1890s Movies

A stationary camera, looking diagonally across a racetrack toward the infield, records the horses as they race past. Once they are out of view and...

An actuality and reportage film. This film captures Lord Frederick Roberts (British Army rank Field Marshal) departing England for South Africa on...

Actuality film. Late 19th century General Officer ranks and higher cross to a ship over a gangplank. As VIPs they meet some people which we don't...

1892. Vappu Biörcke and Kaarlo Härkönen get to know each other during the summer in the countryside at the birthday of Vappu...

The first part of the film shows an actuality street scene of traffic in the Strand. Behind the traffic we can see the entrance to the Gaiety Theatre...

Young boys going into the sea water by Brighton's West Pier in the UK to pick up pennies thrown in by people on the pier.

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...

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

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

A story built around the music of Oskar Merikanto, tells the love story of the poor musician Lauri Alanko and the daughter of the rich Grahn family...

Set at the peak of the Australian Gold Rush, a young grave digger seeks vengeance for the death of his brother from a wealthy town Commissioner.

A cowboy mediator seeks to resolve a dispute between a boy and an indian.

The little-known story of a deadly race massacre and carefully orchestrated insurrection in North Carolina’s largest city in 1898 — the...

An embarkation reportage film from the Boer War, a popular film subject at this time. Soldiers with bicycles appear in this parade. The British Army...

Set in the 1890s, Anna-Liisa and Johannes are young lovers. She agrees to his proposal because she is afraid that her crime will be revealed. Husso,...

An actuallity film of a fairground carousel in action. Filmmaker unknown but it has been suggested it is R.W. Paul. The film was made on Hampstead...

Two toddlers sit for the camera in their best clothing. One is determined to take toys and objects from the other until the other toddler starts to...

A depiction in the hanging of Edward Heinson, an assumed criminal assault convict in Jacksonville, Florida.

Made in 1896 during the flat racing season (March-October) at Stockton Racecourse, a former horse racing venue in Thornaby-on-Tees, North Yorkshire,...

A story about a London vampire, set in the Gay '90s. In black and white.