Movie trailers available on Digital History for Gilded Age era

Age of Innocence (1993)
Digital History ID 1834
A diffident young man, engaged to marry a respectable young woman, is distracted by a married woman seeking a divorce.
Length of this clip: 2:22.
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Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
Digital History ID 1649
Adaptation of Jules Verne's novel about a Victorian Englishman who bets that with the new steamships and railways he can go around the world in 80 days.
Length of this clip: 1:11.
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Blazing Saddles (1974)
Digital History ID 1866
A corrupt political boss appoints a black sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.
Length of this clip: 0:31.
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Broken Arrow (1950)
Digital History ID 1664
Attempt to make peace between settlers and Apaches.
Length of this clip: 0:38.
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Buffalo Bill and the Indians (1976)
Digital History ID 1880
Buffalo Bill plans to put on his Wild West show and Chief Sitting Bull agrees to appear in it.
Length of this clip: 2:26.
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Buffalo Soldiers (1997)
Digital History ID 1881
The all-black US Cavalry Troop H which protected the Western territories in post Civil War era.
Length of this clip: 1:35.
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Digital History ID 1666
Two Western bank and train robbers flee to Bolivia when the law gets too close.
Length of this clip: 0:56.
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Carousel (1956)
Digital History ID 1671
Ill-starred love story set in an 1870s New England milltown.
Length of this clip: 1:35.
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Cimarron (1931)
Digital History ID 2220
A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.
Length of this clip: 0:32.
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Death Valley Days (1960)
Digital History ID 1626
This clip runs 4:59.
Length of this clip: Death Valley Days was a televison series that ran from 1952 to 1975. Ronald Regan portrayed Bear River Smith in 8 episodes from 1964-1965. He left the series to become governor of California. Death Valley Days was one of the longest-running Western series and began on radio in the 1930s. .
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Destry Rides Again (1939)
Digital History ID 2226
The nonviolent son of a famous lawman, who is brought into an out-of-control town to restore law and order.
Length of this clip: 1:48.
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Fistful of Dollars (1964)
Digital History ID 1695
A wandering gunfighter plays two rival families against each other in a town torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge.
Length of this clip: 0:33.
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For a Few Dollars More (1965)
Digital History ID 1697
Two bounty hunters team up to track down a Western outlaw.
Length of this clip: 0:33.
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Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)
Digital History ID 1938
Walter Hill's revisionist take on the American cavalry's campaign to capture renegade Chiricahua Apache warrior Geronimo.
Length of this clip: 2:59.
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Go West (1940)
Digital History ID 2235
Confidence man heads west to find his fortune.
Length of this clip: 2:26.
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Gold Rush (1925)
Digital History ID 2238
The Tramp goes the Klondike in search of gold.
Length of this clip: 0:49.
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Golden Bowl (2000)
Digital History ID 1948
A man marries an heiress for her money even though he is actually in love with her friend.
Length of this clip: 2:21.
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Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972)
Digital History ID 1951
The gangs of Jesse James and Cole Younger join forces for a bungled robbery of the bank in Northfield, Minnesota.
Length of this clip: 1:09.
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Gunfight at the OK Corral (1957)
Digital History ID 1711
Marshall Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday take on the Clanton brothers.
Length of this clip: 1:05.
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High Noon (1952)
Digital History ID 1718
A sheriff must fight a gang alone when the town refuses to help him.
Length of this clip: 0:38.
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How the West was Won (1962)
Digital History ID 1720
The history of Western expansion in the United States as told by the story of one pioneer family.
Length of this clip: 0:35.
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Life of Emile Zola (1937)
Digital History ID 2262
The story of the famous French muckracking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfuss Affair.
Length of this clip: 0:35.
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Little Princess (1939)
Digital History ID 2264
The daughter of a soldier in the Boer War is made into a servant by the evil headmistress of a boarding school
Length of this clip: 1:20.
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Magnificent Seven (1960)
Digital History ID 1747
An oppressed Mexican peasant village assembles seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.
Length of this clip: 0:52.
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Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Digital History ID 1751
Psychological western told in retrospect about a young idealistic lawyer, a two-fisted Westerner, and a notorious outlaw.
Length of this clip: 1:01.
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Molly Maguires (1970)
Digital History ID 2010
Irish emigrant miners, known as the Molly Maguires, fight against the cruelty of the mining company with sabotage and murder.
Length of this clip: 1:03.
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My Little Chickadee (1940)
Digital History ID 2279
Flower Belle Lee meets a con man and pretends to marry him for "respectability."
Length of this clip: 1:35.
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Oklahoma! (1955)
Digital History ID 1765
An Oklahoma farm girl must choose between the cowboy Curley and the obsessive farm hand Jud Frye.
Length of this clip: 0:58.
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Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)
Digital History ID 2028
The events leading up to the death of Billy the Kid, who was killed by Pat Garrett, a former friend turned lawman.
Length of this clip: 0:33.
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Pelle the Conqueror (1987)
Digital History ID 2031
At the end of the 19th century, a boat full of Swedish emigrants migrates to a Danish island.
Length of this clip: 0:36.
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Portrait of a Lady (1996)
Digital History ID 2036
The strong-willed, independent minded Isabel Archer makes the fateful decision to reject the proposal of a sensible English suitor, because she wants to find her own identity first.
Length of this clip: 2:21.
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Red River (1948)
Digital History ID 2150
A Texas cattle baron clashes with his devoted ward.
Length of this clip: 0:42.
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Ride the Wild Country (1962)
Digital History ID 1787
An aging ex-marshal is hired to transport a gold shipment through dangerous territory.
Length of this clip: 1:13.
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Road to Wellville (1994)
Digital History ID 2055
Life at a health spa run by John Harvey Kellogg.
Length of this clip: 0:32.
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She Done Him Wrong (1933)
Digital History ID 2296
New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou is pursued by a vicious criminal.
Length of this clip: 0:22.
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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
Digital History ID 2154
An aging cavalry officer's difficulties preparing for his impending retirement.
Length of this clip: 2:16.
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Stagecoach (1939)
Digital History ID 2298
A diverse and troubled group of passengers travels by stagecoach.
Length of this clip: 3:26.
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Thousand Pieces of Gold (1991)
Digital History ID 2100
The true life story of Lalu Nathoy, a young Chinese girl sold into slavery in 1871 by her poverty-stricken family and auctioned off in the American West. McCunn tells the gripping tale of how Lalu struggled out of servitude to achieve a life of freedom an
Length of this clip: 1:50.
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Time Machine (1960)
Digital History ID 1806
A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humamity has divided into two hostile species.
Length of this clip: 0:29.
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True Grit (1969)
Digital History ID 1810
Tagline: "The strangest trio ever to track a killer. A fearless, one-eyed U.S. marshal who never knew a dry day in his life... a Texas ranger thirsty for bounty money... and a girl still wet behind the ears who didn't care what they were or who they were."
Length of this clip: 1:02.
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Wizard of Oz (1939)
Digital History ID 2308
Dorothy Gale is swept away from Kansas to a magical land in a tornado and embarks on a quest to see the Wizard who can help her return home.
Length of this clip: 1:39.
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Wyatt Earp (1994)
Digital History ID 2123
The life story of the frontier marshal examines his personal as well as his public life.
Length of this clip: 2:15.
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