19th Century Movies

A tiny fragment of an actuality film of Tom Merry (William Mechem), a 'lightning sketch' caricaturist performing his act for the camera and producing...

Follows French writer Arthur Rimbaud from his schoolboy days in Charleville to his final years in Africa.

From the BFI Collection, this film is actually two films spliced together into one. The first is Birt Acres' work 'A Corner of Barnet Fair' which is...

One of the most controversial figures in U.S. history, Jesse James has captured the imagination of the world for more than a century. Teen guerilla...

The television adaptation of Jaroslav Hašek's satirical short story.

Based on the 19th century battle when 12,000 Afghans attacked a British Indian Contingent, also comprised of 21 Sikhs who went on to become the...

A short film made by Emile Reynaud

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...

Two poor farmers spend all their money on a chicken, while waiting for her first egg they slowly start to get the feeling there’s something...

Bucharest, 1876. Don Dumitrache instructs his trusted man, Chiriac, to watch his young wife, Veta. Dumitrache is sure that Veta having an affair, she...

The true story of a boy hero during the last fighting before the fall of the Roman Republic before the 1849 birth of the Italian Republic.

It's that time of year, and as Christmas approaches Braathen Street, the neighbors come together to celebrate the holiday. In their shared home, they...

Recorded by pioneers as far back as 1805, the Tasmanian tiger has become an intensely mystifying Australian icon, whose entire existence has become...

An actuality film from Oct 1899 of the Colstream Guards departing on the troop ship Gascon for the Boer War in South Africa.