Best History movies of 1984

Actors : F. Murray Abraham, Roy Dotrice, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge,
Directors : Milos Forman,

The incredible story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told by his peer and secret rival Antonio Salieri - now confined to an insane asylum.

Actors : Julian Sands, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich, Sam Waterston,
Directors : Roland Joffé,

A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians.

Actors : James Fox, Judy Davis, Peggy Ashcroft, Victor Banerjee,
Directors : David Lean,

Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.

Actors : Tuo Tan, Bai Xue, Quiang Liu, Xueqi Wang,
Directors : Kaige Chen,

'Yellow Earth' focuses on the story of a communist soldier who is sent to the countryside to collect folk songs for the Communist Revolution. There he stays with a peasant family and learns...

Actors : Davoud Rashidi, Ezzatolah Entezami, Ali Nassirian, Jamshid Mashayekhi,
Directors : Ali Hatami,

The movie chronicles the life of the famous painter Kamololmolk, and his relationship with various kings.

Actors : Tim Elliott, Bruno Lawrence, Anzac Wallace, Kelly Johnson,
Directors : Geoff Murphy,

In New Zealand in the 1860s the native Maori people fought the British colonials to keep the land guaranteed to them by treaty. The warrior Te Wheke fights for the British until betrayal ...

Actors : Sophie Marceau, Philippe Noiret, Gérard Depardieu, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Alain Corneau,

French civilization in the desert. Saganne is of peasant stock, with courage and a forceful will. In 1911, he volunteers and is posted to the Sahara under the aristocratic Colonel Dubreuilh...

Actors : Gyula Vikidál, László Pelsöczy, Miklós Varga, Katalin Berek,
Directors : Gábor Koltay,

After the death of Géza, the Hungarian monarch, his son István and his brother Koppány gets in a conflict for the Hungarian throne. Their battle should settle the fate of Hungary: whether it adopts Christianity or remains in Paganism.

Actors : Lambert Wilson, Michael Ontkean, Sam Neill, Jodie Foster,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

WWII. In German occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her ...

Actors : Lino Troisi, Lino Ventura, Arnoldo Foà, Giuliana de Sio,
Directors : Giuseppe Ferrara,

In the late 1970s and early 80s, assassinations in Sicily get the attention of Communist deputy, Pio La Torre, who appeals to General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa to become prefect in Palermo...

Actors : Ovidiu Iulian Moldovan, Dan Sandulescu, Serban Ionescu, Radu Beligan,
Directors : Mircea Muresan,

Actors : Barrie Cookson, Michael Bertenshaw, James Downie, Peter Howell,
Directors : Tony Tew,

The story of 14th century John Wycliffe, AKA "The Morning Star of the Reformation", who was the first to translate the Bible into English.

Actors : Oscar Martínez, Pepe Soriano, Miguel Ángel Solá, Alberto Segado,
Directors : Juan José Jusid,

Actors : Doina Deleanu, Serban Ionescu, Stefan Velniciuc, Nae Caranfil,
Directors : Cornel Diaconu,

This mid-80s Romanian Communist propaganda film deals with the topic of young high-school graduates and members of the Romanian Communist Youth Union being sent to work at the Danube-Black Sea Canal mega-project.

Actors : John Walton, Geneviève Picot, Sandy Gore, Michael Paré,
Directors : David Stevens,

True story set in the Roaring Twenties Sydney about the rise of Berlei, a popular Australian brand of women's lingerie, famous for its bras and girdles.

Actors : Gunars Cilinskis, Uldis Vazdiks, Olga Drege, Helmut Kalnins,
Directors : Eriks Lacis,

The fate of three brothers in serfdom period, when German barons cruelly robbed Latvian farmers.

Actors : Regina Razuma, Enn Klooren, Leonid Sevtsov, Tõnu Lume,
Directors : Valentin Kuik,

Georg Lurich was an Estonian world-famous professional wrestler in the early 1900-s who became a legend already in his lifetime. He was called not only the world's best technique-wrestler ...

Actors : Marcel Amont, Louis Caut, Pierre Aubert, Jacqueline Bispalle,
Directors : Jean Flechet,

In the Pyrénées, in the nineteenth century, Gaston is one of the seven sons born into a family of poor peasants.Wanting to escape his condition, he captures a bear cub, raises it secretly ...

Actors : Chema Muñoz, Xabier Elorriaga, Walter Vidarte, Klara Badiola,
Directors : Alfonso Ungría,

King Carlos II of Navarre once (XIV century) sent his brother Don Luis de Beaumont to lead a military expedition into Albania and reclaim the Albanian throne he inherited from his wife. But...

Actors : Christian Defleur, Catherine Reynet, Philippe Nahoun, Maurice Tuech,
Directors : Jean Baronnet,

When Antoine Combalat ,a peasant,reads the papers,he knows everything is brainwashing.But the church bells have rung:WW1 which was bound to end all wars has begun.