Best American Civil War movies

Actors : Matthew Broderick, Morgan Freeman, 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 : Elizabeth Hartman, Geraldine Page, 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 : Peter Sarsgaard, Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman, Mary Steenburgen,
Directors : Bertrand Tavernier,

A detective in post-Katrina New Orleans has a series of surreal encounters with a troop of friendly Confederate soldiers while investigating serial killings of local prostitutes, a 1965 lynching, and corrupt local businessmen.

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 : 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 : Lucy Boynton, Casey Thomas Brown, François Arnaud, Billy Campbell,
Directors : Ron Maxwell,

An Upstate New York family is torn apart during the American Civil War.

Actors : Christopher Lukas, Emily Mitchell, Zeb Hollins III, Tim Cusack,
Directors : Wendy Jo Cohen,

Ken Burns meets Spinal Tap in a subversive tour de force relaying the outrageous life stories of four forgotten Civil War heroes: an opium-addicted gay Colonel, an aging Chinese launderer, ...

Actors : Patrick Fugit, Henry Thomas, Michael Shannon, Nicki Aycox,
Directors : Alex Turner,

A group of Confederate soldiers hole up in an abandoned plantation after robbing a bank and find themselves at the mercy of supernatural forces.

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 : Bruce Davison, Tom Amandes, Lea Coco, Penelope Ann Miller,
Directors : Salvador Litvak,

The true story of Abraham Lincoln and his bodyguard, U.S. Marshal Ward Hill Lamon. This unique film features sets created from actual Civil War photographs.

Actors : Jason Isaacs, Keith David, David Arquette, Lauren Holly,
Directors : Sean McNamara,

Based on a true story of the American Civil War, culminating at the Battle of New Market, May 1864. A group of teenage cadets sheltered from war at the Virginia Military Institute must ...

Actors : Dorothy Tutin, Richard Harris, 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 : 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 : 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 : Mark Gibson, Bill Moseley, Dee Wallace, Brian Cox,
Directors : John Geddes,

A young man's struggle to survive in the aftermath of a deadly undead outbreak during the American Civil War.

Actors : Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow, Pierre Lindstedt, Eddie Axberg,
Directors : Jan Troell,

A Swedish immigrant family struggle to establish a new life for themselves in the forest of Minnesota in the mid 19th Century.

Actors : Orso Maria Guerrini, Franco Nero, Olga Karlatos, William Berger,
Directors : Enzo G. Castellari,

A half-breed ex-Union gunfighter attempts to protect his plague-ridden hometown from being overridden by his racist half-brothers and a Confederate tyrant.

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 : Kate Nelligan, Oliver Cotton, John Malkovich, Linda Hunt,
Directors : Peter Yates,

Nick is a writer in New York when he gets posted to a bureau in Greece. He has waited 30 years for this. He wants to know why his mother was killed in the civil war years earlier. In a ...

Actors : Enis Beslagic, Bogdan Diklic, Sasa Petrovic, Izudin Bajrovic,
Directors : Pjer Zalica,

Two years after the Bosnian civil war, a town that is slowly rebuilding itself must whip together a democracy when it's announced the U.S. President Bill Clinton might be paying a visit.