19th Century Movies

A story of love and honor that takes place during the mid-nineteenth century during revolutions, as well as economic, political, and social...

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

A small Czech town in the 1860s. The townspeople once made a fortune from the proceeds of gold mines that are now flooded. However, they do not want...

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

The film is liberally inspired by the period when Eça de Queiroz was Portuguese Consul in Cuba, when still a Spanish colony. Eça de...

A battle ignites between a kind doctor and his repressed, murderous alter-ego for only one personality to inhabit the body.

A television adaptation of the memories of one of the first important Czech actors, Jindřich Mošna, about his difficult theatrical...

The film charts the story of Oscar Wilde’s marriage to Lloyd, an author and activist, and the sexual awakening she experienced after she...

The story of British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli and the purchase by England of the Suez Canal.

Crime writer Ian Rankin investigates The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Starting with Robert Louis Stevenson's nightmare in September 1885,...

A docudrama about four weeks in the life of famous Czech composer Antonin Dvorak. The drama - filled with many of Dvorak's compositions - begins when...

In 1892, Ellis Island, in New York Bay, became the main gateway to the United States for immigrants arriving increasingly from Europe. The story of...

1897, directed by Georges Melies.

Terence Knapp plays Father Damien in this TV adaptation of the stage play. Damien goes to Hawaii in the late 1800s to care for lepers. Now deceased...