Best History movies of 1980s

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 : Cunxin Pu, Kechun Li, Hong Pan, Xiong Xiao,
Directors : Jin Xie,

In 1948, four young girls, daughters of Shanghai's elite, come to America for college. The Communist takeover strands them in the States and one of them, unable to cope with her parents' ...

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 : 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 : Cihan Ünal, Zuhal Olcay, Gülsen Bubikoglu, Raik Alniaçik,
Directors : Halit Refig,

The end of the Ottoman era.. Recai Bey has raised his daughter Seref like a man. She secretly attends the meetings of the patriots. Seref and her cousin Mujgan take music lessons from the ...

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 : Hermann Beyer, Corinna Harfouch, Uwe Kockisch, Susanne Bormann,
Directors : Michael Gwisdek,

In the fall of 1793, the essayist and naturalist Georg Forster meets his estranged wife, Therese, and her lover Ferdinand Huber. Over the course of three days and nights, and in the shadow ...

Actors : Petre Arsovski, Dusan Kostovski, Sisman Angelovski, 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 : 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 : 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 : Claudia Cardinale, Fernando Rey, Ugo Tognazzi, Massimo Ghini,

Various battles including that of Lepanto.

Actors : Majid Mozaffari, Ezzatolah Entezami, Farzaneh Kaboli, Ahmad Hashemi,
Directors : Massood Jafari Jozani,

During the second World War Iran is occupied by the allies. Meanwhile Doctor Rastan is going to the Qashqaei nomads to treat his sister's husband. There he meets Amir Houshang the head of ...

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

Actors : Liubomiras Laucevicius, Inna Churikova, Aleksandr Shishonok, Viktor Rakov,
Directors : Gleb Panfilov,

Actors : María Vaner, Rudy Chernicoff, Luisina Brando, Arturo Bonín,

Bautista Bairoletto fue un quijotesco bandido de comienzos de siglo reconocido como el "Robin Hood de las Pampas". Se mezclaba con anarquistas, forajidos y prostitutas y la gente llegó a ...

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 : 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 : 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.