1840s
  • Christmas Carol: the Movie picture
    Movies

    Christmas Carol: the Movie

    London miser Ebenezer Scrooge (Simon Callow) has a change of heart after he encounters three ghosts....

  • The Barretts of Wimpole Street picture
    Movies

    The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)

    Victorian poet Robert Browning (Fredric March) courts invalid poet Elizabeth Barrett (Norma Shearer)...

  • The Heiress picture
    Movies

    The Heiress (1949)

    A fortune hunter (Montgomery Clift) charms a doctor's (Ralph Richardson) plain daughter (Olivia de...

  • The Flame of New Orleans picture
    Movies

    The Flame of New Orleans (1941)

    In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing...

  • Adam's Woman picture
    Movies

    Adam's Woman

    Also known as Return of the Boomerang, Adam's Woman is set in the rough-and-tumble Australia of the...

  • Camila picture
    Movies

    Camila (1985)

    Set against the backdrop of the Rosas dictatorship circa 1847, the true story of the doomed love...

  • One Man's Hero picture
    Movies

    One Man's Hero (1999)

    As the war between the United States and Mexico drags on, a band of Irish-American soldiers defects...

  • Mandingo picture
    Movies

    Mandingo (1975)

    A slave owner in the 1840s trains one of his slaves to be a bare-knuckle fighter.

  • A Christmas Carol picture
    Movies

    A Christmas Carol

    Dickens' London miser Ebenezer Scrooge (Tim Curry) meets the ghosts of Christmases past, present and...

  • Reap the Wild Wind picture
    Movies

    Reap the Wild Wind

    Cecil B. DeMille's Technicolor historical spectacle Reap the Wild Wind was to have starred Gary...

  • Of Human Hearts picture
    Movies

    Of Human Hearts (1938)

    A preacher (Walter Huston) and his wife (Beulah Bondi) raise an ungrateful son (James Stewart), up...

  • The Good Old Days picture
    Movies

    The Good Old Days

    In this British comedy, set in London during the 1840s, an acting troupe aspires to high-society,...

  • A Christmas Carol picture
    Movies

    A Christmas Carol (1999)

    An animated retelling of Dickens' classic holiday tale.

  • The Chisholms picture
    TV

    The Chisholms (1980)

    The saga of the Chisholms, a pioneering Virginia family, as they travel by wagon train from Wyoming...

  • California Gold Rush picture
    TV

    California Gold Rush (1981)

    Two Bret Harte adventures, "The Luck of Roaring Camp" and "The Outcasts of Poker Flat", are threaded...

  • The Life and Crimes of William Palmer picture
    TV

    The Life and Crimes of William Palmer (1998)

    Dramatization of the true story of William Palmer, one of the most depraved criminals in British...

  • The Oregon Trail picture
    TV

    The Oregon Trail (1977-1978)

    The series, set in the 1840s, follows the journey of a group of pioneers traveling by wagon train...

  • Cranford picture
    TV

    Cranford (2008)

    A period drama set in the 1840's, centering on the small English town of Cranford and follows the...