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Films & Shows Set during the American Frontier

Runs from17831912129 years wide

Shelfmark Liber XLVIII

Revolutionary Era

17
titles
17 films
3.6/5
average rating
across 17 rated titles
26%
of the span is tagged
17 of 66 titles set inside it

See the American Frontier on the timelineEvery year from 1783 to 1912 the archive holds, and what is set in them

Compare the titles of the American Frontier in the CanonsWhat every title on it shares, what two or three share, and what is proper to one

The Chronicle

The events and themes the archive follows through the American Frontier, in the order they happened, each with the titles that depict it. Press a name to read about it in the threads below.

  1. 1609–1924
    American Indian WarsMilitary
  2. 1530–1840
    North American Fur TradeEconomic

    The long-running practice of harvesting and trading furs from the North American interior for export to European markets and domestic production.

  3. 1823
    Arikara WarMilitary
  4. 1850–present
    Pinkerton Detective AgencySocial
  5. 1883–1930
    Wild West ShowsSocial

Sub-Periods

The periods the archive counts as part of the American Frontier. Their titles are gathered on this page where they are set inside its boundaries. The number represents how many titles in these sub-periods are also directly attached to this period and how many are just inherited rather being directly tagged with the American Frontier.

Cinematic Introduction

Every title set during the American Frontier, by the decade it came out. A series is placed on the chart by its first season and counts as one title entity.

First on screen
Stagecoach1939
Most recent
Hostiles2017

FilmsSeriesAt the archive’s paceeach bar is the titles released that decade

The median title about the American Frontier came out in 1965; the median across the rest of the archive, in 2005, so this period’s titles run 40 years earlier. Most over-told: the 1960s, with 10 titles where about 1.6 would be expected. Most under-told: the 2000s, with none where about 3.8 would be expected.

The gold dashes are how many of this period’s 17 titles each decade would hold if they had been released at the same pace as the other 274 dated titles in the archive. That measures the archive’s own collecting, not the world’s film output, and at these sizes one title moves a bar by a whole step.

Cast of Characters

The historical people the archive’s titles put on screen in this period, grouped by what they are known for. The number is how many titles set here they appear in.

Exploration1

Private individual1

Historical Threads

A thread follows one event or historical theme across the archive, wherever and whenever it appears. Pick a tab to read one; they are in the order they are filed on the timeline. Pulling a thread opens up a narrowed timeline view filtered to every year that thread touches.

North American Fur Tradepull it on the timeline

Network

The long-running practice of harvesting and trading furs from the North American interior for export to European markets and domestic production. The furs of certain animals found in abundance in North American ecosystems such as beavers and otters were highly prized for their water resistant and warm qualities. Steadily increasing demand over the course of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries made fur trapping an extremely lucrative business and important driver of western expansion.

filed under 1750

Places Connected to this Period

Every place the archive’s titles set in this period name, with each one nested under the larger place it sits inside where that place is here too. The number is how many titles set here name it.

Saltiness Across the Period

No title set here has been given a saltiness score yet. That is unrated, which is not the same as accurate.

Archive Density

26%17 of the 66 titles the archive sets between 1783 and 1912 carry the American Frontier tag.

26%With its sub-periods: 17 of the same 66 titles carry American Frontier or one of Old West.

This measure can help illustrate cinematic hotspots within a time period by comparing which years of the overarching, actual historical time period are backed up by a cinematic release.

  1. 1783nothing set here
  2. 17850 of 2
  3. 17880 of 1
  4. 17890 of 2
  5. 1791nothing set here
  6. 17920 of 2
  7. 17930 of 1
  8. 17940 of 3
  9. 17950 of 1
  10. 17970 of 1
  11. 17980 of 1
  12. 17990 of 2
  13. 18000 of 1
  14. 18010 of 1
  15. 18020 of 1
  16. 18030 of 1
  17. 18040 of 3
  18. 18050 of 2
  19. 18060 of 1
  20. 1807nothing set here
  21. 18080 of 3
  22. 18090 of 1
  23. 18100 of 2
  24. 1811nothing set here
  25. 18120 of 4
Show all 86 yearsShow the first 25 only · 61 more years, from 1814 to 1912
  1. 18140 of 3
  2. 18150 of 5
  3. 18160 of 1
  4. 1818nothing set here
  5. 18190 of 2
  6. 1820nothing set here
  7. 18231 of 4
  8. 18290 of 1
  9. 18300 of 1
  10. 18320 of 1
  11. 18370 of 1
  12. 18380 of 1
  13. 1839nothing set here
  14. 18410 of 1
  15. 18430 of 2
  16. 18440 of 2
  17. 1845nothing set here
  18. 18460 of 2
  19. 18470 of 2
  20. 18480 of 2
  21. 18520 of 1
  22. 1853nothing set here
  23. 1857nothing set here
  24. 18580 of 2
  25. 1860nothing set here
  26. 18611 of 2
  27. 18621 of 3
  28. 18630 of 3
  29. 18640 of 3
  30. 18650 of 2
  31. 18661 of 2
  32. 18670 of 1
  33. 1868nothing set here
  34. 1869nothing set here
  35. 18702 of 4
  36. 18710 of 1
  37. 18721 of 1
  38. 18731 of 1
  39. 18761 of 1
  40. 18781 of 1
  41. 18791 of 2
  42. 18804 of 4
  43. 18810 of 1
  44. 18820 of 2
  45. 18851 of 1
  46. 18860 of 1
  47. 18900 of 1
  48. 18921 of 1
  49. 18930 of 1
  50. 18950 of 1
  51. 18960 of 1
  52. 18970 of 1
  53. 1900nothing set here
  54. 1901nothing set here
  55. 19031 of 1
  56. 19050 of 1
  57. 19070 of 1
  58. 19090 of 2
  59. 19100 of 2
  60. 19110 of 1
  61. 19120 of 4

86 years on the timeline fall inside the boundaries, 15 of them with nothing set there yet. The dark part of each bar is the share carrying this period; the lighter part beside it, the share carrying one of its sub-periods instead.

Share of the 32 genre taggings across 17 titles set in this period. A title filed under three genres is in three of these slices, so this is a share of taggings rather than of titles.

Also on the Timeline

Part of and part of it are declared by the archive: one period counted as belonging to another, whatever their dates. Periods overlap freely so concurrent means the two spans share years, and the shared stretch is named. Bounded means it lies wholly inside this one, beginning and ending more than 10 years within its boundaries. Before and after are the nearest periods lying outside this one, with the gap in years shown instead. A shared thread is what the two have in common besides the calendar, and a period lying wholly outside this one can still share one.

RelationPeriodRunsShared yearsShared threadsTitles
Part of itOld West1865–18951865–1895American Indian WarsPinkerton Detective AgencyWild West Shows14
BeforeAmerican Revolution1775–17831783none shared2
ConcurrentAge of Enlightenment1685–18151783–1815none shared8
ConcurrentAge of Revolutions1774–18491783–1849none shared19
ConcurrentFeudal Japan1185–18681783–1868none shared5
ConcurrentIndustrial Revolution1760–18701783–1870none shared3
ConcurrentPeshwa Era1713–18181783–1818none shared1
ConcurrentRusso-Turkish Wars1568–19181783–1912none shared1
ConcurrentFrench Revolution1789–17991789–1799none shared6
ConcurrentHaitian Revolution1791–18041791–1804none shared1
ConcurrentNapoleonic Wars1792–18151792–1815none shared11
BoundedFilibuster Wars1803–18601803–1860none shared1
BoundedPeninsular War1807–18141807–1814none shared3
BoundedSpanish-American Wars of Independence1808–18301808–1830none shared1
BoundedRegency Era1811–18201811–1820none shared1
BoundedAntebellum South1812–18611812–1861none shared1
BoundedVictorian Era1837–19011837–1901none shared8
ConcurrentCentury of Humiliation1839–19491839–1912none shared1
BoundedNew Zealand Wars1845–18721845–1872none shared1
BoundedAmerican Civil War1861–18651861–1865none shared6
BoundedWars of German Unification1864–18711864–1871none shared1
ConcurrentMeiji Era1868–19121868–1912none shared1
BoundedGilded Age1869–19011869–1901none shared2
ConcurrentIndian Independence1885–19481885–1912none shared1
ConcurrentEdwardian Era1901–19141901–1912none shared2
Concurrent1905 Revolution1905–19071905–1907none shared1
ConcurrentMexican Revolution1910–19201910–1912none shared1
AfterWestern Front (World War I)1914–19182 years laternone shared6
AfterWorld War I1914–19182 years laternone shared11