Films set in 1898

1941 American drama film directed by Orson Welles

There Will Be Blood is a 2007 American epic period drama film co-produced, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, loosely based on the 1927 novel Oil! by Upton Sinclair. It stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Kevin J. O'Connor, Ciarán Hinds, and Dillon Freasier. The film follows silver miner-turned-oilman Daniel Plainview (Day-Lewis) as he embarks on a ruthless quest for wealth during the Californian oil boom in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

1952 film directed by Fred Zinnemann

1978 Italian film directed by Ermanno Olmi

1996 historical adventure film by Stephen Hopkins

1965 film by Henry Hathaway

1943 film by Ernst Lubitsch

1984 film by Hugh Hudson

1961 film directed by Jack Clayton

1959 film by Terence Fisher

1939 film by Zoltan Korda

1968 film directed by Sergio Corbucci

1942 film by Ray Enright

1952 film by Arch Oboler

2016 film by Salvador Calvo

1928 film by Clarence Brown

2006 television film directed by Walter Hill

1929 film by Allan Dwan

1993 film by Mario Van Peebles

1950 film by David Butler

2020 film directed by Susanna Nicchiarelli

1973 film directed by Chang Cheh