There's a five-part BBC documentary The Edwardians in Colour that features early colour photographs from the Albert Kahn museum. One episode focuses on WWI photographs, but there's also photos taken around 1900 in remote areas around the world, including China and North Africa, as well as all across Europe.

I found some snippets on YT:

Wonderful - thank you.

They make it all seem very immediate. It happened to real, ordinary people, and it's amazing that so many survived with their sanity.