Best History movies of 1960s

Actors : Antonella Lualdi, Ilarion Ciobanu, Richard Johnson, Amedeo Nazzari,
Directors : Mircea Dragan,

The Roman Emperor Trajan has just murdered all the local men of Dacia and holds a military stronghold in what will later become Rumania... See full synopsis »

Actors : Reha Yurdakul, Cüneyt Arkin, Hayati Hamzaoglu, Fatma Girik,
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 : 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.

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 : David Chiang, Ching Lee, Lung Ti, Miao Ching,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

Ying Ke-Feng, head of Peerless Manor, is an expert swordsman whose escort business transports 200,000 taels of silver to the capital each year. This year, however, he is afflicted with an ...

Actors : Cüneyt Arkin, Feri Cansel, Esen Püsküllü, Meltem Mete,

Byzantine Prince kidnaps a governor and plans to marry Serbian Princess to create a rift within Ottoman Empire. Malkocoglu is sent to save the governor and prevent the marriage.

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 : Robert Ryan, Richard Burton, Jim Backus, Martha Hyer,
Directors : Vincent Sherman,

After WW1, Zeb and Thor start a cannery business in Alaska but eventually they drift apart with Zeb becoming unscrupulous and Thor becoming involved in Alaskan politics.

Actors : Jeanne Moreau, Alida Valli, Madeleine Renaud, Pascale Audret,

This is about the execution of 21 carmelite nuns in the latter stages of the terror during the French Revolution.

Actors : Tito Junco, Tito Novaro, Roberto Cañedo, Tomás Perrín,
Directors : Julio Bracho,

The movie situated in post-revolutionary Mexico describes the way politics were done in those times. Ignacio Jimenez is chosen as the candidate of the Partido Radical Progresista, but he ...

Actors : Hideko Takamine, Takahiro Tamura, Shima Iwashita, Kôshirô Matsumoto,
Directors : Keisuke Kinoshita,

A young man decides to become a warrior, causing trouble for his clan.

Actors : Grigore Vasiliu-Birlic, Alexandru Giugaru, Nicky Atanasiu, Carmen Stanescu,

Actors : Vincent Price, Edmund Purdom, Jeanne Crain, Amedeo Nazzari,
Directors : Fernando Cerchio,

Chronicles the rise and fall of the woman who eventually became known as Queen Nefertiti.

Actors : Christine Kaufmann, Cornel Wilde, Belinda Lee, Massimo Serato,
Directors : Lionello De Felice,

Biopic of Constantine the Great, set between 293-312 AD, from his days as Tribune to his accession as Roman Emperor of Gaul under the tetrarchy system and ending with his battle against the usurper Roman Emperor Maxentius in Rome.

Actors : Richard Widmark, Sonja Ziemann, Walter Rilla, Charles Regnier,

Vienna, 1956. After Soviet tanks crush the Hungarian uprising, soldier-of-fortune Mike Reynolds is hired to help a threatened Hungarian scientist (Prof. Jansci) escape from Budapest. He and...

Actors : Franca Bettoia, Franco Fabrizi, Alan Ladd, Robert Keith,

A duel takes place in order to put an end to the long and bloody war between the Romans and the Albans. Three valiant brothers are chosen for each side. The Romans choose three brothers: ...

Actors : Philippe Noiret, Dany Robin, Palau, Jean-Paul Belmondo,
Directors : Michel Boisrond,

Anthology of four love stories that have some historical basis.

Actors : Georges Descrières, Jacques Toja, Bernard Woringer, Gérard Barray,
Directors : Bernard Borderie,

D'Artagnan is back from England with a message for the queen. Buckingham has declared that he was ready to attack France to deliver Anne of Austria. D'Artagnan ends up arrested and thrown ...

Actors : Hannjo Hasse, Wolfgang Kalweit, Christoph Beyertt, Georg Leopold,
Directors : Gerhard Klein,

Re-enacted true story of successful assault by Nazis, posing as Poles, on a German border radio station so that Hitler could "justify" thereby his invasion of Poland.