Movies: 19th century

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Based on the true story of John Scobell, one of the first African American spies in our nation’s intelligence service. In 1861, President Lincoln commissions his spymaster Allan Pinkerton to incorporate a new network of African American spies. This g...

An 1897 travelogue of a bullock turning a cog to work a water pump in Egypt. Director/Cinematographer - Henry Short. Made as part of a follow-up series of travelogue films following a collection made for R.W. Paul in 1896....

Young boys going into the sea water by Brighton's West Pier in the UK to pick up pennies thrown in by people on the pier....

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

Every day, Paris’ six railway stations welcome over 3,000 trains and more than a million travelers coming from France and all over Europe. The stations’ sizes are impressive: Gare du Nord is bigger than the Louvre or Notre-Dame de Paris. These railwa...

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

A bored princess' flights of fancy cause troubles for the entire household, especially her husband....

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A group of children are encouraged to play in a park by two men. Some play a skipping game. One of the other children refuses and eventually runs away. Another child is fascinated by the camera and stares at it throughout, even when encouraged by one...

South of Italy, XIX century. A couple of brigands are chased in the woods. The man has a bounty on his head and is terrified by everything, while the woman takes care of her newborn. They will be safe beyond the river, where they are going to abandon...

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Adventure film based on the life of the legendary bandit Manuel García, the king of the Cuban fields, who in the last decades of the 19th century had the sympathy of the people because it was said that he stole goods from the rich to distribute them ...