19th Century Movies

Romantic art was a response to the social upheavals of the 19th century, as shown by works by its emblematic painters Friedrich, Venetsianov and...

A portrayal of the early Latter-day Saints' joys, sacrifices, hopes, and trials; their epic journey to the Salt Lake Valley; and their legacy of...

Two wealthy Victorian widows are courted tentatively by two impoverished British aristocrats. When one of the dowagers suggests that her beau go away...

In 1893 Cornwall, a doctor is sent to investigate a miraculous claim that a fisherman's wife has cured tuberculosis, but what he discovers is more...

Recounts the 40-year history of building the Salt Lake Temple, shown as if recounted by Wilford Woodruff to a young reporter. It portrays the...

Dreaming of creating a Czech musical theater, not recognized in his homeland, Josef Navratil, under the pseudonym of Iosif Ratili, one day comes on...

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

In the 1880s, the Prescott brothers aid the Chastain family against cattle rustlers, forging a bond as they face frontier challenges like bank...

An English woman is unwittingly sold into prostitution and joins a brothel run by a mysterious baron.

Life becomes a tragedy for the wife of an Irish heir to a 19th-century family feud and fortune.

This remarkable series of 10 short silent dramas by John M. Stahl, produced by Benjamin Chapin as a vehicle for his performance as Abraham Lincoln,...

Santini's Network is a biographical film by German filmmaker Georg Brintrup on the life of Roman music collector Fortunato Santini and how his famous...

This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji...

An English trooper leads a governess, her native charge and a stuffy officer downriver to Khartoum.

In 1865, Tomás and his reluctant son Liam work on Ireland’s Ordnance Survey in the aftermath of the Great Hunger.

Brilliant composer and violinist George Enescu is at the peak of his career and wants to compose an opera. He falls in love with a princess, Maruca,...

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...