Best History movies of 1960s

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Yûjirô Ishihara, Shintarô Katsu, Yukio Mishima,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

A destitute ronin allies himself with an established clan, but its ruthless leader tries to turn him into a mindless killer.

Actors : Edd Byrnes, Mickey Rooney, Raf Vallone, Stewart Granger,
Directors : Roger Corman,

In 1943, a group of hardened criminals is pardoned on the condition it accepts a mission to free a captive Italian general from the clutches of the Nazis.

Actors : Cüneyt Arkin, Selma Güneri, Gülbin Eray, Semih Sergen,
Directors : Süreyya Duru,

Story of the famous Malkocoglu family who served Ottoman Empire in various military ranks.

Actors : Tom Tryon, Stuart Whitman, Viveca Lindfors, Peggy Wood,
Directors : Henry Koster,

Inspired by the scriptural tale. Moabitess priestess Ruth is drawn both to a Judean man and to his talk of a forgiving God. After tragedy strikes, she begins a new life in Bethlehem.

Actors : Rushdy Abaza, Mokhtar Al Sayed, Umran Bahar, Aziza Badr,
Directors : Henry Barakat,

Based in British occupied Egypt, Ibrahim (Omar Sharif), a member of the resistance, seeks refuge in the house of a politically passive family after killing the prime minister for his acts of treason.

Actors : Sergey Bondarchuk, Boris Zakhava, Lyudmila Saveleva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov,
Directors : Sergey Bondarchuk,

Actors : Cecil Kellaway, Dolores Hart, Bradford Dillman, Stuart Whitman,
Directors : Michael Curtiz,

Francis Bernardone (Bradford Dillman) is the son of a wealthy cloth merchant in Assisi, who gives up all his worldly goods to dedicate himself to God. Clare (Dolores Hart) is a young ...

Actors : Titta Karakorpi, Risto Taulo, Anja Pohjola, Aarno Sulkanen,
Directors : Edvin Laine,

Täällä Pohjantähden alla is based on the book with the same title. It is a story of the little village. The movie starts in the 1890's and it ends to the Finnish civil war in 1918. Story ...

Actors : Jean-Claude Brialy, Maurice Ronet, Jane Fonda, Anna Karina,
Directors : Roger Vadim,

In Paris during the summer of 1914 a succession of brief liaisons begins and ends with a soldier and a tart, but on the way moves humourously and sometimes poignantly through a fascinating panorama of society and of attitudes to love.

Actors : Claudia Cardinale, Robert Hossein, Enrico Maria Salerno, Nino Manfredi,
Directors : Luigi Magni,

Rome, 1825. Bishop Rivarola (Tognazzi) and colonel Nardoni (Salerno) are in charge to suppress liberal revolution. Shoemaker Cornacchia (Manfredi) got the information that the liberal ...

Actors : Juozas Budraitis, Kazimieras Vitkus, Regimantas Adomaitis, Bruno O'Ya,
Directors : Vytautas Zalakevicius,

The film is set in Lithuania after the Second World War. It shows dramatic events in a small Lithuanian farming community, where people are split between the Soviets and the "brothers in ...

Actors : Sô Yamamura, Seiji Miyaguchi, Chishû Ryû, Rokkô Toura,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister ...

Actors : John Neville, Ralph Richardson, Robert Morley, Phyllis Calvert,
Directors : Gregory Ratoff,

Oscar Wilde's homosexuality is exposed when he tries to defend himself against his lover's father.

Actors : Reha Yurdakul, Cüneyt Arkin, Fatma Girik, Hayati Hamzaoglu,
Directors : Atif Yilmaz,

Story about Turkish legend named "Köroglu".When Bolu's rules decides to make his father blind.He gets name "Köroglu".It means son of a blind man.And after Bolu's ruler kills his father he decides to take his father's revenge.

Actors : Michael Rennie, Frederick Stafford, George Hilton, Marco Guglielmi,
Directors : Giorgio Ferroni,

June 1942 El Alamein: Rommel swept towards the River Nile. The fall Egypt and the all important Suez Canal seems inevitable. Italian and German scouts race towards Alexandria. Mussolini has...

Actors : William Holden, France Nuyen, Clifton Webb, Athene Seyler,

During the Chinese Civil War of 1949, the Communists constantly harass the two priests of a remote Catholic mission outpost.

Actors : Fredric March, Maximilian Schell, Sophia Loren, Robert Wagner,
Directors : Vittorio De Sica,

A maddened German war criminal lives in a secluded house owned by his rich father who lets him think the war is still on 20 years after the fact. However, no deception can last forever.

Actors : Lidiya Smirnova, Georgiy Vitsin, Lyudmila Shagalova, Ekaterina Savinova,
Directors : Konstantin Voinov,

Listening to the sweet sound of the crazy old woman's song "Dobraya, dobraya!" curly dreamer can't decide to marry.

Actors : David Chiang, Han Chin, Lung Ti, Lily Li,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

A Mogul king decides to take stealthy action to help overpower his greatest rivals. He chooses nine out thirteen of his loyal generals (who he treats as sons) to embark on the mission. ...

Actors : Alexander Knox, Kenneth More, Suzy Kendall, Nigel Green,
Directors : Alberto Lattuada,

During the First World War, a female German spy Fraulein Doktor and her team of saboteurs plan to kill Lord Kitchener, obtain the Allied defense plans and steal the new French mustard gas formula.