Movies: Age of Imperialism 1800AD –1914AD

Crimean War 1853-56

Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) (Peter Merritt)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027438/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_2

A major countermands orders and attacks to avenge a previous massacre of men, women, and children.

American Civil War 1861-1865

Glory (1989) (Deborah Southwell)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097441/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2

Col. 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.

Red Badge of Courage. (Brian Cameron)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043961/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Truncated adaptation of Stephen Crane’s novel about a Civil War Union soldier who struggles to find the courage to fight in the heat of battle.

Gettysburg (Dave Boundy)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107007/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

In 1863, the Northern and Southern forces fight at Gettysburg in the decisive battle of the American Civil War.

The Outlaw Josey Wales (Jonathon Pickles)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075029/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Missouri farmer Josey Wales joins a Confederate guerrilla unit and winds up on the run from the Union soldiers who murdered his family.

Gone with the Wind (1939) (Deborah Southwell)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031381/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

The manipulative daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a turbulent romance with a roguish profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction periods.

Zulu War 1879

Zulu (1964)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058777/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Outnumbered British soldiers do battle with Zulu warriors at Rorke’s Drift.

Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902

Breaker Morant (1980) (Deborah Southwell)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080310/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Three Australian lieutenants are court martialled for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.

First Russian Revolution 1905

Battleship Potemkin (1925) (Dave Boundy)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015648/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

During the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel’s officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.