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Jefferson Finis Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American statesman and leader of the Confederacy during the American Civil War, serving as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history. Davis was born in Kentucky to Samuel and Jane (Cook) Davis. After attending Transylvania University, Davis graduated from West Point and fought in the Mexican–American War as a colonel of a volunteer regiment. He served as the United States Secretary of War under Democratic President Franklin Pierce. Both before and after his time in the Pierce administration, he served as a Democratic U.S. Senator representing the State of Mississippi. As a senator, he argued against secession, but did agree that each state was sovereign and had an unquestionable right to secede from the Union.
Abraham Lincoln i/ˈeɪbrəhæm ˈlɪŋkən/ (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through its greatest constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union while ending slavery, and promoting economic and financial modernization. Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was mostly self-educated. He became a country lawyer, a Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator in the 1830s, and a one-term member of the United States House of Representatives in the 1840s. After a series of debates in 1858 that gave national visibility to his opposition to the expansion of slavery, Lincoln lost a Senate race to his arch-rival Stephen A. Douglas. Lincoln, a moderate from a swing state, secured the Republican Party nomination. With almost no support in the South he swept the North and was elected president in 1860. His election was the signal for seven southern slave states to declare their secession from the Union and form the Confederate States of America. The departure of the Southerners gave Lincoln's party firm control of Congress, but no formula for compromise or reconciliation was found. And the war came.
Actors: Spike Lee (miscellaneous crew), Benjamin Meade (producer), Benjamin Meade (actor), Andrew Herwitz (producer), Kevin Willmott (writer), Kevin Willmott (director), Kevin Willmott (actor), Jon Niccum (actor), Ric Averill (actor), Robert Swan (actor), Aaron Champion (miscellaneous crew), Erin McGrane (actress), Ty Jones (actor), Brian Paulette (actor), Matt Jacobson (producer),
Plot: Set in an contemporary alternative world where the Confederate States of America managed to win the American Civil War, a British film documentary examines the history of this nation. Beginning with its conquest of the northern states, the film covers the history of this state where racial enslavement became triumphant and the nation carried sinister designs of conquest. Interspersed throughout are various TV commercials of products of a virulent racist nature as well as public service announcements promoting this tyranny. Only at the end do you learn that there is less wholly imagined material in the film than you might suspect.
Keywords: abolitionist, acronym-in-title, african-american, african-american-stereotype, alternative-history, alternative-reality, alternative-timeline, american, american-civil-war, american-historyActors: Katri Billard (miscellaneous crew), John Neely (actor), Shaun C. Grenan (actor), Chris W. King (producer), Hillary Styer (actress), Eric U. Lowman (actor), Eric U. Lowman (actor), Bob Bosler (actor), Krisztina Botond (miscellaneous crew), Al Stone (actor), Rick Krizman (composer), Allen Brenner (actor), Gary Gallagher (writer), Jay Winik (writer), Rob Gibson (actor),
Plot: APRIL 1865 examines the extraordinary series of events that changed the course of history in 30 brief days. In that one month, Petersburg fell, Richmond fell and burned, General Lee retreated to Appomattox, the Confederate States Armies surrendered one after another, President Lincoln was assassinated, and the famous actor John Wilkes Booth was hunted down. This docu-drama follows the events and how they affected the entire nation even to this day.
Keywords: 1860s, american-civil-war, american-flag, archival-photograph, assassination, battle, civil-war, confederate, confederate-flag, danville-virginiaActors: Josef Sommer (actor), LeVar Burton (actor), Tom Aldredge (actor), Fielder Cook (director), Peggy Farrell (costume designer), Eric Albertson (editor), Richard Brooks (actor), William Newman (actor), Alfred R. Kelman (producer), Tracy Pollan (actress), Cynthia Harris (actress), Tony Trimarco (miscellaneous crew), Robert E. Fuisz (producer), Akosua Busia (actress), Patricia Elliott (actress),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Olive Blakeney (actress), Sarah Churchill (actress), Richard Gaines (actor), Robert Brubaker (actor), John Baragrey (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Cliff Clark (actor), Ernie Alexander (actor), Morris Ankrum (actor), Horace B. Carpenter (actor), Roy Barcroft (actor), Lionel Barrymore (actor), Noah Beery (actor), Frank Austin (actor), Walter Baldwin (actor), Harlan Briggs (actor), J. Edward Bromberg (actor), Sonny Bupp (actor), Frederick Burton (actor), George M. Carleton (actor), Dane Clark (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama,Actors: Erville Alderson (actor), Roy Barcroft (actor), Arthur Aylesworth (actor), Alan Baxter (actor), Ward Bond (actor), Al Bridge (actor), Trevor Bardette (actor), Charles D. Brown (actor), David Bruce (actor), Hobart Cavanaugh (actor), Eddy Chandler (actor), Lane Chandler (actor), Spencer Charters (actor), Cliff Clark (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor),
Plot: The story of Jeb Stuart, his romance with Kit Carson Holliday, friendship with George Custer and battles against John Brown in the days leading up to the outbreak of the American Civil War.
Keywords: 1850s, abolition, abolition-movement, abolitionist, african-american, ambush, american-civil-war, armoury, army-life, barberActors: Hank Bell (actor), Humphrey Bogart (actor), Ward Bond (actor), Roy Bucko (actor), Lane Chandler (actor), Spencer Charters (actor), George Chesebro (actor), Tex Cooper (actor), Ben Corbett (actor), Harry Cording (actor), Tom Dugan (actor), Douglass Dumbrille (actor), Jim Farley (actor), Paul Fix (actor), Trevor Bardette (actor),
Plot: During the American Civil War, Captain Kerry Bradford escapes from a notorious confederate prison. He and two of his men are sent to Virginia City where Confederate sympathizers are prepared to donate $5 million dollars to the cause of Southern independence. The war is going badly for the Confederacy and money may tip the war in their favor. On the stagecoach to Virginia City, Bradford meets and falls in love with Julia Hayne not realizing that she is one of the conspirators. When he gets to Virginia City, he also runs into Confederate Captain Vance Irby who has been sent to collect and safely deliver the gold. Irby manages to get out of the city but the Union cavalry is in hot pursue. When Bradfoed catches up with them, he not only has to fight Irby but also John Murrell, a bandit who has his own plans for the gold. He also
Keywords: 1860s, american-civil-war, arizona, bandit, battle, bayonet, blacksmith, cannon, carbine, cavalry-chargeActors: Erville Alderson (actor), Pat Flaherty (actor), Hooper Atchley (actor), Ben Alexander (actor), Oscar Apfel (actor), Jack Evans (actor), Bob Card (actor), Horace B. Carpenter (actor), Allan Cavan (actor), Lane Chandler (actor), Clay Clement (actor), Sonny Bupp (actor), James Dunn (actor), Smiley Burnette (actor), Edward Gargan (actor),
Plot: Best friends Kenneth Reynolds and Raymond Jordan are U.S. Navy officers, and Kenneth is engaged to Raymond's sister. But the eruption of the Civil War divides them, as Raymond stands by his native Virginia while Kenneth remains on duty as a Northern officer. Kenneth's uncle, John Ericsson, designs a new kind of ship, an ironclad he calls the Monitor. Eventually the war pits Kenneth, on board the Monitor, against his friend Raymond, serving aboard the South's own ironclad, the Merrimac (as it is called here). A naval battle ensues, one that will go down in history.
Keywords: american-civil-war, ironclads, public-domain, sea-battleActors: Erville Alderson (actor), Ruth Cherrington (actress), Dolores Costello (actress), Helene Costello (actress), Myrna Loy (actress), C. Graham Baker (writer), David Belasco (writer), Lloyd Bacon (director), Nick Cogley (actor), Francis Ford (actor), Paul Kruger (actor), Harry Northrup (actor), Carroll Nye (actor), Warner Richmond (actor), Jason Robards Sr. (actor),
Genres: Drama, Romance,Actors: Harry Lonsdale (actor), Chester Gould (actor), Seymour Rose (actor), Omer F. Doud (writer), Little Bear (actor), David Fischer (actor), William Lee (producer), William Lee (director), George Cole (actor), Nell Morgan (actress), Joseph Sullivan (producer), Zelma Barber (actress), Ogalalla Fire (actress),
Plot: You see the incidents that led to the Blackhawk War- the signing of the treaty of 1830, the first assault on settlers in 1831- how the news reached Springfield, where you see Abraham Lincoln, axe on shoulder, hearing the news, his volunteer company and what happened and when they reported to General Scott; how Blackhawk, after his peace messengers were shot, decided to fight. Also a glimpse of Mrs. Zachary Taylor and her two daughters, their determination to visit their father at Ft. Crawford, how Blackhawk captured Sarah Taylor and how Jefferson Davis recaptured her and fell in love with her, the famous attack on Ft. Crawford with burning fagots, battering rams, and finally the successful attack with flaming arrows. We see the suffering inside the fort and the marriage of Davis and Sarah, finally the ultimate capture of Blackhawk, after a blood-stirring battle.
Genres: Drama, History, Short,