19th Century Movies

A biographical film about the Slovak nationalist Ľudovít Štúr. It captures the revolutionary events of 1848 in...

Follows three souls across Edo-period Japan, 1865 New South Wales and 2027 Australia, where each lifetime carries the emotional imprint of the last.

The story of the influential 19th century British poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his troubled and somewhat morbid relationship with his wife and his...

British MP Sir Robert Chiltern is known for his honesty and integrity. To match his wife, Lady Chiltern, who is an example of high morality. However,...

Helen Alving leads an outwardly contented life. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of her husband's death, she is about to open an orphanage as a...

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human...

Starting in 1881 this film shows the personal battle between Lenin's Ulyanov family and the royal Romanovs that eventually led to the Russian...

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....

Since this is lost the content of the film can only be presumed but it was supposedly depicted a schoolboy smoking his first cigar.

The Impressionists are the most popular group in art history – millions flock every year to marvel at their masterpieces. But, to begin with,...

The film, in individual episodes, captures the fate of Bedřich Smetana from 1856 until the end of his life, from his young years until the...

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

A biographical story about significant Czech dramatist, writer and actor Josef Kajetán Tyl.

Photo sequence of the rare transit of Venus over the face of the Sun, one of the first chronophotographic sequences. In 1873, P.J.C. Janssen, or...

Taffeta, a contemporary queer person of color, summons Abraham Lincoln to perform an elaborate historical fantasia within her own head — only...

A young Norwegian boy in 1850s England goes to work as a cabin boy and discovers some of his shipmates are actually pirates.

The Czech revival movement is divided at the end of the first half of the 19th century. While the older generation, such as František...