Best History movies of 1980s

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

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

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 : Henryk Bista, Maria Pakulnis, Grazyna Trela, Jan Frycz,
Directors : Mariusz Trelinski,

Decadence, homosexuality, excess wealth, infidelity, alcoholism and drugs all played a major role in the decline of aristocracy.

Actors : Kanchana, Anant Nag, Saritha, Rajkumar,
Directors : Vijay,

Prahlada is a devotee of Lord Vishnu unlike his father who is an atheist. With admonitions along his way, he must change the way his father thinks.

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 : Doina Deleanu, Stefan Velniciuc, Serban Ionescu, Nae Caranfil,
Directors : Cornel Diaconu,

This mid-80s Romanian Communist propaganda film deals with the topic of young high-school graduates and members of the Romanian Communist Youth Union being sent to work at the Danube-Black Sea Canal mega-project.

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 : Gogi Gegechkori, Ramaz Chkhikvadze, Salome Kancheli,

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

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

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

Actors : Gholamhossein Naghshineh, Esmail Davarfar, Esmaeel Mehrabi, 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 : 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 : 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 : Józef Fryzlewicz, Edmund Fetting, Krzysztof Chamiec, Ignacy Gogolewski,
Directors : Bohdan Poreba,

A historical reconstruction of dramatic events leading to creation of Polish state. Covers the First World War and the postwar period up to the Treaty of Versailles.

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 : 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 : Ryszard Filipski, Andrzej Hrydzewicz, Jerzy Sagan, Ignacy Gogolewski,
Directors : Ryszard Filipski,

Reconstruction of dramatic events in Poland between years 1926 and 1933, when Marshall Pilsudski took the reins of power into his own hands.