Films Featuring Jefferson Davis

You see the incidents that led to the Blackhawk War- the signing of the treaty of 1830, the first assault on settlers in 1831- how the news reached Springfield, where you see Abraham Lincoln, axe on shoulder, hearing the news, his volunteer company and what happened and when they reported to General Scott; how Blackhawk, after his peace messengers were shot, decided to fight. Also a glimpse of Mrs. Zachary Taylor and her two daughters, their determination to visit their father at Ft. Crawford, how Blackhawk captured Sarah Taylor and how Jefferson Davis recaptured her and fell in love with her, the famous attack on Ft. Crawford with burning fagots, battering rams, and finally the successful attack with flaming arrows. We see the suffering inside the fort and the marriage of Davis and Sarah, finally the ultimate capture of Blackhawk, after a blood-stirring battle.

"The Heart of Maryland" (1927) is a silent costume Vitaphone drama produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and directed by Lloyd Bacon. The film stars Dolores Costello in the title character and features Jason Robards, Sr.

In 1854, Jeb Stuart, George Custer and other graduates from West Point are posted to Kansas to help pacify the territory before railroad construction to Santa Fe can resume.

Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from Confederate prison and is sent to Virginia City, Nevada, where he finds out that the former commander of his prison, Vance Irby, is planning to send $5 million in gold to save the Confederacy.

Biography of Andrew Johnson, who followed Abraham Lincoln into office and became the first President of the United States ever to be impeached.

A filmed series of one-hour dramatizations of the lives of famous historical people, as well as important historical events.

The story of two friends and their families on opposite sides of the American Civil War.

Through the eyes of a British "documentary", this film takes a satirically humorous, and sometimes frightening, look at the history of an America where the South won the Civil War.

The 2011 Single Disc Release of the film The Great Sacrifice of President Jefferson Davis.

A 3-part documentary on the life of Jefferson Davis, the first, and only, President of the Confederate States of America.

Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, discovers vampires are planning to take over the United States. He makes it his mission to eliminate them.

Over the graves of her brother and her husband, on Memorial Day, Dorothea, the little old lady, lives again in the days of her young womanhood. When war was declared in '61, John, her only brother, went to the front. Anxious to do what she could for her country, Dorothea became one of that band of brave women, who as secret service agents, risked their lives within the hostile lines. On one occasion, she was arrested and incriminating papers found in her possession. She was sentenced to be shot. A young Southern officer, touched by her beauty and youth, personally appealed to Jefferson Davis and won her release. Later, while nursing in a Federal hospital, Dorothea again met the Southerner. He was wounded and a prisoner. In the act of aiding him to escape, she was detected by her brother. When, however, she reminded John that it was to Randolph Serviss that she owed her life, he no longer opposed the means that she had taken of repaying her debt. At the close of the war, Randolph came North and married Dorothea. Little by little, the Southerner and Captain John forgot their old enmity and became close friends. Now they lie side by side in the family plot. And Dorothea, "with a touch impartially tender," strews with flowers the resting places of "the Blue and the Gray."

Best friends Kenneth Reynolds and Raymond Jordan are U.S. Navy officers, and Kenneth is engaged to Raymond's sister. But the eruption of the Civil War divides them.

"A Season of War" tells of 1863. during the Civil War. and the pressures and problems which faced the nation. Donald Davis is Lincoln; Ossie Davis is Frederick Douglass..

Spotlighting radical abolitionist John Brown, as he raids Harper's Ferry, setting the scene for the Civil War.

Robert E. Lee, who once turned down command of Northern forces, becomes the top Confederate general; Ulysses S. Grant scores Union victories in the West.

A U.S. senator, war hero, and presidential aspirant who has much in common with Abraham Lincoln; Jefferson Davis answers the call to lead the Confederate States of America;

George McClellan poses a tough challenge to Abraham Lincoln's re-election; Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee clash on the battlefield;

Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta and marches to the sea; Abraham Lincoln's re-election; Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, Virginia.

The defeated South attempts to rewrite history by denying slavery was the root cause of the Civil War;

The story of Jefferson Davis, future president of the Confederacy, and Sarah Taylor, daughter of the future president of the United States. Their love was fated to end in tragedy.

Because he had been a member of secret group during the war, Yuma is asked by Jefferson Davis' wife to ensure her husband's safety upon his prison release. But one of the members of the group means to kill both Davis and Yuma.