19th Century Movies

The Impressionists are the most popular group in art history – millions flock every year to marvel at their masterpieces. But, to begin with,...

In the late 19th Century, Mary Breydon, a widow, and Peggy Breydon, her daughter manage a stagecoach stop on The Cherokee Trail. The story is told...

Capt. Eugenio arrives in a remote castle to take charge of a unit guarding a nameless prisoner. No one knows much about the inmate as he is held in a...

Follow Dre, a young woman hired to be a governess, and Albie, the strange boy she is entrusted to raise in an isolated, gothic mansion where all are...

The great Italian opera composer recalls his eventful life on his deathbed: his childhood in Busseto, his studies in Milan, his first opera "Oberto,...

This film follows scientist Henry Bates as he explores the Amazon for proof of natural selection.

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

A short film made by Emile Reynaud

A man tries to get a good night's sleep, but is disturbed by a giant spider that leaps onto his bed, and a battle ensues in hilarious comic fashion.

The musically highly gifted maid Elsie, who longs for a career as a musician, is forced into marriage with Jacob, a young stable boy who dreams of...

For six hundred years Sweden had controlled most of Finland until the war with Russia that ended in 1809, when Finland became a Grand Duchy of the...

The film, in individual episodes, captures the fate of Bedřich Smetana from 1856 until the end of his life, from his young years until the...

British MP Sir Robert Chiltern is known for his honesty and integrity. To match his wife, Lady Chiltern, who is an example of high morality. However,...

A television adaptation of Jan Neruda's short stories The Bachelor and Mr. Carpet's Marriage.

Life of Czech composer Smetana, his search for love and artistic inspiration despite hearing loss, and quest for his muse Eliska. Navigating personal...

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