Best History movies of 1960s

Actors : Massimo Ranieri, Frank Wolff, Ottavia Piccolo, Tina Aumont,
Directors : Mauro Bolognini,

Metello struggles to escape from the poverty that led to the premature death of his parents, and that is the lot of the working class in northern Italy during the second half of the 19th ...

Actors : Jack Hawkins, Claudia Cardinale, Eli Wallach, Peter McEnery,
Directors : Jerzy Skolimowski,

Based on satirical short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about a vain, egotistical Etienne Gerard, a French brigadier serving during the Napoleonic Wars. He thinks he's the best soldier and lover that ever lived and intends to prove it.

Actors : Risto Taulo, Anja Pohjola, Aarno Sulkanen, Ulla Eklund,
Directors : Edvin Laine,

Actors : Igor Dmitriev, Ariadna Shengelaia, Imre Sinkovits, Sándor Pécsi,
Directors : Márton Keleti,

Pianist and composer Liszt was giving performances all over Europe and made his famous concert tour to St. Petersburg, Russia. Liszt's brilliant piano playing impressed the Russian royalty ...

Actors : Jussi Jurkka, Kapo Manto, Joel Rinne, Tamara Lund,
Directors : Matti Kassila,

June 1944. The attention of the world is focused on Normandy, but the change of the tide can be felt in Finland also. Rumours of preparations of a massive Soviet attack in the Karelian ...

Actors : Vasiliy Shukshin, Lyudmila Chursina, Rufina Nifontova, Vasiliy Lanovoy,
Directors : Vladimir Fetin,

This film is set in the time of the Russian Civil War, after the October revolution of 1917. The communist forces are losing a battle over town. They must blow up the strategic bridge, but ...

Actors : Linda Cristal, John Drew Barrymore, Pierre Brice, Armando Francioli,
Directors : Viktor Tourjansky,

A beautiful girl and a young physician fall in love in the midst of a family, and power struggle between rival princes of Upper and Lower Egypt. When all seems to turn to the better, a ...

Actors : Sylva Koscina, Rossano Brazzi, Enrico Maria Salerno, Tina Louise,
Directors : Pietro Francisci,

The history of the Roman siege in Greek city of Syracuse, which occurred during the Second Punic War between 214 and 212 B.C. The Romans were preparing for their invasion while Archimedes ...

Actors : Kôji Tsuruta, Yôsuke Natsuki, Toshirô Mifune, Makoto Satô,

Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in 1941 and is welcomed with pride in his ...

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 : Lex Barker, Liana Orfei, Chelo Alonso, 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 : 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 : Daniela Rocca, Robert Alda, Anthony Steel, José Greci,
Directors : Giuseppe Vari,

408 AD. The Visigoths led by Alaric invade northern Italy. At Ravenna, they have to battle, and they are stopped by the power of the Roman legions and the cunning of the emperor's sister, ...

Actors : Livio Lorenzon, Gianna Maria Canale, Massimo Serato, Scilla Gabel,
Directors : Mario Costa,

In the 16th century, a sea captain and his daughter escape a false by running away to become pirates.

Actors : Liselotte Pulver, Gustaf Gründgens, Hilde Krahl, Sabine Sinjen,
Directors : Helmut Käutner,

London, early 18th century: Queen Anne, the last of the House of Stuart, is a weak ruler. She is committed to peace in the War of Spanish Succession. The Duchess of Marlborough, whose ...

Actors : Chilakalpud Seeta Rama Anjaneyulu, S.V. Ranga Rao, Sriranjani, Akkineni Nageshwara Rao,
Directors : Kamalakara Kameshwara Rao,

Chronicling the life of Sanskrit poet Kali.

Actors : Shivaji Ganesan, K.B. Sundarambal, Showkar Janaki,
Directors : Kamalakara Kameshwara Rao,

Naive upper-caste poet Kali is forced to leave his home after he commences an affair with a low-caste woman, and faces challenges thereafter.

Actors : Rossana Podestà, Mario Petri, Guy Madison, Giacomo Rossi Stuart,

At the time of Caesar's conquest of Gaul, a Roman tribune falls in-love with the daughter of a Gallic chieftain during a dangerous mission.

Actors : Istref Begolli, Nikola Avtovski, Stojka Cekova, Marlies Behrens,
Directors : Zivorad 'Zika' Mitrovic,

The story of a famous group of Macedonian freedom fighters that opposed Ottoman repression at the beginning of 20th century.

Actors : Luana Patten, Linda Hutchings, Chill Wills, Jimmie Rodgers,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

An orphan fights for the north in the civil war, then returns to his girlfriend in Kentucky.