19th Century Movies

The film narrates a tormented love story between one of the most famous poets of Serbian literature, Laza Kostic, renowned for his sublime poetic...

Against the backdrop of 1884, a young doctor becomes entangled in a deadly conflict between a brewing empire and a radical temperance movement,...

This remarkable series of 10 short silent dramas by John M. Stahl, produced by Benjamin Chapin as a vehicle for his performance as Abraham Lincoln,...

In 1865, the cadets of a Russian Naval Academy ship have shore leave in Morocco; among them is (fictionalized) future composer 'Nicky'...

In the town of Bryakhimov, noble but poor widow Harita Ignatyevna Ogudalova seeks to arrange marriages for her three daughters. She maintains an...

An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal...

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...

Winter, 1813. Sharpe marries his sweetheart, Jane Gibbons, but has to leave her immediately to go on a dangerous mission in the Pyrenees, to capture...

In 1888 London, as an emerging tabloid media terrifies the public with lurid stories of infamous serial killer Jack the Ripper, a young woman is sent...

In 1890s Alaska, a photographer documenting the lives of the Inuit people meets the Devil.

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...

In 1863, when American warships approach Japan, an enigmatic ronin becomes an important figure in a complex game of power between the Shogunate and...

On the outskirts of the Civil War, a boy is sent north by a bounty hunter gang to retrieve a wanted man.

1860 ushers in the era of iron ships, Richard Sibley, a builder of wooden ships, stubbornly resists the change, which leads him to forbid the...

The animated documentary Proteus explores the nineteenth century's engagement with the undersea world through science, technology, painting, poetry...

Sir John Franklin set off from England in 1845 with two ships and 129 men to be the first to navigate the Northwest Passage, a new trade route over...

Explore the lure of the Old West and how it was won—and lost—through the blood, sweat and tears of many. Spanning 15 years before,...

In the 1880s, the Prescott brothers aid the Chastain family against cattle rustlers, forging a bond as they face frontier challenges like bank...