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An American Civil War veteran embarks on a years long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brothers family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm

A merchant ships crew tries to survive the loneliness of the sea and the coming of war

Two young drifters guide a Mormon wagon train to the San Juan Valley and encounter cutthroats, Indians, geography, and moral challenges on the journey

A senator returns to a Western town for the funeral of an old friend and tells the story of his origins

A family saga covering several decades of Westward expansion in the 19th century, including the Gold Rush, the Civil War, and the building of the railroads

A retired American boxer returns to the village of his birth in 1920s Ireland, where he falls for a spirited redhead whose brother is contemptuous of their union

A cavalry officer posted on the Rio Grande is confronted with murderous raiding Apaches, a son whos a risk taking recruit and his wife from whom he has been separated for many years

At Fort Apache, an honorable and veteran war captain finds conflict when his regime is placed under the command of a young, glory hungry lieutenant colonel with no respect for the local Indian tribe

The Cheyenne, tired of broken U S government promises, head for their ancestral lands but a sympathetic cavalry officer is tasked to bring them back to their reservation

In the waning days of World War II, the cargo officer of a Navy supply ship chafes at its role far from the action in the Pacifics backwater areas, his frustration rising when its captain denies the crew liberty over petty irrita

After their cattle are stolen and their brother murdered, the Earp brothers have a score to settle with the Clanton family

Captain Nathan Brittles, on the eve of retirement, takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperiled

An Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression

A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process

A Navy commander fights to prove the battle worthiness of the PT boat at the start of World War II

Newlyweds Gil and Lana Martin try to establish a farm in the Mohawk Valley but are menaced by Indians and Tories as the Revolutionary War begins

A dozen British soldiers, lost in a Mesopotamian desert during World War I, are menaced by unseen Arab enemies

A Polynesian sailor unjustly imprisoned after defending himself against a colonial bully is relentlessly persecuted by his islands martinet French governor

The story of Dr Samuel Mudd, who was imprisoned after innocently treating President Lincolns assassin in 1865

In 1898, Irish immigrant Martin Maher is hired as a civilian employee at West Point where, during a 50 year career, he rises to the rank of NCO and instructor

A corrupt marshal is pressured by his army friend into negotiating the release of white captives of the Comanches, but finds that their reintegration into society has its consequences

William Pittman Priest has to use all his wiles to retain his position as judge in his Kentucky hometown, while continuing to be a voice for the towns underclass and for democratic values

A cowboy must save his girlfriend from captivity and then cross the desert on foot with a single waterhole on the way

Hillbilly family farm life in 1941 rural Georgia

On a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordleys cheating wife Linda

Frank Skeffington is an old Irish American political boss, running for re election as mayor of a U S town for the last time

A fictionalized account of the early life of the American president as a young lawyer facing his greatest court case

In 1863, a Union outfit is sent behind Confederate lines in Mississippi to destroy enemy railroads but a captive southern belle and the units doctor cause frictions within ranks

Captain Donald King of the British Army goes to India just as World War I breaks out, convincing his comrades that he is a coward In reality, he is on a secret mission to rescue British soldiers held prisoner there

After witnessing the murder of his father by a renegade as a boy, the grown up Brandon helps to realize his fathers dream of a transcontinental railway

Priscilla Williams, a young girl living with her widowed mother and paternal grandfather at the post he commands in northern India, becomes enamored of military life and embroiled in brewing rebellion against the crown in the earl

In an ideal society on a picturesque South Seas isle, diverse people live in harmony until an outsider disrupts the balance

Richard Girard is part of a New Orleans family working closely with the English Warburtons When Richard meets Mary Warburton she is engaged to Erik von Gerardt He does wed Mary but their time in America is financially difficult

A meek milquetoast clerk is mistaken for public enemy N 1, and the notorious killer takes advantage of the situation

Three outlaws on the run risk their freedom and their lives to return a newborn to civilization

When paroled trustee Steve and former inmate Judy who try to put their criminal lives behind them are blackmailed, two career criminals come to their rescue