Best History movies of 1987

Actors : Peter O'Toole, John Lone, Ruocheng Ying, Joan Chen,
Directors : Bernardo Bertolucci,

The story of the final Emperor of China.

Actors : John Malkovich, Christian Bale, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation during World War II.

Actors : Josette Simon, Wabei Siyolwe, Denzel Washington, Kevin Kline,
Directors : Richard Attenborough,

South African journalist Donald Woods is forced to flee the country, after attempting to investigate the death in custody of his friend, the black activist Steve Biko.

Actors : Chris Cooper, Will Oldham, Mary McDonnell, James Earl Jones,
Directors : John Sayles,

A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company.

Actors : Ed Harris, Richard Masur, Keith Szarabajka, Rene Auberjonois,
Directors : Alex Cox,

An unconventional retelling of the life of William Walker, a 19th century American mercenary leader who became the president of Nicaragua.

Actors : Ji Liu, Li Gong, Rujun Ten, Wen Jiang,
Directors : Yimou Zhang,

In 1930s China a young woman is sent by her father to marry the leprous owner of a winery. In the nearby red sorghum fields she falls for one of his servants. When the master dies she finds...

Actors : Boguslaw Linda, Magda Teresa Wójcik, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Franciszek Pieczka,
Directors : Janusz Zaorski,

Made in 1982, shelved for five years. Story opens with Lucja Krol's husband under the tram. She gives birth to her fourth son on the floor of their new apartment. Neighbor Wiktor, a ...

Actors : George Motoi, Marga Barbu, Florin Piersic, Szabolcs Cseh,
Directors : Mircea Moldovan,

Actors : Jean Carmet, Tchéky Karyo, Raoul Billerey, Christine Boisson,

A Dominican friar visits a 13th-century French village in search of heretics. Despite the opposition of the local priest and the indifference of the villagers, he finds a seemingly perfect ...

Actors : Kirill Lavrov, Oswald Berzins, Elena Prudnikova, Andrey Smirnov,

Krasnaya strela (The Red Arrow) is the special train No.1 between Leningrad and Moscow. The film is set in the 1980s during perestroika in the Soviet Union. Kropotov (Lavrov) is communist ...

Actors : Janusz Zakrzenski, Iwona Katarzyna Pawlak, Marta Lipinska, Adam Marjanski,
Directors : Zbigniew Kuzminski,

Actors : Po-Chou Chang, Chun Hsiung Ko, Sheng Li Cho, Chun-Fang Chang,
Directors : Toon Wang,

Chronicles the last days of Japanese rule in a Taiwanese village, in a quasi-comical style.

Actors : Nikolay Karachentsov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Oleg Menshikov, Lyudmila Nilskaya,
Directors : Aleksandr Muratov,

Captain Artenyev is in love with a beautiful lady-spy Klara.

Actors : John Cullum, Franco Nero, Carole Laure, Jane Alexander,
Directors : Mihalis Kakogiannis,

Anna and Ben are settled in rural Chile in the early 1970's. They are very isolated and their only real friends are two Chilean sisters, Eva and Monica. When Ben is stranded in Santiago on ...

Actors : Raymond Bossaerts, Frank Aendenboom, Camilia Blereau, Chris Boni,
Directors : Paul Cammermans,

Flanders' countryside in Belgium's early decades didn't belong to the hard-working farmers, like patriarch Van Paemel, who would rather die then consider any alternative to knowing his ...

Actors : Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Maria Homerska, Franciszek Pieczka, Malgorzata Pieczynska,
Directors : Tadeusz Chmielewski,

Set during the insurgency of 1863, the story focuses on a tragic romance between a poor gentlewoman and a rebel noble. After a bloody battle a unit of insurgents have been wiped out and ...

Actors : Myriem Roussel, Alina De Simone, Alessandro Gassman, Renato De Carmine,
Directors : Luciano Odorisio,

The young noble Don Monza is caught and thrown out by the nun Virginia de Leva when she catches him flirting with one of her nun sisters across the stone wall between their gardens. He ...

Actors : Anna Kazmierczak, Waldemar Kownacki, Mieczyslaw Voit, Anna Milewska,

The story of Stanislaw and Anna Oswiecimowie, real-life half-siblings who lived in the 17th century, and who, according to the legend were lovers.

Actors : Eric Wapler, Frédéric Mayer, Cris Campion, Pascale Rocard,
Directors : Jean-Pierre Denis,

The Dordogne, 1869. Pierre Naboulet, a poor tenant farmer, has drawn a lucky number in the French Army draft lottery. He will be exempt from a five-year period of military service. But he ...

Actors : Gholamhossein Naghshineh, Esmaeel Mehrabi, Esmail Davarfar, Mohamad Motie,
Directors : Jamshid Heydari,

Iran is still reeling from the ravages of the First World war. Two elderly sibling princes decide to run for the newly founded national-assembly, in an effort to dissuade its members from voting to end Qajar rule.