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1811 ( MDCCCXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1811th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 811th year of the 2nd millennium, the 11th year of the 19th century, and the 2nd year of the 1810s decade.
C. Children of Paradise. Chopin: Desire for Love. Clothes Make the Man (1921 film) Clothes Make the Man (1940 film) Comanche Territory (1950 film) Confession of a Child of the Century. The Convert.
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Starring: Elizabeth Olsen, Jessica Lange Director: Charlie Stratton In Secretis a tragic love story with shades of Romeo and Juliet, the tale of a sexually repressed young woman trapped in a loveless marriage by her controlling aunt. She is drawn into an affair with inevitably tragic consequences, and if the plot sounds well-worn, it may help to kn...
Starring: Viggo Mortenson, Omar Sharif Director: Joe Johnston Based on the true story of distance rider Frank Hopkins and his horse Hidalgo, this 2004 film serves as an excellent vehicle for charismatic star Viggo Mortensen, perhaps best known for his work in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Ringsseries. Baited into entering a 3,000-mile race across the...
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt Director: David Lynch This biography of the famous “Elephant Man,” John Merrick, was met with widespread critical acclaim upon its release. It features a powerhouse cast including Sir John Gielgud, Sir Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, and Anne Bancroft, as well as stunning makeup design that had the misfortune of bei...
Starring: Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth Director: Roman Polanski Tess was likewise highly praised by critics upon its release and featured Nastassja Kinski at her most ethereally beautiful. An adaptation of the 1891 novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Tessis the story of a young peasant woman whose father sends her to live with what may or may not be ...
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field Director: Steven Spielberg Set during the American Civil War in January 1865, Lincoln focuses on President Abraham Lincoln (Daniel Day-Lewis) as he attempts to abolish slavery in the U.S. by passing the Thirteenth Amendment. Two major goals of the film seem to be to faithfully document a crucial moment in his...
Starring: James McAvoy, Robin Wright Director: Robert Redford Many are unaware that more than one person was involved in the plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln and that Lincoln was not the only one marked for assassination. Secretary of State William Seward was shot and wounded the night of Lincoln’s death, and Vice President Andrew Jackson was al...
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale Director: Christopher Nolan The more well-known of two 2006 films about magicians in the 19th century, Christopher Nolan’s The Prestigeis widely considered one of his greatest films. The story of two famous magicians desperate to out-do one another with their own versions of the same incredible trick. The film...
Starring: Edward Norton, Jessica Biel Director: Neil Burger Though squarely overshadowed by the previous entry, The Illusionistreceived critical acclaim upon release and leaned more heavily toward melodrama than Nolan’s film. A classic story of would-be lovers who do not share the same social standing, the film is the story of famous magician Eisen...
Starring: Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken Director: Michael Cimino Heaven’s Gate is one of the most polarizing films ever made. After cleaning house at the Academy Awards for his debut feature, 1978’s The Deer Hunter, director Michael Cimino was given carte blanche to make the project his heart desired. The result, a nearly four-hour dramati...
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis Director: Martin Scorsese Finally, no list of 19th-century period pieces would be complete without Gangs of New York, Martin Scorsese’s wildly ambitious drama. For it, an entire five-block stretch of 19th-century Manhattan was painstakingly recreated on a Rome soundstage, along with the East River water...
18.11: A Code of Secrecy is a 2014 Indian Hindi action film written and directed by Mohibul Haque and Produced by Merina Hauque. [1] Under the banner of Ultimate Pictures, the film stars Rehal Khan, Gulshan Grover and Mukesh Tiwari in the lead roles.
Pan Tadeusz (1999 film) Categories: Films by year of setting. Fiction set in 1811. Films set in the 1810s. Hidden categories: Category series navigation using skip-gaps parameter. Category series navigation year and decade.
A 19th-century print of New Madrid earthquake chaos. Granger Collection, NYC. At 2:15 a.m. on December 16, 1811, residents of the frontier town of New Madrid, in what is now Missouri, were jolted ...
Jesuit missionaries in South America. 19. Brotherhood of the Wolf. 2001 2h 22m R. 7.0. 57. Director Christophe Gans Stars Samuel Le Bihan Mark Dacascos Jérémie Renier. Based on a real-life series of killings that took place in France in the 18th century and on the famous legend around the Beast of Gévaudan. 20.
