Best History movies of 1986

The Mission(1986)

Actors : Ray McAnally, Jeremy Irons, Aidan Quinn, Robert De Niro,
Directors : Roland Joffé,

18th century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American Indian tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.

Caravaggio(1986)

Actors : Noam Almaz, Nigel Terry, Dexter Fletcher, Sean Bean,
Directors : Derek Jarman,

A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.

Salvador(1986)

Actors : John Savage, James Woods, James Belushi, Michael Murphy,
Directors : Oliver Stone,

An American photojournalist gets caught in a political struggle at El Salvador in 1980.

Lady Jane(1986)

Actors : John Wood, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Hordern, Cary Elwes,
Directors : Trevor Nunn,

The death of King Henry VIII throws his kingdom into chaos because of succession disputes. His weak son Edward, is on his deathbed. Anxious to keep England true to the Reformation, a ...

De aanslag(1986)

Actors : Monique van de Ven, Marc van Uchelen, John Kraaykamp, Derek de Lint,
Directors : Fons Rademakers,

In January 1945, during the 2nd world-war, the Dutch resistance kills a collaborator in the street where the 12 year old Anton Steenwijk lives. The man was shot in front of his neighbors ...

Belizaire the Cajun(1986)

Actors : Michael Schoeffling, Armand Assante, Stephen McHattie, Gail Youngs,
Directors : Glen Pitre,

A Cajun man attempts to save his town.

La noche de los lápices(1986)

Actors : Alejo García Pintos, Vita Escardó, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Pablo Novak,
Directors : Héctor Olivera,

This films tells the true story of seven teenagers who agitated for reduced student bus fares under two different regimes in Argentina, with tragic results. At first succeeding under the ...

Comrades(1986)

Actors : Keith Allen, Dave Atkins, Stephen Bateman, Katy Behean,
Directors : Bill Douglas,

The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign to receive fair wages.

Degirmen(1986)

Actors : Sener Sen, Ali Erkazan, Orhan Çagman, Serap Aksoy,
Directors : Atif Yilmaz,

In the last years of the Ottoman Empire, a poor little Anatolian town named Saripinar is hit by a minor earthquake which has neither destroyed nor left it with many casualties. However, a ...

Fu rong zhen(1986)

Actors : Linian Liu, Xiaoqing Liu, Ning Xu, Wen Jiang,
Directors : Jin Xie,

Love, humiliation and politics play out in a distant village of China during the cultural revolution.

God's Outlaw(1986)

Actors : Kenneth Gilbert, Bernard Archard, Keith Barron, Roger Rees,
Directors : Tony Tew,

A dramatized biography of William Tyndale, the 16th Century reformer determined to translate the Bible into English, which illegal act set him at odds with the Catholic Church, Sir Thomas More and King Henry VIII.

Il caso Moro(1986)

Actors : Mattia Sbragia, Consuelo Ferrara, Bruno Zanin, Gian Maria Volontè,
Directors : Giuseppe Ferrara,

The story of the infamous 1978 kidnapping of former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro by the left-wing terrorists from the Red Brigades.

Boris Godunov(1986)

Actors : Alyona Bondarchuk, Sergey Bondarchuk, Valeriy Storozhik, Gennadi Mitrofanov,
Directors : Sergey Bondarchuk,

Based on the Alexander Pushkin's play, epic story about Tsar Boris Godunov, who reigned over Russia between 1598 and 1605.

Rus iznachalnaya(1986)

Actors : Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Boris Nevzorov, Margarita Terekhova, Lyudmila Chursina,
Directors : Gennadiy Vasilev,

Action of a picture happens in Ancient Russia (Rus) - in those days when the Slavs who have united in army under leadership of Ratibor, the son Vseslav managed to win the first victories over tribes of nomads.

Colierul de turcoaze(1986)

Actors : Marga Barbu, Florin Piersic, Szabolcs Cseh, Alexandru Repan,
Directors : Gheorghe Vitanidis,

For Love Alone(1986)

Actors : Hugo Weaving, Sam Neill, Helen Buday, Huw Williams,
Directors : Stephen Wallace,

A poor young woman in 1930's Australia falls in love with a dashing but arrogant teacher who preaches free love and watered down socialist precepts. She follows him to England, meeting a ...

Sarraounia(1986)

Actors : Féodor Atkine, Jean-Roger Milo, Didier Sauvegrain, Aï Keïta,
Directors : Med Hondo,

On January 2 1899, starting from the French Soudan, a french column under the commandment of the captains Voulet and Chanoine is send against the black Sultan Rabah in what is now the ...

Dziewczeta z Nowolipek(1986)

Actors : Maria Ciunelis, Izabela Drobotowicz-Orkisz, Marta Klubowicz, Ewa Kasprzyk,
Directors : Barbara Sass,

Coming of age story of four girls living in the same poor district of Warsaw just before the outbreak of World War One.

Poslednyaya doroga(1986)

Actors : Vadim Medvedev, Yelena Karadzhova, Aleksandr Kalyagin, Irina Kupchenko,
Directors : Leonid Menaker,

About the death of Aleksandr Pushkin, the leading poet and writer of Russia, who was shot on a duel and died when he was 37.