19th Century Movies

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

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

The television adaptation of Jaroslav Hašek's satirical short story.

A 19th century wire-walker performs his stage act on a woman's clothesline. An early comedy by pioneer director Robert W. Paul.

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

In 1850 Pedro and Zen stop at an Inn in Mexico run by beautiful women, who may be vampires. But, Pedro and Zen are vampire hunters.

This director's cut of the William Greaves' documentary short film dramatizes the life and deeds of the noted abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

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....

An actuality film of traffic and pedestrian movement at the end of a bridge. In the distance on the other side of the bridge, the tops of some large...

Adventure film based on the life of the legendary bandit Manuel García, the king of the Cuban fields, who in the last decades of the 19th...