Movies and TvShows featuring "pre-civil-war" theme.

In 1858, Django, a slave, is freed by a German bounty hunter, Schultz, who needs Django's help in identifying wanted fugitives. In exchange for his assistance, Schultz promises Django freedom and a share of the reward money. They form a bond and set off on a mission to rescue Django's wife from a cruel plantation owner. Along the way, they encounter danger, violence, and the horrors of slavery.

Tracy Powell, an Indiana farmer, gets the gold fever and heads for Stockton, California in 1849. There, he abandons his first partner, Bert Killian, and teams up with Sam Wilkins, a claim jumper employed by Willis Haver. Six years later, Powell returns to Indiana and his sweetheart, Julie. They marry and he tries farming again but, on the night their son is born, he takes off again searching for gold. This time he heads for the hills with an inveterate prospector, Jimmo McCann. A decade later, the two are still hunting for their big strike when McCann is killed in an accident. Powell returns home with news of a big strike but the deserted Julie will have nothing to do with him. His friend Killian will not believe him but Haver, now a banker gives him a small loan and then beats him out of his claim. Many years pass before he comes home, now sixty-years-old, and this time, his wife and son open their home to him. But he vows to go prospecting come next spring.

A professional gambler arrives in New Orleans and becomes involved in a saga of love, scandal, and deception in pre-Civil War Louisiana, ultimately losing everything in a stock market crash and facing a jealous and frigid wife.

A Southern belle finds herself torn between two suitors.

In the pre-Civil War South, a plantation owner dies and leaves all his possessions, including his slaves, to his young son. While the deceased treated his slaves decently, his corrupt executor abuses them unmercifully, beating them without provocation, and he is planning to sell off the father'e estate--including the slaves--at the earliest opportunity so he and his mistress can steal the money and move to France. The young boy doesn't want to sell his father's estate or break up an of the slave families, and he has to find someone to help him thwart the crooked executor's plans.

“A scene representing Southern plantation life before the war. A jig and a breakdown by three colored boys.”