Best History movies of 1980s

Actors : Irina Alfyorova, Lyudmila Khityaeva, Dmitri Matveyev, Dmitriy Zolotukhin,
Directors : Gennadiy Vasilev,

The movie fairy tale about the epic Russian hero Vasily Buslayev - the son of the Novgorod governor.

Actors : Marianne Basler, Richard Bohringer, Roland Blanche, Christophe Malavoy,
Directors : Michel Sibra,

La soule is the name of a bag full of sand used as a football and of the game itself. That game has no rule; it's a mix of football, boxing and wrestling. Death can occur so accidentally, ...

Actors : Jerzy Kryszak, Wojciech Alaborski, Krzysztof Kolberger, Krzysztof Jasinski,
Directors : Ryszard Ber,

The year is 1575 when Transylvanian prince Stefan Batory sends his loyal servant, Szymon Mroczek, to Warsaw. The mission is to gain support for him to become the next king of Poland.

Actors : Lyudmila Efimenko, Ivan Ivanov, Konstantin Stepankov, Les Serdyuk,
Directors : Yuri Ilyenko,

The film is a poetic adaptation of a series of stories (oral and written) about Princess Olga of Kievan Rus at the start of the 11th century.

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 : Claudia Cardinale, Fernando Rey, Ugo Tognazzi, Massimo Ghini,

Various battles including that of Lepanto.

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

Actors : Otto Mächtlinger, Dietmar Schönherr, Renate Steiger, Ernst C. Sigrist,
Directors : Xavier Koller,

Rival families of farmers disagree about which is the most suitable crop to plant.

Actors : Christian Grashof, Erwin Geschonneck, Katja Paryla, Ilonka Ilieva,
Directors : Horst Seemann,

In a small village in West Prussia in the 1870s, Germans and Poles, Gypsies and Jews live together as neighbors. Johann, the rich owner of a large mill, does not want the Jew, Levin, to ...

Actors : Dietmar Schönherr, Barbara Viertl, Lois Weinberger, Barbara Weber,
Directors : Christian Berger,

Portrait of an alpine countryside during the Napoleonic wars. The hero, a poor countryman, is faced with expulsion from society after having informed the French occupants of the hiding place of the guerrilla leader.

Actors : Petre Arsovski, Sisman Angelovski, Dusan Kostovski, Nenad Milosavljevic,
Directors : Branko Gapo,

A Macedonian village has always struggled to find ways to bring water to its arid land - a struggle that may be won when a native son returns from America with the idea of setting up a ...

Actors : Nikola-Kole Angelovski, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Ilija Dzuvalekovski, Jordanco Cevrevski,
Directors : Stole Popov,

A joint fight of Macedonian and Greek people against the fascist monarchical government of Greece ended with their defeat in 1949, after many years of bloodshed. Many members of the ...

Actors : Laurent Terzieff, Patsy Kensit, Karl Zinny, Ben Gazzara,
Directors : Leandro Castellani,

This film depicts the life of Saint John Bosco (1815 - 1888). He dedicated his life to rescuing abandoned and exploited street children in Turin. He was the founder of the Salesian order, ...

Actors : Boris Tokarev, Dmitriy Kharatyan, Leonid Kuravlyov, Claudio Brook,
Directors : Sergio Olhovich,

The biography of a Russian man, in real life the grandfather of the director Sergio Olhovich, who comes to Mexico running away from the Russian Revolution.

Actors : Gyula Szabó, Adrienne Csengery,
Directors : József Gémes,

It is an adaptation of the Toldi trilogy, a 19th-century epic poem in three parts by János Arany. The film was produced through Pannonia Film Studio and is notable for its visual style, ...

Actors : Øivind Blunck, Herodes Falsk, Tom Mathisen, Jahn Teigen,

The unholy story about the life of Saint Olav the Holy from birth to the day he dies as the Norwegian King at the battle of Stiklestad in 1030.

Actors : Timothy Spall, Roshan Seth, John Lynch, Alexandre de Sousa,
Directors : Ken McMullen,

A young actress becomes politically aware within the Paris Commune of 1871.

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 : Sayuri Yoshinaga, Hideki Noda, Takuzô Kawatani, Kirin Kiki,
Directors : Kon Ichikawa,

Based on the folk tales "Repayment from a crane". One snowy night a beautiful woman named Tsuru (Crane) visits poor peasant Taiju sand says she will become his wife...

Actors : Dan Neidermyer, Luther David, Richard Foster, Todd Hoagey,
Directors : Dan Neidermyer,

In 1732, two young Moravians leave their comfortable community of Hernhut, Germany, to bring the Gospel to the slaves in the West Indies.