Best History movies of 1998

Actors : Tom Wilkinson, Geoffrey Rush, Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow,
Directors : John Madden,

A young Shakespeare, out of ideas and short of cash, meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.

Actors : Cate Blanchett, Christopher Eccleston, Geoffrey Rush, Joseph Fiennes,
Directors : Shekhar Kapur,

A film of the early years of the reign of Elizabeth I of England and her difficult task of learning what is necessary to be a monarch.

Actors : Fengyi Zhang, Li Gong, Xiaohe Lü, Zhou Sun,
Directors : Kaige Chen,

In pre-unified China, the King of Qin sends his concubine to a rival kingdom to produce an assassin for a political plot, but as the king's cruelty mounts she finds her loyalty faltering.

Actors : Oprah Winfrey, Yada Beener, Danny Glover, Emil Pinnock,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

Based on the book by Toni Morrison, in which a slave is visited by the spirit of her deceased daughter.

Actors : Uma Thurman, Christopher Adamson, Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush,
Directors : Bille August,

Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a police officer named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the ...

Actors : Richard Harris, Julia Ormond, Oleg Menshikov, Aleksey Petrenko,
Directors : Nikita Mikhalkov,

Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wilds of Siberia. Jane is his assistant, ...

Actors : Viktor Sukhorukov, Dinara Drukarova, Anzhelika Nevolina, Sergey Makovetskiy,
Directors : Aleksey Balabanov,

Dariya the maid getting a boy to touch her large breast is just one incident that occurs when Yohan and Victor infiltrate two families, forcing young Liza and blind Ekaterina to appear in porn, but they are not so innocent themselves.

Actors : Kumiko Asô, Tomorô Taguchi, Akira Emoto, Jacques Gamblin,
Directors : Shôhei Imamura,

At the end of WWII, Japanese doctor Akagi searches for the cure for hepatitis in the prisoner-of-war camp.

Actors : Hülya Aksular, Ayda Aksel, Rutkay Aziz, Kazim Aksar,
Directors : Ziya Öztan,

This is about origin of republic of Türkiye

Actors : José Carlos Rodríguez, Elpidia Carrillo, Damián Delgado, Iñaki Aierra,
Directors : Salvador Carrasco,

It is May 1520 in the vast Aztec Empire one year after the Spanish Conqueror Hernán Cortés' arrival in Mexico. "The Other Conquest" opens with the infamous massacre of the Aztecs at the ...

Actors : Leon Lai, Nicola Cheung, Daniel Wu, Qi Shu,
Directors : Mabel Cheung,

While attending their respective parent's funeral in London, two strangers discover their parent's secret love affair spanning across three decades and two continents. (Chinese with English subtitles).

Actors : Gloria Diaz, Joel Torre, Cesar Montano, Jaime Fabregas,
Directors : Marilou Diaz-Abaya,

Jose Rizal's life and works are recounted through a series of non-linear flashbacks which reflect on various aspects of his life - as writer, propagandist, lover, friend, brother, doctor, and the man that inspired a revolution.

Actors : Youssra, Mustafa Metwalli, Adel Imam, Alaa Waley El Din,

In the year 1807, they city of Rashid is under attack by the British forces. Harfoush, a brave knight must deliver a message to the ruler of Egypt to demand military aid in order to resist ...

Actors : Bedri Baykam, Gönen Bozbey, Meltem Berent, Orhan Aydin,
Directors : Reis Çelik,

Director is Reis Celik. All cast are Berhan Simsek, Mazlum Cimen, Tuncel Kurtiz, Tuncer Necmioglu, Mumtaz Sevinc, Bulent Colak. Producer is Lucy Wood. Year of construction is 1998, Turkey.

Actors : Jean-Marc Barr, Simon Callow, Jack Shepherd, Emma Fielding,
Directors : Stuart St. Paul,

The spectacular scenery of Wessex and the Dorset coast provides the backdrop for this adaptation of a Thomas Hardy short story. Set in nineteenth century rural England, this is the story of...

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 : Lorna Bennett, Rachel Ferjani, Gabriel Byrne, Chris Jarman,
Directors : Henry Chancellor,

Discovery examines the history of "Golden age of Piracy." The program takes a detailed look at the harsh lives of pirates, their tactics, motivations and why they would choose such a life. ...

Actors : Darren Chadwick-Hussein, Jennifer Lee Carrell, J. Eric Marler,
Directors : Joshua Oppenheimer,

The story of a woman who has an immaculate conception and murders her infant in a microwave.

Actors : Khaled El Sawy, Hesham Selim, Abla Kamel, Gamil Ratib,
Directors : Anwar Kawadri,

Gamal Abdel Nasser, the leader of the free Officers whose members include his closest friend, Amer, successfully executes a coup which puts an end to the corrupt rule of King Farouk. The ...

Actors : Scott Wilson, Ronny Cox, Gitan Ôtsuru, Masahiko Tsugawa,
Directors : Shun'ya Itô,

In 1946, Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and 27 other Japanese officials stood trial for war crimes at the Tokyo Trial. This is their story.