Best History movies of 1960s

Actors : Cüneyt Arkin, Selma Güneri, Gülbin Eray, Semih Sergen,
Directors : Süreyya Duru,

Story of the famous Malkocoglu family who served Ottoman Empire in various military ranks.

Actors : Stanislawa Celinska, Daniel Olbrychski, Aleksander Bardini, Tadeusz Janczar,
Directors : Andrzej Wajda,

Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are...

Actors : Titta Karakorpi, Risto Taulo, Anja Pohjola, Aarno Sulkanen,
Directors : Edvin Laine,

Täällä Pohjantähden alla is based on the book with the same title. It is a story of the little village. The movie starts in the 1890's and it ends to the Finnish civil war in 1918. Story ...

Actors : Mokhtar Al Sayed, Rushdy Abaza, Umran Bahar, Aziza Badr,
Directors : Henry Barakat,

Based in British occupied Egypt, Ibrahim (Omar Sharif), a member of the resistance, seeks refuge in the house of a politically passive family after killing the prime minister for his acts of treason.

Actors : Edd Byrnes, Mickey Rooney, Raf Vallone, Stewart Granger,
Directors : Roger Corman,

In 1943, a group of hardened criminals is pardoned on the condition it accepts a mission to free a captive Italian general from the clutches of the Nazis.

Actors : Cesare Danova, Robert Loggia, Jack Palance, Omar Sharif,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

Biography of Argentinian revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, who helped Fidel Castro in his struggle against the corrupt Batista regime, eventually resulting in the overthrow of that ...

Actors : Yvonne Mitchell, Nigel Patrick, James Mason, Peter Finch,
Directors : Ken Hughes,

At the height of his fame (his plays being much celebrated in London in the 1890's), Oscar Wilde angers the Marquis of Queensberry by having what is whispered and gossiped as a romantic ...

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Yûjirô Ishihara, Shintarô Katsu, Yukio Mishima,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

A destitute ronin allies himself with an established clan, but its ruthless leader tries to turn him into a mindless killer.

Actors : John Neville, Robert Morley, Ralph Richardson, Phyllis Calvert,
Directors : Gregory Ratoff,

Oscar Wilde's homosexuality is exposed when he tries to defend himself against his lover's father.

Actors : Claudia Cardinale, Robert Hossein, Enrico Maria Salerno, Nino Manfredi,
Directors : Luigi Magni,

Rome, 1825. Bishop Rivarola (Tognazzi) and colonel Nardoni (Salerno) are in charge to suppress liberal revolution. Shoemaker Cornacchia (Manfredi) got the information that the liberal ...

Actors : Charles Bronson, Brad Dexter, Ralph Taeger, David McLean,
Directors : Richard Donner,

During the Cold War in the 1960s the U.S.A.F.and NASA tested the experimental rocket-powered aircraft X-15 that set altitude and speed records and reached the edge of outer space.

Actors : David Chiang, Ching Lee, Lung Ti, Miao Ching,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

Ying Ke-Feng, head of Peerless Manor, is an expert swordsman whose escort business transports 200,000 taels of silver to the capital each year. This year, however, he is afflicted with an ...

Actors : June Thorburn, Lionel Jeffries, Jack Hedley, Oliver Reed,
Directors : John Gilling,

In 1648, during the English Civil War, Captain Sylvester switches sides between the Parliamentary and Royalist camps as his interests dictate, while King Charles I is on the run from Oliver Cromwell's troops.

Actors : Cüneyt Arkin, Feri Cansel, Esen Püsküllü, Meltem Mete,

Byzantine Prince kidnaps a governor and plans to marry Serbian Princess to create a rift within Ottoman Empire. Malkocoglu is sent to save the governor and prevent the marriage.

Actors : Sô Yamamura, Seiji Miyaguchi, Chishû Ryû, Rokkô Toura,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister ...

Actors : Juliette Mayniel, John Drew Barrymore, Steve Reeves, Edy Vessel,
Directors : Giorgio Ferroni,

A retelling of the events leading to the use of the Trojan Horse, to bring down the great city of Troy.

Actors : Antonella Lualdi, Ilarion Ciobanu, Richard Johnson, Amedeo Nazzari,
Directors : Mircea Dragan,

The Roman Emperor Trajan has just murdered all the local men of Dacia and holds a military stronghold in what will later become Rumania... See full synopsis »

Actors : Marianne Krencsey, Ilona Béres, András Csorba, Ernö Szabó,
Directors : Viktor Gertler,

Actors : David Chiang, Han Chin, Lung Ti, Lily Li,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

A Mogul king decides to take stealthy action to help overpower his greatest rivals. He chooses nine out thirteen of his loyal generals (who he treats as sons) to embark on the mission. ...

Actors : Rosanna Schiaffino, Anthony Quinn, Rita Hayworth, Richard Johnson,
Directors : Terence Young,

A former counterrevolutionary pirate befriends a mentally ill young woman and this in turn leads to tragedy when she falls in love with a French naval officer.