Best History movies of 1991

Actors : Gary Oldman, Jack Lemmon, Kevin Costner, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Oliver Stone,

New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.

Actors : Cora Lee Day, Barbarao, Alva Rogers, Trula Hoosier,
Directors : Julie Dash,

Languid look at the Gullah culture of the sea islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia where African folk-ways were maintained well into the 20th Century and was one of the last ...

Actors : Li Gong, Saifei He, Cuifen Cao, Jingwu Ma,
Directors : Yimou Zhang,

A young woman becomes the fourth wife of a wealthy lord, and must learn to live with the strict rules and tensions within the household.

Actors : Tom Courtenay, Christopher Eccleston, Eileen Atkins, Rebecca Eccleston,
Directors : Peter Medak,

In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Craig, a teenager with a fondness for American gangster films. Chris and Derek's friendship...

Actors : Aden Young, Lothaire Bluteau, August Schellenberg, Sandrine Holt,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

A young Jesuit priest seeks to convert the Indian tribes in Canada while also trying to survive the harsh winter.

Actors : Andrew Tiernan, Kevin Collins, Steven Waddington, John Lynch,
Directors : Derek Jarman,

In this Derek Jarman version of Christopher Marlowe's Elizabethan drama, in modern costumes and settings, Plantagenet king Edward II hands the power-craving nobility the perfect excuse by ...

Actors : Roberto Sosa, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Carlos Castañón, Juan Diego,
Directors : Nicolás Echevarría,

A handful of survivors from a disastrous 1528 Spanish expedition to Florida journey across the coast until they reach Mexico.

Actors : Laura del Sol, Gabino Diego, Joaquim de Almeida, María Barranco,
Directors : Imanol Uribe,

After spending a night with a sensual prostitute, the King of Spain decides that he wants to see his wife naked. His decision causes a real revolution amidst his subjects.

Actors : Malcolm McDowell, Oleg Yankovskiy, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Yuriy Sherstnyov,
Directors : Karen Shakhnazarov,

A patient in a modern day mental institution believes that he is the man who assassinated Tsar Alexander in 1881 and Tsar Nicolas II in 1918. He and his doctor soon slip out of reality and ...

Actors : Mikhail Mamaev, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Dmitriy Kharatyan, Sergey Zhigunov,
Directors : Svetlana Druzhinina,

In the second movie the Naval Cadets are guarding the princess coming from Germany to marry a Russian prince.

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 : Richard Moir, Mathilda May, Peter O'Toole, Tchéky Karyo,
Directors : Ian Pringle,

Story of a young woman journalist who becomes enmeshed in the politics of the annexation of Morrocco from Algeria at the turn of the twentieth century. The focus is on her hardships because...

Actors : Rodrigo Puebla, Socorro Avelar, Rafael Cortes, Amado Sumaya,
Directors : Juan Mora Catlett,

A very hard drought devastates an ancient Mexican empire. Warriors and priests fight for power while people are dying. A group of priests return to Aztlan, the mythological place where ...

Actors : Nikolay Kochegarov, Victor Repnikov, Natalia Silantyeva, George Segal,
Directors : Vladimir Alenikov,

In Middle-Age Russia, a christian preacher arrives, proposing a new order. He threatens those who take part in a pagan festival with the flames of hell. But when strange crimes start to happen, local leaders decide to investigate.

Actors : Gennadiy Garbuk, Natalya Kishova, Leon Niemczyk, Alla Murina,
Directors : Bohdan Poreba,

Two noblemen from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania clash because one refuses to free his servant - a girl. The second joins a peasant revolt and takes over the castle.

Actors : Massimo Dapporto, Mariella Di Lauro, Nicoletta Boris, Elena Sofia Ricci,
Directors : Marzio Casa,

At the end of the 19th century, in a farmhouse in the countryside of northern Italy, lives Maria, a young peasant girl who is by nature, simple and pragmatic. The farming community she ...

Actors : Lou Diamond Phillips, Holly Vaughn, Reg Grant, Benton Jennings,
Directors : Fred Holmes,

A teenager witnesses Col. Travis' courage at the Alamo against overwhelming odds.