Best History movies of 1990s

Actors : Youssra, Adel Imam, Mustafa Metwalli, Alaa Waley El Din,

In the year 1807, they city of Rashid is under attack by the British forces. Harfoush, a brave knight must deliver a message to the ruler of Egypt to demand military aid in order to resist ...

Actors : Claude Brasseur, Claude Rich, Michel Piccoli, Ticky Holgado,
Directors : Édouard Molinaro,

France, 1815. After his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon heads for exile. Royalists occupy Paris and attempt to restore the monarchy. However, the battle doesn't seem to be over. On July 6, ...

Actors : Adam Ferency, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Marek Kondrat, Renata Dancewicz,
Directors : Kazimierz Kutz,

In 1945, military doctor Andrzej Kwiatkowski pretends to be a communist army colonel in order to save innocent people from Stalinist imprisonment and to get the heart of the girl he's in love with.

Actors : Taraka Rama Rao Nandamuri, Vani Viswanathan, Bhanumathi Ramakrishna, Mohan Babu,
Directors : Taraka Rama Rao Nandamuri,

A story of a brave child religious ruler and the tragedies he faces.

Actors : Vladimir Grachyov, Yuliya Novikova, Aleksandr Galibin, Lynda Bellingham,
Directors : Gleb Panfilov,

The story of the last year and a half of Tsar Nicholas II and his family from the February Revolution of 1917 to their execution in July 1918.

Actors : Toni Bertorelli, Andrea Di Stefano, Barbora Bobulova, Anita Laurenzi,
Directors : Marco Bellocchio,

The Prince of Homburg, disobeys orders and leads a cavalry charge in battle against the Swedes, which leads to victory. He is court martialled however for disobeying orders and sentenced to...

Actors : Galina Sulima, Georgi Morozyuk, Maksim Koval, Oleksiy Gorbunov,
Directors : Oles Yanchuk,

This film looks at the artificial famine of 1932-33 in Ukraine through the eyes of a single family. The famine, which killed millions of people, was the result of a Soviet policy intended ...

Actors : Uldis Dumpis, Gundars Abolins, Maija Apine, Inese Caune,
Directors : Aigars Grauba,

Set in Riga, the capital of Latvia, the film tells a tragic love story before and during the Soviet invasion of Latvia in 1940 and the early stages of World War II.

Actors : Toshiya Nagasawa, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kôshirô Matsumoto, Rie Miyazawa,
Directors : Hiroshi Teshigahara,

Actors : Fay Masterson, Sello Sebotsane, Wilson Dunster, Sean Gallagher,

In 1886 the 20 years old Percy Fitzpatrick sets out from Kaapstad (Cape Town) for the Transvaal to dig for gold. On his way he prevents the weakly puppy Jock from being drowned and adopts ...

Actors : Elena Anaya, Elvira Mínguez, Juan Diego, Eduardo Noriega,
Directors : Pedro Telechea,

A young worker enjoying an affair with an upper class beauty, Adelaida, is drafted by the Spanish Army to fight in the Cuban War of Independence. After Adelaida receives an unusual ...

Actors : Alaa El Din Koksh, Jamal Suleiman, Salma Al-Masri, Ghassan Massoud,
Directors : Seifollah Dad,

Actors : Omar Bekhaled, Fadila Belkebla, Roschdy Zem, Farida Rahouadj,
Directors : Bourlem Guerdjou,

Set in France in 1961-1962 during the Algerian War, Living In Paradise is a thought-provoking examination of the lives of North African immigrants trying to find a place in the social system of Western Europe.

Actors : Fish, Brian Blessed, Matthew Zajac, Iain Cuthbertson,
Directors : Graham Holloway,

The Jacobite Rebellion of Scotland, and thirty years after the first battle, Bonnie Prince Charlie and his army make a stand at Culloden.

Actors : Lucia Poli, Valentino Davanzati, Renzo Cerrato, Paolo Spaziani,
Directors : Paolo Benvenuti,

Actors : Jean Yanne, Claude Jade, Philippe Laudenbach, Daniel Mesguich,
Directors : Iradj Azimi,

Jean Yanne, Daniel Mesguich, Claude Jade: A la recherche de la fortune et du paradis ils ne connurent que l'enfer.

Actors : Beto Simas, Ariana Messias, Darci Figueiredo, Carlos Evelyn,
Directors : Luís Alberto Pereira,

On the eve of his return to Europe after an extended involuntary stay in 16th-century Brazil, the German sailor Hans Staden is captured by a hostile cannibal Indian tribe. In order to ...

Actors : Massimo Bellinzoni, Arnaldo Ninchi, Dalia Lahav, Luigi Diberti,
Directors : Pupi Avati,

During the Middle Ages, a traveling executioner hires an apprentice to learn the finer points of torture and execution, and a young girl is given by her parents to a Catholic convent.

Actors : Johana Tesarová, Monika Hilmerová, Michal Sieczkowski, Vilma Cibulková,
Directors : Milan Cieslar,

The film, 'The Spring Of Life', brings to light a little-known operation of the Nazi SS, started just before the outbreak of World War II. Through the careful selection and re-education of ...

Actors : Paul Kersey, Bing Shao, Zhen Ying, Jing Ning,
Directors : Xiaoning Feng,

At the turn of the century, a young Chinese girl escapes from a religious sacrifice, and is rescued by an honorable Tibetan herdsman. The two fall in love, but problems arise when she is ...