Movies: 19th century

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it's the 1840s and a rural parish plagued by drinking and fighting gets a new vicar who has decided to instill law, order and fear of God into the parishioners....

A biographical story about significant Czech dramatist, writer and actor Josef Kajetán Tyl....

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It's that time of year, and as Christmas approaches Braathen Street, the neighbors come together to celebrate the holiday. In their shared home, they find warmth and joy despite the challenges of their modest lives, proving that the true spirit of Ch...

In 1880, an inexperienced prosecutor must indict a group of people accused of witchcraft and murder on the island of Chiloé. Meanwhile, a young peasant girl, to save her grandfather from the condemnation of the state, must be initiated into witchcraf...

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

Amanda Aaltonen refuses to resign herself to the miserable fate of a poor woman and daringly seeks her happiness in the world. As punishment for breaking the rules, society deprives her of the most important thing of all, her freedom, and imprisons h...

The last sovereign Zulu King, a female British missionary, an ambitious colonial official and a young Welshman are all voiced by actors to make AMASHINGA a beautiful and epic explanation of the British invasion of the Zulu Kingdom in 1879....

In 1886, the United States Department of Agriculture ambitiously commissioned watercolour illustrations of over 3,000 fruit cultivars. In 2019, this collection was digitized. Mesmerizingly detailed, these images now tell an incredible story about the...

In 1850 Pedro and Zen stop at an Inn in Mexico run by beautiful women, who may be vampires. But, Pedro and Zen are vampire hunters....

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A mobile chapel of St. Florian is moved every week between the villages of Zbořov and Spáňovice. The farmer Florian Jírovec, who has to provide his horses for this event, is tired of it and therefore supports the proposal to build a proper brick chap...

Spectators on the quayside at Southampton wave farewell as the crowded troopship Roslin Castle moves away to the right of the picture. Large numbers of troops on board wave back to loved ones and the crowd including thr 2nd Battaliion West Yorkshires...

4 horse drawn fire brigade carts pull out from Newcastle fire station in the UK as part of a filmed demonstration...

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Follows French writer Arthur Rimbaud from his schoolboy days in Charleville to his final years in Africa....