Best History movies of 1980s

Actors : Mark Asquith, Ben Kingsley, Sherry Baines, Magdalen Asquith,
Directors : Tony Palmer,

The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.

Actors : Sergey Nikonenko, Aleksandr Feklistov, Evgeniy Evstigneev, Aleksey Petrenko,
Directors : Yuriy Kara,

A dance troupe from the autonomous region of Abkhazia in western Georgia perform for Stalin, Lavrentiy Beria, Abkhaz leader Nestor Lakoba, and other high-ranking party officials in the Black Sea coastal town of Gagra.

Actors : Timothy Spall, Roshan Seth, John Lynch, Alexandre de Sousa,
Directors : Ken McMullen,

A young actress becomes politically aware within the Paris Commune of 1871.

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

Actors : Andy Cline, Katie Haggerty, Terri Hawkes, Craig Melanson,
Directors : Joan Henson,

A dramatization of the story of a typical United Empire Loyalist as told through the eyes of a child.

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 : Claudia Cardinale, Fernando Rey, Ugo Tognazzi, Massimo Ghini,

Various battles including that of Lepanto.

Actors : Tomokazu Miura, Teruhiko Aoi, Masako Natsume, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Toshio Masuda,

Favorable portrayal of Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, who approved of the bombardment of Pearl Harbor, as a patriot. The film is a jingoistic defense of Japanese imperialism.

Actors : Myriem Roussel, Alina De Simone, Renato De Carmine, Alessandro Gassman,
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 : 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 : Dan Neidermyer, Luther David, Richard Foster, Todd Hoagey,
Directors : Dan Neidermyer,

In 1732, two young Moravians leave their comfortable community of Hernhut, Germany, to bring the Gospel to the slaves in the West Indies.

Actors : Laurent Terzieff, Patsy Kensit, Karl Zinny, Ben Gazzara,
Directors : Leandro Castellani,

This film depicts the life of Saint John Bosco (1815 - 1888). He dedicated his life to rescuing abandoned and exploited street children in Turin. He was the founder of the Salesian order, ...

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 : 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 : 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 : Barrie Cookson, Michael Bertenshaw, James Downie, Peter Howell,
Directors : Tony Tew,

The story of 14th century John Wycliffe, AKA "The Morning Star of the Reformation", who was the first to translate the Bible into English.

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 : Christian Grashof, Erwin Geschonneck, Katja Paryla, Ilonka Ilieva,
Directors : Horst Seemann,

In a small village in West Prussia in the 1870s, Germans and Poles, Gypsies and Jews live together as neighbors. Johann, the rich owner of a large mill, does not want the Jew, Levin, to ...

Actors : Gyula Szabó, Adrienne Csengery,
Directors : József Gémes,

It is an adaptation of the Toldi trilogy, a 19th-century epic poem in three parts by János Arany. The film was produced through Pannonia Film Studio and is notable for its visual style, ...

Actors : Marianne Basler, Richard Bohringer, Roland Blanche, Christophe Malavoy,
Directors : Michel Sibra,

La soule is the name of a bag full of sand used as a football and of the game itself. That game has no rule; it's a mix of football, boxing and wrestling. Death can occur so accidentally, ...