Best History movies of 1989

Actors : Matthew Broderick, Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes,
Directors : Edward Zwick,

Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.

Actors : Bonnie Bedelia, Paul Newman, John Cusack, Dwight Schultz,
Directors : Roland Joffé,

This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built.

Actors : John Hurt, Ian McKellen, Joanne Whalley, Bridget Fonda,
Directors : Michael Caton-Jones,

Based on the Profumo Scandal of 1963, an affair between an exotic dancer and the Minister of War shakes up the British government.

Actors : Heikki Paavilainen, Timo Torikka, Vesa Vierikko, Taneli Mäkelä,
Directors : Pekka Parikka,

Set during World War 2. After Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Russia attacked Finland in November 1939. Finnish reservists leave their homes and go to war. The film focuses ...

Actors : Gregory Peck, Jimmy Smits, Patricio Contreras, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Luis Puenzo,

When school teacher Harriet Winslow goes to Mexico to teach, she is kidnapped by Gen. Tomas Arroyo and his revolutionaries. An aging American, Ambrose "Old Gringo" Bierce also in Mexico, ...

Actors : Willem Dafoe, Robert Loggia, Edward James Olmos, Wendy Gazelle,
Directors : Robert M. Young,

Fact based story about a former Greek Olympic boxer who was taken as a prisoner during World war II and placed in the Auschwitz prison camp. There he was permitted to survive as long as he ...

Actors : Mammootty, Suresh Gopi, Balan K. Nair, Madhavi,
Directors : T. Hariharan,

The film offers an alternative version of the epic battle between two legendary Chekavars from the villain's perspective.

Actors : Zarko Lausevic, Milos Zutic, Vojislav 'Voja' Brajovic, Gorica Popovic,
Directors : Zdravko Sotra,

On June 28th 1389, at Kosovo Polje, an army of the Serbian Prince Lazar made a stand against the advancing Ottoman forces of Sultan Murad.

Actors : Nikolaus Dutsch, Mickey Rourke, Andréa Ferréol, Helena Bonham Carter,
Directors : Liliana Cavani,

Docudrama about the life of St-Francis of Assisi

Actors : Nikolai Kinski, Klaus Kinski, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Debora Caprioglio,
Directors : Klaus Kinski,

Klaus Kinski believed that he lived through the same experiences as the legendary "devil violinist" Niccolò Paganini, who set all of nineteenth-century Europe into a frenzy and through ...

Actors : Jean-François Balmer, Klaus Maria Brandauer, François Cluzet, Jane Seymour,

A history of the French Revolution from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France's debt problem. The first part of the movie tells the ...

Actors : Sergiu Nicolaescu, Serban Ionescu, Adrian Pintea, Vlad Nemes,
Directors : Sergiu Nicolaescu,

After 1394 King Mircea the Elder, ruler of Wallachia, ponders the eventual consequences of a military alliance with the Poles versus one with the Turks.

Actors : Rentarô Mikuni, Kyôko Kishida, Yoshiko Mita, Tsutomu Yamazaki,
Directors : Hiroshi Teshigahara,

Legendary tea master Sen no Rikyu is faced with his warmongering lord's unrealistic pretensions.

Actors : Michael McGuire, Bruce Newbold, Craig Wasson, Morgan White,
Directors : Peter N. Johnson,

It showed the process it took to write the Constitution of the United States.

Actors : Kasym Zhakibayev, Lyubov Germanova, Aleksandr Pan, Valentina Te,
Directors : Yermek Shinarbayev,

After their son is murdered a couple raise a second son to avenge him.

Actors : Aleksandr Cherednik, Robert Vaap, Cécile Zervudacki, Aleksandr Abdulov,
Directors : Aleksandr Sokurov,

Inspired by Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Sokurov's Save and Protect recalls the most crucial events of Emma's decline and fall, including affairs with an aristocratic and a student. Focusing ...

Actors : Branca de Camargo, Alex Carozzo, Paola Agosti, Luigi Mezzanotte,
Directors : Franco Piavoli,

At the end of the war, Odysseus, the wandering hero, with his companions begins his sail back home to the Mediterranean. The conclusion of his adventure is delayed by many natural obstacles...

Actors : Rebecca Miller, Nigel Le Vaillant, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Brian Dennehy,
Directors : Klaus Maria Brandauer,

A true story about Johann Georg Elser, a quiet carpenter who tried to assassinate Hitler with an explosive device in 1939.

Actors : Bernard Blier, Avtandil Makharadze, Richard Berry, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Aleksandar Petrovic,

Based on the famous novel of Milos Crnjanski, the story follows Serbian migrations from the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the XVIII century.

Actors : Eiji Okuda, Toshirô Mifune, Gô Katô, Kinnosuke Nakamura,
Directors : Kei Kumai,

Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master's death. Years before: Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who ...