Best History movies of 1990s

Actors : Sergiu Nicolaescu, Virgil Flonda, Vladimir Gaitan, George Alexandru,
Directors : Sergiu Nicolaescu,

In medieval Wallachia a young prince battles his twin brother for their father's throne and for their ancestors' crown of fire.

Actors : Philippe Noiret, Laura Morante, Bernard Giraudeau, Emmanuelle Laborit,
Directors : Roberto Faenza,

Sicily 18th century, Marianna Ucria is a 12-year-old deaf-mute from an aristocratic family of Palermo. Aged 13, she is married to a middle-aged uncle, Duca Pietro. She is repulsed by him, ...

Actors : Matthew Zajac, Fish, Brian Blessed, 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 : Doug McKeon, Camilla Søeberg, Norman Rodway, Peter Michael Goetz,
Directors : Barry J. Hershey,

Adolf Hitler faces himself and must come to terms with his infamous career in an imaginary post-war subterranean bunker where he reviews historical films, dictates his memoirs and ...

Actors : Chang-Bin Jen, Chia-Chia Peng, Pin-Yuan Huang, Xianmei Chen,
Directors : Toon Wang,

In the 1920's, when Taiwan is Japan's colony, the small town Chiu-Fen was famous of its gold mines. Escaping from the landlord's control, Chu and Wei join the gold rush in Chiu-Fen, hoping ...

Actors : Maria Ellingsen, Hanna María Karlsdóttir, Baltasar Kormákur, Egill Ólafsson,
Directors : Egill Eðvarðsson,

Agnes, the beautiful housekeeper of the sheriff of a small Icelandic county sees a chance to get herself and her young daughter away from her brutal employer when she falls in love with the...

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 ...

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 : Giancarlo Giannini, Anna Falchi, Lina Sastri, Massimo Ghini,
Directors : Carlo Lizzani,

The difficult making of Roberto Rossellini's masterpiece 'Roma, città aperta (1946)' in a Rome still suffering from the wounds of just ended WWII.

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 : 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 : Oliver Windross, Stuart Laing, Werner De Smedt, Mapi Galán,
Directors : Robbe De Hert,

A true story about a Flemish resistance warrior.

Actors : Bogdan Stupka, Rolan Bykov, Aleksandr Belyavskiy, Lev Durov,
Directors : Igor Gostev,

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 : 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 : 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 : Fengyi Zhang, Li Gong, Ray Lui, Rosamund Kwan,
Directors : Stephen Shin,

Insurrection deposes the tyrannical first emperor of China during the evil Qin Dynasty. Warrior/general Xiang Yu and the cunning peasant Liu Pang join forces to win through civil war. Xiang...

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

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...