Best History movies of 1980s

Actors : Davor Janjic, Petar Bozovic, Vita Mavric, Radmila Zivkovic,
Directors : Nikola Stojanovic,

The last film made in Yugoslavia, tells a story about Sarajevo during the last days of Europe, better known as the "Belle Epoque", between the years 1910-1914. A time of troubled events in ...

Actors : Chema Muñoz, Xabier Elorriaga, Walter Vidarte, Klara Badiola,
Directors : Alfonso Ungría,

King Carlos II of Navarre once (XIV century) sent his brother Don Luis de Beaumont to lead a military expedition into Albania and reclaim the Albanian throne he inherited from his wife. But...

Actors : Boguslaw Linda, Grazyna Szapolowska, György Cserhalmi, Jirí Adamíra,
Directors : László Lugossy,

In 1849 the Hungarian revolution is beaten down by the Russian Army. Ferenc Majláth, who was an officer in the army of the revolution, has to choose between imprisonment or getting enlisted...

Actors : María Vaner, Rudy Chernicoff, Luisina Brando, Arturo Bonín,

Bautista Bairoletto fue un quijotesco bandido de comienzos de siglo reconocido como el "Robin Hood de las Pampas". Se mezclaba con anarquistas, forajidos y prostitutas y la gente llegó a ...

Actors : Christopher Neame, Norbert Weisser, Leigh Lombardi, Mark Lenard,
Directors : Raul V. Carrera,

The dramatic story of the Anabaptist movement and two of its first leaders, Michael and Margaretha Sattler.

Actors : Nikola-Kole Angelovski, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Ilija Dzuvalekovski, Jordanco Cevrevski,
Directors : Stole Popov,

A joint fight of Macedonian and Greek people against the fascist monarchical government of Greece ended with their defeat in 1949, after many years of bloodshed. Many members of the ...

Actors : Oleg Borisov, Nikolay Karachentsov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Vadim Yakovlev,
Directors : Aleksandr Muratov,

Spy-games around a project to lay a gas pipeline from Russia to Europe.

Actors : Hermann Beyer, Corinna Harfouch, Uwe Kockisch, Susanne Bormann,
Directors : Michael Gwisdek,

In the fall of 1793, the essayist and naturalist Georg Forster meets his estranged wife, Therese, and her lover Ferdinand Huber. Over the course of three days and nights, and in the shadow ...

Actors : Jerzy Kryszak, Wojciech Alaborski, Krzysztof Kolberger, Krzysztof Jasinski,
Directors : Ryszard Ber,

The year is 1575 when Transylvanian prince Stefan Batory sends his loyal servant, Szymon Mroczek, to Warsaw. The mission is to gain support for him to become the next king of Poland.

Actors : Mircea Albulescu, Hervé Bellon, Violeta Andrei, John Terry,

William's government blended elements of the English and Norman systems into a new one that laid the foundations of the later medieval English kingdom.[141] How abrupt and far-reaching the ...

Actors : Cunxin Pu, Kechun Li, Hong Pan, Xiong Xiao,
Directors : Jin Xie,

In 1948, four young girls, daughters of Shanghai's elite, come to America for college. The Communist takeover strands them in the States and one of them, unable to cope with her parents' ...

Actors : Øivind Blunck, Herodes Falsk, Tom Mathisen, Jahn Teigen,

The unholy story about the life of Saint Olav the Holy from birth to the day he dies as the Norwegian King at the battle of Stiklestad in 1030.

Actors : Sulev Luik, Maria Klenskaja, Tõnu Kark, Kaljo Kiisk,
Directors : Jüri Sillart,

A first film made of the 1949 March deportation of Estonian people to Siberia by Soviet Secret Police NKVD. During couple of days and nights nearly 21 thousand people, mostly women and ...

Actors : Rousy Chanev, Naum Shopov, Marin Yanev, Itschak Fintzi,
Directors : Gueorgui Stoyanov,

The action takes place back in the 9th century - a time of trouble and constant changes. The central dramatic character is that of Constantine the Philosopher -a thinker, a diplomat and a ...

Actors : Cihan Ünal, Zuhal Olcay, Gülsen Bubikoglu, Raik Alniaçik,
Directors : Halit Refig,

The end of the Ottoman era.. Recai Bey has raised his daughter Seref like a man. She secretly attends the meetings of the patriots. Seref and her cousin Mujgan take music lessons from the ...

Actors : Liubomiras Laucevicius, Inna Churikova, Aleksandr Shishonok, Viktor Rakov,
Directors : Gleb Panfilov,

Actors : Petre Arsovski, Sisman Angelovski, Dusan Kostovski, Nenad Milosavljevic,
Directors : Branko Gapo,

A Macedonian village has always struggled to find ways to bring water to its arid land - a struggle that may be won when a native son returns from America with the idea of setting up a ...

Actors : Féodor Atkine, Jean-Roger Milo, Didier Sauvegrain, Aï Keïta,
Directors : Med Hondo,

On January 2 1899, starting from the French Soudan, a french column under the commandment of the captains Voulet and Chanoine is send against the black Sultan Rabah in what is now the ...

Actors : Majid Mozaffari, Ezzatolah Entezami, Farzaneh Kaboli, Ahmad Hashemi,
Directors : Massood Jafari Jozani,

During the second World War Iran is occupied by the allies. Meanwhile Doctor Rastan is going to the Qashqaei nomads to treat his sister's husband. There he meets Amir Houshang the head of ...

Actors : Huanshan Xu, Bo Gao, Yi Qin, Qi Feng,
Directors : Zumo Huang,

Biography of famous Chinese astronomer and geographer Zhang Heng who lived in the Eastern Han Dynasty.