Films about the war[]
Before 1920[]
- Barbara Frietchie: The Story of a Patriotic American Woman (1908)
- The Guerrilla (1908)
- The Fugitive (1910)
- The House with Closed Shutters (1910)
- In the Border States (1910)
- The Battle (1911), directed by D.W. Griffith
- His Trust Fulfilled (1911)
- Railroad Raiders of '62 (1911)
- Swords and Hearts (1911)
- For Her Sake (1911)
- Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight (1912)
- The Informer (1912)
- The Lie (1912)
- The Seventh Son (1912)
- The Battle of Gettysburg (1913)
- The Battle of Shiloh (film) (1913)
- The Price of Victory (1913)
- The Seed of the Fathers (1913)
- Dan (1914)
- The Sleeping Sentinel (1914)
- Barbara Frietchie (1915)
- The Birth of a Nation (1915), also known as The Clansmen, controversial film directed by D.W. Griffith
- Colonel Carter of Cartersville (1915)
- The Coward (1915)
- According to the Code (1916)
- Her Father's Son (1916)
- Naked Hearts (1916)
- The Sting of Victory (1916)
- The Blood of His Fathers (1917)
- The Field of Honor (1917)
- The Lincoln Cycle (1917)
- The Spreading Dawn (1917)
- Hearts of Love (1918)
- The Last Rebel (1918)
- Morgan's Raiders (1918)
- The Scarlet Drop (1918)
- The Son of Democracy (1918)
- Miss Dulcie from Dixie (1918)
- Hay Foot, Straw Foot (1919)
- Secret Service (1919)
1920s[]
- The Copperhead (1920)
- Held by the Enemy (1920)
- Hitchin' Posts (1920)
- The Kentucky Colonel (1920)
- The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1920)
- The Highest Law (1921)
- Johnny Ring and the Captain's Sword (1921)
- Grandma's Boy (1922)
- Barbara Frietchie (1924)
- The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln (1924)
- The Warrens of Virginia (1924)
- Hands Up! (1926)
- The General (1927), film by Buster Keaton about The Great Locomotive Chase
- The Heart of Maryland (1927)
- Court-Martial (1928)
- Morgan's Last Raid (1929)
- The Overland Telegraph (1929)
1930s[]
- Only the Brave (1930)
- Abraham Lincoln (film) (1930)
- Little Women (1933, 1949, 1978, 1994), adaptations of the book written by Louisa May Alcott
- Operator 13 (1934)
- The Littlest Rebel (1935), starring Shirley Temple
- So Red the Rose (1935)
- Uncivil Warriors (1935), a comedy starring The Three Stooges
- The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936), a movie about alleged Lincoln assassination co-conspirator Samuel Mudd
- General Spanky (1936), a comedy starring Our Gang.
- Hearts in Bondage (1936)
- Trailin' West (1936)
- Under Southern Stars (1937)
- Western Gold (1937)
- John Ericsson - segraren vid Hampton Roads (1937), film about the inventor of the USS Monitor, John Ericsson
- Strange Glory (1938)
- Lincoln in the White House (1939)
- The Arizona Kid (1939)
- Gone with the Wind (1939), romance starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable, featuring life before and after the Battle of Atlanta
1940s[]
1950s[]
1960s[]
1970s[]
1980s and 1990s[]
- The Shadow Riders (1982) made for TV movie, starring Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott
- Glory (1989), drama, starring Matthew Broderick and Denzel Washington, about the African-American 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
- Across Five Aprils (1990)
- Dances With Wolves (1990)
- Ironclads (1991), made-for-TV drama about the ironclad warships CSS Virginia and the USS Monitor, which clashed at the Battle of Hampton Roads
- Gettysburg (1993), war movie featuring Tom Berenger and Jeff Daniels about the Battle of Gettysburg
- Ghost Brigade (1993)
- Sommersby (1993)
- Ozarks: Legacy and Legend (1995)
- Andersonville (1996), TV movie about the notorious Andersonville prison camp
- The Tempest (1998), TV adaptation of the Shakespeare play set in the Civil War
- The Hunley (TV) (1999), movie about the Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley
- Ride with the Devil (1999), Ang Lee film about the guerrilla battles in Kansas and Missouri between the jayhawkers and the bushwhackers
2000s[]
- Wicked Spring (2002)
- Gangs of New York (2002), drama, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, about the New York Draft Riots
- The Miracle Men (2002)
- Gods and Generals (2003), prequel to Gettysburg (movie) and covers the battles of First Bull Run, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville
- Cold Mountain (2003), drama, starring Jude Law and Nicole Kidman, that features the Battle of the Crater and aftermath of the war
- C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2004), alternative history film which speculates what would happen had the South won the Civil War
- Dead Birds (2004)
- The Colt (film) (2005), drama, starring Ryan Merriman, features Battle of the Wilderness
- Prairie Rose (2006)
- Ten Days That Unexpectedly Changed America (2006), TV, recounting the Battle of Antietam
- Freedom (2007)
- The Last Confederate: The Story of Robert Adams (2007)
- Sons of Virginia (2007)
- Dog Jack (2009)
Television shows and miniseries[]
Documentaries[]