Movies Like The Derby 1895

¡Qué suerte hemos tenido!

2024

À corps perdus

2024

The Mountain of the Lord

1993

Recounts the 40-year history of building the Salt Lake Temple, shown as if recounted by Wilford Woodruff to a young reporter. It portrays the pioneers' dedication to temple worship.

Andre the Giant

2018

An ambitious and wide-ranging documentary exploring Andre’s upbringing in France, his celebrated career in WWE, and his forays in the entertainment world.

Napoleon: Destiny and Death

2021

May 5, 1821. Napoleon Bonaparte, deposed emperor exiled on the island of St. Helena, is about to take his last breath. The son of a Corsican family, he has been close to death on many occasions since, as a young captain in the revolutionary army, he seized Toulon from the royalists in 1793.

Passage of Venus

1874

Photo sequence of the rare transit of Venus over the face of the Sun, one of the first chronophotographic sequences. In 1873, P.J.C. Janssen, or Pierre Jules César Janssen, invented the Photographic Revolver, which captured a series of images in a row. The device, automatic, produced images in a row without human intervention, being used to serve as photographic evidence of the passage of Venus before the Sun, in 1874.

The Russian Revolution

2017

Starting in 1881 this film shows the personal battle between Lenin's Ulyanov family and the royal Romanovs that eventually led to the Russian revolution.

Panoramas of War

2018

The end of the Franco-Prussian war (1870-71) saw the birth of the panoramas of war, huge circular paintings depicting scenes of war, cruelty and desolation that were contemplated by thousands of spectators, a kind of inmersive static newsreels, a mass media prior to the era of mass media, a virtual reality on canvas.

Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West

2002

Explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark lead a U.S. expedition to the Pacific Ocean and back.

The Tattooed Police Horse

1964

Barred from racing for breaking stride, a trotting horse finds a new career as a police officer's mount in Boston.

Bicycling Group

1896

A staged film where over 100 cyclists cycle towards the camera.

Explorer: Lost in the Arctic

2023

Sir John Franklin set off from England in 1845 with two ships and 129 men to be the first to navigate the Northwest Passage, a new trade route over the top of the world, when Franklin’s ships vanished without a trace. Now, a team of explorers attempts to solve the mystery by retracing Franklin’s route in search of his long-lost tomb.

Ellis Island, une histoire du rêve américain

2014

In 1892, Ellis Island, in New York Bay, became the main gateway to the United States for immigrants arriving increasingly from Europe. The story of immigration to the United States from 1892 to 1954, an enthralling polyphonic narrative that embraces both small and great history.

Darwin's Darkest Hour

2009

In 1858 Charles Darwin struggles to publish one of the most controversial scientific theories ever conceived, while he and his wife Emma confront family tragedy.

Dark Horse

2015

The larger than life true story of how a barmaid in a poor Welsh mining village convinces some of her fellow residents to pool their resources to compete in the "sport of kings" with a racehorse they would breed and raise.

Barbados at the Races

2010

Miniseries looking at Barbados through the lives of the island's horse racing community.

Blade Rollers

2024

Honour West and Joan Camuglia-May share their experiences in this upbeat roller-skating documentary.

Boys Scrambling For Pennies

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.