Best History movies of 1980s

Actors : Zygmunt Bielawski, Daniel Olbrychski, Jerzy Stuhr, Tadeusz Lomnicki,
Directors : Filip Bajon,

The story deals with the famous incident that occurred in schoolroom of Wrzesnia, near Prussian-Russian border of partitioned Poland, in 1901. The issue is the teaching of religion in ...

Actors : Dang Cecilio, Charito Solis, Mat Ranillo III, Joko Diaz,
Directors : Maria Saret,

Saint Lorenzo Ruiz (c.1600 - September 29, 1637), was born in Binondo, Manila, Philippines. His Chinese father taught him Chinese, and his Filipino mother taught him Tagalog. Both of his ...

Actors : Gianni Cavina, Carlo Delle Piane, Cristopher Davidson, Lino Capolicchio,
Directors : Pupi Avati,

Young W.A. Mozart is hosted in a villa near Bologna, where he has to graduate. There he gets in touch with "normal" boys, falls in love for the first time and tries to escape his destiny of...

Actors : Davor Janjic, Petar Bozovic, Vita Mavric, Radmila Zivkovic,
Directors : Nikola Stojanovic,

The last film made in Yugoslavia, tells a story about Sarajevo during the last days of Europe, better known as the "Belle Epoque", between the years 1910-1914. A time of troubled events in ...

Actors : Oleg Borisov, Nikolay Karachentsov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Vadim Yakovlev,
Directors : Aleksandr Muratov,

Spy-games around a project to lay a gas pipeline from Russia to Europe.

Actors : Wadeck Stanczak, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Max von Sydow, Ben Kingsley,
Directors : Giacomo Battiato,

The story of Benvenuto Cellini (1500 - 1571), a soldier and one of the most important craftsmen and artists of Renaissance Italy whose life was marked by many achievements and adventures, but also crimes.

Actors : Rousy Chanev, Naum Shopov, Marin Yanev, Itschak Fintzi,
Directors : Gueorgui Stoyanov,

The action takes place back in the 9th century - a time of trouble and constant changes. The central dramatic character is that of Constantine the Philosopher -a thinker, a diplomat and a ...

Actors : Marius Weyers, Shelagh Holliday, Jonathon Morris, Ron Smerczak,
Directors : Alan Nathanson,

Piet du Bois is a miner who wants to buy a farm. He meets a Bushman and his wife buying their land and expelling after. The Bushman exposes a legend about a fabulous hidden treasure.

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 : Féodor Atkine, Jean-Roger Milo, Didier Sauvegrain, Aï Keïta,
Directors : Med Hondo,

On January 2 1899, starting from the French Soudan, a french column under the commandment of the captains Voulet and Chanoine is send against the black Sultan Rabah in what is now the ...

Actors : Eleni Demertzi, Jany Gastaldi, Maya Lymberopoulou, Annita Santorinaiou,
Directors : Antouanetta Angelidi,

During its 85-minute running time, this jarring experimental film takes a no-holds-barred look at the way women have been treated and depicted in Western art.

Actors : Edit Frajt, Christian Van Cau, László Szabó, André Dussollier,
Directors : András Kovács,

During WWII French POWs catched by Germans fleing to Hungary -an Allied to Germany-. where civilians welcome them very helpful. The tragig love story beginnig in febr.1943 . A small group ...

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 : Maria Ciunelis, Marta Klubowicz, Izabela Drobotowicz-Orkisz, Ewa Kasprzyk,
Directors : Barbara Sass,

Coming of age story of four girls living in the same poor district of Warsaw just before the outbreak of World War One.

Actors : Huanshan Xu, Bo Gao, Yi Qin, Qi Feng,
Directors : Zumo Huang,

Biography of famous Chinese astronomer and geographer Zhang Heng who lived in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Actors : Christopher Neame, Norbert Weisser, Leigh Lombardi, Mark Lenard,
Directors : Raul V. Carrera,

The dramatic story of the Anabaptist movement and two of its first leaders, Michael and Margaretha Sattler.

Actors : Mircea Albulescu, Hervé Bellon, Violeta Andrei, John Terry,

William's government blended elements of the English and Norman systems into a new one that laid the foundations of the later medieval English kingdom.[141] How abrupt and far-reaching the ...

Actors : Sulev Luik, Maria Klenskaja, Tõnu Kark, Kaljo Kiisk,
Directors : Jüri Sillart,

A first film made of the 1949 March deportation of Estonian people to Siberia by Soviet Secret Police NKVD. During couple of days and nights nearly 21 thousand people, mostly women and ...

Actors : Ahmed Benaissa, Mustapha Chougrani, Athmane Ariout, Robert Bazil,
Directors : Benamar Bakhti,

The story of the film revolves around the epic of Sheikh Bouamama, a leader of the national resistance in Algeria during the French colonial era. The events are taking place in southwestern...

Actors : Boguslaw Linda, Grazyna Szapolowska, György Cserhalmi, Jirí Adamíra,
Directors : László Lugossy,

In 1849 the Hungarian revolution is beaten down by the Russian Army. Ferenc Majláth, who was an officer in the army of the revolution, has to choose between imprisonment or getting enlisted...