Best History movies of 1981

Actors : Jerzy Kosinski, Warren Beatty, Edward Herrmann, Diane Keaton,
Directors : Warren Beatty,

A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.

Actors : Harold Hopkins, Mark Lee, Bill Kerr, Mel Gibson,
Directors : Peter Weir,

Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey during World War I.

Actors : Ron Perlman, Everett McGill, Rae Dawn Chong, Nicholas Kadi,
Directors : Jean-Jacques Annaud,

This story takes place in prehistoric time when three tribesmen search for a new fire source.

Actors : Marian Opania, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Wieslawa Kosmalska, Krystyna Janda,
Directors : Andrzej Wajda,

A worker becomes a "man of iron" forged by experience, a son comes to terms with his father, a couple fall in love, a reporter searches for courage, and a nation undergoes historic change. ...

Actors : Andrea Bevilacqua, Tommaso Bianco, Caroline Berg, Alberto Sordi,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

The marquess of Grillo is a good-natured, clever and women-loving man who is always inventing stories and cracking all types of jokes. The film tells the story of his life.

Actors : John Phillip Law, Sam Neill, Mel Gibson, Chris Haywood,
Directors : Tim Burstall,

A group of Australian commandos launch a secret mission against Japanese forces in World War II.

Actors : Alisa Freyndlikh, Anatoliy Romashin, Velta Line, Aleksey Petrenko,
Directors : Elem Klimov,

Details the life of the Russian monk Rasputin. The film shows his rise to power and how it corrupted him. His sexual perversions and madness ultimatly leads to his gruesome assasination.

Actors : Orson Welles, Ray Laska, Bob Ruggiero, Philip L. Clarke,
Directors : Robert Guenette,

Hosted by Orson Welles, this documentary utilizes a grab bag of dramatized scenes, stock footage, TV news clips and interviews to ask: Did 16th century French astrologer and physician ...

Actors : Stoyko Peev, Vania Tzvetkova, Antony Genov, Vassil Mihajlov,
Directors : Ludmil Staikov,

This is an epic screen presentation showing the creation, the consolidation and the power of First Bulgarian Kingdom and the first Bulgarian ruler Khan Asparuh.

Actors : Alfred Böhm, Marte Harell, Karl Merkatz, Hans Holt,
Directors : Franz Antel,

A politically naive Viennese butcher (Bockerer) manages to survive the Nazi occupation of Austria and the second world war.

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, Toshirô Mifune, Laurence Olivier, Ben Gazzara,
Directors : Terence Young,

During the Korean War, General Douglas MacArthur masterminds the amphibious invasion of Inchon in September 1950.

Actors : Brian Benben, Michael Nouri, Joe Penny, Richard S. Castellano,
Directors : Richard C. Sarafian,

Three poor ghetto kids in turn-of-the-century New York grow up to become feared gangsters.

Actors : Daniel Olbrychski, Ena Begovic, Mirjana Karanovic, Gorica Popovic,
Directors : Lordan Zafranovic,

A partisan commander had to shoot one of his comrades because he had neglected the struggle and turned to a life of lust and vice. When Italy capitulates in September of 1943 and the war ...

Actors : Timothy Patrick Murphy, Richard Boone, Toshirô Mifune, Mike Starr,
Directors : Tsugunobu Kotani,

A steel samurai blade that was to be given to the American ambassador by the Emperor of Japan is stolen. American sailors and Japanese samurai are sent to find it.

Actors : Kanako Higuchi, Ken Ogata, Toshiyuki Nishida, Yûko Tanaka,
Directors : Kaneto Shindô,

The famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Bakin.

Actors : Tomasz Hudziec, Marek Kondrat, Teresa Marczewska, Zdzislaw Wardejn,
Directors : Wojciech Marczewski,

Set in the early 1950's, during the Stalin's Personality Cult. The story opens in a provincial town. Tomek's father, a former member of the Home Army is arrested so the mother is left with ...

Actors : Tinna Gunnlaugsdóttir, Arnar Jónsson, Kristján Jóhann Jónsson, Þráinn Karlsson,
Directors : Ágúst Guðmundsson,

From an authentic Viking saga, Outlaw tells the story of a family blood feud, set in 10th century Iceland.

Actors : Adam Ferency, Boguslaw Linda, Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Barbara Grabowska,
Directors : Agnieszka Holland,

The film is set in 1905, in a time of feverish revolutionary underground activity in Poland partitioned between three neighbours. All the characters are committed anarchists. The bomb maker...

Actors : Gojko Santic, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Darko Damevski, Gorica Popovic,
Directors : Zdravko Velimirovic,

In medieval Serbia, a young monk, a master of herbal medicine, attracts the attention of a warlord's wife.

Actors : Marioara Sterian, Mihai Mereuta, Stela Furcovici, Adrian Pintea,
Directors : Dinu Cocea,