Best History movies of 1980s

Actors : Rentarô Mikuni, Kyôko Kishida, Yoshiko Mita, Tsutomu Yamazaki,
Directors : Hiroshi Teshigahara,

Legendary tea master Sen no Rikyu is faced with his warmongering lord's unrealistic pretensions.

Actors : France Nuyen, Russell Wong, Julia Nickson, James Shigeta,
Directors : James F. Collier,

Drama set in the 1950s, based on a true story, about a young girl, Sung Neng Yee, who is brought as part of a wealthy Chinese family. She is eager to become part of Mao Tze Tung's "new ...

Actors : John Ahlgren, Georg Adelly, Ernst Günther, Per Oscarsson,
Directors : Per Oscarsson,

This farce cocerns Sweden's King Gustav (Per Oscarsson who plays all the lead roles). The royal monarchs of three major European countries are patiently or not-so-patiently hovering on the ...

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshirô Mifune, Teruhiko Aoi, Hisaya Morishige,
Directors : Toshio Masuda,

Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War 1904 - 1905. In the story dominated the character Lt Takeshi Kogyo (Teruhiko Aoi), teachers, and a reserve...

Actors : Nikolay Eryomenko, Natalya Bondarchuk, Dmitriy Zolotukhin, Tamara Makarova,
Directors : Sergey Gerasimov,

Part one of a pair of historical films about the life of Peter the Great.

Actors : Minas Christidis, Dimitris Myrat, Manos Katrakis, Giannis Voglis,
Directors : Pantelis Voulgaris,

The life and work of Greek politician Eleftherios Venizelos from his election in 1910 until 1927.

Actors : Mihai Mereuta, Stela Furcovici, Adrian Pintea, Radu Beligan,
Directors : Dinu Cocea,

The movie details the struggle of Iancu Jianu as he's torn between joining the struggle of the poor peasants from which he came from and being on the other side of the law working for the rich.

Actors : Emanoil Petrut, Ion Dichiseanu, Alexandru Repan, George Constantin,
Directors : Gheorghe Vitanidis,

The life of Dacian war-leader Burebista who ruled between 80-44 B.C.and founded a strong Dacian Kingdom despite considerable pressure from the neighboring Celtic warlords and the Greek cities of the Black Sea coast.

Actors : Djoko Rosic, György Cserhalmi, Lajos Balázsovits, Dezsö Garas,
Directors : Tamás Rényi,

Actors : Brian Benben, Michael Nouri, Joe Penny, Richard S. Castellano,
Directors : Richard C. Sarafian,

Three poor ghetto kids in turn-of-the-century New York grow up to become feared gangsters.

Actors : Daniel Olbrychski, Ena Begovic, Mirjana Karanovic, Gorica Popovic,
Directors : Lordan Zafranovic,

A partisan commander had to shoot one of his comrades because he had neglected the struggle and turned to a life of lust and vice. When Italy capitulates in September of 1943 and the war ...

Actors : Timothy Patrick Murphy, Richard Boone, Toshirô Mifune, Mike Starr,
Directors : Tsugunobu Kotani,

A steel samurai blade that was to be given to the American ambassador by the Emperor of Japan is stolen. American sailors and Japanese samurai are sent to find it.

Actors : Kanako Higuchi, Ken Ogata, Toshiyuki Nishida, Yûko Tanaka,
Directors : Kaneto Shindô,

The famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Bakin.

Actors : Tomasz Hudziec, Marek Kondrat, Teresa Marczewska, Zdzislaw Wardejn,
Directors : Wojciech Marczewski,

Set in the early 1950's, during the Stalin's Personality Cult. The story opens in a provincial town. Tomek's father, a former member of the Home Army is arrested so the mother is left with ...

Actors : Tinna Gunnlaugsdóttir, Arnar Jónsson, Kristján Jóhann Jónsson, Þráinn Karlsson,
Directors : Ágúst Guðmundsson,

From an authentic Viking saga, Outlaw tells the story of a family blood feud, set in 10th century Iceland.

Actors : Adam Ferency, Boguslaw Linda, Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Barbara Grabowska,
Directors : Agnieszka Holland,

The film is set in 1905, in a time of feverish revolutionary underground activity in Poland partitioned between three neighbours. All the characters are committed anarchists. The bomb maker...

Actors : Gojko Santic, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Darko Damevski, Gorica Popovic,
Directors : Zdravko Velimirovic,

In medieval Serbia, a young monk, a master of herbal medicine, attracts the attention of a warlord's wife.

Actors : Marioara Sterian, Mihai Mereuta, Stela Furcovici, Adrian Pintea,
Directors : Dinu Cocea,

Actors : Cüneyt Arkin, Zülfikar Divani, Talat Gözbak, Recep Filiz,
Directors : Remzi Jöntürk,

Actors : Guy Stockwell, Peter Haskell, Ronnie Carol, Kabir Bedi,
Directors : Sarky Mouradian,