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Summary: With the help of a German bounty-hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal plantation owner in Mississippi.
Runtime: 2 h 45 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 100,000,000
Domestic: $ 162,805,434
International: $ 263,270,859
Summary: The legendary tale of a barber who returns from wrongful imprisonment to 1840s London, bent on revenge for the rape and death of his wife, and resumes his trade while forming a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lov...
Runtime: 1 h 56 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 50,000,000
Domestic: $ 52,898,073
International: $ 100,486,199
Summary: A wrongfully convicted boy is sent to a brutal desert detention camp where he joins the job of digging holes for some mysterious reason.
Runtime: 1 h 57 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 20,000,000
Domestic: $ 67,406,573
International: $ 4,000,000
Summary: In this adaptation of the Henry James novel set in 19th-century New York City, a wealthy spinster with an overbearing father is pursued by a handsome fortune hunter who may be only after her money.
Runtime: 1 h 55 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 1,851,761
Summary: A tale of women's empowerment, The Warrior Queen of Jhansi tells the true story of Lakshmibai, the historic Queen of Jhansi who fiercely led her army against the British East India Company in the infamous mutiny of 1857.
Runtime: 1 h 42 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Domestic: $ 177,289
International: $ 24,853
Summary: In 19th century England, young Mary Grant and her brother, Robert, embark on a dangerous quest to find their missing father, a sea captain who vanished somewhere along the Chilean coast.
Runtime: 1 h 38 min
MPAA: G

Language: English
Domestic: $ 21,745,500
Summary: In 1857, an unemployed miller moves his family into grim lodgings; his wife takes in laundry. In February of 1858, at the Massabielle grotto, their 14-year old asthmatic, illiterate daughter, Bernadette, sees a light she later dis...
Runtime: 1 h 59 min
MPAA: PG

Language: French
Domestic: $ 7,681
Summary: At the height of his career, Charles Dickens meets a younger woman who becomes his secret lover until his death.
Runtime: 1 h 51 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Domestic: $ 1,234,254
International: $ 2,752,634
Summary: Amantha Starr grows up as a privileged Southern belle in the ante-bellum South, but after her father dies broke, her world is destroyed when she discovers that her mother was Black.
Runtime: 2 h 05 min
MPAA: Approved

Country: United States
Language: English
Summary: In 1857, con man Quincy Drew and his black friend Jason O'Rourke swindle slave owners into buying Jason, who's a free man, and later share the profits when Jason escapes captivity.
Runtime: 1 h 42 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 736,518
Summary: Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.
Runtime: 2 h 16 min
MPAA: 18+

Country: Italy
Language: Italian
Summary: Madeleine's middle-class family cannot understand why she puts off marrying a respectable young man; they know nothing about her long-term affair with a Frenchman.
Runtime: 1 h 41 min
MPAA: Approved

Language: English
Summary: SmĂĄland, Sweden, mid-19th century. A farming family struggle with their rocky, unyielding land, and decide to embark on the arduous journey to new hope in America.
Runtime: 2 h 31 min
MPAA: PG

Country: Sweden
Language: Swedish
Domestic: $ 1,156,554
Summary: A slave in the antebellum South escapes her secluded plantation only to discover a shocking reality that lies beyond the tree line.
Runtime: 1 h 40 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 373,043
Summary: England, 1850s. A master criminal aims to rob a train of a large sum of gold. Security is incredibly tight and the task seems an impossible one. However, he has a plan and just the right people to carry it out.
Runtime: 1 h 50 min
MPAA: PG

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 6,000,000
Domestic: $ 13,027,857
Summary: In 1854, Jeb Stuart, George Custer and other graduates from West Point are posted to Kansas to help pacify the territory before railroad construction to Santa Fe can resume.
Runtime: 1 h 50 min
MPAA: Approved

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 1,000,000
Summary: In 1850s Louisiana, a free-spirited Southern belle loses her fiancé due to her stubborn vanity and pride, and vows to win him back.
Runtime: 1 h 44 min
MPAA: Approved

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 1,250,000
Summary: In seeking her own redemption from the man of whom she is most afraid, ten-year-old Cadi Forbes discovers a secret sin haunting her community of Welsh immigrants in 1850s Appalachia.
Runtime: 1 h 57 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 2,200,000
Domestic: $ 388,390
Summary: Dunson leads a cattle drive, the culmination of over 14 years of work, to its destination in Missouri. But his tyrannical behavior along the way causes a mutiny, led by his adopted son.
Runtime: 2 h 13 min
MPAA: Approved

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 3,000,000