19th Century Movies

In 1899, a photographer at American Mutoscope & Biograph mounted his camera on the front of a trolley traveling over the Brooklyn Bridge. The three...

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...

Soviet Georgian film by Eldar Shengelaia. Based on short story by D. Kldiashvili

As Georgios Vizneyos, one of Greece's greatest authors, degenerates in an Athens mental asylum, the tale of another story-teller, his grandfather,...

In 1886, the United States Department of Agriculture ambitiously commissioned watercolour illustrations of over 3,000 fruit cultivars. In 2019, this...

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

British explorer Henry Stanley travels to Africa in 1871 seeking missionary David Livingstone.

The history of the potato through the ages—with a focus on European history and a twinkle in its eye

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...

Newsreel-type short about music from the 1890s making a resurgence in the '40s

30 seconds of actual snowball fighting from 1899. A quick glimpse of a time gone by