19th Century Movies

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

A bored princess' flights of fancy cause troubles for the entire household, especially her husband.

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

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...

A tiny fragment of an actuality film of Tom Merry (William Mechem), a 'lightning sketch' caricaturist performing his act for the camera and producing...

South of Italy, XIX century. A couple of brigands are chased in the woods. The man has a bounty on his head and is terrified by everything, while the...

The story, set in 19th century Calcutta during British rule, sees a female prostitute embark on an unheard-of killing spree.

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

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

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....

Thomas Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie Dumas was born a Caribbean slave in 1762 and beat the odds by rising through the ranks to become a...

Every day, Paris’ six railway stations welcome over 3,000 trains and more than a million travelers coming from France and all over Europe. The...

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

Based on the true story of John Scobell, one of the first African American spies in our nation’s intelligence service. In 1861, President...