Historical Cinema 19th Century

1805 AD – Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)

During the Napoleonic Wars, Captain Jack Aubrey, commanding the frigate HMS Surprise, pursues a French warship across the Atlantic and Pacific in a mission that tests his crew's loyalty.

1805 AD – The Battle of Austerlitz (1960)

Four months after the Treaty of Amiens, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and faces the absolutist European powers in the decisive Battle of Austerlitz, also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors.

1805–1812 AD – War and Peace (1956)

Moscow, 1805. Pierre Bezukhov, a pacifist intellectual and illegitimate son of Count Bezukhov, expresses sympathy for Napoleon while young Natasha Rostova reflects on the soldiers going to the front, including her brother Nikolai. The story follows these Russian aristocratic families during the Napoleonic invasion.

1805–1812 AD – War and Peace (1965–1967)

Leo Tolstoy's epic brought to the screen by Sergei Bondarchuk. Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia, including his disastrous 1812 invasion, serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of five aristocratic Russian families, with the Battle of Borodino recreated with 120,000 soldiers.

1805–1812 AD – War and Peace (2016)

BBC miniseries adapting Tolstoy's novel. Set in Russia during the reign of Alexander I, the story revolves around the love triangle between Natasha Rostova, Pierre Bezukhov, and Andrei Bolkonsky, set against the Napoleonic Wars and the French invasion of Russia.

1805–1818 AD – The Emperor of Paris (2018)

Under Napoleon's empire, François Vidocq, a legendary convict, becomes the first head of the Sûreté, the Paris police, while being haunted by a tragic past.

1806–1817 AD – Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2015)

In an alternate England of the early 19th century, during the Napoleonic Wars, two very different magicians—the reserved Gilbert Norrell and the impulsive Jonathan Strange—revive practical magic and become embroiled in a duel of egos that leads them to confront forces they do not understand.

1808 AD – Bruc: The Manhunt (2010)

During the Peninsular War, a young Catalan charcoal burner provokes the first major defeat of Napoleon's army in the mountains of Montserrat. Humiliated, Napoleon sends six battle-hardened mercenaries with a single mission: to hunt him down and cut off his head.

1813 AD – Persuasion (1995)

England, 1813. Anne Elliot, a 29-year-old woman whose "suitable" marriage age has passed, lives with her oppressive and vain father. Eight years earlier, she was persuaded to reject the marriage proposal of naval officer Frederick Wentworth, whom she now meets again.

1813–1827 AD – Bridgerton (2020– )

In Regency England, the Bridgerton family navigates the competitive marriage market of high society, amidst balls, scandals, and romances that defy the strict norms of the era.

1814–1815 AD – Taboo (2017)

James Keziah Delaney returns to London in 1814 after twelve years in Africa, where he was presumed dead. His father's death leads him to claim his inheritance: a small island off the west coast of Canada, coveted by the British Crown and the East India Company.

1814–1820 AD – Mary Shelley (2017)

In London in 1814, young Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin falls in love with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Their relationship and the death of her child inspire her to write Frankenstein, in a world that did not recognize women's talent.

1815 AD – Waterloo (1970)

After his abdication and return from the island of Elba, Napoleon Bonaparte faces the allied armies for the last time at the Battle of Waterloo, which will mark the definitive end of the Napoleonic Empire.

1815–1832 AD – Les Misérables (2012)

In 19th-century France, ex-convict Jean Valjean seeks redemption while being relentlessly pursued by Inspector Javert, in a story spanning from 1815 to the June 1832 Rebellion.

1815–1838 AD – The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)

Young sailor Edmond Dantès is betrayed by his friends and unjustly imprisoned on the island of If. After escaping and finding a treasure, he returns as the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo to take revenge on those who destroyed him.

1815–1838 AD – The Count of Monte Cristo (2024)

In Marseille in 1815, Edmond Dantès is imprisoned for a crime he did not commit. After years of captivity, he escapes, finds a treasure, and reinvents himself as the Count of Monte Cristo to execute an elaborate revenge against those responsible for his misfortune.

1815–1840 AD – Belgravia (2020)

On the eve of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, the Trenchard family attends a ball in Brussels that will seal their fate. Decades later, the secrets of that night still resonate in the exclusive London district of Belgravia, where the new aristocracy and the old nobility vie for power.

1817 AD – Revolucion: El Cruce de los Andes (2010)

Buenos Aires, 1880. In a lost boarding house, a journalist interviews an old man who in his youth was amanuensis to General José de San Martín. Through his account, the epic crossing of the Andes in 1817 is remembered, when San Martín led his army to liberate Chile and Peru from Spanish rule.

1818 AD – Bright Star (2009)

London, 1818. A secret relationship begins between the young English poet John Keats, 23, and his neighbor Fanny Brawne, an extroverted and elegant student. The atypical couple starts off on the wrong foot, but soon a deep love arises between them, which will be cut short by the tuberculosis that will end the poet's life.

1819 AD – Peterloo (2018)

In England in 1819, amid social crisis after the Napoleonic Wars, a crowd of 60,000 people gathers peacefully in St. Peter's Square in Manchester to demand democratic reforms. The charge of the British cavalry against the protesters unleashes one of the most tragic massacres in the country's history.

1820 AD – In the Heart of the Sea (2015)

In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex is attacked by a whale of monstrous size. The crew must fight for survival for months in the ocean, inspiring the novel Moby-Dick.

1820s AD – The Woman King (2022)

In the kingdom of Dahomey, in West Africa in the 1820s, General Nanisca trains a new generation of Agojie warriors, an all-female unit that protects the king and fights the enemies threatening their kingdom.

1823 AD – The Revenant (2015)

Explorer Hugh Glass is brutally attacked by a bear and abandoned by his expedition companions. Against all odds, he survives and embarks on a journey of vengeance across the savage American wilderness.

1824–1827 AD – Copying Beethoven (2006)

Young Anna Holtz aspires to be a composer and travels to Vienna, where she is hired to transcribe the scores of a deaf Beethoven who is finishing his Ninth Symphony, in the final years of his life.

1825 AD – The Nightingale (2018)

Tasmania, 1825. Clare, a young Irish convict, sees her husband and baby murdered by a British officer. Determined to take revenge, she embarks on a pursuit through the wild interior of the colony alongside an Aboriginal tracker.

1827 AD – Immortal Beloved (1994)

After Ludwig van Beethoven's death in 1827, his friend Anton Schindler investigates the identity of the "immortal beloved" mentioned in his will, in a journey through the genius's life and the loves that marked his existence.

1827–1828 AD – Burke & Hare (2010)

In Edinburgh in 1827, two Irish immigrants become grave robbers to supply cadavers to a medical school, until they decide to murder to meet the growing demand.

1830 AD – The Pale Blue Eye (2022)

In 1830, veteran detective Augustus Landor investigates a series of murders at the West Point Military Academy, with the help of a young cadet named Edgar Allan Poe.

1830–1840 AD – Jane Eyre (2011)

In Victorian England, Jane Eyre, a young governess, arrives at Thornfield Hall to educate the daughter of the mysterious Mr. Rochester. The attraction between them grows, but Jane soon discovers that the mansion hides a dark secret that could destroy her happiness.

1830–1886 AD – A Quiet Passion (2016)

Biopic of poet Emily Dickinson, from her years as a young schoolgirl in Puritan New England in the 19th century to her maturity as a solitary and unrecognized artist. The film portrays her rebellion against the religious and social conventions of her time, and her reclusive life in the family home in Amherst, Massachusetts.

1830–1890 AD – How the West Was Won (1962)

A family saga spanning several decades of westward expansion in the 19th century, from the Gold Rush and the annexation of Texas to the Civil War and the construction of the railroad, through the experiences of three generations of settlers.

1830s AD – Oliver! (1968)

In 19th-century England, orphan Oliver Twist escapes the workhouse where he lives and travels to London seeking a better life. There he is recruited by a band of pickpockets led by the sinister Fagin, in a classic musical based on Charles Dickens's novel.

1830s AD – Oliver Twist (2005)

In Victorian England, orphan Oliver Twist flees a workhouse and arrives in London, where he is taken in by a band of pickpockets led by the miserly Fagin. Roman Polanski's adaptation closely follows Dickens's novel to portray the poverty and social injustice of the era.

1830s AD – Jane Eyre (1996)

England, 19th century. Orphan Jane Eyre, after a miserable childhood in a boarding school, is hired as a governess at Thornfield Hall, the imposing mansion of the mysterious Mr. Rochester. The attraction between them grows, but the house hides a dark secret that threatens to destroy their happiness.

1832 AD – Gentleman Jack (2019–2022)

In Yorkshire in 1832, Anne Lister, a landowner and industrialist, returns to Halifax determined to transform her ancestral estate and to live openly as a homosexual, defying all the social conventions of Industrial Revolution England.

1836 AD – The Alamo (1960)

In 1836, during the Texas War of Independence, a small group of Texans resists for thirteen days the siege of the Mexican army under General Santa Anna at the Alamo mission.

1836 AD – The Alamo (2004)

In the spring of 1836, near San Antonio de Béjar, about two hundred Texans resist for thirteen days the siege of General Antonio López de Santa Anna, president of Mexico, at the old Alamo mission.

1837–1840 AD – The Young Victoria (2009)

England, 1837. Victoria, just 17 years old, becomes the strongest claimant to the throne. Her struggle for the crown and her romance with Prince Albert mark the beginning of a reign that will transform the country.

1837–1901 AD – Victoria (2016–2019)

 

The series narrates the rise to the throne of young Queen Victoria at 18 and her long 63-year reign, from her struggle for the crown and her romance with Prince Albert to her transformation into the figure who defined an era.

1839 AD – Amistad (1997)

In 1839, the slaves transported on the Spanish ship La Amistad, led by Cinque, mutiny and demand to be taken back to Africa. After landing in American waters, a court must decide whether they are slaves or free men.

1840s AD – Ammonite (2020)

England, 1840s. Mary Anning, a celebrated but forgotten self-taught paleontologist, works alone on the brutal coast of Lyme Regis selling common fossils to tourists to survive. When a wealthy visitor asks her to care for his young ailing wife, an intense and unexpected relationship develops between the two women.

1841–1853 AD – 12 Years a Slave (2013)

Solomon Northup, a free black musician from New York, is kidnapped and sold into slavery in the American South. For twelve years he fights to regain his freedom and return to his family.

1843 AD – The Giant (2017)

Basque Country, 1843. Martín, a young crippled and defeated man, returns to his village after years of war. There he discovers that his brother Joaquín has become a giant over two meters twenty-five centimeters tall. To lift his family out of ruin, the two brothers embark on a journey through squares and theaters of Europe, turning the Giant of Altzo into a circus phenomenon.

1843 AD – Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil (2017)

Ten years have passed since the First Carlist War of 1833. In a small village in Álava, a government commissioner named Alfredo investigates an event that leads him to a sinister blacksmith shop deep in the forest, where a solitary blacksmith seems to have connections with the Devil himself.

1843 AD – Alias Grace (2017)

In 19th-century Canada, a psychiatrist arrives at a prison to study the baffling mind of Grace Marks, a young convict for her part in the murders of Thomas Kinnear and his housekeeper, Nancy Montgomery. Through her words, Grace recounts her story and the mystery surrounding her guilt.

1844–1848 AD – The Young Karl Marx (2017)

In Paris in 1844, Karl Marx meets Friedrich Engels. Together they begin a collaboration that will lead them to lead the workers' movement and write The Communist Manifesto in 1848.

1845 AD – Burn! (1969)

Mid-19th century. Sir William Walker, a British secret agent, is sent to the Caribbean island of Queimada, a Portuguese colony, to foment a slave rebellion that will end the Portuguese sugar monopoly for the benefit of English merchants. Ten years later, Walker returns to the island to quell the same revolution he himself helped ignite.

1845–1848 AD – The Terror (2018)

The British expedition of Sir John Franklin becomes trapped in the Arctic ice while searching for the Northwest Passage, facing cold, disease, and a supernatural presence that stalks the crew.

1847 AD – Black '47 (2018)

In 1847, during the Great Irish Famine, a British Army ranger deserts and returns to his home in Ireland, where he finds a country devastated by hunger and brutality. Determined to avenge his family, he embarks on a violent crusade against those responsible.

1847 AD – Ravenous (1999)

Following a dishonorable incident during the Mexican-American War, Captain John Boyd is banished to Fort Spencer, a remote outpost in the Sierra Nevada mountains. When a half-dead stranger arrives with a horrifying tale of a snowbound pioneer group that resorted to cannibalism, Boyd and his regiment embark on a rescue mission that leads them into a nightmare of madness and survival.

1849–1915 AD – The Son (2017–2019)

A multi-generational saga chronicling the rise of the McCullough family in Texas, from young Eli's capture by Comanches in 1849 to his transformation into a ruthless cattle and oil baron in 1915.

1850 AD – Washington Square (1997)

New York, 1850. Catherine Sloper, a shy and plain young woman, lives subjugated by her severe father. When a handsome suitor courts her, her father suspects he is only after her fortune, triggering a conflict between love and family obedience.

1850 AD – The Artful Dodger (2023– )

Sequel to Oliver Twist set in 1850s Australia, it follows Jack Dawkins, the former pickpocket turned surgeon, who cannot shake his predilection for crime in the colony of Port Victory.

1850 AD – Mountains of the Moon (1990)

In 1850, Captain Richard Francis Burton and Lieutenant John Hanning Speke embark on a dangerous expedition into the interior of Africa to discover the sources of the Nile, in an adventure undertaken in the name of the British Empire and Queen Victoria.

1850 AD – Chapelwaite (2021)

In the 1850s, Captain Charles Boone moves his three children to the ancestral family home in the small town of Preacher's Corners, Maine, after the death of his wife. There he must confront the secrets of his lineage and an ancestral darkness that has plagued the Boones for generations.

1850 AD – Anna and the King (1999)

In 1860s Siam, British governess Anna Leonowens is hired by King Mongkut to educate his numerous children, facing a clash of cultures while an unexpected connection develops between them.

1850–1871 AD – The Greatest Showman (2017)

The story of P.T. Barnum, a visionary who rose from poverty to create a spectacle that defied the social conventions of 19th-century America, from his association with singer Jenny Lind to the founding of his legendary circus.

1851 AD – The Sisters Brothers (2018)

In the Oregon Territory of 1851, at the height of the California Gold Rush, the infamous gunslinging assassins Eli and Charlie Sisters are hired by a wealthy man known as the Commodore to hunt down a gold prospector who holds a secret formula, in a journey that will test their loyalty and their bond as brothers.

1851 AD – Mr. Turner (2014)

Portrait of the last twenty-five years of the life of British painter J.M.W. Turner, from his maturity as a respected member of the Royal Academy to his death, in a Victorian England beginning to transform.

1851–1864 AD – 1864 (2014)

In 19th-century Denmark, two peasant brothers and their best friend live an idyll cut short by the outbreak of the war between Denmark and Prussia in 1864, a conflict that marked the future of Europe.

1853–1858 AD – The Empress (2022– 2026)

In 19th-century Austria, rebellious Elisabeth of Bavaria falls in love with Emperor Franz Joseph and becomes empress, facing the rigid norms of the Viennese court and the power struggles that threaten her happiness.

1853–1898 AD – Sisi: Austrian Empress (2021–2024)

The series narrates the life of Elisabeth of Bavaria, from her adolescence and her romance with Emperor Franz Joseph to becoming Empress of Austria, in a Europe marked by court intrigues and 19th-century conflicts.

1854 AD – The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)

Chronicle of the events during the Crimean War (1854) that moved the British army to intervene against the Russian army. Captain Nolan joins Lord Cardigan's regiment, and his rebelliousness provokes continuous clashes in the moments before the war against the Tsar.

1856–1859 AD – The Good Lord Bird (2020)

United States, mid-19th century. Onion, a young slave, joins abolitionist John Brown and his band of freedom fighters in their violent crusade against slavery, from Bleeding Kansas to the Harpers Ferry raid in 1859.

1857 AD – American Primeval (2025)

In 1857, during the Utah War, a mother and her son flee their past and form new bonds as they face a world of freedom and cruelty in the American West, in the context of the Mountain Meadows massacre.

1857–1885 AD – The Invisible Woman (2013)

In 1857, Charles Dickens, already a renowned writer with serious marital problems, meets Nelly Ternan, an 18-year-old actress who becomes his secret mistress until the writer's death. Years later, in 1885, a married and respectable Nelly recalls that fatal period that marked her life forever.

1858 AD – Django Unchained (2012)

A slave named Django is freed by a German bounty hunter, Dr. King Schultz, in exchange for his help in tracking down criminals. Together they travel through the American South to rescue Django's wife, who is on a Mississippi plantation.

1859 AD – Creation (2009)

Charles Darwin, after returning from his voyage on the Beagle, is torn between publishing his theory of evolution and the consequences it will have for his faith, his family, and Victorian society.

1859 AD – The North Water (2021)

Aboard an English whaling ship bound for the Arctic in 1859, a tormented doctor and a brutal harpooner become embroiled in a struggle for survival that brings out the worst in human nature.

1859–1865 AD – Horizon: An American Saga (2024)

Set in the years before and after the Civil War, the story follows various characters seeking their place on the American frontier while the country is torn apart by the conflict between North and South.

1860 AD – Dances with Wolves (1990)

On the eve of the Civil War, Lieutenant John J. Dunbar is assigned to a remote frontier post in the West. There he forms a relationship with the Sioux Indians and a wolf, which transforms his worldview.

1860 AD – The Leopard (2025)

In 1860s Sicily, during the Italian unification and with Garibaldi's troops landing on the island, Prince Fabrizio Corbera of Salina witnesses the decline of his aristocratic class. While his nephew Tancredi joins the revolutionaries, the prince tries to preserve his family's legacy in a crumbling world.

1860 AD – Emancipation (2022)

A slave on a Louisiana plantation escapes his captors and embarks on a dangerous journey north to join the Union Army during the Civil War.

1860s AD – The Dead don't Hurt (2023)

In the 1860s, Canadian Vivienne Le Coudy falls in love with Danish immigrant Holger Olsen in San Francisco. When the Civil War breaks out, he enlists with the Union and she is left alone in the troubled town of Elk Flats, where she must fend for herself.

1860s AD – The Warlords (2007)

In the turbulent China of the 1860s, in the dying days of the Qing dynasty and amid the Taiping Rebellion, three blood brothers fight together on the battlefield, but ambition and betrayal will ultimately turn them against each other.

1860–1864 AD – Mrs Brown (1997)

Devastated after the death of her husband, Prince Albert, Queen Victoria finds solace in the loyal Scottish servant John Brown. Their close friendship causes a scandal in the court and British society of the Victorian era.

1861–1873 AD – Gone with the Wind (1939)

Georgia, 1861. Scarlett O'Hara, the spoiled daughter of a Southern planter, sees her life transformed by the outbreak of the Civil War and the subsequent Reconstruction period, in a story of love, survival, and the fall of an era.

1861–1862 AD – Ride with the Devil (1999)

At the start of the Civil War, Jake Roedel, son of a German immigrant, and Jack Bull Chiles, son of a Southern landowner, join a Confederate guerrilla group fighting on the Kansas-Missouri border in a brutal and ruthless war.

1861–1863 AD – Gods and Generals (2003)

Epic account of the early years of the American Civil War (1861-1863) portraying heroes from both sides, from Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson to Union officers, describing the battles and the lives of the families who lived through them at home.

1861–1882 AD – Wyatt Earp (1994)

The life of legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, from his youth in Iowa during the Civil War to his participation in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, in 1881.

1862 AD – Gangs of New York (2002)

In the Five Points neighborhood of New York, a young Irish immigrant returns to avenge his father's death at the hands of the leader of the native gang, in the context of the 1863 draft riots.

1862 AD – The Aeronauts (2019)

In England in 1862, scientist James Glaisher and pilot Amelia Wren embark on a dangerous balloon voyage to study the atmosphere, reaching heights never before seen by humans.

1862 AD – Raintree County (1957)

On the eve of the American Civil War, idealistic professor and poet John Wickliff Shawnessy leaves Nell, his youthful love, to marry Susanna, a beautiful and rich Southern heiress. The marriage is complicated by her past and the outbreak of the conflict.

1862 AD – Cinco de Mayo: The Battle (2013)

In 1862, Napoleon III's French army invades Mexico to install a monarchy. General Ignacio Zaragoza leads the Mexican defense at the Battle of Puebla, where national troops repel the invader in a decisive victory.

1862–1866 AD – Free State of Jones (2016)

During the Civil War, Southern farmer Newton Knight deserts the Confederate army and leads a rebellion in Jones County, Mississippi, where he founds a free state and confronts local authorities and slavery.

1862–1863 AD – Glory (1989)

Colonel Robert Gould Shaw takes command of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, the first regiment of African American soldiers in the Union Army, and leads them on a dangerous mission against the Confederates in South Carolina.

July 1–3, 1863 AD – Gettysburg (1993)

Over three days in July 1863, the Union and Confederate armies clash at the Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the turning point of the American Civil War, narrated from the perspectives of both sides.

1863–1891 AD – Hatfields & McCoys (2012)

Miniseries recreating the violent and protracted feud between the Hatfield family of West Virginia and the McCoy family of Kentucky, which lasted nearly three decades after the Civil War, unleashing a spiral of vengeance and frontier violence.

1864 AD – Cold Mountain (2003)

In the final days of the Civil War, Confederate soldier Inman, wounded at the Battle of the Crater in Petersburg, deserts and embarks on a dangerous journey through the devastated South to return to Cold Mountain, North Carolina, and reunite with his fiancée Ada.

1864–1886 AD – Ludwig (1973)

Narrates the life of Ludwig II of Bavaria, the "mad king," from his accession to the throne in 1864 to his mysterious death in 1886. His patronage of Richard Wagner, the construction of castles such as Neuschwanstein, and his progressive isolation lead him to personal and political ruin.

1865 AD – Lincoln (2012)

In the last four months of his presidency, Abraham Lincoln fights to secure the votes needed in the House of Representatives to pass the Thirteenth Amendment, which would abolish slavery in the United States, while the Civil War comes to an end.

1865 AD – The Conspirator (2010)

After Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865, eight people are arrested and accused of conspiring against the president. Among them is Mary Surratt, the owner of a boarding house, whose trial tests the limits of justice in a divided nation.

1865 AD – Manhunt (2024)

The miniseries narrates the frantic two weeks following Abraham Lincoln's assassination, focusing on the pursuit of John Wilkes Booth and the struggle of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton to preserve the ideals of Reconstruction.

1865–1870 AD – Hell on Wheels (2011–2016)

After the Civil War, former Confederate soldier Cullen Bohannon seeks revenge for his wife's death while working on the construction of the first transcontinental railroad, in an itinerant camp known as "Hell on Wheels."

1867 AD – The Claim (2000)

In 1867, during the California Gold Rush, Daniel Dillon is the powerful owner of a mining town. The arrival of the railroad construction and two women from his past threaten to crumble the empire he built on betrayals.

1867–1880 AD – True History of the Kelly Gang (2019)

In 1867 Australia, young Ned Kelly lives with his family in misery. Years later, as an outlaw, he leads the Kelly gang in a series of robberies that make him the most wanted and feared bandit in the British colony.

1868–1870 AD – House of Guinness (2025– )

Set in Dublin and New York in the late 19th century, the series begins with the death of patriarch Benjamin Guinness in 1868 and follows the struggle of his four heirs for control of the world's most powerful brewery.

1864 AD – Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning (2021)

Prequel narrating how Kenshin Himura became the feared Battosai during the Bakumatsu war, and how he met Tomoe Yukishiro, the woman who gave him a reason to live and whose tragic story would forever mark his destiny.

1868–1878 AD – Rurouni Kenshin 1: Origins (2012)

Kenshin Himura, a former assassin known as Battosai, wanders Japan as a vagabond after swearing never to kill again. Ten years after the war's end, he arrives in Tokyo and meets Kaoru, the owner of a dojo, but his violent past soon returns for revenge.

1869 AD – The Lone Ranger (2013)

In 1869 Texas, prosecutor John Reid survives an ambush that kills his Texas Ranger brother and the rest of their posse, and teams up with the Comanche warrior Tonto to hunt down the outlaw Butch Cavendish, a quest that leads them to uncover a conspiracy involving the transcontinental railroad.

1870 AD – News of the World (2020)

Five years after the end of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, a Confederate veteran, travels Texas reading the news aloud to the inhabitants of remote towns. His life changes when he accepts the mission of returning a German girl, raised by the Kiowa Indians, to her only living relatives.

1870 AD – The Phantom of the Opera (2004)

In 1870 Paris, the Paris Opera is preparing the premiere of a lavish spectacle, but a mysterious phantom lurks backstage. Young Christine Daaé becomes the object of his obsession, while the Phantom terrorizes the managers and the public to ensure she is the star.

1870 AD – Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)

In Victorian England, Bathsheba Everdene, a cultured, independent, and headstrong young woman, inherits a farm and attracts the attention of three very different suitors: a shepherd, a soldier, and a landowner. The story revolves around a heroine navigating a man's world and choosing her own destiny.

1870 AD – Ned Kelly (2003)

In 1870s Australia, Ned Kelly, son of Irish immigrants, is a victim of prejudice and police brutality. Turned outlaw, he leads the Kelly gang in a series of bank robberies that make him a popular legend.

1870s AD – The Age of Innocence (1993)

In 1870s New York City, a wealthy lawyer named Newland Archer is engaged to the conventional May Welland, but finds himself increasingly drawn to her cousin, the Countess Ellen Olenska, a woman who has returned from Europe after leaving her husband, forcing him to choose between duty and desire in a society ruled by rigid codes of honour and hypocrisy.

1870s AD – The Buccaneers (2023– )

A group of fun-loving young American women, whose new money is rejected by New York's Gilded Age society, burst onto the tightly corseted London season of the 1870s to secure husbands and status, kicking off an Anglo-American culture clash where their hearts are set on much more than titles.

1870–1890 AD – Heaven's Gate (1980)

In 1890s Wyoming, a Harvard-educated sheriff confronts powerful landowners who hire mercenaries to eliminate European immigrants threatening to settle on their land, in the context of the Johnson County War.

1870s AD – The Paradise (2012–2013)

In late 19th-century England, Denise Lovett leaves the countryside for a northern city, where her uncle had promised her a job in his small shop. But the Paradise Galleries, Britain's first department store, have made the business no longer what it was.

1871 AD – Babette's Feast (1987)

In a remote fishing village on the Danish coast, dominated by Puritanism, two unmarried sisters live anchored in the past and nostalgia for their youth. The arrival of Babette, a French refugee from the Franco-Prussian War, will transform their lives forever when she prepares an extraordinary gastronomic feast.

1871–1881 AD – Billy the Kid (2022–2025)

The series follows the life of Billy the Kid, from his childhood as an Irish immigrant in New York in 1871 to his death in 1881, exploring his role in the Lincoln County War and his transformation into one of the most legendary figures of the Old West.

1872 AD – The Professor and the Madman (2019)

London, 1872. Professor James Murray begins compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. To his surprise, he receives thousands of entries from a patient in a psychiatric asylum, Dr. William Chester Minor, a Civil War veteran confined for homicide. The relationship between the two will mark the history of the world's most important dictionary.

1874 AD – Lessons of a Dream (2011)

In 1874, young teacher Konrad Koch is hired to teach English at a strict boys' school in Imperial Germany. To connect with his students, he introduces football, a then-unknown sport that will challenge the norms of the era.

1876 AD – The Last Samurai (2003)

Captain Nathan Algren, a Civil War veteran, is hired by the Meiji Emperor to train the Japanese army. Captured by a group of rebel samurai, he ends up adopting their code of honor.

1876 AD – All the Moons (2020)

Basque Country, 1876. In the dying days of the last Carlist War, a girl is rescued from an orphanage by a mysterious woman who lives in the forest. At dawn she discovers that the woman has given her eternal life, condemning her to remain trapped in her childhood for decades.

1876 AD – Wild Bill (1995)

In his maturity, legendary gunfighter Wild Bill Hickok arrives in Deadwood, South Dakota, where he reunites with Calamity Jane and confronts his past as he heads to his last poker game.

1876–1877 AD – Deadwood (2004–2006)

In the lawless gold-mining camp of Deadwood, South Dakota, in the weeks following Custer's Last Stand, a disillusioned ex-lawman named Seth Bullock and the legendary gunslinger Wild Bill Hickok arrive seeking new beginnings, only to find themselves on opposite sides of the moral and legal fence from Al Swearengen, the ruthless saloon owner and brothel proprietor who effectively runs the camp, as the settlement charts its violent and corrupt growth from outlaw outpost to incorporated town.

1877–1878 AD – Corsage (2022)

On Christmas 1877, Empress Elisabeth of Austria (Sisi) turns 40. Feeling trapped by the rigid norms of the court and aware that she is aging, she leaves Vienna and travels to England and Hungary in search of her youth and freedom.

1877–1880 AD – The Forsyte (2025– )

London, the Forsytes are a powerful family clan seemingly united, but jealousy and envy corrode them from within. The series explores the tensions between tradition and modernity in a family whose financial empire is in jeopardy.

1878 AD – Last Samurai Standing (2025– )

In the early Meiji era, ten years after the samurai class was abolished, a once-undefeated samurai named Shujiro Saga is lured into a deadly survival game called Kodoku. Gathered at Tenryuji Temple in Kyoto, 292 fallen warriors ,impoverished and rendered obsolete by the new regime, must fight to the death, with the last one standing claiming a prize of 100 billion yen to save his family and his village.

1878 AD – Rurouni Kenshin 2: Kyoto Inferno (2014)

Kenshin lives in peace at the Kamiya dojo until the Meiji government asks for his help to stop Makoto Shishio, a former ally who, after surviving being burned alive, seeks to overthrow the new government and plunge Japan into chaos.

1878 AD – Rurouni Kenshin 3: The Legend Ends (2014)

The battle against Shishio continues. To defeat him, Kenshin must travel to Kyoto, face his most powerful allies, and learn his master's final technique, while Shishio threatens to return Japan to the age of war.

1879 AD – Rurouni Kenshin: The Final (2021)

In 1879, Kenshin faces his deadliest enemy: his former brother-in-law, Enishi Yukishiro, who seeks revenge for the death of his sister Tomoe. The conflict brings Kenshin's tragic past to light and endangers everything he has built.

1879 AD – Zulu Dawn (1979)

In January 1879, British troops enter Zulu territory and suffer a crushing defeat at the Battle of Isandhlwana, the prelude to the war that pitted the British Empire against the Zulu kingdom of Cetshwayo

1879 AD – Zulu (1964)

South Africa, 1879. A hundred British soldiers resist the attack of thousands of Zulu warriors at the Battle of Rorke's Drift, one of the most famous feats in British military history.

1879 AD – The English Game (2020)

In 1879 England, two Scottish footballers arrive in an industrial town and challenge the dominance of aristocratic teams, laying the foundations of modern football.

1879 AD – Ballerina (2016)

Félicie is an orphan girl living in a Brittany orphanage who dreams of becoming a professional ballerina. To achieve it, she escapes with her friend Victor and travels to 1879 Paris, where she must fight to make a place for herself in the world of ballet.

1879–1880 AD – The Current War (2017)

In the final stretch of the 19th century, Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to implement the electrical system that will light up the United States in the so-called "war of the currents."

1879–1882 AD – Tombstone (1993)

After the Civil War, Wyatt Earp and his brothers arrive in Tombstone, Arizona, seeking fortune. Their confrontation with the Clanton gang leads to the legendary gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

1880 AD – Hysteria (2011)

In 1880s London, in the midst of the Victorian era, young doctor Mortimer Granville fails in his attempt to change the ideas of the doctors of the great hospitals. His research on "female hysteria" leads him, together with his friend, to invent the first electromechanical vibrator, a device that will change women's lives forever.

1880 AD – The Man Who Would Be King (1975)

Two British adventurers in 1880s India embark on a dangerous mission to seize control of the legendary kingdom of Kafiristan, in a story of ambition and downfall.

1880s AD – A Thousand Blows (2025– )

In the brutal East End of London in the 1880s, the series follows two Jamaican friends who are drawn into the world of illegal boxing and the dangerous criminal gang of the Forty Elephants.

1880 AD – Eiffel (2021)

Having completed his collaboration on the Statue of Liberty, engineer Gustave Eiffel is pressured by the French government to design something spectacular for the 1889 Paris World's Fair, a challenge that will lead him to create the Eiffel Tower.

1880 AD – Unforgiven (2013)

An aging samurai with a violent past, living in poverty on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido with his Ainu wife, is drawn back into violence when he takes on one last job to collect a bounty, in a Japan where the traditions of the samurai are fading.

1880–1881 AD – Unforgiven (1992)

Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job to avenge an injustice, with the help of his old partner Ned Logan and a young would-be gunman calling himself "The Schofield Kid," in the dangerous town of Big Whiskey, Wyoming.

1880–1884 AD – Godless (2017)

In 1884, in the town of La Belle, New Mexico, a fugitive outlaw seeks refuge in a community governed by women after the death of nearly all its men in a mine. His past haunts him when his former mentor, the infamous Frank Griffin, comes after him.

1880–1898 AD – The Ideal Palace (2018)

France, late 19th century. Joseph Ferdinand Cheval is a postman who travels every day through the villages of the Drôme region. After the death of his wife, he decides to build a fantastic palace for his daughter Alice, a monumental work that will take 33 years of his life.

1880–1910 AD – Fearless (2006)

The story of Huo Yuanjia, a legendary Chinese martial artist who becomes a national hero in the early 20th century by defeating foreign fighters and restoring Chinese pride.

1881 AD – The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)

In 1881, young Robert Ford joins Jesse James's gang, whom he idolizes. But his admiration turns to resentment, leading him to betray and assassinate the legendary outlaw in 1882.

1882 AD – Appaloosa (2008)

In the New Mexico Territory of 1882, lawmen-for-hire Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch arrive in the town of Appaloosa to restore order after the local marshal is murdered by a powerful rancher, only to find their partnership tested by a widow who comes between them.

1882 AD – Open Range (2003)

In the Montana Territory of 1882, seasoned free-grazing cattleman "Boss" Spearman and his hired hands Charley Waite, Mose, and Button find themselves in a violent range war with a ruthless cattle baron who controls the nearby town and despises open-rangers.

1882 AD – The Gilded Age (2022– )

In 1882 New York, a young orphan moves in with her high-society aunts and becomes caught between the rigid norms of the old aristocracy and the ambition of the newly rich.

1882 AD – Long Way World (2015)

St. Petersburg, 1882. Sasha, a young Russian aristocrat, is fascinated by the life of her grandfather, a famous explorer who disappeared in the North Pole. Determined to find him, she embarks on a dangerous journey to the Arctic to recover her grandfather's icebreaker.

1883 AD – 1883 (2021)

The Dutton family embarks on a perilous journey across the Great Plains toward the last bastion of untamed America, Montana, in a gritty portrayal of westward expansion in 1883.

1883 AD – The Law According to Lidia Poët (2023– )

In 1883 Turin, Lidia Poët sees her dream of practicing law cut short when her application is rejected because she is a woman. Determined to fight against the norms of her time, she becomes Italy's first female lawyer.

1883–1885 AD – Khartoum (1966)

In 1883, British General Charles Gordon is sent to Sudan to evacuate civilians ahead of the advance of the Mahdi's army, a religious leader proclaiming holy war. The siege of Khartoum and Gordon's death will mark the end of a colonial era.

1884–1890 AD – The Elephant Man (1980)

A Victorian surgeon rescues a severely disfigured young man from a freak show and helps him find dignity in London society, based on the true story of Joseph Merrick.

1885 AD – The Taste of Things (2023)

France, 1885. Eugénie, an exceptional cook, has worked for twenty years for the famous gourmet Dodin Bouffant. Over time, mutual admiration and the shared practice of gastronomy have given way to a romance, but Eugénie values her freedom and has never wanted to marry him.

1885 AD – The Barber of Siberia (1998)

Russia, 1885. Jane Callaghan, a young American adventurer, arrives in the country to help Douglas McCraken, an eccentric engineer seeking the Grand Duke's support to implement his ambitious invention. There she meets Andrei Tolstoi, a young cadet, and a love story develops between them.

1885–1886 AD – Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)

The story of the Apache leader Geronimo's final rebellion against the U.S. government's forced relocation of his people to reservations, and the subsequent military campaign led by Brigadier General George Crook to hunt him down until his surrender in 1886.

1886 AD – Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan (1984)

After a shipwreck off the coast of Africa, the heir of the Greystoke family, John Clayton, orphaned at a few months old, is adopted by a tribe of apes among whom he lives for years. Discovered by Captain D'Arnot, young Tarzan is taken to England, presented to his family, and educated according to his rank.

1886 AD – Freud (2020)

In 1886 Vienna, a young Sigmund Freud, physician and cocaine addict, becomes embroiled in a series of mysterious murders. Together with a medium and a detective, he delves into a dangerous conspiracy that will mark the birth of his theory of psychoanalysis.

1886–1890 AD – At Eternity's Gate (2018)

In 1886, Vincent van Gogh flees the bustle of Paris and takes refuge in Arles and Auvers-sur-Oise, where he lives his last years of intense artistic creation, marked by loneliness, misunderstanding, and the desperate search for his own pictorial language.

1887–1901 AD – Victoria & Abdul (2017)

Great Britain, 1887. Young Abdul Karim travels from India to participate in Queen Victoria's Jubilee. The unexpected friendship that arises between them defies court norms and transforms the final years of her reign.

1888 AD – The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021)

England, 1888. Louis Wain is an eccentric artist and inventor whose drawings of cats bring him fame. While trying to balance his creativity with the care of his mother and five sisters, he meets Emily, the love of his life, in a dark era on the threshold of World War I.

1888 AD – From Hell (2001)

In 1888 London, Inspector Frederick Abberline investigates the brutal Jack the Ripper murders in Whitechapel, uncovering a conspiracy involving Freemasonry and the British crown.

1888 AD – Swept from the Sea (1997)

Coast of England, 1888. Amy Foster, a shy servant girl marginalized by the town, finds Yanko, the sole survivor of a shipwreck. Despite language barriers and prejudice, a love story develops between them.

1889 AD – Cabrini (2024)

In 1889, Italian nun Francesca Cabrini arrives in New York with the mission of helping Italian immigrants living in the city's poorest neighborhoods. Despite her precarious health and the opposition of authorities, she founds orphanages and hospitals that will change the lives of thousands.

1889 AD – The Illusionist (2006)

In turn-of-the-century Vienna, a magician named Eisenheim uses his extraordinary abilities to win the love of a woman far above his social standing, Duchess Sophie von Teschen, while being hunted by a determined police inspector and facing off against a ruthless Crown Prince.

1889 AD – Louise Violet (2024)

In 1889, Louise Violet, a Parisian teacher marked by a turbulent past, is sent by the republican government to a remote village in the French countryside to establish the first public school. There she must convince the inhabitants to send their children to school.

1890 AD – The English (2022)

In 1890, an Englishwoman travels to the American West to seek revenge on the man she blames for her son's death, forming an unlikely bond with a Pawnee ex-cavalry scout.

1890 AD – Hidalgo (2004)

Frank T. Hopkins, a cowboy and endurance rider from the American West, travels to Arabia to compete in the "Ocean of Fire" race, a brutal 4,800-kilometer competition across the desert.

1890 AD – The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)

Great Britain, 1890. Jack Worthing has a secret: he leads a quiet, respectable life in the country, where he acts as guardian to the beautiful Cecily Cardew, but when he needs to have fun he escapes to London and pretends to be his imaginary brother Ernest. His friend Algernon does the same, triggering a tangle of identities and romances.

1890 AD – Sherlock Holmes (2009)

In 1890 London, detective Sherlock Holmes and his inseparable companion Dr. John Watson foil the ritual murder of a young woman at the hands of Lord Henry Blackwood, a nobleman who claims to have supernatural powers. When Blackwood is executed and appears to resurrect to continue his crimes, Holmes must unravel the mystery that threatens to destabilize the entire country.

1890–1895 AD – The Hardacres (2024– )

In 1890s Yorkshire, a working-class family leaves a miserable fishing wharf to move to a large estate. The series narrates their rise from poverty to opulence, exploring class tensions and the ambitions of a family seeking a better future.

1890s AD – The Raven (2012)

In 19th-century Baltimore, Detective Emmett Fields discovers that a series of murders reproduces the crimes from Edgar Allan Poe's works. The writer joins the investigation to stop the killer.

1890s–1920s AD – Houdini (2014)

The epic story of Harry Houdini, from his origins as Ehrich Weiss, a Hungarian immigrant performing in circus sideshows, to his rise as the world's most famous illusionist and escape artist, and his secret life as an international spy before World War I.

1891 AD – Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)

One year after the events of the first installment, Holmes and Watson face Professor Moriarty, the criminal genius behind a series of crimes seeking to destabilize Europe and precipitate a world war. The investigation will take them from London to France, Germany, and Switzerland, culminating in the iconic confrontation at the Reichenbach Falls.

1892 AD – Far and Away (1992)

Ireland, 1892. Joseph Donelly, a poor farmer, flees to America after confronting the local landlord. Together with Shannon, his enemy's daughter, he embarks on a journey toward the promised land of Oklahoma.

1892 AD – Hostiles (2017)

In 1892, Captain Joseph J. Blocker reluctantly agrees to escort a dying Cheyenne chief and his family from New Mexico to Montana, on a journey of redemption through hostile territory.

1892 AD – Lizzie (2018)

In 1892, in the small town of Fall River, Massachusetts, Lizzie Borden lives under her father's tyranny. The arrival of a new maid, with whom she begins an intimate relationship, leads to the brutal murder of her father and stepmother, a crime that shocked the United States.

1892 AD – Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story (2026)

In 1892, in Fall River, Massachusetts, Lizzie Borden is tried and acquitted of the brutal axe murders of her father and stepmother. A crime that shocked the nation and was never solved, becoming one of the most controversial cases in American criminal history.

1893 AD – Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001)

In 1893 India, the inhabitants of the village of Champaner, oppressed by the high taxes of the British Empire, accept the challenge of an arrogant commander: a cricket match that will decide whether they must pay double tribute or be free of it forever.

1893–1934 AD – Radioactive (2019)

The story of Marie Curie, a brilliant scientist whose groundbreaking research on radioactivity led to two Nobel Prizes and a legacy that changed the course of science and history.

1894–1895 AD – An Officer and a Spy (2019)

In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is falsely accused of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island. Colonel Georges Picquart discovers evidence of his innocence, in a case that divided France.

1895–1930 d. C. – Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale – Part 1: The Sun Flag (2011)

Bajo el dominio colonial japonés en Taiwán, el jefe tribal Mona Rudao y su pueblo Seediq ven cómo su cultura, sus tradiciones y su forma de vida son destruidas por la ocupación. La opresión y la humillación acumuladas durante décadas preparan el terreno para el levantamiento.

1896 AD – Anne with an E (2017–2019)

The series goes back to 1896 on Prince Edward Island, Canada, when the elderly siblings Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert decide to adopt a boy to help on the farm. However, by mistake, they receive Anne, an orphan girl, red-haired and full of imagination, who will transform their lives forever.

1897 AD – Cyrano, My Love (2018)

In December 1897 Paris, in the midst of the Belle Époque, playwright Edmond Rostand, in a creative crisis and with two children to support, writes Cyrano de Bergerac, a work that makes him a legend and changes theater forever.

1897 AD – Klondike (2014)

Two childhood friends embark on a journey in the late 19th century to the remote Yukon region of Canada during the Klondike Gold Rush, facing greed, betrayal, and the brutality of the frontier.

1897–1900 AD – The Happy Prince (2018)

A portrait of the final three years of Oscar Wilde's life, from his release from prison in 1897 to his death in 1900. Living in exile in France and Italy, Wilde struggles with his health, his finances, and the memories of his past glory.

1898 AD – 1898: Our Last Men in the Philippines (2016)

In 1898, a Spanish detachment entrenches itself in the church of the Filipino town of Baler, resisting the siege of the Tagalog rebels. Isolated and without news, the soldiers will discover that the war is over and that Spain has lost its last colonies.

1898–1927 AD – There Will Be Blood (2007)

A ruthless silver miner turned oil prospector builds an empire in Southern California at the turn of the 20th century, destroying everyone around him in his insatiable quest for wealth and power.

1899 AD – The Anarchists (2015)

In 1899 Paris, a young police sergeant named Jean Albertini is chosen by his superiors to infiltrate a group of anarchists, an opportunity he sees to rise through the ranks, but he unexpectedly develops a sincere attachment to the idealistic men and women he is meant to betray.

1899 AD – 1899 (2022)

On a steamship sailing from Europe to New York in 1899, a group of emigrants must confront a mysterious and terrifying situation that threatens to unravel their journey.

1900 AD – The Knick (2014–2015)

In New York City in 1900, the staff of the Knickerbocker Hospital, led by the brilliant and ambitious surgeon Dr. John Thackery, pushes the boundaries of medicine.

1900 AD – Maria Montessori (2023)

Paris, 1900. Lili d'Alency, a popular courtesan, hides a secret: her daughter Tina was born with a disability. When she travels to Rome, she meets Maria Montessori, a doctor who has developed a revolutionary method for educating children with disabilities.

1900 AD – Fitzcarraldo (1982)

In early 20th-century Peru, a visionary Irish entrepreneur obsessed with opera embarks on a seemingly impossible quest to build an opera house in the jungle, planning to transport a steamship over a mountain to reach a rubber-rich territory.

1900 AD – Oktoberfest: Beer & Blood (2020)

In 1900 Munich, a wealthy newcomer with a shady past named Curt Prank arrives determined to build a beer hall that will dominate the city's lucrative Oktoberfest, but when his daughter falls in love with the heir to a rival brewery, a violent chain of events is unleashed.

1900 AD – Moulin Rouge! (2001)

In the Montmartre district of Paris in 1899, a young English writer named Christian falls in love with Satine, the star courtesan of the Moulin Rouge, in a tragic love story set against the bohemian underworld of fin-de-siècle Paris.

1900–1907 AD – Paula (2016)

In provincial Germany at the turn of the century, aspiring painter Paula Becker rejects the conventions that forbid women from pursuing art, and follows her passion for painting to Worpswede and Paris, in the final seven years of her brief but intense life.

1900–1945 AD – Novecento (1900) (1976)

Two men born on the same day in 1900 in Italy, the son of a landowner and the son of a peasant, grow up as friends, their lives intertwining against the backdrop of political turmoil from fascism to the end of World War II.

1900–1955 AD – Genius: Einstein (2017)

A biopic series chronicling the life of Albert Einstein, from his early years as a struggling student and patent clerk to his rise as the world's most famous physicist, set against the backdrop of two world wars and the rise of fascism in Europe.

1900s–1956 AD – Kinsey (2004)

The life story of Alfred Kinsey, a pioneering researcher whose studies on human sexuality in the 1940s and 1950s shocked and transformed American culture.

1900s–1968 AD – Train Dreams (2025)

The story of a logger and itinerant labourer named Robert Grainier in the early 20th century American West, following his life through love, loss, and the monumental changes of the era.

1901 AD – Dance of the 41 (2020)

On November 18, 1901, during the presidency of Porfirio Díaz, police raid a private party in Mexico City where 41 men are found, some dressed as women. The scandal exposes the hypocrisy of Porfirian high society and destroys the lives of those involved.

1901 AD – The Grey Fox (1982)

After thirty-three years in San Quentin, gentleman stagecoach robber Bill Miner is released in 1901 into a world that has left him behind. Unable to escape his own nature, he heads to Canada and, inspired by a motion picture, becomes a train robber.

1901–1903 AD – Tom Horn (1980)

Wyoming, 1901. Tom Horn, a living legend of the Old West, arrives in Hagerville looking for work suited to his ability as a cowboy and marksman. A group of ranchers hires him to deal with cattle rustlers, but he soon runs into trouble with corrupt local officials.

1901–1908 AD – The Settlers (2023)

In 1901, a wealthy landowner in Tierra del Fuego hires an English lieutenant and an American mercenary to open a route for his sheep to the Atlantic, guided by a mestizo Chilean. The film traces the genocide of the Selk'nam people at the beginning of the 20th century.

1902–1907 AD – Dersu Uzala (1975)

A Russian explorer encounters a nomadic Nanai hunter named Dersu Uzala while mapping the wilderness of Siberia, forming a deep friendship that teaches him about the bonds between man and nature.

1902–1914 AD – A Dangerous Method (2011)

The relationship between Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, and Sabina Spielrein, a young Russian woman who becomes a patient of Jung's and later a psychoanalyst herself, is chronicled.

1903 AD – The Great Train Robbery (1978)

A band of outlaws robs a steam train at a station in the American West, flees through mountainous terrain, and is finally defeated by a group of locals. Considered the first western in cinema history.

1903 AD – Finding Neverland (2004)

In London, 1903, playwright J.M. Barrie develops a friendship with a widow and her four young sons, who inspire him to write the timeless story of Peter Pan.

1904 AD – The Wind and the Lion (1975)

In Morocco in 1904, a Berber chieftain kidnaps an American widow and her children, sparking an international incident that draws in President Theodore Roosevelt.

1904 AD – Yentl (1983)

In Eastern Europe in 1904, a young Jewish woman disguises herself as a boy to pursue an education in Talmudic law, a path forbidden to women.

1904–1918 AD – Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)

The tragic story of Tsar Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra, from the birth of their hemophiliac son in 1904 to their execution in 1918, in the twilight of the Romanov dynasty and the outbreak of the Russian Revolution.

1905 AD – Ena: Queen Victoria Eugenie (2024)

London, 1905. King Alfonso XIII of Spain travels to England to arrange a marriage with Princess Patricia of Connaught, but instead meets and falls in love with her cousin, Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, who will become Queen of Spain.

1905 AD – Fiddler on the Roof (1971)

In the Jewish village of Anatevka in Tsarist Russia in 1905, a poor milkman tries to uphold his traditions while his daughters challenge his authority by choosing their own husbands.

1905–1907 AD – Gran Hotel (2011–2013)

In a luxurious family-owned hotel in the Spanish town of Cantaloa, mysteries, crimes, and romances unfold among the owners, guests, and servants.

1905–1925 AD – The Lost City of Z (2016)

British explorer Colonel Percival Fawcett ventures into the Amazon rainforest in search of a legendary lost city, an obsession that will consume him for decades.

1906 AD – Old Henry (2021)

In the Oklahoma Territory of 1906, widowed farmer Henry McCarty lives a quiet life with his teenage son Wyatt. When a wounded man carrying a bag of cash arrives at their farm, Henry must decide whether to protect him or hand him over to the ruthless posse hunting him down, a choice that forces him to confront his own violent past.

1906–1907 AD – Vienna Blood (2019– )

In early 20th-century Vienna, a young medical student and Freud's protégé, Max Liebermann, teams up with Detective Oskar Rheinhardt to solve a series of mysterious murders in the grand cafés and opera houses of the Austro-Hungarian capital.

1907 AD – The Road to Wellville (1994)

In 1907, a couple checks into a health sanitarium run by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, a guru of health fanaticism, in this satire of early 20th-century America.

1907–1916 AD – Rasputin (1996)

In 1907 Russia, the monk Grigori Rasputin arrives in St. Petersburg and becomes a confidant of the imperial family by healing the hemophiliac heir. His influence over the tsarina and his life of excess lead to a conspiracy that will end with his assassination in 1916.

1907–1921 AD – Everlasting Moments (2008)

In strike-torn Sweden at the beginning of the 20th century, a working-class wife and mother of seven wins a Contessa camera in a raffle, and the art of photography opens a window to a world of beauty and freedom beyond her difficult marriage to an alcoholic husband.

1908–1967 AD – The Last Emperor (1987)

The epic story of Aisin-Gioro Puyi, who was crowned Emperor of China at the age of three in 1908, tracing his life from his sheltered childhood in the Forbidden City through his abdication, his reign as a puppet ruler of Japanese-occupied Manchuria, his imprisonment as a war criminal, and his final years as an ordinary citizen in Communist China.

1909 AD – The Color Purple (1985)

A young African American woman named Celie endures years of abuse at the hands of her husband, finding strength and eventual redemption through her relationships with two other women.

1909 AD – The Color Purple (2023)

In rural Georgia in the early 1900s, Celie, an African American woman, struggles to overcome years of abuse and find her own identity with the help of her sister and other women in her life.

1910 AD – The Last Station (2009)

In the last year of Leo Tolstoy's life, his personal secretary is caught in the conflict between the writer, who seeks to renounce his property, and his wife, who fights to preserve the family legacy.

1912 AD – My Fair Lady (1964)

In Edwardian London, a phonetics professor makes a wager that he can transform a Cockney flower seller into a duchess simply by altering her speech.

1912 AD – Titanic (1997)

On the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic in April 1912, a young aristocrat named Rose DeWitt Bukater and a penniless artist named Jack Dawson fall in love, a romance that unfolds against the backdrop of the ship's tragic collision with an iceberg in the North Atlantic.

1912–1918 AD – War Horse (2011)

A young farm boy enlists in World War I after his beloved horse is sold to the British cavalry, following the animal's journey through the battlefields of France.

1912–1926 AD – Downton Abbey (2010–2015)

The lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants unfold on a Yorkshire estate, from the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 through the Great War and into the 1920s.

1912–1913 AD – Suffragette (2015)

In 1912 London, a young working mother is drawn into the radical wing of the women's suffrage movement, willing to risk everything for the right to vote.

1912–1925 AD – Doctor Zhivago (1965)

The story of Yuri Zhivago, a physician and poet, whose life is torn between his wife Tonya and his passionate love for Lara, set against the backdrop of World War I, the Russian Revolution of 1917, and the ensuing Civil War.

1913–1931 AD – Out of Africa (1985)

In colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness runs a coffee plantation and embarks on a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter, in a story spanning from 1913 to 1931.

1913 AD – The Kiss (2022)

On the eve of World War I in Denmark, a young cavalry officer becomes entangled in the life of a baron's daughter, who is confined to a wheelchair, in a story of love and duty amid impending conflict.

1913–1919 AD – The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015)

In 1910s colonial India, a self-taught mathematical genius named Srinivasa Ramanujan travels to Cambridge University at the invitation of Professor G.H. Hardy, forming an unlikely partnership that defies prejudice and revolutionises mathematics during World War I.

1914 AD – A Little Princess (1995)

In 1914, a young girl living in India with her wealthy British father is sent to a strict New York boarding school when he enlists in World War I, and must rely on her imagination and courage to endure hardship.

1914–1918 AD – The King's Man (2021)

In the early 20th century, a secret intelligence agency is formed to stop a cabal of history's most notorious tyrants from orchestrating a world war that will claim millions of lives.

1914 AD – Joyeux Noël (2005)

On Christmas Eve in 1914, amid the trenches of World War I, French, Scottish, and German soldiers spontaneously lay down their arms and celebrate the holiday together, a moment of humanity in the midst of carnage.

1914–1915 AD – The Promise (2016)

In the final years of the Ottoman Empire during World War I, a young Armenian medical student named Mikael finds himself caught in a love triangle with an American journalist and a French-educated Armenian woman, while the Ottoman government begins the systematic persecution and genocide of the Armenian people.

1914–1926 AD – Young Woman and the Sea (2024)

In 1914 New York, the daughter of German immigrants, Trudy Ederle, defies the conventions of her time to become a competitive swimmer, culminating in 1926 when she becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.

1915 AD – Gallipoli (1981)

Two young Australian sprinters enlist in the army during World War I and are sent to the Gallipoli campaign, where they face the brutal realities of the ill-fated attack at the Nek.

1916 AD – Flyboys (2006)

A group of young American volunteers travels to France to join the Lafayette Escadrille, the legendary French air squadron, and becomes the first American pilots to fight in World War I.

1916 AD – Tolkien (2019)

The early life of J.R.R. Tolkien, from his orphaned childhood and his formative years at Oxford to his service in the Battle of the Somme in 1916, where the seeds of his Middle-earth legendarium were first planted.

1916–1917 AD – The Red Baron (2008)

The story of Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the legendary German fighter pilot known as the Red Baron, from his early aerial victories in 1916 to his death in 1918, during the skies of World War I.

1916–1920 AD / 1964 AD – Admiral (2008)

The story of Alexander Kolchak, a vice admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy who becomes the leader of the anti-communist White movement during the Russian Civil War, and his tragic love affair with Anna Timireva, told in flashbacks from 1964.

1916–1918 AD – Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

During World War I, a controversial and enigmatic British officer, T.E. Lawrence, is sent to the Arabian desert to unite and lead the often-warring Arab tribes in a revolt against the Ottoman Empire, forging a legendary reputation through his daring campaigns and his deep affinity for the desert and its people.

1917 AD – 1917 (2019)

During World War I, two young British soldiers are given a seemingly impossible mission: to cross into enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop 1,600 men — including one of their own brothers — from walking into a deadly trap.

1917–1918 AD – All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)

A young German soldier's initial enthusiasm for World War I collapses as he faces the brutal reality of trench warfare on the Western Front.

1917–1920 AD – The History of Sound (2025)

Two young men meet at the Boston Conservatory in 1917 and later embark on a journey through rural New England in the winter of 1920 to record the folk songs of their countrymen, forming a deep bond along the way.

1918 AD – Pearl (2022)

In 1918, a young woman trapped on her family's secluded Texas farm during World War I dreams of becoming a movie star, a desire that clashes violently with her repressive home life.

1918 AD – Capitaine Conan (1996)

In November 1918, as the Armistice ends World War I, a French captain and his band of ruthless soldiers are ordered to continue fighting in the Balkans, where the line between war and banditry blurs.

1918 AD – Journey's End (2017)

In March 1918, a company of British officers arrives at the front lines in northern France to take their turn in the trenches, led by a captain pushed to the brink of mental exhaustion by years of war.

1919–1934 AD – Peaky Blinders (2013–2022)

In the aftermath of World War I, the Shelby family rises to power in the slums of Birmingham, England, building a criminal empire that extends from illegal bookmaking to international politics.

1919 AD – The Water Diviner (2014)

An Australian farmer travels to Turkey after World War I to find his three sons who went missing during the Gallipoli campaign, refusing to believe they are dead.

1920s AD – RRR (2022)

In 1920s British-ruled India, a fearless tribal guardian and a fiery revolutionary form an unlikely friendship while secretly fighting against the colonial oppressors.

1920–1924 AD – Chariots of Fire (1981)

The true story of two British athletes — one a devout Scottish missionary, the other a determined Jewish student — who compete for glory at the 1924 Paris Olympics.

1920–1931 AD – Boardwalk Empire (2010–2014)

In Atlantic City during Prohibition, a corrupt political boss builds a criminal empire while navigating the violence, greed, and shifting alliances of the 1920s underworld.

1920s AD – The Danish Girl (2015)

In 1920s Copenhagen, a married couple of artists embark on a journey of love and self-discovery when one of them begins to transition, becoming one of the first known recipients of gender reassignment surgery.

1920s AD – Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)

In 1920s Oklahoma, members of the oil-rich Osage Nation are murdered under mysterious circumstances, prompting an FBI investigation that exposes a chilling conspiracy of greed and betrayal.

1920s AD – Magic in the Moonlight (2014)

On the opulent French Riviera of the 1920s, a cynical magician is hired to expose a young American medium as a fraud, only to find his rationality tested by unexpected feelings.

1921–1958 AD – A Gentleman in Moscow (2024)

In 1921, Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced by a Bolshevik tribunal to lifelong house arrest in Moscow's luxurious Hotel Metropol, where he spends the next three decades witnessing the tumultuous history of Soviet Russia from within its walls.

1922 AD – The Great Gatsby (2013)

In the spring of 1922, a mysterious millionaire named Jay Gatsby throws lavish parties on Long Island, hoping to win back the love of his life, in a tale of obsession, excess, and the American Dream.

1923 AD – 1923 (2022–2023)

In the early 20th century, the Dutton family faces a new set of challenges in Montana, including the rise of Western expansion, Prohibition, historic drought, and the early stages of the Great Depression. The series follows Jacob and Cara Dutton as they fight to protect their ranch and legacy.

1924–1972 AD – J. Edgar (2011)

The story of J. Edgar Hoover, who became director of the FBI at 29 and built the agency into a powerful force over nearly five decades, while hiding a secret personal life.

1924 AD – A Passage to India (1984)

In the British Raj of the 1920s, a young Englishwoman named Adela Quested travels to India to visit her fiancé, a British magistrate in the fictional city of Chandrapore. Her encounter with Dr. Aziz, an Indian physician, and the false accusation that follows, expose the deep cultural mistrust and racial tensions of colonial rule.

1925 AD – Togo (2019)

In the winter of 1925, a veteran sled dog and his musher embark on a perilous journey across the Alaskan tundra to deliver life-saving serum to the town of Nome during a diphtheria outbreak.

1925 AD – The Painted Veil (2006)

In 1920s China, a British bacteriologist takes his unfaithful wife to a remote village ravaged by cholera, where their troubled marriage faces redemption amid duty and sacrifice.

1927–1948 AD – The Aviator (2004)

The story of Howard Hughes, an eccentric billionaire obsessed with aviation and cinema, whose groundbreaking achievements are shadowed by his struggle with mental illness.

1928 AD – Changeling (2008)

In 1928 Los Angeles, a mother's world is shattered when her missing son is returned to her, but she insists he is not her child, exposing a web of police corruption and a serial killer.

1928–1930 AD – The Cotton Club (1984)

In late 1920s Harlem, the legendary Cotton Club becomes the backdrop for a story of jazz musicians, dancers, gangsters, and dreamers caught between fame and violence.

1929 AD – Chicago (2002)

In 1920s Chicago, two murderous women vie for media attention and the services of a slick lawyer as they await trial, in a dazzling musical satire of crime and celebrity.

1929–1934 AD – Babylon Berlin (2017– )

In the final years of the Weimar Republic, a detective newly transferred to Berlin's vice squad investigates a series of cases that expose the city's underworld of crime, corruption, and political extremism as the Nazi Party rises to power.

1929 AD – Lion of the Desert (1980)

In 1929, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini appoints General Rodolfo Graziani as governor of Libya with orders to crush the nationalist resistance led by Omar Mukhtar, who has fought against Italian colonial rule for two decades.

1930 d. C. – Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale — Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge (2011)

Tras el ataque a la escuela, el gobierno colonial japonés envía un batallón de tres mil soldados y policías para sofocar la rebelión. Los guerreros Seediq, superados en número y armamento, luchan hasta las últimas consecuencias guiados por su creencia en el puente del arcoíris.

Early 1930s AD – The Untouchables (1987)

During Prohibition in Chicago, federal agent Eliot Ness assembles a small, incorruptible team to bring down the ruthless gangster Al Capone.

1930s AD – Amsterdam (2022)

In 1930s New York, three friends witness a murder, are framed for it, and uncover one of the most outrageous secret plots in American history.