Best History movies of 1960s

Actors : Carol Lynley, John Huston, Romy Schneider, Tom Tryon,
Directors : Otto Preminger,

A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Naziism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.

Actors : Fabio Testi, Dominique Sanda, Helmut Berger, Lino Capolicchio,
Directors : Vittorio De Sica,

In the late 1930s, in Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Contini are one of the leading families, wealthy, aristocratic, urbane; they are also Jewish. Their adult children, Micol and Alberto, gather...

Actors : Rosanna Schiaffino, Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Russ Tamblyn,
Directors : Jack Cardiff,

A vagabond Viking adventurer and a Moor both compete to find "The Mother of All Voices," a legendary golden bell near the Pillars of Hercules.

Actors : Richard Boone, Maurice Evans, Charlton Heston, Rosemary Forsyth,
Directors : Franklin J. Schaffner,

A knight in the service of a duke goes to a coastal villiage where an earlier attempt to build a defensive castle has failed. He begins to rebuild the duke's authority in the face of the ...

Actors : Robert Ryan, Robert Mitchum, Peter Falk, Earl Holliman,

One of WWII's bloodiest battles as the Allies smash through the German lines which have enclosed the Anzio beachhead. Four months and 30,000 casualties before the Allies finally march to Rome.

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, John Gielgud, Harry Andrews, Trevor Howard,
Directors : Tony Richardson,

A chronicle of events that led to the British involvement in the Crimean War against Russia and which led to the siege of Sevastopol and the fierce Battle of Balaclava on October 25, 1854 ...

Actors : Charles Hawtrey, Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor,
Directors : Gerald Thomas,

Two Britons are captured and enslaved by invading Romans and taken to Rome. Hengist Pod creates useless inventions, while Horsa is a brave and cunning fighter. One of their first encounters...

Actors : Folco Lulli, Catherine Spaak, Gian Maria Volontè, Vittorio Gassman,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

A group of misfits, headed by an incompetent knight named Brancaleone, set out to reach the small town of Aurocastro so that their leader can take possession of the fief.

Actors : Gene Wilder, Jack MacGowran, Hugh Griffith, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Bud Yorkin,

Two mismatched sets of identical twins - one aristocrat, one peasant - mistakenly exchange identities on the eve of the French Revolution.

Actors : Jean-Claude Fourneau, Florence Delay, Marc Jacquier, Roger Honorat,
Directors : Robert Bresson,

A reconstruction of the trial of Joan of Arc (based entirely on the transcripts of the real-life trial), concerning Joan's imprisonment, interrogation and final execution at the hands of ...

Actors : Tamao Nakamura, Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Yûsuke Kawazu,
Directors : Masaki Kobayashi,

His ideals challenged by life as a conscript in war-time Japan's military, a pacifist faces ever greater tests in his fight for survival.

Actors : Pia Degermark, Lennart Malmer, Cleo Jensen, Thommy Berggren,
Directors : Bo Widerberg,

The Danish tightrope dancer Elvira Madigan meets Lieutenant Sixten Sparre, a Swedish officer who is married and has two children. They both decide to run away.

Actors : Yul Brynner, Christine Kaufmann, Tony Curtis, Sam Wanamaker,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

In the 16th century Ukraine, the Polish overlords and the Cossacks fight for control of the land but frequent Turkish invasions force them to unite against the common Turkish foe.

Actors : Jaroslav Moucka, Josef Kemr, Magda Vásáryová, Nada Hejna,
Directors : Frantisek Vlácil,

A minor Czech clan falls afoul of the King in medieval times, against the backdrop of Christianity replacing Paganism.

Actors : Leslie Caron, Charles Boyer, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean-Pierre Cassel,
Directors : René Clément,

The departure of the German army from Paris in 1944.

Actors : Jason Robards, Jean Hale, Ralph Meeker, George Segal,
Directors : Roger Corman,

Al Capone's Valentine Day surprise for the rival Bugs Moran gang in 1929 Chicago.

Actors : Olivera Katarina, Reggie Nalder, Herbert Lom, Udo Kier,

Udo Kier is a witch hunter apprentice to Herbert Lom. He believes strongly in his mentor and the ways of the church but loses faith when he catches Lom committing a crime. Kier slowly ...

Actors : Michel Vitold, Simone Signoret, Gabriele Ferzetti, Yves Montand,
Directors : Costa-Gavras,

Anton Ludvik, aka Gerard, is vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia. He realizes he is watched and followed. One day, he is arrested and put into jail, in solitary confinement. ...

Actors : Georges Marchal, Lea Massari, Conrado San Martín, Rory Calhoun,
Directors : Sergio Leone,

While on holiday in Rhodes, Athenian war hero Darios becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow the tyrannical king, one from Rhodian patriots and the other from sinister Phoenician agents.

Actors : Senta Berger, Kirk Douglas, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne,
Directors : Melville Shavelson,

In 1947, following the U.N. decision to split British Palestine into separate Jewish and Palestinian states, a former U.S. Army officer is recruited by the Jews to reorganize the Haganah.