19th Century Movies

Inaugurated in 1986 by François Mitterrand, a link between the Louvre and Pompidou, Orsay houses the largest collection of Impressionist art...

A 19th century wire-walker performs his stage act on a woman's clothesline. An early comedy by pioneer director Robert W. Paul.

The story, set in 19th century Calcutta during British rule, sees a female prostitute embark on an unheard-of killing spree.

A tiny fragment of an actuality film of Tom Merry (William Mechem), a 'lightning sketch' caricaturist performing his act for the camera and producing...

The last sovereign Zulu King, a female British missionary, an ambitious colonial official and a young Welshman are all voiced by actors to make...

The continuation and conclusion of the story of the famed Zeider Zee youth Hans Brinker, who desperately needing money for his father's operation,...

It is a short film made by Emile Reynaud

1899. Hautes-Alpes. Soudain is a hamlet encircled by snow on the high plateaus of a remote mountain. Shortly after the arrival of a young primary...

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

A grandfather recalls how he and his wife met and fell in love during the Second Italian War of Independence.