100 Documentaries on 19th‑Century Epics

Napoleonic Era

• Napoleon (PBS)

• Napoleon: The Man Who Would Be Emperor

• Napoleon: In the Name of Art

• Napoleon’s Waterloo

• The Battle of Waterloo

• Napoleon’s Lost Army

• Napoleon: The Russian Campaign

• The Rise and Fall of Napoleon

• Napoleon’s Final Battle

• Napoleon: The True Story

European Revolutions & Empires

• The French Revolution (History Channel)

• The Congress of Vienna

• The Revolutions of 1848

• The Habsburg Empire

• The Austro‑Hungarian Empire

• The Ottoman Empire: The War Machine

• The Crimean War

• The Boer War

• The Russian Empire: The Last Tsars

• The Great Game

Victorian Era & British Empire

• Queen Victoria’s Empire

• The Victorians

• The British Empire

• The Raj: The Jewel in the Crown

• The Story of India (19th‑century segments)

• The Great Exhibition

• The Industrial Revolution

• The Irish Famine

• The Zulu Wars

• The Scramble for Africa

American 19th Century

• The Civil War (Ken Burns)

• Reconstruction: America After the Civil War

• The American West

• The Gold Rush

• The Transcontinental Railroad

• The Mexican‑American War

• The War of 1812

• The Trail of Tears

• The Oregon Trail

• The Alamo

Latin America

• Simon Bolivar: Liberator of South America

• The Conquest of the Andes

• The Paraguayan War

• The Brazilian Empire

• The Mexican Empire

• The Argentine Civil Wars

• The Chilean Independence Story

• The War of the Pacific

• The Rise of Modern Brazil

• The Birth of Modern Mexico

Africa in the 19th Century

• The Zulu Kingdom

• Shaka Zulu: The True Story

• The Mahdist War

• The Ethiopian Empire

• The Ashanti Empire

• The Sokoto Caliphate

• The Boer Republics

• The Battle of Isandlwana

• The Battle of Rorke’s Drift

• The Fall of Khartoum

Asia in the 19th Century

• The Meiji Restoration

• The Opium Wars

• The Taiping Rebellion

• The Boxer Rebellion

• The Qing Dynasty: Twilight of the Empire

• The Sikh Empire

• The Mughal Empire: The Final Years

• The Burmese Wars

• The Dutch East Indies

• The Philippine Revolution

Science, Industry & Exploration

• The Industrial Revolution

• The Age of Steam

• The Invention of Photography

• The Victorian Internet

• The Age of Exploration (19th‑century segments)

• The Race to the South Pole

• The Search for the Northwest Passage

• The Lewis and Clark Expedition

• The Age of Invention

• The Birth of Modern Medicine