19th Century Movies

Set in 19th century country side and a small town. Leni and later her daughter Hanni living in Pimeänpirtti croft are seduced by Otto von...

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...

In 1894, Gabriel, an ambitious medicine graduate, spends his summer learning from the renowned Doctor Fidalgo in his isolated Mansion. Upon...

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...

Film made at Hyde Park Corner in 1896 by an unknown filmmaker. It looks south west across Grosvenor Place. The southern wing of St George's Hospital...

Normandy, 1905. The picnic is finished. A group of middle-class people in their Sunday best, get ready to go home. There is one last photo to be...

The life story of Aleksis Kivi, author of the first Finnish novel in Finnish language and (posthumously) its most successful writer.

In 1827, Joseph Smith, Jr. was only 21 years old when he received a prophetic calling to translate ancient scriptures that would soon be published as...

This film recounts how Joseph Smith's search for truth led to a heavenly vision and the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

It is a short film made by Emile Reynaud

Watched by crowds, Sir Redvers Buller, Lady Buller, the Mayor of Southampton and others walk along the gangway leading to the ship towards the...

In the late 19th century at Längelmäki two men kill a mailman and rob all the money he carried. Based on actual events.