19th Century Movies

In 1810, 20 year old Sara Baartman got on a boat from Cape Town to London, unaware that she would never see her home again, or that she would become...

Spectators on the quayside at Southampton wave farewell as the crowded troopship Roslin Castle moves away to the right of the picture. Large numbers...

As Georgios Vizneyos, one of Greece's greatest authors, degenerates in an Athens mental asylum, the tale of another story-teller, his grandfather,...

A group of late 19th century German teenagers – silenced and controlled by a censorious society – discover a new world of feeling and...

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....

Soviet Georgian film by Eldar Shengelaia. Based on short story by D. Kldiashvili

The late 19th century war between Chile and Peru rages on. The battle has now moved to Arica and Tacna.

Recorded by pioneers as far back as 1805, the Tasmanian tiger has become an intensely mystifying Australian icon, whose entire existence has become...

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

This film documents the 1896 Melbourne Cup horse race including footage of the crowd watching the race.

Seeking the true Church of Jesus Christ, 14-year-old Joseph Smith prayed in a grove of trees near his home in Palmyra, New York. In answer to his...

A short film made by Emile Reynaud

In 1863, when a legless, shipwrecked man washes up on the Acadian coast, he's taken to the home of Jean the Corsican, a burly and bitter former...

The film is liberally inspired by the period when Eça de Queiroz was Portuguese Consul in Cuba, when still a Spanish colony. Eça de...