Movies: 19th century

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

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

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 the film Crowned, we follow the extraordinary story of Magdalena Gornik, who lived in the 19th century with mystical phenomena and faced opposition, yet persistently followed her mission of converting hearts and drawing near to God through sufferi...

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

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A man is found dead under mysterious circumstances by a group of children playing in the deep forest, although the grotesque sight evokes as much curiosity as disgust....