19th Century Movies

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

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

In 1899, a photographer at American Mutoscope & Biograph mounted his camera on the front of a trolley traveling over the Brooklyn Bridge. The three...

A mobile chapel of St. Florian is moved every week between the villages of Zbořov and Spáňovice. The farmer Florian Jírovec,...

A story of love and honor that takes place during the mid-nineteenth century during revolutions, as well as economic, political, and social...

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

In times of the French Intervention, a student of Nunó, author of the Mexican National Anthem, falls in love with the niece of the French...

Born into a family of farmers in the mid-19th century, Karoline Augusta Antonsen moves to a nearby industrial city in her late teens, driven by the...

4 horse drawn fire brigade carts pull out from Newcastle fire station in the UK as part of a filmed demonstration

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

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