Best History movies of 1997

Actors : Philippe Noiret, Laura Morante, Bernard Giraudeau, Emmanuelle Laborit,
Directors : Roberto Faenza,

Sicily 18th century, Marianna Ucria is a 12-year-old deaf-mute from an aristocratic family of Palermo. Aged 13, she is married to a middle-aged uncle, Duca Pietro. She is repulsed by him, ...

Actors : Jesús Albornoz, Marcio Almeida, Jorge Abalo, Emilia Mazer,
Directors : Aníbal Di Salvo,

Actors : Colette Kaboré, Joséphine Kaboré, Mariama Ly, Amssatou Maïga,
Directors : Gaston Kaboré,

In an early 19th century African village, Wend Kuuni - a young man, lives with his adopted family after his mother was killed as a witch. When Pughneere - his adopted sister - becomes ill, ...

Actors : Viktor Sukhorukov, Andrus Vaarik, Üllar Saaremäe, Indrek Taalmaa,
Directors : Hardi Volmer,

Keskküla organizes the so called school of Lenins where the training of Lenin's doubles begins.

Actors : Ali Nassirian, Mohamad Ali Keshavarz, Ezzatolah Entezami, Jamshid Mashayekhi,
Directors : Ali Hatami,

In Tehran 1916 during first world war a group of patriots make a punishment committee to punish the traitors. With the lead of Abolfatooh Mirza, Reza Tofangchi begins the assassinations.

Actors : Gastone Moschin, Gabriele Ferzetti, Gianni Cavina, Lorenzo Crespi,
Directors : Renzo Martinelli,

Italy 1945: the war is ending and the iron curtain is falling down. In the north eastern part of the country partisans of different political orientation begin to question about the future ...

Actors : Djimon Hounsou, Akosua Busia, De'aundre Bonds, Eartha Kitt,
Directors : Joel B. Marsden,

WEST AFRICA 1869 - Slave trade is illegal. There is a revolt on a slave ship - twenty four men fight for their lives. Out-gunned, the revolt fails but a second uprising is planned.

Actors : Daniel Olbrychski, Ádám Rajhona, Zoltán Rátóti, Artur Zmijewski,
Directors : Lívia Gyarmathy,

Five years after Word War II Hungarian people are secretly arrested and taken to a labour camp without any judicial sentence. During the early 1950's the very existence of the camp for ...

Actors : Cristina Homem de Mello, Heitor Lourenço, Carlos Cabral, Afonso Melo,
Directors : José Carlos de Oliveira,

The consuming passion between Pedro I of Portugal and Ines de Castro is brutally interrupted when Ines is executed, as a consequence of political intrigue and in the name of the kingdom's ...

Actors : Mary Galde, Etha Gray, Carry Farley, Gail Fisher,

A Time to be Remembered is a documentary film about slavery in America and the people and events that led to slavery's abolition. Included in the film is the history of famous real people ...

Actors : Sigal Harari, Yarmi Kadoshi, Sima Even-Haim, Dani Hadad,
Directors : Yamin Messika,

Based on the Yemenite Children Affair.

Actors : Ron Small, Wayne Wheeler, Deena Lyle,
Directors : Deena Lyle,

Travel with us as we visit the sandy shoals and craggy cliffs of America's seafaring monuments - Lighthouses. From the weathered outcropping that is Pemaquid Point, Maine to the ...