Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "year-1852"

1. The Blue Lagoon (1949)

Not Rated | 101 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

In the Victorian period, two children are shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific and fall in love while growing up together.

Director: Frank Launder | Stars: Jean Simmons, Donald Houston, Susan Stranks, Peter Rudolph Jones

Votes: 652

2. Jezebel (1938)

Approved | 104 min | Drama, Romance

In 1850s Louisiana, a free-spirited Southern belle loses her fiancé due to her stubborn vanity and pride, and vows to win him back.

Director: William Wyler | Stars: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent, Margaret Lindsay

Votes: 15,067

3. The Sower (2017)

98 min | Drama, Romance

Violette is old enough to get married when her village in the Lower Alps is cruelly deprived of all its men by the repression that followed the republican uprising of December 1851. For the... See full summary »

Director: Marine Francen | Stars: Pauline Burlet, Géraldine Pailhas, Alban Lenoir, Iliana Zabeth

Votes: 709 | Gross: $0.04M

4. Black Magic (1949)

Passed | 105 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

Hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.

Directors: Gregory Ratoff, Orson Welles | Stars: Orson Welles, Nancy Guild, Akim Tamiroff, Frank Latimore

Votes: 1,467

5. Kautokeino-opprøret (2008)

96 min | Drama, History

Religious and cultural reawakening inspires rebellion in a 19th century Norwegian village.

Director: Nils Gaup | Stars: Mikkel Gaup, Anni-Kristiina Juuso, Aslat Mahtte Gaup, Nils Peder Gaup

Votes: 2,915

6. The Brontë Sisters (1979)

Not Rated | 120 min | Biography, Drama, History

In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor, the Bronte sisters write their first works and quickly become literary sensations.

Director: André Téchiné | Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Marie-France Pisier, Isabelle Huppert, Pascal Greggory

Votes: 1,217

7. The King Steps Out (1936)

Approved | 85 min | Biography, Musical, Romance

Princess is destined to marry the Emperor, until her sister steps in.

Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Franchot Tone, Grace Moore, Walter Connolly, Raymond Walburn

Votes: 238

8. The Chinese Exclusion Act (2017)

TV-PG | 114 min | Documentary, Biography, History

The origin, history and impact of the 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here to become U.S. citizens.

Directors: Ric Burns, Li-Shin Yu | Stars: Hoon Lee, Mae Ngai, Jean Pfaelzer, David Lei

Votes: 104

9. Élve vagy halva (1980)

80 min | Drama, History, Western

The ex-revolutionary Gáspár Noszlopy escapes from prison in 1852. His plan to capture the emperor Franz Joseph and force him to sign the Declaration of Hungarian Independence. He is only able to find four fanatic men.

Director: Tamás Rényi | Stars: Lajos Balázsovits, György Cserhalmi, Dezsö Garas, Djoko Rosic

Votes: 193

10. Rose of the Rancho (1936)

Approved | 85 min | Western

It is California in 1852 that only recently being surrendered by Mexico to the United States and admitted into the union. Most of the land-owners of California were the descendants of the ... See full summary »

Director: Marion Gering | Stars: John Boles, Gladys Swarthout, Charles Bickford, Grace Bradley

Votes: 46

11. Broadside (2009 TV Movie)

111 min | History

The newly restored English monarch, Charles II, leads his country into the fiercest trade war in the age of sail as well as concentrating on the inner workings of the king's court including... See full summary »

Directors: David Hickman, Bruce Twickler | Stars: Milan Alexander, Thomas Arnold, Martin Bishop, Robert Cambrinus

Votes: 35

12. Castlevania (1999 Video Game)

T | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Dracula reawakens in 1852, after nearly sixty years of enforced slumber, as a result of humankind's descent into vice and wickedness. Two young heroes sense his return: Carrie Fernandez, a ... See full summary »

Director: Yuji Shibata | Stars: Bianca Allen, Harald Gjerd, Andrew Hankinson, Ramsay Scott

Votes: 100

13. Close to the Bone (2022)

Documentary, History

A film and related exhibition exploring legacies of violence from Australia's pastoral frontier, developing as a collaborative project with Jared Thomas and others for ABC TV and the South Australian Museum.

Directors: Malcolm McKinnon, Jared Thomas | Stars: Mike Brown, Jackie Crawford, Ken McKenzie, Regina McKenzie

14. The Loss of the Birkenhead (1914)

Drama

A squire's disowned son dies to save his wife and her soldier lover from shipwreck.

Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Elisabeth Risdon, Fred Groves, A.V. Bramble, M. Gray Murray

15. The Californians (1957–1959)
Episode: A Girl Named Sam (1958)

30 min | Western

The Bandanna Gang is on the rampage, so Matt agrees to escort a group of settlers to San Francisco.

Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Richard Coogan, Sue George, Robert Cornthwaite, Nora O'Mahoney

Votes: 15

16. Death Valley Days (1952–1970)
Episode: The Lone Grave (1967)

TV-PG | 25 min | Western

John Hail honors his wife's dying wish and returns to make a solitary journey to place a headstone on her remote grave.

Director: Harmon Jones | Stars: Robert Taylor, Susan Brown, James Seay, Kay Stewart

Votes: 26

17. Modern Marvels (1993– )
Episode: The Empire State Building (1994)

TV-14 | 46 min | Documentary, History

This program focuses on the symbolic and historical aspects of the Empire State Building rather than its architecture and technology. The world's tallest building was preceded but a ... See full summary »

Director: Andrew Thomas | Stars: Irwin G. Cantor, Brendan Gill, Lydia Ruth

Votes: 39

18. Oregon Experience (2006– )
Episode: The Modoc War (2011)

Documentary

During 1872 and 1873, a small band of Modoc tribe warriors fought off a thousand US soldiers trying to run them from their land. The Modoc tribe's effort to defend their territory became known as the Modoc War.

Stars: Boyd Cothran, Taylor David, Kevin Fields, Fernando Herrera

19. Scott Manley (2009– )
Episode: Asteroid Psyche Is the Most metal of Space Rocks But Not Worth $10,000,000,000,000,000,000 (2020)

9 min | Documentary, News

Scott, spacesuit clad, challenges the claims about asteroid Psyche in the popular press and strives to set the record straight. Psyche is the subject of a NASA rendezvous with a planned ... See full summary »

Star: Scott Manley

20. The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered (2017– )
Episode: 3 Presidential Close Calls (2021)

14 min | Documentary, History

Several presidents have died in office, Others have come close to death. Here are three presidential near death experiences that are all but forgotten because the president survived. A ... See full summary »

Star: Lance Geiger

21. Filthy Cities (2011)
Episode: Industrial New York (2011)

Documentary

In the 19th century New York City experience a flood immigrants which, coupled with parasites, disease and political corruption, created one of the most hazardous living environments in ... See full summary »

Director: Andy Robbins | Stars: Dan Snow, Roger Horowitz, Peter Mintun, Jim Pynn

Votes: 24

22. The Generalist Papers (2020– )
Episode: The Story Behind the Lucky Waving Cat (2020)

8 min | Documentary, Animation, History

The porcelain beckoning cat figurine you see in Japanese and some Chinese shops and restaurants is a Japanese tradition called a maneki-neko. It has a number for stories associated with it's origin.

Star: Harrison Holt

23. Trey the Explainer (2015– )
Episode: Paleo Profile - Tanystropheus (2016)

12 min | Documentary, History

Tanystropheus was a long neck Protorosaur that, unlike the Sauropods that appeared 30 million years later, was a sharp toothed predator, probably preying on fish near the shoreline.

Star: Trey Swenton

24. Welch Labs (2014–2023)
Episode: The Most Dangerous Rock in the World (2023)

13 min | Documentary

The discoveries that lead to an understanding of nuclear radiation and nuclear fission that culminated in a race to build the atomic bomb.

Star: Stephen Welch

25. 12 Monkeys (2015–2018)
Episode: Legacy (2018)

TV-14 | 43 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery

Team Splinter goes back in time to the wild frontier in search of a weapon to destroy the Witness.

Director: Joe Menendez | Stars: Aaron Stanford, Amanda Schull, Todd Stashwick, Emily Hampshire

Votes: 758

26. BuzzFeed Unsolved: Supernatural (2016–2021)
Episode: The Spirits Of The Whaley House (2016)

Not Rated | 15 min | Adventure, Comedy, Horror

The Whaley House is rated the #1 haunted house in America by Travel Channel. Ryan and Shane set out to see if the House lives up to expectations.

Director: Ryan Bergara | Stars: Ryan Bergara, Shane Madej

Votes: 83