A work in progress. The British counterpart's here: https://www.thecomicboard.com/threads/british-period-dramas-timeline.15485/
Saints & Strangers (1620-1621)
Jamestown (1619-1622)
Salem Witch Trials (1692-1693)
Sons of Liberty (1765-1776)
The Crossing (1776)
TURИ: Washington's Spies (1776-1783)
Franklin (1776-1785)
The Book of Negroes (1761-1807)
Sally Hemings: An American Scandal (1784-1822)
John Adams (1770-1826)
Chief of War (1782-1795)
First Cow (1820)
The Revenant (1823)
The Birth of a Nation (1809-1831)
Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn (1840)
Meek's Cutoff (1845)
Ponderosa (1849)
Never Grow Old (1849)
The Sisters Brothers (1851)
12 Years a Slave (1841-1853)
The Homesman (1854)
The World to Come (1856)
American Primeval (1857)
Django Unchained (1858)
Alias Grace (1843-1859)
Underground (1857-1859)
Emperor (1859)
Men Go to Battle (1861)
The Damned (Dec 1961-Feb 1962)
The War Between (Apr 1862)
Ambrose Bierce: Civil War Stories (Sep 1861-Jul 1862)
The Righteous Gemstones [4x01] (Jul 1862)
Emancipation (May 1863)
Harriet (1849-Jun 1863)
Mercy Street (1862 - Jun 1863)
1863 (1863)
Gangs of New York (1846- Jul 1863)
Freedom's Path (Aug 1863-Apr 1864)
Wicked Spring (May 1864)
The Colt (May-Jun 1864)
The Retrieval (May-Sep 1864)
The Beguiled (Aug/Sep 1864)
Cold Mountain (1864-Apr 1865)
The Keeping Room (Feb-Apr 1865)
Lincoln (Apr 1865)
Manhunt (Apr-Jul 1869)
Copper (Sep 1864-Apr 1865)
Roots (1767 - July 1865)
Josephine (1864-Sep 1865)
Little Women (1861-1868)
Hell on Wheels (1865-1869)
News of the World (1870)
Surrounded (1870)
Walker: Independence (1870)
Terror on the Prairie (1872)
Butcher's Crossing (1873)
The Dead Don't Hurt (1872-1875)
Place of Bones (1876)
Deadwood (1876-1877)
The Hateful Eight (1877)
Warrior (1878)
True Grit (1878)
The Magnificent Seven (1879)
Death by Lightning (1880-1882)
Appaloosa (1882)
Open Range (1882)
1883 (1883)
The Gilded Age (1882-1884)
Godless (1884)
Lawmen: Bass Reeves (1862-1885)
The Ballad of Lefty Brown (1889)
Deadwood: The Movie (1889)
Heads or Tails? (1890)
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1868-1891)
Hatfields & McCoys (1863 - May 1891)
Hostiles (1892)
Eadweard (1872-1893)
The Current War: Director's Cut (1880-1893)
Monte Walsh (1889-1896)
In a Valley of Violence (1890s)
The Alienist (1896)
The Alienist: Angel of Darkness (1897)
Broken Trail (1897)
The Call of the Wild (1897-1898)
Love Begins (and the rest of the Love Comes Softly series) (1870-1900)
Kill or Be Killed (1900)
Amigo (1900)
Tesla (1884-1901)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (1881-1902)
The English (1890-1903)
Songcatcher (1907)
Unsinkable: Titanic Untold (1912)
The Greatest Game Ever Played (1900-1913)
And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (1913-1916)
Blood in the Water (1916)
The 24th (1917)
The Lost Battalion (1918)
The Man Who Saved Christmas (1914-1918)
Pearl (1918)
Hogtown (1919)
Boardwalk Empire [season 1] (1920)
Sweet Land (1920)
When Calls the Heart (1910-1921)
The Immigrant (1921)
Boardwalk Empire [season 2] (1921)
1923 (1923)
Boardwalk Empire [season 3] (1923)
Boardwalk Empire [season 4] (1924)
The Cat's Meow (1924)
Togo (1913-1925)
The Power of the Dog (1925)
Houdini (1874-1926)
There Will Be Blood (1898-1927)
No God, No Master (1919-1927)
Killers of the Flower Moon (1919-1927)
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (1927)
Warm Springs (1924-1928)
Saints & Strangers (1620-1621)
Jamestown (1619-1622)
Salem Witch Trials (1692-1693)
Sons of Liberty (1765-1776)
The Crossing (1776)
TURИ: Washington's Spies (1776-1783)
Franklin (1776-1785)
The Book of Negroes (1761-1807)
Sally Hemings: An American Scandal (1784-1822)
John Adams (1770-1826)
Chief of War (1782-1795)
First Cow (1820)
The Revenant (1823)
The Birth of a Nation (1809-1831)
Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn (1840)
Meek's Cutoff (1845)
Ponderosa (1849)
Never Grow Old (1849)
The Sisters Brothers (1851)
12 Years a Slave (1841-1853)
The Homesman (1854)
The World to Come (1856)
American Primeval (1857)
Django Unchained (1858)
Alias Grace (1843-1859)
Underground (1857-1859)
Emperor (1859)
Men Go to Battle (1861)
The Damned (Dec 1961-Feb 1962)
The War Between (Apr 1862)
Ambrose Bierce: Civil War Stories (Sep 1861-Jul 1862)
The Righteous Gemstones [4x01] (Jul 1862)
Emancipation (May 1863)
Harriet (1849-Jun 1863)
Mercy Street (1862 - Jun 1863)
1863 (1863)
Gangs of New York (1846- Jul 1863)
Freedom's Path (Aug 1863-Apr 1864)
Wicked Spring (May 1864)
The Colt (May-Jun 1864)
The Retrieval (May-Sep 1864)
The Beguiled (Aug/Sep 1864)
Cold Mountain (1864-Apr 1865)
The Keeping Room (Feb-Apr 1865)
Lincoln (Apr 1865)
Manhunt (Apr-Jul 1869)
Copper (Sep 1864-Apr 1865)
Roots (1767 - July 1865)
Josephine (1864-Sep 1865)
Little Women (1861-1868)
Hell on Wheels (1865-1869)
News of the World (1870)
Surrounded (1870)
Walker: Independence (1870)
Terror on the Prairie (1872)
Butcher's Crossing (1873)
The Dead Don't Hurt (1872-1875)
Place of Bones (1876)
Deadwood (1876-1877)
The Hateful Eight (1877)
Warrior (1878)
True Grit (1878)
The Magnificent Seven (1879)
Death by Lightning (1880-1882)
Appaloosa (1882)
Open Range (1882)
1883 (1883)
The Gilded Age (1882-1884)
Godless (1884)
Lawmen: Bass Reeves (1862-1885)
The Ballad of Lefty Brown (1889)
Deadwood: The Movie (1889)
Heads or Tails? (1890)
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1868-1891)
Hatfields & McCoys (1863 - May 1891)
Hostiles (1892)
Eadweard (1872-1893)
The Current War: Director's Cut (1880-1893)
Monte Walsh (1889-1896)
In a Valley of Violence (1890s)
The Alienist (1896)
The Alienist: Angel of Darkness (1897)
Broken Trail (1897)
The Call of the Wild (1897-1898)
Love Begins (and the rest of the Love Comes Softly series) (1870-1900)
Kill or Be Killed (1900)
Amigo (1900)
Tesla (1884-1901)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (1881-1902)
The English (1890-1903)
Songcatcher (1907)
Unsinkable: Titanic Untold (1912)
The Greatest Game Ever Played (1900-1913)
And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (1913-1916)
Blood in the Water (1916)
The 24th (1917)
The Lost Battalion (1918)
The Man Who Saved Christmas (1914-1918)
Pearl (1918)
Hogtown (1919)
Boardwalk Empire [season 1] (1920)
Sweet Land (1920)
When Calls the Heart (1910-1921)
The Immigrant (1921)
Boardwalk Empire [season 2] (1921)
1923 (1923)
Boardwalk Empire [season 3] (1923)
Boardwalk Empire [season 4] (1924)
The Cat's Meow (1924)
Togo (1913-1925)
The Power of the Dog (1925)
Houdini (1874-1926)
There Will Be Blood (1898-1927)
No God, No Master (1919-1927)
Killers of the Flower Moon (1919-1927)
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (1927)
Warm Springs (1924-1928)
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