19th Century Movies

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...

Second half of the 19th century. In a small town in South Bohemia, fifth-former Jan Ratkin is living through the confusions of first love together...

The end of the Franco-Prussian war (1870-71) saw the birth of the panoramas of war, huge circular paintings depicting scenes of war, cruelty and...

Follows French writer Arthur Rimbaud from his schoolboy days in Charleville to his final years in Africa.

Year of the Revolution 1848

1828 in the German port city of Bremen: Two very different women collide in an age that has no place for either of them. One strives for a career in...

Rare archive footage reveals what Singapore was like dating back to 1900, showing coolies sharing lunch, rickshaw pullers, a grand Peranakan funeral,...

Adaptation of the homonymous novel by Júlio Dantas. Trying to highlight the romantic tone, the ruralism of the picturesque situations and...

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

A 1984 Slovak language drama film directed by Martin Tapák.

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...

The last sovereign Zulu King, a female British missionary, an ambitious colonial official and a young Welshman are all voiced by actors to make...