, Adam Arkin, John Logan Allen, Stephen Ambrose
Votes: 1,417
27. Savage Journey (1983 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, History, Western
A story of the settling in the West and the hardship and determination it took to do it.
Director: Tom McGowan | Stars: Maurice Grandmaison, Paul Wharton, John Mason, Stephen Cracroft
Votes: 157
28. Magnificent Doll (1946)
Passed | 90 min | Drama, History
Dolly Payne Madison is the daughter of boardinghouse owners in Washington, DC who falls in love with Aaron Burr and James Madison.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Burgess Meredith, Peggy Wood
Votes: 446
29. The Other Madisons
Documentary | Completed
Author Bettye Kearse, narrates the extraordinary saga of her family, multiple generations descendants of slaves, and James Madison, president of the United States of America.
Director: Eduardo Montes-Bradley | Stars: Rita Dove, Lynn Rainville, Christian Cotz, Matthew B. Reeves
30. The Pale Blue Eye (2022)
R | 128 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A world-weary detective is hired to investigate the murder of a West Point cadet. Stymied by the cadets' code of silence, he enlists one of their own to help unravel the case - a young man the world would come to know as Edgar Allan Poe.
Director: Scott Cooper | Stars: Christian Bale, Harry Melling, Simon McBurney, Timothy Spall
Votes: 124,713
31.
Dobrodruzství kriminalistiky (1989–1998)
Episode:
Pinkertonova detektivní agentura
(1991)
48 min | Crime, History
USA 1850: one man tries to prevent race fraud by employing the new invention of photography in order to create identity papers for race-horses. The escalating rivalry between two ... See full summary »
Director: Antonín Moskalyk | Stars: Hellmut Lange, Ladislav Mrkvicka, Matej Hádek, Radoslav Brzobohatý
Votes: 12
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