19th Century Movies

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...

Speculative hokum about John Wilkes Booth, murderer of Abraham Lincoln, escaped to Canada instead of being tracked down and killed soon after the...

Juan is about to elope with the convent-bred Elena, when he is chosen to assassinate the governor who is about to hand California over to the...

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

Under the regime of Louis XVIII. Years after Waterloo, Napoleon's loyal officers live in retirement on half-pay. Useless and idle, they have lost...

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

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

Seeking the true Church of Jesus Christ, 14-year-old Joseph Smith prayed in a grove of trees near his home in Palmyra, New York. In answer to his...

A boy learns the duties of a shepherd from his idol, the ranch foreman, high in the Colorado mountains. When the foreman becomes ill, the boy has to...

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

Director Andrew V. McLaglen's 1961 drama, based on John William Fox's novel, is the tale of a young man returning home after fighting in the Civil...

Venice Film Festival 1955

Parody of the legend of Australian bushranger Ned Kelly.

In An Ideal Husband, an ambitious government minister, Sir Robert Chiltern, is on an assured smooth ascent to the top. Until Mrs Cheveley appears in...

Sean is a young labourer newly appointed to tend the grounds of Falgirth, a stately manor in 19th C Ireland. But a secret romance results in a...

A biographical story about significant Czech dramatist, writer and actor Josef Kajetán Tyl.