19th Century Movies

Aboard a steamship sailing across the Atlantic Ocean in 1874, widower John Andrews delights the restless minds of his two children with a tale of...

The story of British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli and the purchase by England of the Suez Canal.

Bohemia, 1835. Traveling between Prague and the countryside, young poet Karel Hynek Mácha navigates political disillusionment, a turbulent...

The story takes place at the time of the defeat of the Hungarian War of Independence, when Csákberény came under the terror of the...

The abolition of slavery in the British Caribbean in 1834 prompts Gillanders, Arbuthnot & Company in Calcutta, a part of the East India Company,...

In the late 19th century, Bartholdi, a visionary artist, and Laboulaye, a revolutionary-minded lawyer, embark on the seemingly mad project of...

Capt. Eugenio arrives in a remote castle to take charge of a unit guarding a nameless prisoner. No one knows much about the inmate as he is held in a...

An animated story about the Pinchaque, a species of tapir - a mammal native to Latin America - discovered in the 19th century by two French...

A television adaptation of Jan Neruda's short stories The Bachelor and Mr. Carpet's Marriage.

The Story of the three Japanese castaways Otokichi, Kyukichi and Iwakichi. After their ship the Hojunmaru was damaged, they drifted to America and...

Produced and directed by George Albert Smith, the film shows a couple sharing a brief kiss as their train passes through a tunnel. The Kiss in the...

A film about America’s first serial killers. These brothers terrorized Kentucky and went across the state on a killing spree. The film is...

In 1865, Tomás and his reluctant son Liam work on Ireland’s Ordnance Survey in the aftermath of the Great Hunger.

An exploration of composer Anton Bruckner's numeromania during a nervous breakdown and stay at a sanatorium.

In 1839, months after the British army has repressed the insurrection of the Patriots, hundreds of rebels are still in prison. The morning of...

The great Italian opera composer recalls his eventful life on his deathbed: his childhood in Busseto, his studies in Milan, his first opera "Oberto,...