Best History movies of 1960s

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.

Actors : Bernard Blier, France Anglade, Karin Dor, Vittorio De Sica,
Directors : Denys de La Patellière,

France, July, 1789. Whilst a party of aristocrats are enjoying themselves in the Bois de Vincennes, the French Revolution is beginning to get underway. At the insistence of her father, 16 ...

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 : 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 : 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 : Sergio Fantoni, Angela Cavo, Hildegard Knef, Giacomo Rossi Stuart,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

Caterina finds out that her husband Peter Tzar of Russia, is plotting to kill her. She sets Count Orlov free from prison, Peter's sworn enemy, becomes empress of Russia and leads the ...

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Fourouzan, Taghi Zohuri, Yasemin Alev, Ali Zandi,

Jacob chooses his beloved son Joseph as his successor. Joseph's 11 other brothers get jealous and throw Joseph in a well and tell their father that Joseph is dead. Jacob gets blind out of ...

Actors : Germán Robles, Julián Soler, Wolf Ruvinskis, Enrique Rocha,
Directors : Julio Bracho,

The last hours and crucifixion of Christ.

Actors : Eijirô Tôno, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Ken Takakura, Hibari Misora,
Directors : Masahiro Makino,

The tale of Princess Sen, daughter to Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu and wife of Toyotomi Hideyori.

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

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

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 : 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 : 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 : Igli Villani, Ira von Fürstenberg, Fred Robsahm, Sydney Chaplin,
Directors : Bruno Corbucci,

Margherita nicknamed Fornarina is Raphael's mistress. Beatrice, a noblewoman who is also in love with the famous painter tries to get her out of the way, by having her wrongly accused of ...

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.