War of 1812 Era | The Frontier/Western Expansion | Manifest Destiny/War with
Mexico | "Invasion" of Central America | Slavery/Civil War | Lincoln | Other Presidents and Statesmen | Indian Wars/Custer/Buffalo Bill | Labor/Immigrant Problems | The Western | Robber Barons/Tycoons | Spanish American War | Inventors/Entertainers

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WAR OF 1812 ERA:

The Birth of the Star-Spangled Banner
    (1914)
The Buccaneer (1938) (1958):  pirate Jean
    Lafitte
The Eagle of the Sea (1926): Lafitte
The Last of the Buccaneers (1950): Lafitte
Old Ironsides (1926)

THE FRONTIER/WESTERN EXPANSION:

Brigham Young (1940)
Chisum (1970): 1870s New Mexico cattle
    wars
Davy Crockett, Indian Scout (1950)
Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier
    (1955)
Far Horizons (1955):  Lewis and Clark
The Frontiersman (1927): Andrew Jackson
Heaven's Gate (1980): war in Johnson
    County, Wyoming
The Iron Horse (1924): transcontinental
    railroad
Kit Carson (1940)
Man in the Wilderness (1971): Mountain
    man Hugh Glass
Sutter's Gold (1936):  discovery of gold in
    California
Ten Who Dared (1960): John Wesley Powell
    exploring Colorado
Union Pacific (1939)
Wagon Master (1950): Oregon Trail
Wells Fargo (1937)
Western Union (1941)
Winchester '73 (1950): "the gun that won the
    west"

MANIFEST DESTINY/WAR WITH MEXICO:

The Alamo (1960)
The Alamo: 13 Days to Glory (1987)
The First Texan (1956):  Sam Houston
Man of Conquest (1939):  Sam Houston
The Conqueror (1917): Sam Houston
Lone Star  (1952):  Texas annexation
The Man from the Alamo (1953):  a
    "deserter"
The Last Command (1955):  Jim Bowie/the
    Alamo

 "INVASION" OF CENTRAL AMERICA:

Walker (1987):  William Walker and
    Nicaragua

SLAVERY/CIVIL WAR:

Amistad (1997):  slave revolt
Andersonville Trial (1970):  prison camp
Beloved (1998):  mother love
Birth of a Nation (1915):  moves into
    Reconstruction
Dark Command (1940): Quantrill's raiders
The General (1927): Buster Keaton, Union
    spies steal a train
Gettysburg (1993)
Gone With the Wind (1939):  plantation
     society/battle of Atlanta
Glory (1989):  African American soldiers
Horse Soldiers (1959): exploits of Union
    officer Benjamin Grierson
Ironclads (1991): Monitor and Merrimack
Kansas Raiders (1950): Quantrill's raiders
Mosby's Marauders (1966): Confederate
The Raid (1954): St. Alban's
Ride with the Devil (1999):  Quantrill's
    raiders
Santa Fe Trail (1940): John Brown
Seven Angry Men (1955):  John Brown
Souls at Sea (1937): secret anti-slavery
    mission
A Woman Called Moses (1978):  Harriet
    Tubman

LINCOLN:

Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
Abraham Lincoln (1930)
Gore Vidal's Lincoln (1988)
The Lincoln Conspiracy (1977)
The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)
Young Mr Lincoln (1939)

OTHER PRESIDENTS AND STATESMEN:

Magnificent Yankee (1950):  Oliver Wendell
    Holmes
The President's Lady (1953):  Andrew
    Jackson
Tennessee Johnson (1942):  Andrew
    Johnson
The Yankee Clipper (1927):  Zachary Taylor

INDIAN WARS/CUSTER/BUFFALO BILL:

Apaches (German 1973): Ulzana
Arrowhead (1953): Apache
Broken Arrow (1950): Tom Jeffords/Cochise
Buffalo Bill (1944)
Buffalo Bill and the Indians (1976):  Wild
    West Show
Cheyenne Autumn (1964):  leaving the
    reservation
Chief Crazy Horse (1955)
Custer of the West (1967)
Drum Beat (1954): Modocs
Geronimo (1939) (1962)
Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)
Great Sioux Massacre (1965):  Custer
I Will Fight No More Forever (1975): Chief
    Joseph and Nez Perces
Little Big Horn (1951)
Little Big Man (1970): Custer
The Searchers (1956): Comanches
Sitting Bull (1954)
Son of the Morning Star (1991): Custer
They Died With Their Boots On (1971):
   Custer
Ulzana's Raid (1972): Apache
Wild Times (1980): Buffalo Bill

LABOR/IMMIGRANT PROBLEMS:

Gangs of New York (2002)
The Molly Maguires (1970):  Irish miners in
    Pennsylvania

THE WESTERN:

Annie Oakley (1935)
Belle Starr (1941) (1980)
Billy the Kid (1989)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Daltons Ride Again (1945)
Gunfight at the OK Corral (1957):  Wyatt
    Earp
Heaven's Gate (1980): war in Johnson
    County, Wyoming
Hour of the Gun (1967):  Wyatt Earp
Jesse James (1939)
Judge Roy Bean (1955)
The Last Day (1975): The Dalton Brothers
The Lawless Breed (1952): John Wesley
    Hardin
Left-Handed Gun (1958):  Billy the Kid
Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
The Long Riders (1980): failed bank robbery
    by the James and Younger Brothers
My Darling Clementine (1946):  Wyatt Earp
The Outlaw (1943): Billy the Kid
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)
The Plainsman (1937):Wild Bill Hickok
The Return of Frank James (1940)
Tom Horn (1980)
Tombstone (1993): Wyatt Earp
The Westerner (1940): Judge Roy Bean
Wyatt Earp (1994)
Young Guns (1988): Billy the Kid
Young Guns II (1990)
The Younger Brothers (1949)

ROBBER BARONS/TYCOONS:

Diamond Jim (1935):  Diamond Jim Brady
The Toast of New York (1937):  Jim Fisk
    and Daniel Drew

SPANISH AMERICAN WAR:

A Message to Garcia (1916) (1936)
The Rough Riders (1927)

INVENTORS/ENTERTAINERS:

Little Old New York (1923) (1940):  Robert
    Fulton
The Mighty Barnum (1934):  Showman P. T.
    Barnum
Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)

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