19th Century Movies

In 1892, Ellis Island, in New York Bay, became the main gateway to the United States for immigrants arriving increasingly from Europe. The story of...

Pyatigorsk. The foot of Mount Mashuk. Morning of July 15, 1841. Two days ago – friends, overnight – irreconcilable enemies. A few hours...

A short film made by Emile Reynaud

Adventurer Allan Quatermain leads an expedition into uncharted African territory in an attempt to locate an explorer who went missing during his...

Prague in the 1870s. Work in Smolík's sulphur factory is hard and dangerous to health. The poorly paid workers resemble torches because their...

An exploration of Sigmund Freud, including his relationship to German nose and throat specialist Dr. Wilhelm Fliess.

Dodger and the gang return to London to pull off their biggest mission yet: to rob the Crown Jewels ahead of the Queen's Coronation.

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

A dramatisation of two generations of the Strauss family of Vienna, whose dance music and operettas dominated much of Europe and beyond for most of...

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

The film consists of a series of animations on a beach containing two beach huts and a diving board. Two characters play at diving into the water...

The story of British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli and the purchase by England of the Suez Canal.

A mobile chapel of St. Florian is moved every week between the villages of Zbořov and Spáňovice. The farmer Florian Jírovec,...