19th Century Movies

In 1885, Africa is a succulent cake destined to be wildly divided and everyone wants a piece. A disturbed European king, a Pygmy working in a luxury...

A woman journeys to Spanish California to marry a Spanish officer, but on the way she meets and falls in love with an American adventurer who is part...

Adaptation of Eli Brown's novel of the same name.

Vincent Van Gogh's life was a masterpiece painted with the dueling colors of madness versus genius. However, this inner battle gave birth to some of...

Based on the novel by Maria Gripe, this is the story of two children, Klas and Klara, growing up in the poor Swedish countryside of the mid-19th...

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

A young Beothuk woman tells the story of her experiences witnessing recent interactions between her people and Europeans.

John Zinga, a descendent of slaves, has an ancient medallion around his neck and a fragment of song passed down generations. He is an English...

Against the backdrop of 1884, a young doctor becomes entangled in a deadly conflict between a brewing empire and a radical temperance movement,...

Terence Knapp plays Father Damien in this TV adaptation of the stage play. Damien goes to Hawaii in the late 1800s to care for lepers. Now deceased...

The life of Kayamkulam Kochunni, a famed highwayman who robbed from the rich and gave to the poor during the British Raj in the early 19th century...

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human...

Based on a Anton Chekhov short story, this slight tale has some good moments as the drama of a young boy's journey unfolds. The lad comes from...

An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal...

Crime writer Ian Rankin investigates The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Starting with Robert Louis Stevenson's nightmare in September 1885,...

The prodigious genesis of a monument of world literature, too often reduced to its popular success, also recounts the tormented conversion of its...

In Nepalese society, "Jaar" refers to a man who has an illicit affair with another man's wife. During the reign of Jung Bahadur Rana...

Germans colonized the land of Namibia, in southern Africa, during a brief period of time, from 1840 to the end of the World War I. The story of the...