19th Century Movies

Rare archive footage reveals what Singapore was like dating back to 1900, showing coolies sharing lunch, rickshaw pullers, a grand Peranakan funeral,...

Hyde Park Corner (also known as Leisurely Pedestrians, Open Topped Buses and Hansom Cabs with Trotting Horses) depicts life at Hyde Park Corner in...

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...

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

In 1850 Pedro and Zen stop at an Inn in Mexico run by beautiful women, who may be vampires. But, Pedro and Zen are vampire hunters.

The history of the potato through the ages—with a focus on European history and a twinkle in its eye

Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx formed one of the most famous duos in world history. In contrast to Marx, however, Engels seems to have fallen into...

A man is found dead under mysterious circumstances by a group of children playing in the deep forest, although the grotesque sight evokes as much...

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....

Adventure film based on the life of the legendary bandit Manuel García, the king of the Cuban fields, who in the last decades of the 19th...

Soviet Georgian film by Eldar Shengelaia. Based on short story by D. Kldiashvili

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...