19th Century Movies

One of the most controversial figures in U.S. history, Jesse James has captured the imagination of the world for more than a century. Teen guerilla...

Bordeaux, France, 1828. Spanish painter Francisco de Goya y Lucientes dies in his French exile on April 16th and is buried in the local cemetery....

Newsreel-type short about music from the 1890s making a resurgence in the '40s

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

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

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

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....

Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx formed one of the most famous duos in world history. In contrast to Marx, however, Engels seems to have fallen into...

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

British explorer Henry Stanley travels to Africa in 1871 seeking missionary David Livingstone.

In the film Crowned, we follow the extraordinary story of Magdalena Gornik, who lived in the 19th century with mystical phenomena and faced...