Best History movies of 1960s

Actors : Paolo Stoppa, Renzo Ricci, Franco Interlenghi, Giovanna Ralli,
Directors : Roberto Rossellini,

How Italy's historic national hero Giuseppe Garibaldi led a military campaign known as Expedition of the Thousand in 1860 and conquered Sicily and Naples.

Actors : Dan Vadis, Giovanni Di Benedetto, Giovanni Vari, Helga Liné,
Directors : Nick Nostro,

The story of Spartacus and 10 other gladiators who rebelled against the bloody coliseum sports. They escape and are faced at every turn by Roman soldiers bent on taking them back to the ...

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Chishû Ryû, Toshirô Mifune, Yûzô Kayama,
Directors : Seiji Maruyama,

Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and a Russian fleet bears down on the Sea of Japan.

Actors : Radoslav Brzobohatý, Rudolf Jelínek, Ladislav Mrkvicka, Ludek Munzar,
Directors : Jirí Sequens,

The assasination of Heydrich in Prague during WWII.

Actors : Lobna Abdel Aziz, Farid Shawqi, Rushdy Abaza, Ahmed Mazhar,

Actors : Kôtarô Satomi, Junko Miyazono, Isao Natsuyagi, Kôji Nanbara,
Directors : Eiichi Kudô,

Actors : Mark Damon, Livio Lorenzon, Arnoldo Foà, Scilla Gabel,
Directors : Ferdinando Baldi,

In Roman-dominated Egypt, the corrupt administration of a governor named Petronius has sparked a revolt headed by El Kabir, a young man who learns that he's actually the son of Cleopatra ...

Actors : Jacques Berthier, Susan Paget, Brad Harris, Mara Lane,
Directors : Gianfranco Parolini,

Intrigue at the Roman Emperor's court prior to its destruction by Vesuvius.

Actors : Jany Clair, Edmund Purdom, John Drew Barrymore, Gianna Maria Canale,
Directors : Pierre Chenal,

Rasputin was a lusty steppes peasant, a god revealed, a cunning patriot, all that, or a mystifier? An intriguing biography.

Actors : Léa Garcia, Luiza Maranhão, Eliezer Gomes, Antonio Pitanga,
Directors : Carlos Diegues,

The life of a runaway slave who founded the Quilombo dos Palmares, an outlaw community of Brazilian slaves.

Actors : Anne Aubrey, Nikola Popovic, Antun Nalis, Barry Jones,
Directors : Vladimir Pogacic,

The movie Karolina Rijeka is loosely based on the legendary story of young Karolina Belinic. When the English fleet began firing cannons on the Adriatic port of Rijeka, young Karolina ...

Actors : Hashizô Ôkawa, Naoko Kubo, Yôko Nogiwa, Hiroko Sakuramachi,
Directors : Tai Katô,

Hired on a mission by the government, Shinzo soon finds himself in the center of a conspiracy looking to unearth a mythical clan and their hidden gold.

Actors : Moran Li, Jie Li, Ke Poo, Xueqin Pang,
Directors : Nong Lin,

In 1894 the Japanese Imperial Navy provokes the Chinese navy to test defenses. Some Chinese want to make concessions while others want to fight. When Japan invades, some naval officers put up a heroic resistance.

Actors : Chantal Deberg, Roland Carey, Daniela Bianchi, Sandro Moretti,
Directors : Miguel Iglesias,

Film based on the homonymous poem and other documents from the epoque.

Actors : Lex Barker, Chelo Alonso, Liana Orfei, Livio Lorenzon,
Directors : Luigi Capuano,

Marco, a traveling soldier in Renaissance Italy, enters the employ of an ambitious lord named Astolfo whose cruel reign is being challenged by a rebel known as "the Red Mask." Marco soon ...

Actors : Demeter Bitenc, Franjo Blaz, Miha Baloh, Milan Brezigar,
Directors : France Stiglic,

The film is based on a novel by Ivan Tavcar and was adapted for the screen by Andrej Hieng. It is set at the end of the 17th century in the area that is now Slovenia at a time of religious ...

Actors : Gordon Mitchell, Ursula Davis, Tony Kendall, Massimo Serato,
Directors : Giacomo Gentilomo,

This film features a colossal clash between a mass of invaders and the faithful Roman soldiers who must fight to defend the Roman Empire.

Actors : Lino Ventura, Francisco Rabal, Lea Massari, Philippe Leroy,
Directors : Carlos Saura,

José María "El Tempranillo" fleeing from justice, takes refuge in Sierra Morena. After a period of hard learning, he becomes the leader of a group of bandits.

Actors : Udaya Kumar, Krishna Kumari, Rajkumar,
Directors : Y.R. Swamy,

The spiritual journey of Kanakadasa, a poet and a philosopher belonging to the Dasa sect during the 16th century when the stone idol of Lord Krishna turns around as he's being punished for wanting to see the Lord's statue in Udupi.

Actors : Almut Eggert, Christian De Bresson, Margaret Jahnen, Michael Gwynn,
Directors : Stuart Rosenberg,

Suspenseful story of a boy and his father, each forced to decide his future on his willingness to stand up for what he believes.