19th Century Movies

30 seconds of actual snowball fighting from 1899. A quick glimpse of a time gone by

In 1827, Joseph Smith, Jr. was only 21 years old when he received a prophetic calling to translate ancient scriptures that would soon be published as...

IL CAMPANELLO DI NOTTE, Farce in one act by Gaetano Donizetti, is set in Naples. Don Annibale Pistacchio, an old apothecary, have just married the...

The story, set in 19th century Calcutta during British rule, sees a female prostitute embark on an unheard-of killing spree.

A grandfather recalls how he and his wife met and fell in love during the Second Italian War of Independence.

An 1897 travelogue of a bullock turning a cog to work a water pump in Egypt. Director/Cinematographer - Henry Short. Made as part of a follow-up...

In 1886, the United States Department of Agriculture ambitiously commissioned watercolour illustrations of over 3,000 fruit cultivars. In 2019, this...

Set in 1867, the year of the great famine in Finland. A farmer’s wife sets off on foot through the snow with her two young children towards St....

A bored princess' flights of fancy cause troubles for the entire household, especially her husband.

Thomas Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie Dumas was born a Caribbean slave in 1762 and beat the odds by rising through the ranks to become a...

A staged film where over 100 cyclists cycle towards the camera.

Every day, Paris’ six railway stations welcome over 3,000 trains and more than a million travelers coming from France and all over Europe. The...

Based on the true story of John Scobell, one of the first African American spies in our nation’s intelligence service. In 1861, President...

On a full moon night in London, a young lady called Victoria is being chased by the famous serial killer Jack the Ripper.