19th Century Movies

The life and times of the famous French writer Guy de Maupassant.

Three friends are playing cards in a beer garden. One of them orders drinks. The waitress comes back with a bottle of wine and three glasses on a...

A historical drama set in the revolutionary times of 1848.

A parade of Gordon Highlanders in dress uniform march through the centre of Aberdeen on their way to the Boer War. Small children run around in...

In 1863, a group of snow-bound travelers invokes the devil, who gives them a flying canoe for them to go home. When one of them finds his wife about...

A cinematic version of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's adaptation of Bram Stoker's gothic novel Dracula. Filmed in a style reminiscent of silent...

A movie company comes to Oklahoma to convince legendary lawmen Bill Tilghman to star in a bank robbery silent film featuring real outlaws. Tilghman...

White hunter Allan Quartermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her missing father in unexplored Darkest Africa.

Amanda Aaltonen refuses to resign herself to the miserable fate of a poor woman and daringly seeks her happiness in the world. As punishment for...

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

The musically highly gifted maid Elsie, who longs for a career as a musician, is forced into marriage with Jacob, a young stable boy who dreams of...

In 1818, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, a powerful and timelessness novel which eternal theme is nothing other than...

Set during the first Anglo-Boer War 1880-1881 details the events leading up to this final battle ending in one of the most humiliating defeats for...

In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress shares a coach ride with several of her condescending social superiors....

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...

They called themselves the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, but because of their ecstatic dancing, the world called them...