Best History movies of 1980s

Actors : Saddam Kamel, Ibrahim Jalai, Nada Siham, Mohsin al-Azzawi,

In 1959 underground revolutionaries try to assassinate Prime Minister Abd al-Karim Kassem in Baghdad. News reports claim they have failed, and at first the revolutionaries lay low, but as ...

Actors : Gholamhossein Naghshineh, Esmaeel Mehrabi, Esmail Davarfar, Mohamad Motie,
Directors : Jamshid Heydari,

Iran is still reeling from the ravages of the First World war. Two elderly sibling princes decide to run for the newly founded national-assembly, in an effort to dissuade its members from voting to end Qajar rule.

Actors : Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Jadranka Selec, Dragomir Bojanic-Gidra, Ljubisa Samardzic,
Directors : Zivorad 'Zika' Mitrovic,

In 1883 Milan Obrenovic, arrogant and despotic king of Serbia, felt threatened by the militia segments of his army. In order to remove that threat he disbanded militia. However, people of ...

Actors : Mehdi Fat'hi, Ezzatolah Entezami, Dariush Arjmand, Fereydoon Aboo Zia,
Directors : Muhammad Bozorgnia,

Many years ago The Angelica which was carrying gold and silver from the Portuguese to the Arab Sheykhs had been sunk in the Persian gulf. Ahmad Beyk manages to find it's place and is after ...

Actors : Regina Razuma, Enn Klooren, Leonid Sevtsov, Tõnu Lume,
Directors : Valentin Kuik,

Georg Lurich was an Estonian world-famous professional wrestler in the early 1900-s who became a legend already in his lifetime. He was called not only the world's best technique-wrestler ...

Actors : László Gálffi, Ninetto Davoli, József Madaras, Teresa Ann Savoy,
Directors : Miklós Jancsó,

A historical drama set in the 1400s, about a young man sent to Italy but is forced back after his father's mysterious death.

Actors : John Walton, Geneviève Picot, Sandy Gore, Michael Paré,
Directors : David Stevens,

True story set in the Roaring Twenties Sydney about the rise of Berlei, a popular Australian brand of women's lingerie, famous for its bras and girdles.

Actors : Marta Becket, Pirjo Bergström, Virginia Capers, Atso Almila,

A story of a famous young violinist, loosely based on the life of Heimo Haitto.

Actors : Gunars Cilinskis, Uldis Vazdiks, Olga Drege, Helmut Kalnins,
Directors : Eriks Lacis,

The fate of three brothers in serfdom period, when German barons cruelly robbed Latvian farmers.

Actors : Gogi Gegechkori, Ramaz Chkhikvadze, Salome Kancheli,

Richard of Gloucester uses murder and manipulation to claim England's throne.

Actors : Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Maria Homerska, Franciszek Pieczka, Malgorzata Pieczynska,
Directors : Tadeusz Chmielewski,

Set during the insurgency of 1863, the story focuses on a tragic romance between a poor gentlewoman and a rebel noble. After a bloody battle a unit of insurgents have been wiped out and ...

Actors : Hugo Weaving, Sam Neill, Helen Buday, Huw Williams,
Directors : Stephen Wallace,

A poor young woman in 1930's Australia falls in love with a dashing but arrogant teacher who preaches free love and watered down socialist precepts. She follows him to England, meeting a ...

Actors : Josef Bláha, Marie Brozová, Josef Vinklár, Vilém Besser,
Directors : Karel Steklý,

During a first passing meeting of Kunhuta the Hungarian princess (Hana Maciuchová), and Závis of Falkenstejn (Radoslav Brzobohatý) something clicked between both young people. But to due ...

Actors : Aleksandr Mikhaylov, Olga Ostroumova, Vasiliy Krivun, Andrey Rostotskiy,
Directors : Irina Poplavskaya,

Between passengers of the steamship there is a dispute on, whether that there are in Russia righteous persons? Nobody wants to tell about the life. And only one priest, though warns that he "the big sinner", decides to tell the history.

Actors : Suhaina Yahya, Jamaliah Arshad, Hussein Abu Hassan, Aida Ahmad,
Directors : Jins Shamsuddin,

Bukit Kepong is an adaptation from Bukit Kepong incident that was an armed encounter which took place on 23 February 1950 between the Federation of Malaya Police and the gunmens of Malayan Communist Party during the Malayan Emergency.

Actors : Huaizheng Liu, Yue Gu, Kai Huang, Fazeng Guo,

In the spring and summer of 1949, the People's Liberation Army launched an offensive under the orders of Mao Zedong and Zhu De, they crossed the Yangtze River and Nanjing was liberated on ...

Actors : Fusheng Feng, Fang Xie, Gengchen Jiang, Jiayuan Ding,
Directors : Jinglong Zhang,

Biography of famous ancient Chinese poetess Li Qingzhao who lived in the Song Dynasty.

Actors : Louis Rolston, Joe McPartland, Mark Mulholland, John Hewitt,
Directors : Jimmy Murphy,

The elderly apostle John lives as a prisoner in the penal colony on the island of Patmos, where he gets inspiration to write the Book of Revelation.

Actors : Vladislava Milosavljevic, Dragan Nikolic, Ljuba Tadic, Ljubisa Samardzic,
Directors : Aleksandar Petrovic,

Screening of the synonymous Milos Crnjanski's poetic novel about the tragedy of Serbian people who scattered their energy and bones from Dnepr to Lotaringia during XVII and XIX century. The...

Actors : Virgílio Massinge, José Gomes,
Directors : Fernando Matos Silva,

A dialogue between History and a Guerrilla Movement, interlaced with live footage taken in Portugal and Guinea-Bissau, when this country was the colony of the first.