19Th Century Movies

Ken Russell revisits the life of Elgar, with musical background provided by the composer's works.

Costume swashbuckler with heroic John Derek battling evil Anthony Quinn.

The life of Austrian composer Anton Bruckner and his numeromania.

Since this is lost the content of the film can only be presumed but it was supposedly depicted a schoolboy smoking his first cigar.

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 t...

A group of late 19th century German teenagers – silenced and controlled by a censorious society – discover a new world of feeling and freedom outside...

Year 1860. Rosa Maria, daughter of a wealthy Cuban landowner, is studying at a convent school in Cadiz and requests to return to Cuba after spending m...

This film documents the 1896 Melbourne Cup horse race including footage of the crowd watching the race.

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 b...

Film about famous poet Karel Hynek Mácha

Set in early 1900s, young Lana Benton, pushed by the gelid Old Hat man, Mr. Kyn, must confront bizarre creatures in a mysterious dream gland as she fo...

IL CAMPANELLO DI NOTTE, Farce in one act by Gaetano Donizetti, is set in Naples. Don Annibale Pistacchio, an old apothecary, have just married the you...

Land surveyors arrive in two parishes to measure and redistribute manor land. The rivalry between both feoffees for land and woman begins.

Explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark lead a U.S. expedition to the Pacific Ocean and back.

Spectators on the quayside at Southampton wave farewell as the crowded troopship Roslin Castle moves away to the right of the picture. Large numbers o...